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There is really not much to this plugin. First it requires that you have a custom compiled version of MAME with a Hiscore Patch and all it does it download and upload the games associated hi file to an FTP server. So it basically allows people to share hiscore tables online. I recommend using the hiscore.dat file generated from here which I believe is for MAME 0.140. So if everyone uses that version there should be no issues. This is really just a proof of concept and is by no means a robust solution. I just don't think it's possible to really do this properly but perhaps it will be expanded in the future to address some of these issues. Some of the more obvious issues are cheating which I don't think is really possible to prevent. Another is in the off chance you run the same game at the same time your hiscore file might get overwritten. Although it does make a backup of the .hi file so you may be able to recover it. Another issue is some versions of MAME may create incompatible .hi files between some games. So you may download a .hi that is not compatible. DISCLAIMER: Use at your own risk! If your hiscores are precious to you then don't use this plugin! You have been warned! If anyone is interested in continuing development of this basic plugin PM me and I can send you the source code. PlugInHiScore.zip

This is actually a theme I had started late last year that I had shelved due to other commitments (Life, pseudo-employment, etc.). I hope to release it along with my Blue Neon LCD theme in time for the holidays - Life permitting of course.

This might be a good time to ask for a copy of your gameex.ini, log.txt, and theme.ini files to avoid further confusion regarding the background images. As for displaying the images correctly, I think you may need to qualify that with a little more information. GameEx does a pretty good job trying to keep the videos proportionate, however, no frontend is going to switch the displays back and forth to perfectly crop from horizontal to vertical. The only way possible would be to, perhaps, have two MAME setups going for example, one with all vertical games (and the foreground masking for that setup to crop as closely as desired) and the same for horizontal.

Here are a few special logo's to be used with Starcade.

I just wanted to say that this program is saving me tons of time trying to rename movies and other artwork to match the MESS SoftList names of my roms. I have yet to find a program from Tempest that wasn't immensely useful. And this is no exception. Great work sir!

Updated to 1.1.2 Lots of new features and fixes! Nice and smooth, ya hear me? (Plugin) Added new Game Info update checker(Plugin) Added new dialog forms for displaying brief game info when the game is selected in the list or when the MAME list updates(Plugin) Added fade in and out transitions to all forms(Plugin) Fixed override for emulator specific displays(Plugin) Fixed a bug where game data wasn't being sent if a game was launched from most played or last played lists(Plugin) Fixed a bug where GameEx was crashing if artist metadata was not located for the jukebox(Configuration) Added enable/disable options to update checking, dialog forms, and added a global Game Info disable(Configuration) Fixed the monitor enumeration (use your Windows display assignments now)(Configuration) Fixed a bug were theme settings weren't being saved unless the user clicks "SAVE" on the config form: The idea was to make it save that setting once you clicked "APPLY" on the theme selection page.(Themes) Added customization for the dialog window, the dialog logo, and added spaces for the new CP features (coming soon!)(Themes) Updated the MegaMAME theme with the new images(Overall) Bug fixes and optimizations I'm currently working on adding a CP viewer that displays on a keypress. More details on that later. Here's a quick pic of the new dialog form: I also made a Game Info theme to accompany the default GameEx "Media Center" theme: Download that from here: