Request to improve compatibility with frontend

[gbingham]

I run PSX in an arcade cabinet using a frontend called Maximus Arcade. I also have used Mamewah. These frontends use commandline switches to load the games.

Maximus - and other frontends provide a place where the switches can be entered e.g. -f -p2

PSX doesn't work well in this case, because the frontends assume the switches follow the game name, rather than precede it.

e.g.
psxfin -f -p2 "gran turismo.bin"

is not possible

Can you please look at the possibility of supporting the option of having the switches after the game:

e.g.
psxfin "gran turismo.bin" -f -p2

[patrickp]

Most software authors, it seems to me, gbingham, seem to use the convention of fixed switches first, then more complex arguments. I don't know much about Mame, but comments people have made lead me to think that it's fairly unusual in the way it uses switches.

If switches are usually processed from left to right, this would make sense: an application would need to process the switches that control how it starts up first, leaving the strings that point to external files, which don't really need to be processed until the application has already started, until last. I don't know if this is actually how it works, but it seems logical to me.

How about using a different frontend? One of my fellow admins, Ultima, has written a frontend for pSX that offers an exceptional range of options, more than can be achieved just with switches. There are versions for Windows and Linux - the Windows version has more frills, but both are extremely functional. See my sig, or check out the development thread if you want a nice long read... because I don't think pSX Author is likely to change all the switches for the emulator round just for Maximus Arcade or Mamewah