How to close an emulator with the remote? (2 Viewers)

[Lardy]

I agree with emphatic. I use batch files with the My Programs plugin to start individual games with MCE remote, and the Clear [ESC] button on MCE remote to close the game. This works for the following emulators:

MAME
Kega Fusion
pSX & ePSXe
Pcsx2
Project64
ZSNES

 

[Kingmob]

Hmm, i figured out a different way. i disabled support for my MCE remote in MP and use the plugin provided with the IRSS tool. Also disabled all automatic handling of buttons by the OS. Now i have full control of what the remote does in all situations. Really cool, the master volume can now be handled in every emulator for instance and i can close them all with the same button. Took some restarts before it works and you need to figure out how to send window messages for higher functions such as changing the master volume and muting, but i think in the end everything is possible this way. Now if i only can figure out how to send an END+F1 keystroke I will be happy

 

[mr viggo]

I've been using this app for controlling my entire HTPC for about 6 months. It simply senses what program is running on top, if properly configured, and remaps every button to your liking. It can launch apps, close them, blast IR, move the mouse etc.

LM Gestion : LM Remote KeyMap for Streamzap, Firefly, Firefly Mini, USB-UIRT, TechnoTrend or MCE PC Remote

 

[Atreides]

Hey guys, I have recently run into a problem with the way I close the emulators with the remote. I use girder and I have it close the window and then with emu's that use a mem card I have it start a bat file that kills the process. This works for everything (I thought) but now I found out that ZSNES will still be running in the background. I know I can use a bat file and kill the process but then I wont be bale to save any data. I tried that before and I couldnt play a game and save to the cartridge. The emu just wont do it if I kill the process. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Squega]

Hey guys, I have recently run into a problem with the way I close the emulators with the remote. I use girder and I have it close the window and then with emu's that use a mem card I have it start a bat file that kills the process. This works for everything (I thought) but now I found out that ZSNES will still be running in the background. I know I can use a bat file and kill the process but then I wont be bale to save any data. I tried that before and I couldnt play a game and save to the cartridge. The emu just wont do it if I kill the process. Any suggestions? Thanks.

ZSNES has a setting in the zsnesw.cfg file called "SRAMSave5Sec" that you need to set to 1 that tells the emulator to save to the hard drive in realtime so game saves are preserved even if the emulator process it killed.

 

[Atreides]

Thanks! I never knew that. That really helps me out with this. Thanks again.

 

[Squega]

Killing a process via process.exe has worked with every emulator for me except Kega Fusion. If you kill its process then saves are lost and there is no option to do what ZSNES does to get around it.

I did some searching and found a VBScript that will send a proper ALT+F4 signal to a process. I tested this with Kega Fusion with success. Make a new file with the .vbs extension, such as close.vbs and paste the following text into it:

set shell=createobject("wscript.shell")
shell.appactivate("Fusion")
shell.sendkeys "%{f4}"

The above script will focus on the first application whose title bar contains "Fusion" and then send ALT+F4 to it. I mention first application because if you have an explorer window open that also contains "Fusion" then it might be called and closed instead.

After this use the Translator program to call this script without any command-line arguments instead of process.exe when you press the desired remote button to close the emulator.