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A sincere happy new year to all GameEx users. Something big is coming to GameEx in 2014 and you will start to hear more about it soon. We are evolving... Tom GameEx creator.

GameEx doesn't actually store the rom list for GameBase. It simply displays the list that GameBase give it. Because of that, there is no way to have a favorite from there, unfortunately. As for videos, this has been asked before (by myself as well). The problem, once again, is that GameEx is really just a frontend to GameBase, and merely displays whatever GameBase has. You're absolutely right though, GameBase doesn't support videos, and GameEx can't be configured for a video path. Something you might try, though I've never tried it myself, is simply replacing the screenshot pictures in the GameBase path with videos. The way GameEx works, it will display videos before displaying images, so if they're in the path, it might work. I won't guarantee it though as I've not tried it. The other obstacle you would face here is that any videos you download will have to be named EXACTLY as they are in the screenshots, which can be difficult since GameBase uses it's own naming scheme and not a more standardized one. As for the music, this is hit or miss with GameEx. What you'll need to do is have the appropriate audio codec installed. Some GameBase's have their music converted to WAV or MP3, and those don't cause any problems. Others are in a propriety format used by that system it's emulating. Those special formats will require an audio codec to convert it to a compatible format. Some GameBase systems have their own internal players for playing the music files, to my knowledge there is no way for GameEx to identify that a separate player is necessary, and won't launch it. You must remember that GameEx is merely listing what GameBase has, so if it has a picture it will show the picture, if it has music it shows the music (although it might not play). Hope that clears up your GameBase questions. With your closing questions. I built a customized advanced config that will close down an emulator with a combination keypress on my controller. 9 times out of 10, I've found that by using the Advanced Config "[Mapping Off] Exit (Process Close)" works best, as it's forcing the emulator to close (like pressing ALT-F4 or running tskill in command prompt), rather than attempting a smart close (like pressing Escape, or ALT+Q, etc). In the MSX config, this is exactly how I have it configured. For the other emulators, I'm actually using GameBase. But since I have the global exit configured with the keypress on the controller, I just use that to end the emulation. I can't really help you with the MAME problem, as I don't use a vertical display.

I wonder how difficult it would be to reformat the text file and then convert it to PDF and save it to the first post pinned Hi-Score Competition thread as a reference? Actually I found the site and will work on a conversion to upload to the crew for review. Stay tuned!

I would suggest to use cubeman's copy of TG settings for games, and we could honor the TG tradition and rulesets. I didn't know about TG until I saw it here, but made a quick research and after reading TG's history I think it deserves us to keep using those settings. (cubeman's txt file attached. I saved it to my computer just in case, so we won't lose that information) tgts.txt

Here is a link to a great tutorial by DazzleHP for Setting Up Custom Menus should you decide that is the route you would like to take.

Hi there! I made my own theme for gameex, but there're only the parts I needed. I mean, there's no daphne theme and others... I tuned it for my own needs, and I use a custom menu too. It has screens for default/startup, mame, nes, snes, n64, sms, genesis, psx, vpinball and future pinball. If I want to share it, what folders should I include? or just the theme folder? This is how it looks. Any suggestion is welcome though The scanlines on the preview video are part of the theme (my arcade cab ;D ) (favourites) (most played)

@ Helpman > thank you That's a great idea !! We'll use this sheet as reference for our future game settings. I noticed not all of our hi-score games are on this list but those who aren't require default settings to play. At least the ones I have screened When a game is on this list we'll use these settings. When it's not we'll use the game's default settings - which are probably the correct TG settings. I however think the list covers pretty much every game I've adjusted the Hi-score competition rules accordingly. @ Draco / Adultery / wolfman: that's why I love this community. Helping each other out. Thank you guys !! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @ Dazz: I'll only charge £10. Special price for my GameEx friends LOL To quote what I have previously posted at the TG forum: "TG was and is or at least should be about tracking world records and be considered THE place of displaying the best game high scores worldwide. This should be their core business. Not spending money by organizing events which only a happy few can attend. Playing (classic) games is a worldwide hobby and TG can only maintain its past succes if it accommodates that majority. Deciding otherwise will result in nothing but failure" Guinness dropped them as the official subsmission source a while ago because TG decided to ask money for hi-score submissions. That's against Guinness' policy. I don't think TG has deleted highscores. Perhaps when they come to their senses - which I doubt with the current management - the scoreboard will perhaps be online again. I really hope so. In the mean time > let's enjoy playing arcade games and compete for great hi-scores amongst us friends

Hi Beaps, Something you mentioned in your other thread sparked an idea - you mentioned marquees while playing? This means your games are most likely using layout files (these are needed to display artwork elements in the correct position for each game) and if i'm not mistaken these layout files also include a set resolution for each game, thus overriding any settings you alter in respect to resolution/orientation. So, ill give you 2 options to try (do either of these - both at the same time are not rquired): 1) Open MAME.ini (found in your mame directory) and find the Artwork section. Change it as per the following: ## CORE ARTWORK OPTIONS#artwork_crop 0use_backdrops 0use_overlays 0use_bezels 0use_cpanels 0use_marquees 02) Delete all artwork paths form GameEx MAME Settings apart from Snap/Video Snap/Title. This method is not ideal as you won't be able to see all the lovely artwork in the gameinfo screens. I would go for option 1 for reasons specified - i only really gave you option 2 incase you have uncontrollable .iniphobia like some people do

As Han said i can't believe they took THAT amount of money for submissions (ludicrous if you ask me) only to essentially steal them records from the very people who basically paid for the leaderboards. It just goes to show that no matter how good an idea/product/franchise, poor management will destroy it in the end. It's a real shame GC i agree with you totally. As for what we should do with regards to our rules - whatever you guys decide is fine by me! You've run this op brilliantly from the start so i have every faith in whatever decision you come to. As long as we are all playing by the same rules, that's all that counts It's not like you're gonna start charging £20 a pop, then delete the forum and leggit

the beauty of coverters tgts.pdf

If you don't get that rolling I have Acrobat Pro and I might be able to.

Seems like you have a blank space before the argument. ;-) I'll add a trim to avoid similar problems in the future.

Such a shame. I had never even heard of TwinGalaxies until we started our own competition here. But I visited their site frequently when I was checking for settings and checking my own scores against theirs. I can't believe that the new co-owners would simply stop using the ONLY reason the website was built in the first place. So now, it seems, we're the only community with active participants to achieving high scores. Such a bummer. All those people who donated time and money to get their high scores globally recognized have now just spent their hard earned money on CRAP, ZILCH, NADA. I can't believe it. If I had submitted a score with all their uptight rules and fund requests, I would really be pissed. Hopefully they're come to realize they're making a huge mistake and everything will be back to normal soon.

Happy New Year! There Are Exciting Times Ahead!

I took the time, scoured and downloaded all the wheel images I could find. I then wrote an app to rename the files according to the latest Dats. These are now on the FTP.