Author Topic: RomShelf -Badspot's own emulator front end.  (Read 22117 times)

no snes? ; ;

i rock my psx and snes roms. the only ones i even play lol.
basically if i cant steam the PC version of modern games. im in these folders playing old school.
« Last Edit: February 23, 2011, 04:06:48 PM by Bisjac »

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no snes? ; ;

i rock my psx and snes roms. the only ones i even play lol.
basically if i cant steam the PC version of modern games. im in these folders playing old school.

That's just my dev build, I have a separate pc that has everything. 

This is not an emulator.  It is a menu for launching other emulators.  It gives you a unified interface for all of your emulators that you can operate from a joystick.  It is ideal for use in a custom arcade cabinet or home theater pc.  It is designed as a superior alternative to mameWAH, maximus arcade, etc.



You don't have to put emulators in the emulator folder, all you have to do is configure each system with the emulator exe, command line arguments and rom directory that you want to use.  You can use absolute or relative paths.  After that, just click "save settings" and "regenerate rom list" and you should be good to go.

Here's an example of my mame config:


If you don't know how to type in a path or how to launch your favorite emulator from the command line you are out of luck.  "Advanced" users only I guess.



All you have to do is put screenshots inside the romshelf/screenshots/n64 folder.  However, most screenshot archives I've seen are poor quality and are named stupidly.  Romshelf expects a minimal set of screenshots with no parenthetical codes like (U), (E), [B-1234] or whatever - that way you don't have to have a separate screenshot for each clone of a game.  I will probably make a set of n64 screenshots at some point. 

thanks
the example picture really helped alot; i had no idea i had to include the .exe :U

thanks
the example picture really helped alot; i had no idea i had to include the .exe :U
It's a shelf. :)

All you're doing is organizing all your games (roms) and systems (emulators) onto a shelf (frontend). Which makes things easier and more convenient.

Hey I got a problem it recognizes my roms and launches the emulators but all I get is a gray screen
« Last Edit: March 06, 2011, 03:59:19 PM by Flying Ace »

Hey I got a problem it recognizes my roms and launches the emulators but all I get is a gray screen
same

also, it launches the emulator, but it says ROM Unable to launch