Tom Speirs

In terms of GameEx currently it would be MONO and not WINE that would be most important for something like this.

Also, how are you trying to exit mame, escape key or something else?

Then you need to compile your own mame as suggested.

I never understand why everyhing has to be because of a gameex update and not something else that happened, but post your log, and let us know if you did anything else like install new codecs, or move hard disks/files.

Its not the latest release. I think it must be a codec issue.

Im not sure wha the problem is but nothing has changed in recent releases in that area of GameEx so im pretty certain its not related to the latest gameex release.

It was only matching goodname in that last release. Im uploading a new one now. I cant see any other problems at the moment, but let me know what else you find.

That deffinitly should not happen. Are you talking about MAME?

Yeah, but it wont work in all cases, sometimes it may always fit off the screen, like when 5 menus are shown, and we also have biography menu option now that takes it up to 6. Thanks, but sorry its not going to happen.

OK. It is actually already reading and saving the name, so it should not be difficult. When I do the online lists it will use the name field for lookups, so it is relevant. However, Im not sure everyone would want it to display the name from the dbase though, and what if people want to see the full filenames with (J) etc? The matching is a great idea, but I think Ill put this one on the backburner for now. Lets think about it some more. Cheers. Tom.

Not sure about the dates yet, but yes I completely agree on the naming, you must have missed my post above

Im really surpised this has not come up sooner to be honest. It currently picks the first image it finds based on the order artwork is listed on the game info page. It does not roate, but picks the first artwork image it finds. ie for MAME if you always have a Marquee for a game it will always show the Marquee.

Ive just released 9.39 which now does the naming format matching automatically. I agree and like it much better that way. It checks for a match in the following order: NoIntro, GoodName, Tosec. Seeing as the databases are missing a lot of games currently I dont foresee any problems.

The menu is scrollable, so I dont see it as a bug. Sometimes not all the menu items will fit on the screen. Thats just the way it is, or where you referring to something else?

I did actually think about matching all of them, but I didnt because I thought it would do wrong matching. I can relook at that though. How should it work? By default it will use GoodName. Now what you probably should do is populate the missing Tosec field from the other one if it exists. In regard to the name field, Im not really sure what your talking about there. It actually shows the rom name taken from the filename in GameEx, at least so I thought. You cant show the database name field because it will rarely match all games. Are you specifiy a full date for the year? It needs to be a date field. Like I said we can look at paragraph break again, but for now the issue is the existing database wont look right.

This can happen when an item in the list is blank. ie the text description for it is set to nothing. Im guessing one of the language setting strings is blank in your custom language config.

5th July, 2008 - GameEx 9.38 Includes Ben Baker's (AKA Headkaze) latest LCD/LED Plugin now featuring support for Ultimarcs latest product, the U-HID Initial support for the new database project. With support for new naming fields, ability to select naming type, and new biography page in GameEx Emulator list music playlist option now stops playing the music when exiting from browsing the emulator Fixes issue where reading audio tags information would hang GameEx on Vista. This affected using the Jukebox in file tag mode and when using emulator specific playlists Fixes issue where zip support would only list more than one game in the same zip if there were three or more separate games A very special thanks goes out to Headkaze and Greatflash and all involed in the new database project.

Hi all, First of all thanks for all your hard work. ill be releasing a new version today, with support for the new fields. Just wanted to mention a couple of things so there's no disapointed. In regard to the "..." issue, I have not had a chance to look at this yet but will do for the release after the next. Also in regard to the new lines, I did implement this then saw that it does not look right with the existing data, for example look at Hybrid Heaven for N64. It does have more than one line break for this game in places but there not perfect and it just did not look right with the extra line breaks, so i decided not to support a blank line for now but we can look at this again later. The good news is it does support the new bigoraphy, but only if using v3 themes, as there is not enough menu space for v1 and v2 themes.

GameEx is going to support external DVD players in a future release.

Could it be that you have the rom in the filter list as well as the do not exclude list? The filter list will override.

Yes, the setting is under enable/disable features and called something like show game info page.

Actually it seems the issue is because it tries to strip html tags from the description fields, and it classes & as html. Ill have a private release out for you guys shortly that fixes this and allows you to select the naming convention to use.

Ill look into it. Cheers.

I thought this was a bug fixed in a recent release. Are you running the latest version?

For MAME I like the idea, and I know of another front end that does it. I was already looking into the possiblity of this, but otherwsise for other emulators that exactly what the 7-zip/zip support is supposed to do already. Just for zips it wernt working right.