MednafenFront

#Mednafen Frontend Documentation

[Download http://adelikat.tasvideos.org/Mednafen-rr-Front-End.zip]

Mednafen-Front is a Windows Frontend used to operate mednafen-rr. It is customized for using rerecording/movie making tools. It was written by adelikat using VB.Net 2008.

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= Overview =

Mednafen-Front allows the user to browse for files such as ROM, Movie files, and savestates, as well as select movie options such as Read-only. It then translates these into commandline options to feed into mednafen.

= Using Mednafen-Front =

== Controls ==

===Launch Mednafen/Close Mednafen=== This button will open mednafen.exe. If it is already open, it will close it. In order to launch mednafen, a valid ROM name must be specified. In addition, the commandline length must not exceed 255 characters.

===Commandline===

Allows the user to see the resulting commandline generated by Mednafen-Front.

The length field shows the number of characters in the commandline. Windows does not support more than 255 characters in a commandline.

The update button updates the commandline with the most recent settings.

== General Tab ==

Rom - Allows the user specify a ROM to load into mednafen. This must be specified in order to launch mednafen.

Loadstate - Specifies a savestate to load when mednafen begins. Warning: This should not be used in conjunction with Movie files. Doing so can cause corrupted files.

Pause - Specifies mednafen's initial pause state. Check means it will be paused on startup.

Other commands - Any additional commandline options not available in Mednafen front can be added here. [http://code.google.com/p/mednafen-rr/|See here] for more details on additional commandline options.

== Movie Tab ==

Movie - specifies the movie mednafen will use when loaded.

Author - This will store the author's name into the specified movie file. Must not contain spaces! This only needs to be done once, since it will be stored into the file.

Play Movie - specifies to begin playback of the specified movie on mednafen startup

Record Movie - specifies to begin recording the specified movie on startup. Careful, this will destroy a pre-existing movie.

Read-only - specifies mednafen's movie read-only status.

== Settings ==

Close mednafen on exit - If checked, closing Mednafen-Front will automatically close mednafen as well.

Auto-load - If checked, Mednafen-Front will automatically open mednafen on start-up

Directory Overrides

Currently the only option is an override for mednafen.exe. By default, it will look for mednafen.exe in the same folder as Mednafen-Front.exe. Use this field to specify an alternate location.