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Hey just a quick word on Zinc. It's rather notoriously difficult to setup, and I believe all of the ZN1, ZN2 and System 11 games are now emulated directly in MAME. So if you have a relatively modern system and your MAME version is somewhat recent you might consider that. There are two solutions here. One is relatively easy, and one has a bit of a learning curve (but is ultimately more rewarding once configured) For 'standard' emulators there's a field in the setup wizard where you can specify the path for controller image(s). It's the Controls Path field on the Advanced Emulator Setup screen. You can so this one of two ways. You can have a directory full of controller images which match your ROM names. Or you can specify a single image which will display for all games for that emulator (in this case you need to specify the full directory path and file name). If you're looking for a little 'artistic inspiration' for your controller images a few of our members have put together some controller image kits to help you get started. Here's one that I put together a while back, and here's a super-cool one that Adultery made as part of his MegaMAME theme. We've got a ton of super-creative people around here, so it's entirely possible you can turn up other similar projects if you do some digging. Both of the kits I mentioned feature layers that you can move, modify, and replace using either GIMP or Photoshop. For your MAME games, I'd recommend using CPWizard for displaying controls. CPWizard is a really neat utility written by our very own headkaze designed to dynamically display the control layout for the currently loaded MAME game. That means you don't need to create a ton of controller images, as CPWizard will generate the appropriate image(s) on the fly. It does take a bit of configuration, but once you've got the pieces in place it's super slick. Here's a brief tutorial that might help you get started using the tool. Once you get CPWizard setup, you'll notice that it has native integration with GameEx. On the MAME Settings screen (near the bottom of the screen) you'll see various fields related to CPWizard integration.Good luck with all of this mviars! Let us know how it's working out!

Thanks. I havent gotten around to playing with Zinc yet. The reason I was asking is that my Zinc runs from the GameEx main Zinc setup but not through added it as an emulator. I am sure I can figure it out with some more time as I have been concentrating on the mame and console end of it. I have already done as you suggested and made a custom menu for each of the categories I wanted and assigned an emulator slot for each. It does take a ton of time going through all the roms and picking out what games I want in each category and then making a .map file for them but at least it has only what I want in them. Right now my menu structure has a main menu of Arcade Games and Console Games then a sub menu for Arcade Games with all Games, Fighting games, Sports Games, Racing/Flying Games, and my favorite one the Cool & Unusual Games. Then my Console sub Menu has Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Genesis, and Turbograx 16. This menu structure seem to be the simplest for new players to understand. Now I need to figure out how to layout a virtual control panel that can show them what all the buttons do for each situation.