Sueprmodel doesn´t open games

[ajgomes]

Hello everyone;

First of all thank you for supporting the SEGA Model 3 legacy by keeping it alive in emulation form.

I searched the forum and I didn't find any topic on this subject, but if there is one already, my apologies.
So, I downloaded the latest supermodel buil with the SEGA Model 3 UI from the catwalk (thanks for that!!), but I ran into some problems while trying to boot games.
Whenever I try to load a game using the UI, the game doesn't load and the following message appears:


[Info] Supermodel Version 0.3a-WIP
[Info] Started as:
[Info] argv[0] = Supermodel.exe
[Info] argv[1] = D:\Joel\Emulação\SEGA\Supermodel-x64-r862 Release + Sega Model 3 UI\ROMs\daytona2.zip
[Error] Could not open 'D:\Joel\Emulação\SEGA\Supermodel-x64-r862 Release + Sega Model 3 UI\ROMs\daytona2.zip'.


Supermodel isn't working with the comand line neither with "drag and drop". It just shows a comand line for a split second and then it crashes. I also tried to set it up with launchbox and the same happens.
If anyone could help me out, I would really apreciate it!

Thanks in advance!!

[Bart]

Is the game actually at that location?

[PDNEJOH]

Also, can you try to launch the emu from the directory that didn't use non-english characters?

[orimarc]

Try changing the "Emulação" (emulaçáo?) folder name.

[ajgomes]

Is the game actually at that location?

It is. I have the Model 3 complete romset at that location and I didn't delete the DIR file on the folder either.

I'm going to try to use an english characters only file direction to see if it does the trick.

[ajgomes]

Ok, so I changed the rom directory to english characters only and now the supermodel emulator works!!!!


Thank you all for your help and suggestions!!!!

[Ian]

Windows uses utf16, not sure how the command lines are being handled without looking at the code

[Ian]

I think to fix this we could use a few ifdefs
Need to define a wmain for utf16 for windows instead of main

Then I would convert the text from utf16 to utf8
We could abstract fopen to use the widechar versions after converting back to utf16

[Bart]

I think to fix this we could use a few ifdefs
Need to define a wmain for utf16 for windows instead of main

Then I would convert the text from utf16 to utf8
We could abstract fopen to use the widechar versions after converting back to utf16

Making it a proper Win32 application isn't a bad idea. Someone was requesting console window suppression. The only way to do that is to make it a Win32 app and then add an option to open a console window for stdout by default.

[Bart]

I think to fix this we could use a few ifdefs
Need to define a wmain for utf16 for windows instead of main

Then I would convert the text from utf16 to utf8
We could abstract fopen to use the widechar versions after converting back to utf16

IIRC, all of this should be constrained to Main.cpp because core Supermodel doesn't actually manipulate file paths anywhere (unless I am mistaken), right?