Load Game on Startup

[cmarcus1979]

Is there any way to use command line arguements to skip the intro screen and just go straight to the game?

I'm trying to build a front end for several emulators, and this is the only one I'm having trouble with. For you programmers out there, here's an example of what I'm trying...

Process.Start(Application.StartupPath + "\\ZSNESW\\zsnesw.exe ","ZELDA 3.SMC");

Where ZELDA 3.SMC is in the zsnesw.exe directory.

Thanks in advance for any help..

[Nach]

<Nach> http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11738
<Nach> Is he trying to get a game to skip their intros?
<grinvader> nah
<grinvader> skipping the gui
<Nach> it does skip the GUI if you pass it a ROM
<grinvader> yes
<Nach> so I don't know what that guys problem is
<grinvader> but that's what i understand from what he wrote
<grinvader> me neither
<Nach> maybe he's not passing a valid ROM
<grinvader> zelda3.smc seems pretty valid
<Nach> well, could be he's not passing the right path to the ROM

[grinvader]

I blame the space in your ROM name.

I curse whoever allowed for spaces in filenames, as a matter of fact. Stupidest thing ever.

PROTIP: _ is your friend.

[Nach]

Ooh, I didn't notice the space. Yeah, then he's missing \" around it.

[cmarcus1979]

Doah! The space... That was it.

Thanks guys!

[rchuncleskeleton]

there is a great frontend readily available for multiple emulators called MAMEWAH! It requires a little bit of setup but no biggy.

PS: don't curse who ever created spaces in filenames....curse the software you use for not handling it correctly!

[doktor_kris]

Word!

[Nach]

PS: don't curse who ever created spaces in filenames....curse the software you use for not handling it correctly!

Speak for yourself.

I am going to curse whoever invented spaces in filenames, and allowed anything more than 8.3

[Kajuru]

I am going to curse whoever invented spaces in filenames, and allowed anything more than 8.3

So damn true.

Why would anyone use Street Fighter II Turbo - Hyper Fighting (U) [!].smc when SF2T.smc or SF2Turbo.smc works just as good, is beyond me.

[Deathlike2]

PROTIP: _ is your friend.

Agreed.

[Rashidi]

I am going to curse whoever invented spaces in filenames, and allowed anything more than 8.3

So damn true.

Why would anyone use Street Fighter II Turbo - Hyper Fighting (U) [!].smc when SF2T.smc or SF2Turbo.smc works just as good, is beyond me.

*nod* NO$GMB also having problem with spaces in file name, even if i enclosed the file name with quotes (")

i must rename all the rom using _

[Kajuru]

i must rename all the rom using _

Download RenameFiles, it easily replaces SPACES with _

[grinvader]

PS: don't curse who ever created spaces in filenames....curse the software you use for not handling it correctly!

No. first it's not even "created", it's allowed. I'm not seeing you curse windows for not "handling" A LOT of characters in their filenames. Like * or ?.
Let me preempt the argument a bit.

oh but it would make it very tough to differentiate between wildcards and actual filenames!

And what do you think blank spaces do ?
They make any kind of CL parsing completely retarded, turning them into backslashed hell.
Backslashes that windows wouldn't even be able to use, with its oh so smart "let's use backslash for directory levels !" stupidity, and have to use an even worse escape sequence, which prevents YET another character from being in filenames.
Fixing one issue by making 2 others. Brilliant.

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-rw-------  1 grin users       6 2008-07-16 19:43 "_spaces_fucking_suck
-rw-------  1 grin users       7 2008-07-16 19:42 *_yeah_they_do
-rw-------  1 grin users      10 2008-07-16 19:47 wtf_r_u_doing?

Curse your inability to find any valid retort to this point.

[Deathlike2]

It could be worse.. like people wanting bold and italics in a filename... then someone has to die.

[Kajuru]

WTF, filename formating? Imagine the TAG hell it would be.

[Nach]

Don't joke about stuff like that.

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/tmp> ls -la \<b\>cool\ stuff\</b\>.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 nach nach 0 2008-07-17 08:31 <b>cool stuff</b>.txt
/tmp> 

This will appear as "cool stuff.txt" in any HTML rendering application if it isn't escaped. And who do you think even bothers to escape HTML in some program displaying a directory tree?

For example, if you were programming in Qt, and used a QTextEdit to display a full path list of a bunch of files, you'll have a bold file name.

If you used whichever language to display tree contents on a web server, presto, bold filenames.

Nobody bothers checking file names for escaping, since we all know how absurd that is

Case in point:


Here's some PHP code so you can do it yourself:

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function file_modes($mode)
{
  $mode_str;
  $mode_str.= ($mode & 0040000) ? 'd' : '-';
  $mode_str.= ($mode & 00400) ? 'r' : '-';
  $mode_str.= ($mode & 00200) ? 'w' : '-';
  $mode_str.= ($mode & 00100) ? 'x' : '-';
  $mode_str.= ($mode & 00040) ? 'r' : '-';
  $mode_str.= ($mode & 00020) ? 'w' : '-';
  $mode_str.= ($mode & 00010) ? 'x' : '-';
  $mode_str.= ($mode & 00004) ? 'r' : '-';
  $mode_str.= ($mode & 00002) ? 'w' : '-';
  $mode_str.= ($mode & 00001) ? 'x' : '-';

  return($mode_str);
}

function directory_print($dir)
{
  $dirs = array();

  print "<h3>Contents of: $dir</h3>\n";
  if ($dh = opendir($dir))
  {
    print "<table border=\"1\">\n<tr><td>Permissions</td><td>Owner</td><td>Group</td><td>Size</td><td>Modified</td><td>Name</td></tr>\n";
    while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false)
    {
      if ($file[0] != ".")
      {
        if (filetype($dir.$file) == "dir")
        {
          array_push($dirs, $dir.$file);
        }

        $stat_results = stat($dir.$file);
        $uid = posix_getpwuid($stat_results['uid']);
        $gid = posix_getgrgid($stat_results['gid']);
        print "<tr><td>".file_modes($stat_results['mode'])."</td><td>".$uid['name']."</td><td>".$gid['name']."</td><td>".$stat_results['size']."</td><td>".date("Y-m-d h:i:sA", $stat_results['mtime'])."</td><td>".$dir.$file."</td></tr>\n";
      }
    }
    closedir($dh);
    print "</table>\n";
  }

  foreach ($dirs as $newdir)
  {
    directory_print($newdir."/");
  }
}

directory_print("/tmp/");