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Hello Itizso!

Thank you for the work you're doing with RetroFab it's amazing.
I have two things that I need to bring to your attention.

1) Snoopy Tennis (SP-30) seems to be broken in it's latest version as there is never more than one ball in play at any one time. Trying the older version from 2023 it works as expected with balls flying everywhere! :-)

2) The RetroFab Player doesn't seem to like launching a .sim file as an argument either directly from command prompt or as a shortcut in Windows. It says "Unable to open simulation - does not seem to be a valid RetroFab simulation" - however dragging the .sim file onto the executable or starting the executable and dragging the .sim file onto the window works to start the simulation...

Thank you.

Itizso4 days ago (3 edits)

Thanks for bringing the issue with Snoopy Tennis caused by the recent update to my attention! It's now fixed online and an updated version is also available for download :)

As for using the command line to start a downloaded .sim file, make sure you're specifying the full path to the file (starting with the drive letter and ending with the .sim file extension) and that it's enclosed in quotes, like RetroFab.exe "c:\folder\filename.sim" .

knorrman4 days ago

Thank you for the fix, and also for explaining how to start the sim file using a shortcut. It worked fine. Though it always starts in a zoomed out state so it doesn't seem to save the settings for the game. Maybe that's something for a future version?

Once again it's so wonderful to be able to play these games. Especially Mickey Mouse (Widescreen) with the eggs. I got this for my birthday aged 5 and I still have the original game to this day, but I could never get such high scores as I have seen with the simulated game (over 1200 points) on game A :)

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