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{DECOMISSIONED} GameExLaunch 1.0.5 What is it? A simple EXE that is made to be launched instead of GameEx.exe on startup for folks that don't use Instant Sheller and still use their dedicated gaming machine as a PC from time to time. This EXE is for registered users because the registry path of GameEx is needed for it to function properly, and GameEx only writes these values when you register. How do I use it? Click on the EXE or set it to launch on startup. WINDOWS 7 USERS: Couldn't be easier to get it going! Simply make a shortcut to GameExLaunch and drop it in the START>Startup folder and the EXE will launch after Windows boots up. You can also specify command-line arguments like so: GameExLaunch.exe -timer 60 -login -Timer {value} Set the value to whatever you'd like for the timer to be in seconds. -Login Launch GameEx in Login Mode. -Lite Launch GameEx in Lite Mode. -Reset Rest all user-defined settings back to their original state. What does it do? The EXE launches GameEx after a user defined number of seconds or if ENTER is pressed, or aborts if CANCEL or ESCAPE are pressed. You can also quickly launch in GameEx Login mode or GameEx Lite, or many of the setup utilities included in GameEx (ie Setup Wizard, Plugin Manager, Log Viewer, Weather Select, and the Artwork Download Utility) and returns you to normal launching procedure afterwards. There is also a pause button if you have an update or your system is slower than normal to load. Wow that's super easy! What if I find a bug? Report it here! Any questions? Ask away. Feel free to offer suggestions on how I can make it better. NOTES: I whipped this up in about an hour, but it does what it needs to as well as I could ask for. GameEx's install location is picked up from the registry so no settings are currently needed (other than the timer, which defaults to 30 seconds). You may need to add this to your antivirus software's "safe" list (Avast always tried to open mine in sandbox mode, damn them!). I think that's about it. CHANGELOG:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0a0eieb47m7kmp3/7epDiqAc0i Hey guys, yea it's busy season at work, so I've been MIA but sorry for the dead link, here ya go!

I have made this thread on the basis of sharing my personal artwork that I use for my GameEx setup. For some of my emulator entries I have a specific game series that is present, eg. Final Fantasy collection contains epsxe and all the Final Fantasy entries on the PSX. I have roughly about 15 of these and I am due to make more so I can access my favourites even more easier. These entries of mine do not have any artwork except the artwork I create for them, They are not named accordingly but can easily be modified to do so. I will also be making new logo compilations aswell. Maybe someone else can get some use of them too.

Here is mine, A completely different approach to Draco's. Btw, Great Banner Draco

So good to see I know what im working with (sarcasm). Turns out I have 1gb of ram in the beast, 3.0 2mb cache pentium 4 processor. The ram I was given (according to the acer site was the original / doesn't fit). Back to the shops...but I did get my lights etc fitted

Awesome job!

This is AWESOME! :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: Thank you very much Adultery. This is EXACTLY what I'd hoped it would be.

Aww shucks. It was nothing really.

Your wish is granted! LOL! Version 1.0.1 is out, and includes an adjustable timer.

My compliments for this release, Adultery!!! I can imagine ClassicGMR's face when he'll find this thread!!! I completely agree with you, Draco. I don't have a dedicated gaming machine, and use GameEx with my personal pc laptop: waiting for startup program to load, services etc, I have to wait at least 3 minutes before the system is completely responsive. If it isn't a complication for Adultery, I would suggest to give the user the maximum flexibility about the remaining time.

Here are all the Crash Bandicoot entries on the PSX. Crash Bandicoot Crash Bandicoot 2 Crash Bandicoot Warped Crash Team Racing Crash Bash

I am showing that you have version 12.78 installed. Would you mind downloading and installing the latest version 12.79 and reporting back any errors (will require a new log.txt. file)? Also, once you download and install the latest version, you need to setup your MAME paths. Per your log file, they are not setup correct as confirmed by the following lines: 22:22:37.9 23/08/2012: MAME Path is: C:\GameEx 22:22:37.9 23/08/2012: MAME EXE file is: Mame Mapping Magician.exe Keep in mind that you can install your emulators via the initial installation of GameEx, but you are going to have to configure each emulator to run outside of GameEx first, then modify MAME other emulator settings and file paths through the Setup Wizard in GameEx. Once you have all of this squared away, we can further assist with additional troubleshooting. As nice as it would be to have GameEx to automagically setup and install everything for us, being that it is a frontend software and not an emulator, you will have to do some more work to get Mame (and other emulators) running properly inside and out.

I wont be continuing with the Red Ultima but i will be continuing the theme in general. I dropped the red simply because some of the console graphics and logos were clashing with the theme and it looked horrible I have now gone for a more neutral color layout and different color according to emulator will be added to each screen overtime, I think it looks a hell of alot better now. Ive also gone for 1920 x 1080. I have uploaded a brief snap of the theme but this theme is done on my laptop where I have no games or media so I cant upload snaps that include rom lists, image + image 2 etc...(at the moment anyway) Also even though the snap that i uploaded is crisp its a hell of a lot crisper within GameEx Theme: KRC Ultima 1920 x 1080

ROM Managers, Renamers & Dats CLRMame Pro A popular ROM management program. Designed to help you maintain and organize your emulators roms collection for various gaming systems. ROM Center Another popular ROM management program. OfflineList Another ROM manager. ROMSorter A program that can sort ROMs based on flags in the filename Eg. Sorting all US (U) and Japanese (J) ROMs. MAME Content Manager It's a simple program that makes it easy to control what types of ROMs you keep on your PC. MCM lets you easily rename or delete all MAME ROMs and data files by category - Adult, Quiz, Mahjong, Puzzle, etc. ROMLister Use this tool to locate MAME ROMs that will play on your machine. ROMDeleter Do you have 100000s of roms that have been renamed using TOSEC and Good Tools? If so then you probably have GBs of extra roms such as bad dumps, overdumps and unwanted translations. Use this free app to delete them from your collection using filters. UnGoodMerge This program makes it very convenient to convert a large amount of GoodMerged 7-Zip archives into formats that emulators can read. GoodTools GoodTools is a common name for set of Rom Renamers for a wide variety of systems. Created by Cowering, they are distributed as .exe files with a built in database. The GoodTools are some of the oldest rom renamers still in existance. NoIntro What "No-Intro" does is fill some .dat files, to be used with ROM-Managers, with information about the known ROMS released. TOSEC TOSEC is an acronym standing for "The Old School Emulation Centre", and is the name of an organisation dedicated to creating a database project, cataloguing the complete software libraries of old computer and console platforms. Redump A great source for disc verification DATs. Maybe-Intro Maybe-Intro is a project dedicated to the preservation and cataloging of ROM hacks and especially the fan translations of video games. Input Mapping Software AutoHotkey Automate your applications. Maybe used for these games, that have trouble to get working in a cabinet (most wrappers seen to made in this utility) AutoIt Powerful scripting application that can be used to write wrappers. Can compile custom scripts to executables. Joy2Key Program to simulate keypresses from joystick inputs (useful for some emulators) PPJoyKey PPJoyKey is an application to convert keystrokes into Windows joystick input via the PPJoy Virtual Joystick interface. VJoy Virtual Joystick VJoy Virtual Joystick is a software application and virtual driver system that allows keyboard input to be translated to joystick input. J2K - A Joystick to Keyboard Mapper There are already very feature-rich joystick to keyboard mappers out there, be it JoyToKey or XPadder. However, both are not Freeware and both lack the possibility to easily switch configurations from outside the applications, which would be necessary if you use game front-ends like GameEx. XPAdder Great software for keyboard and mouse emulation. (By Jonathan) Mame Analog Joystick Map Editor This is a Mame analog joystick map editor. Loads/Saves Mame ini files that can specify analog control map for specific games. Some example ini files included. Save the ini files to the Mame's ini folder (create one if it's not there). Name the file [ROM].ini. (By HeadKaze) Timer (HyperAttract) This is a application to auto quit your emulator under a amount of idle, which you define in the ini file. Pinnacle Game Profiler Pinnacle Game Profiler is a keyboard keymapper, mouse emulator, game manager, and input device programmer—all rolled into one. List Generators Mame LCDGen LCD text file generator for creating *.lcd files to send to a LCD attached to your PC's com port, typically used in a Mamecab in conjunction with a frontend. (By Silver) ListGen This utility uses a free SQL engine (SQLite) to create an internal table from MAME's -listxml output that can be used to generate MAMEWah game lists. It also can be used to generate batch files for Cakemeister's MAME Movie Maker. ListGen is a fast, open source way to filter game lists. (By Cakemeister) ROMLister A windows GUI based application that also uses MAME's xml output file to allow you to create custom filtered lists of games based on your input criteria. (# of buttons, joystick type, monitor orientation, etc) The program can create numerous output files for many popular front ends as well as generic formats like XML, CSV, and batch files. Open source and freeware. (By NOP) MultiMame MultiMAME is a command line application which makes multiple emulators and/or subset of games look like a single emulator. (By Lilwolf) RomDir2XML Utility for generating MaLa game lists for emulators other than MAME. (By Spiderstyle) CFG Magician Create Custom Mame Cfg Files Automatically. (By Morpheus) Video Tools MultiRes Program to change the screen resolution (inc. from a commandline) UltraMon UltraMon is a utility for multi-monitor systems, designed to increase productivity and unlock the full potential of multiple monitors. PowerStrip Program for setting custom resolutions. See Custom display modes (Windows) - Powerstrip MAME Resolution Tool Tool for generating cfg files with resolutions to match closest authentic resolution for games. (By MinWah) AvRes Another tool for generating cfg files with resolutions to match closest authentic resolution for games. (By Gavin Benson) Soft-15k A simple tool programming videocard drivers to support 15 Khz AND arcade resolutions. Supports ATI Catalyst, NVidia ForceWare, Matrox PowerDesk and various 3Dfx Voodoo3/4/5 drivers. See Soft-15khz. (By SailorSat) iRotate iRotate uses the hardware rotation capabilities of the video card to rotate the screen. softSpin softSpin's screen orientation support utilizes the rotation capabilities present in most of today's graphics card drivers. mng2avi The mng2avi is a utility which converts MNG video files into AVI video files. It does this by first breaking down the MNG file into a series of pngs, then running a VirtualDub script to create the AVI file. Optionally, mng2avi can be used to create demo loop movies directly from MAME's MNG output. (By Cakemeister) mng2avi Another mng2avi program. (By Silver) Audio Tools CabVol Control volume with your spinner/trackball/joysticks/buttons. (By Ahofle) VolumeTray This little utility lets me map a single button/control on my control panel for Volume up and down that works regardless of emulator. Command Line Volume Run this utility before and after you run an emulator and it will restore the volume last set for it. (By HeadKaze) Master Volume Lock/Fix Run this script on system startup to lock the sytem volume at a given level. (By Kelroy) Ambience Ambience runs in the system tray to play audio samples randomly or in order. While designed to play the Arcade Ambience samples it can play any samples on a primary or secondary sound card. (By TheShanMan) SoundSwitch SoundSwitch makes it easier to switch playback devices (sound cards). Quick Sound Switch Quick Sound Switch makes it easier to switch playback devices (sound cards). Control Panel Software Johnny 5 Johnny5 is a label layout program, controls viewer, and artwork generator. You take your own background image and add where you want your labels to go, such as Up, Fire, etc. Johnny then takes information from controls.dat to populate the labels and creates a psudeo-interactive display from it. Optionally, Johnny can just save the display to a file via command-line. J5 can also display instruction cards, control panel images and supports the command.dat. Johnny also includes a GUI. (By Howard Casto) You can find full information about Johnny 5 controls viewer here Johnny 5 home page CPMaker CPMaker is a label layout program, control panel layout program, controls viewer, and artwork generator. The CPMaker GUI, which was released in February 2006, allows the user to easily create his or her own control panel out of artwork pieces. (By Cakemeister) CPMaker home page CPViewer CPViewer is a label layout program and controls viewer. jcrouse says this about what CPViewer is: "CPViewer is an add-on for Mame. More specifically for the front-end you use to launch your Mame games. It uses a file called controls.ini (part of controls.dat) to lookup the controls for a particular game. 'It then displays them on the screen so you know what buttons and movements perform what actions in the game that is currently highlighted in your front-end. Did you ever sit do to play a little and decide to try a new game? Then ask yourself, "What buttons do what?" Well if the game has been documented in the controls.ini file, this won't happen again. Simply press a hotkey (one of your control panel buttons) and a graphic of your control panel will be displayed with all of the character movements or button assignments displayed so you know what buttons perform what actions. It's that simple." (By John Crouse) home page CPWizard CPWizard is a control panel editor, control panel (controls.dat), game info (listinfo.xml/Catver.ini/nplayers.ini/HallOfFame.xml), game history (history.dat), mame info (mameinfo.dat), special moves (command.dat) and hiscore (story.dat) viewer. CPWizard is a CP editor and viewer with a graphics library designed to build a custom CP. It runs resident in the icon tray and can be invoked by pressing pause in Mame without the need for command line options. It can export CP as images or bezel artwork that can be toggled on or off inside Mame. It also supports emulators other than Mame. (By HeadKaze) CPWizard Home Page LED Software LEDBlinky w/ Animation Editor Arcade LED Control software and Animation Editor. Supports LED-Wiz, PacLED64, PacDrive, and U-HID lighting and output controllers. (By Arzoo) LEDWiz SDK LEDWiz SDK. (By RandyT / MikeQ / HeadKaze) PACDrive & U-HID SDK PACDrive & U-HID SDK. (By HeadKaze) LuminAudio Engine™ LuminAudio Engine™ is a "light organ" application for the LED-Wiz and LED-Wiz+GP Lighting and output controllers. (By RandyT) LuminAudio Engine™ FE Integration Scripts Scripts to help integrate the LuminAudio Engine™ software for use in Front Ends. (By AlexDog69) Front-End / Jukebox Plugins LEDBlinky w/ Animation Editor Arcade LED Control software and Animation Editor (LWAX format). Supports LED-Wiz, PAC-Drive, and U-HID lighting and output controllers. (By Arzoo) PluginLCD GameEx plugin that supports LEDWiz, PACDrive, BetaBrite, BPP-440, CrystalFontz, PJRC, ProLite hardware devices. It also supports Speech and Sample event driven effects. (By HeadKaze) UltraStik Plugin GameEx plugin for UltraStik 360 (By HeadKaze) GameEx Plugins Other GameEx Plugins JukePlugSys Jukebox Plugin System. See Jukebox Plug-Ins (By Unclet / Space Fractal / HeadKaze / Loadman) Screen Savers EmuSaver Emulator Screensaver (By Howard Casto) Mame Screensaver Mame Screensaver (By Tom Speirs) Random Mame Launcher Randomly loads a new random MAME ROM for a specific amount of time (which you specify). Useful for arcade cabinets in which you want to randomize your game selection (e.g. have your games run a new random game for each different day). (By emb) TB_ScreenSaver TB_ScreenSaver is a Windows 2000/XP/Vista picture screen saver that displays pictures from a user-specified directory using one of nine formats. TB_ScreenSaver supports MAME by displaying MAME pictures then running the games. (By Kenneth W. McKirahan) File Renamers Oscar's File Renamer Program to rename files using text editor type functions like Quick find, Replace, multiple Undo/Redo, Macros and of course normal editing. (By Oscar) Bulk Rename Utility Bulk Rename Utility is a utility which allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extemely flexible criteria. Add date-stamps, replace numbers, insert strings, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and subfolders....plus loads more! (By Jim Willsher) Flash Renamer Batch rename multiple files in a single click! A great time saving tool for managing your file collections, such as digital photos, mp3 music, movies and so forth. (By Dan) Generic Artwork Renamer A neat little program written by Howard_Casto (author of the Dragon King Front End) that allows you to easily rename files. A great program that will attempt to rename screenshots by cross-referencing with a given list of game filenames. (By Howard Casto) FuzzyRename An easy to use tool to help rename png/avi files to match your rom/zip files. Uses fuzzy logic to match names that are similar.(By NOP) FatMatch Image renamer. Immediate Progress Report on Fuzzy Matching, folder selection as opposed to list copy-pasting, treeview of results for easier match picking, software-controlled file renaming. (By Fatone85) Skinny Match Image renamer. Run Skinny Match, and you will be asked to browse to your rom, and art paths. You can use the 'Add Path' button to add additional art paths. The first art path that you enter will be the primary path that is used for matching. Any additional paths will have the art renamed, if the names in the secondary paths match the names in the primary path. (By Tempest) Run Files as a Service XYNTService This utility lets you start and stop any program as if it were a Windows System Service. This is especially useful for starting programs in the background even if you have Windows set up to boot directly into your Frontend. (By Xiangyang Liu) RunAsSvc Another program for running apps as a service. (By Dieter Schmeer) Emulator Wrappers BYOAC Wrappers Wrappers are small utilities used to "wrap" an emulator to automate it's launching and exiting. (By BYOAC Community) Visual Pinball Wrapper Wrapper for launching Visual Pinball (By Howard Casto) Chankast Launch This is a wrapper for the Dreamcast emulator Chankast. It works with all versions of Chankast, even those that are not designed for full screen mode. It is also written in C++ and is only 72k in size. (By Headkaze) WinUAE Loader WinUAE Loader is a WinUAE launcher for arcade cabinets. It supports GameBase Amiga, SPS and WHDLoad game sets and allows you to remap input to suit arcade controls. (By Headkaze) Misc Tools Daemon Tools Program to create virtual drives (useful for mounting CD images) Mame Compiler 64 FE to help compiling Mame and applying diff patches. Supports Mame 32/64 and MameUI 32/64. (By HeadKaze) Hiscore Diff's Hiscore diff's for all MAME versions without hiscore support (107u2 - current). (By MKChamp) Instant Sheller Hide Windows boot up screen, cursors, desktop and boot straight into a Front End. See Hiding Windows (By Tom Speirs) Quick Sheller Hide Windows boot up screen, cursors, desktop and boot straight into a Front End. See Hiding Windows (By Lave Laar) Mame Interop SDK The MameInterop SDK is a collection of source code projects to help with writing applications that communicate with Mame using it's built in output system developed by the MAME Team. (By MAME Team / HeadKaze / Howard Casto) Mame Hooker Program to control hardware through the COM/Parallel ports including LEDWiz, PACDrive, IO Warrior and Keyboard LED's using a scripting engine. It can communicate with Mame and other software as well as display artwork on a secondary monitor. (By Howard Casto) WMPFull Play video files using Windows Media Player in fullscreen. Will exit when ESC is pressed or the video has finished playing. (By HeadKaze) Web Cam Snap Attach a webcam to your cab and take snaps or video's of visitors. Play them back later in your Front End. (By HeadKaze) Scanner A hard disk usage visualization tool. An extended pie chart displays all major files and folders. (By Steffen Gerlach) Joystick Utilities Several useful joystick utilities are located at this site including Clear Calibration Utility (clear the calibration of your joysticks), DXTweak 2 (Tweak various settings such as deadzone), JoyIDs Utility (change the Id's of your joysticks), Poswdm Utility (Allows you to see axis and button data). SetDMD SetDMD is a tool, mainly for virtual pinball cabinet owners, that allows you to easily set your DMD position as well as some other parameters in the DMD for all installed ROMs in the system at once. (By BigBoss)