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[RetroPrime]

Never mind: found it (game logo pack).

[RetroPrime]

Hi all,
Is there a way to add intro music to RFE? I would love for an 80's theme to kick in during attract mode, after the RFE logo.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Exactly in what order would you like these things to happen? I can imagine hearing that music and the video music at the same time may not give the best results.

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[RetroPrime]

Ideally, I wouldn't have any video music at all, just the 80's soundtrack. My current setting doesn't have any type of consistent 'video' music anyway, just whatever sound clips are playing for the game that is being demoed. Is it possible?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Not yet, but it's on the to-do list. I'd hoped to've gotten some programming help by now for these kinds of things.

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[RetroPrime]

No worries, now is as good a time as any to say that RFE is a brilliant FE. It's helping to make Christmas a little bit more special with the bartop project I'm currently working on. Well done to all involved, if I get around to it, I would love to contribute in the tiniest of ways by creating a tutorial based on my settings that could potentially help other newbies like myself.

[RetroPrime]

Back again (hopefully for the last time). I'm trying to launch genesis/nes/snes roms from RFE but using Mame.
I can fiddle and get mame to launch the various systems outside of RFE, but I don't get the same results from within.
Can anyone point me in the right direction, or does anyone have a similar config that allows them to use mame and launch multiple systems?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Back again (hopefully for the last time). I'm trying to launch genesis/nes/snes roms from RFE but using Mame.
I can fiddle and get mame to launch the various systems outside of RFE, but I don't get the same results from within.
Can anyone point me in the right direction, or does anyone have a similar config that allows them to use mame and launch multiple systems?

I use MAME for almost all systems. Can you post your log.txt file?

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[RetroPrime]

Sure, log.txt attached

[Agent47]

You're trying to use the same command line for your NES roms as arcade games, which isn't correct. For any non arcade systems you need to specify the machine/system and since you're not using the software lists you also need to specify the media type in the command line. Create a new launcher for nes and use the following arguments:

nes -cart %ITEM_FILEPATH%

[RetroPrime]

Thanks for replying, however I have that argument for NES already. My NES conf file is as follows:

executable = ..\emulators\MAME\mame0162b_64bit\mame64.exe
arguments = nes -cart "%ITEM_FILEPATH%"

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Thanks for replying, however I have that argument for NES already. My NES conf file is as follows:

executable = ..\emulators\MAME\mame0162b_64bit\mame64.exe
arguments = nes -cart "%ITEM_FILEPATH%"

Maybe so, but your NES settings.conf sets your launcher to mame.conf...

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[RetroPrime]

ok. are you able to tell me how my nes settings conf should look?
also, should nes roms sit in the mame/roms folder, or can they sit in a seperate nes/roms folder? I know mame is picky about the location of roms.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

If I'm right, there's currently a line in your Nintendo Entertainment System settings.conf file reading:
launcher = mame
replace it with:
launcher = Nintendo Entertainment System
That should do the trick.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

also, should nes roms sit in the mame/roms folder, or can they sit in a seperate nes/roms folder? I know mame is picky about the location of roms.

Assuming you're not using software lists, you can just put the roms in collections\Nintendo Entertainment System\roms
MAME will grab its paths from the mame.ini file, but since you use a direct ROM call it will grab that file from the indicated path in stead. It will still grab the nes BIOS from its default path though, but I assume you've put that rom (nes.zip) somewhere in the MAME rom path already.