[RESOLVED] SOLVED - Game Emulator Front End with VB Express 2010

[vbnewbieuser]

Dear Friends.

I really need your help.

I'm developing a (pseudo) front end in VB.Net. This will run some SNES games, Mega Drive (Sega Genesis) and Arcade, like a "Hyper Spin" or "Attract Mode". After booting, the system opens this front end, without loading the operating system. I created a retro-gamepad USB interface, with this, the user can navigate in the front end menu to choose the gamewith a SNES controller. There is also entry for Mega Drive (Sega Genesis) controllers, can't use for navigate in the System Menu at this moment, but it will be soon .

When I programmed, I used a Samsung notebook, with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, Celeron 1.6 GHz processor soldered to the board, a mini SATA HD with 500 Gb and a 4GB DDR2 memory.

I know, maybe your question at this time is: how did it work to open the game directly, how does Hyper Spin and Attract Mode work?

Here is the answer: I put the games and emulators in the C: directory and created a save state right at the start of the ROM loading. Then, I configured that save state, can only open with its emulator. Hence, I created in VB.Net an execution process that opened this save state, through "Process Start". Anyway, the game opens directly in the emulator and already configured the controls and everything else that is necessary.

It worked perfectly on this notebook. But, the HD has been damaged. However, I saved the entire project on an external hard drive before this problem. Now, I use my "test PC" with the following configuration: 1.6 Ghz Celeron processor, 1.50 GHz DDR2 memory, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and a 160 Gb IDE HD.

Here is the project working in my old notebook. Audio in Portuguese, no english subtitles. I'm Brazilian.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7mdbAGXDHCg

With this PC, my program does not work anymore. Run the file, but the game does not open. And I've tried everything. I changed the platform in VB to x86, x64, "Any platform", everything. Still not working. I've already disabled Firewall, protections, but, it does not work. And I do not have another computer to test at this point.


Am I right in thinking that the problem has to do with the hardware settings of that PC? or, it may be some other problem? It's the same program. The Visual Basic installed is the same too: Visual Basic 2010 Express. Why is this happening?

Please, help me! Thank you very much for your attention!