AHK for black screen between emulator and Hyperspin

[Jon.Damico]

Hi Everyone, 

 

I am working on Atari Jaguar using Virtual Jaguar. For whatever reason, every time I load a rom, the screen constantly flickers, to resolve the issue I would like to create a black screen, which will take over for the time of the flickering, similar to the extra screen setting in HLHQ for exiting. Has anyone written anything like this. I do not know much about AHK, but I pieced this together.

 

Gui, Color, black

Gui, Show, x0 y0 w%A_ScreenWidth% h%A_ScreenHeight%

WinActive ()

Sleep, 2000

 

It doesn't work so I am going to guess something isn't right.

 

I am also having a similar issue on Project64, but it shows the rom in 1/4 screen, then flashes and goes to full screen. 

 

 

Thank you for your help!

[gigapig]

Have you tried the "Hide Emulator" option in HLHQ in the options?

[Jon.Damico]

Thank you GigaPig, but I do have Hide Emulator set to True. In fact everything is set to true except for the mouse. I have been tweeking the settings and discover that if I turn off Fade In, then it only flashes once. However, I have an image with the controller mapping appear during fade in that I want to continue to use. This way the user knows which buttons do what and with fade off, this image never appears. 

 

Ideas?

 

I am going to keep tweeking the fade settings and see if I can minimize the flashing. I will post any findings here.

 

Thank you.

[Jon.Damico]

Well after fiddling with the settings for an hour, I have gotten it down to only a few flashes. I lowered the Fade In duration, and delay to 0, which cut the flashing by about 75% and then set exit delay to 10,000. Which I believe is overkill since the emulator takes over on fullscreen, but it seems to cut about another 10% off.

 

With these settings it is bearable now, where before it would flash for several seconds. As for Project 64, any ideas? I am going to tweek the fade settings and see if I can get something to work, but I have everything set to global, which means everything is true (except the mouse) and that fade is on with a 1000 duration. 

 

Anyways, I will post my findings and if anyone knows or finds anything in the meantime I would be grateful.

 

Thanks again!

[Jon.Damico]

Well, that was easy. By increasing the delay and exit delay, the quarter screen doesn't appear anymore. I see a black screen, until the emulator is full screen. So, lesson learned. Fiddle with the settings until something works and every system seems to react alittle bit different. haha.

 

Thanks again.

[nintenjo]

Where is this delay option? I am having similar issues with PC based games.. when i select the Rom to run hyperspin is still active for 2-3 seconds before focus switches to the 'app' so you can technically launch about 3 games at the same time. So adjusting the delay might prevent this?