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EMUlaunch, the front-end for Mac emulators has been discontinued for now but still works just fine

Alexis — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:36:38 +0000

EMUlaunch has been discontinued for the time being. No new updates or developments are being worked on at the current time. EMUlaunch still works under Mac OS X 10.4.10 – 10.5.6. I can not offer any support for the time being but please view the movie below for information on how to properly setup EMUlaunch.

Setup Movie

Download Version 1.5.2

* There was a brief period in between security releases where mame game list building was not functioning. This problem seems to have been resolved.

Version 1.5.2 released. Fixed launch problems with SDLMame 0122 and updated listxml db file to 0122

Alexis — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:04:11 +0000

EMUlaunch Version 1.5.2 has been released. Its mostly a compatibilty fix for users using SDLMame. Somewhere between 0116 and 0122 the launch script used by EMUlaunch was not working. Thanks to Mark LaBonte for the bug report and fix.

Also, a small reminder to those who use SDLMame, if you want to use an .ini file with SDLMame and EMUlaunch you will need to keep a copy of the ini file in the same directory as EMUlaunch. EMUlaunch does not need this file itself, but SDLMame seems to expect the file to reside there if EMUlaunch is the one issuing the command line launch sequence.

Compaibility fix for SDLMame 0122 (-rompath was added to launch script)
ListXML database file has been updated to 0122

SDLMame 0122 not launching from EMUlaunch

Alexis — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:26:56 +0000

Crap, seems that somewhere between SDLMame 0117 and 0122 (I suspect 0121), launching games through applescript has broken. An apple script command run in Script Editor:

do shell script “/Applications/MAME/mame0122 /Applications/MAME/roms/game.zip”

is no longer equivalent to

/Applications/MAME/mame0122 /Applications/MAME/roms/frogger.zip

run in the terminal.

For now I suggest sticking with SDLMame 0116 or using MAME OS X with EMUlaunch.

Version 1.5.1 released. Mame OS X Screenshot support, improved layout preferences and more

Alexis — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:50:47 +0000

A host of bug fixes and new additions have been made to EMUlaunch 1.5.1. Most noticeably, EMUlaunch now supports screenshots created by MAME OS X. By default, EMUlaunch looks for the nameoftherom.png inside of the user selected screenshots folder. Now if it does not find it it will now also check ~/Library/Application Support/MAME OS X/Screenshots/romname/0000.png. Several bug fixes and changes to the layout preference screen have also been made.

Support for screenshots created by MAME OS X
Improved Layout Preference Screen. User can now directly enter parameters to affect the layout of the main screen.
Added user preference for font sizes
Added ability to hide black background bevel
Fixed bug for new users not getting the default layout in the preference screen.
Fixed bug with reflection on main image being cut off on large images.
Smooth scaling of button images in the EMUlaunch Dock
Fonts have been changed throughout the application to use the system font “Lucida Grande”
Screenshot image now positions itself to the bottom of its container. The reflection now touches the bottom of the image in all cases

New Layout Preference Screen

Version 1.5 released. Layout options and second artwork support

Alexis — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:19:11 +0000

EMUlaunch has been updated to v1.5 with the following changes:

Layout customization options (more options in regards to font size and background bevels to come)
Option for second artwork
Option to remove dock
Updated 512px icon for Leopard
Improved mutli resolution support, especially for vertical resolutions such as 1200x 1920 and legacy resolutions such as 6410 x480
Background image now scales properly in vertical monitor situations.

Future updates will bring more customization options, but what has been updated should give the ability for people to create more elaborate layouts such as the one featured below (this uses a custom background – instructions can be found in the read me as to how to swap backgrounds).

Version 1.4.3 Released, MAME OS X sub-directory launch bug fix

Alexis — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:59:31 +0000

Fixed bug which prevented launching games in MAME OS X if the rom was located in a sub directory of the main roms folder. Thanks to Dave Dribin for the quick response on the correct syntax for doing this.
Updated MAME background image

http://www.emulaunch.com/downloads/

EMUlaunch Setup Tutorial Video

Alexis — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:57:34 +0000

I’ve just posted a video showing new users how to setup EMUlaunch. It covers most of the issues regarding how to setup your folder structure and some other random tidbits. This was a one take shoot so sorry about the background music and traffic.

http://www.emulaunch.com/faq/

Version 1.4.2 Released, bug fixes

Alexis — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:50:20 +0000

This update should fix the problem with EMUlaunch not being able to switch to the next console in some instances
Minor interface updates

A video tutorial will be added to this site soon to help those having trouble setting up EMUlaunch.

http://www.emulaunch.com/downloads/

update I added a video tutorial to the FAQ page.

Version 1.4.1 released, background scaling bug fixed, MacMAME analysis/listxml no longer needed

Alexis — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:45:49 +0000

Incorrect stretching of background images has been fixed
ListXML is now included with EMUlaunch, as a result the MacMAME analysis or user created listxml files are no longer needed.

http://www.emulaunch.com/downloads/

Special note about list xml.
In the past EMUlaunch has required the user to create a MacMAME analysis file or SDLMame -listxml file in order to properly match the obscure filenames of your zips to their actual game name. In order to limit the amount of confusion this created for new users, I am now bundling a listxml file with EMUlaunch. For those who are familiar with the listxml report from SDLMame you will undoubtely notice that the version inside EMUlaunch has been stripped to only include the driver and game name. The resluting file is about 750k compared to the raw 25MB file created by SDLMame. The listxml version included in EMUlaunch is from SDLMame 0.115. If a newer version is needed in the future, users may create their own listxml file and place the file inside EMUlaunch.app/Resources.

Version 1.4 Released, SDLMame support, interface changes

Alexis — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:00:57 +0000

Support for SDLMame and Mame OS X using -listxml file which can be generated using SDLMame.
Better multi-resolution scaling
Interface changes (larger fonts, no scroll bar, somewhat closer to a front row look if you disable backgrounds and use the zoom mode)
Faster scrolling
Cached xml files for all systems (this should help going back and forth between systems)

http://www.emulaunch.com/downloads/