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The next version of GameEx will have integration with XBMC via this plugin which will launch GameEx and return to XBMC in the process pausing and resuming anything playing. Here is the current version of the plugin for testing and an updated gameex.exe for correctly returning focus to XBMC. The whole thing will be seamless in the next gameex release and the plugin will automatically install to XBMC. If the option not to run XBMC in a full screen window is set this won't work right but that is not the default setting in XBMC. Ive only tested in Win 7, not sure if there will be DirectX conflicts in XP. The plugin is completely free for you to use and modify anyway you like. There is no license. Even if you want to use it with another product. Choose install plugin as zip from the system menu in XBMC. The GameEx.exe included is the same as the current release with some minor various bug fixes. Unless you modify the source this version will only work with GameEx installed in the default location but its a really simple plugin to modify. plugin.program.gameex.zip

This release has an option in the installer to install a GameEx plugin for XBMC. The addon will allow you to launch GameEx from the XBMC programs module. This version also cleanly returns and sets focus to XBMC. Ensure XBMC is running windowed when fullscreen. This is the default.Several minor fixes in this release including exported MAME games in windows media center working properly. View the full article

Pretty much. There is something I learned pretty early about mame....just becuase they come out with a new version, does not always mean its a better version - a game that works well with an older version of mame is not guarenteed to work with the most recent version of mame. That's why sometimes, if you are building a cab that will have many games, more than one version of mame is a good idea - that way, if a rom does not work with one version, you can always get GameEx to point out that rom to work with another version via the Mame Mapping Magician. This is what I would do (and this is how I have my cab set up). Depending on the amount of games you have, I would download and use the version of mame that will support as many roms that you have stored. I would use this version as the main mame version (have GameEx point to this under "mame settings"). Then find a second version of mame that will support any rom that the first one will not support. Set it up, test any roms that wasn't working in the other version, and then have GameEx to use that version of mame as an emulator (under emulator settings). Then, after using the Mame Mapping Magician, it should automatically work - unless a clone (e.g. for "killer instinct" - kinstua, kinsteu) is the only one that will work, then ya gotta use the filter (as celly stated above ) .

Hola! I'm gonna help a brotha out (I had this problem before when I was first setting up my cab) Assuming that everything is setup in the setup wizard correctly, what's going on is the version of mame you are using doesn't support the rom files you have. It will show in GameEx that you have the game, and it will try to open it through Mame, but will error out and will return to the front end. The best way to solve this - and it will take a little bit of "elbow grease", is to download one or two "alternative" (older/different) versions of mame. The one I use for Killer Instinct is 0.103 and I'm not too sure about Street Fighter III 2nd Impact, but with 3rd strike, v0.146 works well. After downloading and setting up the games through the other versions of mame, you will have to set the other versions of mame as emulators in GameEx setup wizard and then use the Mame Mapping Magician to "tell" GameEx which rom files to open with which version of mame. It should work well after that - Oh, and if the name of the rom file is a little different....e.g. (hypothetically) if kinst.zip doesn't work through the different version of mame, but kinstua.zip does, you will have to use the setup wizard to filter out the kinst.zip, and then add in (include) the kinstua.zip and then update the list in GameEx. Lol, it really is an easy thing to do - just can take time depending on how many games ya want working that doesn't work in the "main" version of mame you wish to use. To help your search a little for the different versions of mame, this link should take ya where ya need to go: http://www.progettosnaps.net/mameui_en Hope this helps!! LC

This release has an option in the installer to install a GameEx plugin for XBMC. The addon will allow you to launch GameEx from the XBMC programs module. This version also cleanly returns and sets focus to XBMC. Ensure XBMC is running windowed when fullscreen. This is the default.Several minor fixes in this release including exported MAME games in windows media center working properly. View the full article

This is a simple XBMC VPN add on for Windows. Unzip and run the executable to configure and install. Once you have entered the details and accepted, the plugin will install and be available as a program in XBMC as VPN - Dial and VPN - Disconnect. There is no license other than no liability for use of is accepted and no warranty given. Otherwise you may do whatever you wish with this. This was written for myself and is for windows only and there is no internal XBMC configuration available as that suits my needs. It supports a single RAS connection or customised connection via command line. It requires .net framework 2 sp 1 for the exe configuration and install application or you can just modify launch.bat and copy to your XBMC addons folder. It can probably be easily modified to run under Linux or Mac but if you know how to do that you have probably no need for this plugin.Read more and get it here. View the full article

If I ever build my own cab, this would be how I would set it up too; using that smart power strip. Ingenius idea.