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Glad to see you got your .bat file working. Here is ahk code in case you are curious.

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#Persistent

mameEXE := A_ScriptDir "\mame64.exe"    ;path to mame64.exe

RunWait, %mameEXE%,,, MAME_PID    ;RunWait will wait until the program finishes before continuing
Exitapp

Joy9::
KeyWait, Joy9, T2    ;wait 2 seconds for release key
if (ErrorLevel)    ;more than 2 sec have passed
Process, Close, %MAME_PID%    ;close MAME using the Process ID we got from the RunWait command
return


I've tried this in a standalone ahk exe so far and it executes mame just fine. Can you incorporate the passing of the rom file into the code too please? I think you mentioned earlier that its %1 or %1%.

Thanks.

Glad to see you got your .bat file working. Here is ahk code in case you are curious.

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#Persistent

mameEXE := A_ScriptDir "\mame64.exe"    ;path to mame64.exe

RunWait, %mameEXE%,,, MAME_PID    ;RunWait will wait until the program finishes before continuing
Exitapp

Joy9::
KeyWait, Joy9, T2    ;wait 2 seconds for release key
if (ErrorLevel)    ;more than 2 sec have passed
Process, Close, %MAME_PID%    ;close MAME using the Process ID we got from the RunWait command
return


Thanks dustind900. This will be very useful to me at some point. I'll test the code tonight. Just to clarify I'm assuming the script launches MAME auotmatically and continues running in the background waiting for me to hold joy9 for 2 seconds?

I have used the following for bat files in the past: arguments = /C "%ITEM_FILEPATH%"

That launched my bat files fine, however, I have never tried launching multiple items though (ie, an ahk then mame + rom etc)

Jonah,

Are you using a batch file for Mame? Can you tell me the code from your Mame launcher?

Correct and that works.

Trying with the command below results in an error stating the directory name is invalid. I believe this is because the pushd command only applies to directories and not files.

pushd "D:\Emulators\RetroFE080\emulators\Mame\mame64.exe" %1

Thanks Pieter.

Sure. I launched RetroFE, Tried the game Crude Buster (cbuster) and then manually exited from RetroFE.

Hi guys,

I'm using RetroFE for windows. I've configured mame and my mame roms in RetroFE. With default launcher settings all works fine.

I made a .bat file to try launch 2 applications 1. ahk (autohotkey) and 2. mame + rom however the roms will not launch from RetroFE. The log file doesn't show any errors.

contents of launcher file -
executable = emulators\MAME\mame64.bat
arguments = %ITEM_FILEPATH%

contents of batch file -
@echo off

pushd "D:\Emulators\RetroFE080\emulators\autohotkey"
start ahk.exe mame.ahk

pushd "D:\Emulators\RetroFE080\emulators\Mame"
mame64.exe %1

I've made .bat files (coded to run several programs) for my windows games in RetroFE and they all work fine.

I tested the above code with Emulation Station for windows and it works fine. Feels like the item_filepath is not being passed through in RetroFE.

What am I doing wrong?

I'm using the Ergo Proxy theme. I attempted to fiddle with the layout.xml file however I'm not achieving the results I want. Can you offer me an edited layout.xml file please?