Tom Speirs

Recent versions of gameex contain a newer version. So its installing the shortcut again.

Maybe the yanks unplugged "England" again.

Looks much better. Great job guys. I just tried to post but is hanging. I guess your still working on it though.

Thanks, I was going to ask for that. Can you post the log as well.

Thanks Ben. Ive updated the news item.

Do you see it if you kill the hideos.exe process?

Now has high score support for supported MAME games thanks to Fyrecrypts project. For supported games and if enabled you will see an option on the game info page to show high scores for a game. For more info on the project please see Here on BYOAC. Feel free to get involved in the project. There's a few of us helping out, and Ill be providing some hosting for it shortly.Improved control support when playing videos in the video player. Fixes a key repeating issue, and video skips are now a more friendly 20 seconds instead of 30Improved support for displaying GameEx on a secondary display. GameEx will now run in ful screen windowed mode on the secondary display, and continue to be accessible when working on the primary display. Im assuming this is going to be better for everyone, but if itâ??s a problem for you please let me know on the forums.

You guys will be the death of me you know EDIT: What did you have to change?

What I am asking is do you still get the 1 minute delay that way?

HTPC/Multimedia

I think what I need to do is make GameEx stay on top on the secondary display when full screen. Would that be better?

Im not sure, can you try not doing it the new way and setting it as a startup video, and seeing if you still get the long delay. It all worked fine in my tests, so it could be a codec thing.

Just a minor release before I start work on the improved database supportFor snap/video logos videos are now searched for before image filesVideo logos are now supported for custom MAME list logosBy default the list of emulators will now be sorted alphabetically. This can be turned off in the advanced configurationDue to the drastic change in currency exchange rates, the donation/registration price has been changed to US dollars from British pounds

I believe there is an already a feature request for that.

Yes, MNG is a good option, or AVI if there uncompressed. AVI's perform a lot better in GameEx thats the only thing. Compressed AVI's wont be any good Id expect. I look forward to seeing what you come up with. A good start to this that people could easily get involved with would be the manufacturer logos just as images. Just a thought.

I think you misunderstand, Im not asking for money, I would pay for it, Im just asking if people think its worth it?

Here is how you do it. Maybe someone can come up with a demo. The images come up when viewing the category, year or manufacturer lists in either emus or MAME. It looks for a png, jpg, avi, mpeg, or mng in the \[THEME]\LOGOS\DATABASE folder. For example "Atari.png" or "1989.png" If an AVI or MNG is sufficed with "_Trans" e.g "Atari_Trans.avi" then it will color key out the black in the video. I attach a MNG in case you have not got any. Yes, system logos would be good too as always. They now also support transparancy in videos. For the MAME categories. It will also search for the master category e.g you can have driving.png and this will match "driving / race" Just copy a few images around to test. If we can come up with a few demo icons ill do a video. Edit: Brian, yes, manufacturer logos is part of this. LOGOS.rar

If your keeping up, with GameEx 9.63 and above, gameex now supports image and video logos for the database pages (category, years, and manufacturer). It would be a lot of work for people to create them, and thats even if they wanted to share. So I was thinking about putting out the job to tender. ie paying for someone to do them. As its going to cost me, I need a little motivation, and wanted to ask you all if you thought it would be worth it. I would provide them as download when installing GameEx along with the databasess and the like. Also would it be worth having them as videos (obviousy more work and bandwidth), transparant videos (even more work), or just images? So.. Thoughts?

Some people have a TV as the second monitor.

Assuming your using the registered version and the game info page is enabled you should see an item in the list called "Manual" with the other artwork. You also need to install the manual viewer when installing gameex.

As far as I know (and I tested) the vista codecs still use FFDSHOW, and the issue with sound on still remains.

OK, I must have changed that by mistake. Ive fixed it for the next release.

Actually its a really good and intuitive way of implementing startup videos thinking about it. So Im adding it to the next release. Thanks. Tom

Not exactly, but you can use a startup video, and gameex continues to initialize in the background while its playing,. You can then turn off the loading screen from displaying.

I don't think anything has changed in GameEx recently that would affect it. There's often posts about this though. I'd check the thread I posted in about half an hour ago. http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=5158