Tom Speirs

28th May, 2006 - GameEx 6.21 to 6.27 First off sorry for the delay in posting what's new These releases are to do with the GameExtender functionality which I still have more big plans for. If you didn't know GameExtender is the name for the networking side of GameEx. As the first post of the year states, theres going to be a lot more going on with this functionality in the future The latest installment of this is an option (turned on by default) to publish what your cab or HTPC is doing to the gameex web site. Check out the live page at gameex.net I realise itâ??s a bit self indulgdment of me to have this turned on by default, and I apologise for that. Although hopefully your'll all mostly like it You can change the user name thatâ??s displayed and the message thatâ??s displayed under the GameExtender settings in the config You can also turn off the publish to server option if you don't want to participate in this. Although rest assured no info is collected. Anyway I have more plans for GameExtender but don't like commiting to things as regulars know as its less fun for me that way.

Hi Headkaze, although portals are great, I don't think we have enough traffic to warrant one really. If things progress Ill certainly look at setting one up, and yes the SQL does cost but the sited does not. I am making the GameEx site more dynamic, we now have news feed, and GameEx live if anyone noticed. Ill explain a bit more what's going on with that shortly, that's the reason for all the updates Yesterday. The GameEx web site will become more dynamic as time goes on, and I'd rather code that myself for now. We also have the forum, which I think is pretty decent software. All I'm saying is not sure we warrant it just for themes site, and I feel the forum and GameEx site are taken care of. Although thanks for the suggestions mate, and I'm not surprised you won an award .

Hi Zig, no nothing has changed there is still a FREE option. Not sure why the browser window is coming up it should only come up when 1 is pressed. Do you have that key held down or something. Otherwise Im not sure why that's happening on your system.

have you tried the latest version, released a few hours ago? Can you also post the log, if there is a current one.

Are you saying you have exactly the same issue as Adultry?

Have you tried manually downloading and installing the latest version?

The dollar reg stings a lot but it's to make it easier for the majority of folks to understand. In the latest version theres a hidden undocumented setting you can add to \config\GameEx.ini Add the following under: [GENERAL] (Can be at the top as long as under General) NoRotationRestrictions=True I think youll find anything above 1024X768 16 bit colour is going to be slow on any system

It sound like a batch file would sort this out Something like this in the emulator dir: snespp.bat cd .. snespp\snespp.exe %1 Then for the gameex emulator cmd run: snespp.bat [ROMFILE] Create an advanced emulator config to monitor snespp.exe so the exit mappings work. Anyway, something along those lines. Cheers

Very ingenious! I had the End if in the wrong place right there! Tha'ts why I never spotted when I tested 6.19. Thanks for the comments Emph. Actually was sleeping all day recovering from Friday Night. Nothing like stimluating work on the computer to sober you up

Or a virus, hardware failure, other software, hard disk corruption. The list goes on...

Maybe so, but its still unlikely GameEx did this to your system. No worries though, and I'm sorry you had to rebuild your PC.

You need Codecs to play the videos, maybe you uninstalled them? I recommend http://ffdshow.sf.net for your codec needs. Its free, legal, and fast.

The bug had nothing to do with what you just explained. It was just an "End If" in the wrong place. Your issue must have been to do with something else altogether! Please be careful when posting stuff lke this stuff, its scares people, and GameEx should never do anything like that. It mostly runs in managed code, making stuff like that almost impossible.

Thanks for offer, but GameEx already traps the error, as shown in the log. It is as a system issue, and not a bug in GameEx. Theres more info on it elsewhere on the forum, bu basically the Diagnositics namespace in .net does not work on some machine configurations. .net crashes when checking for running processes. I think Headkaze maybe the closest in diagnosing the issue in that it could be a rights issue.

27th May, 2006 - GameEx 6.20 Sorry folks it seems a small bug crept into 6.19 that stopped emulator games showing up because of the faster file scanning If you installed 6.19 and are using emulators you need to upgrade to this release

Thanks for reporting, it is a bug in 6.19. I'm currently publishing 6.20 which has the fix. Should be available in about 5 minutes.

I wish I knew, but I've never even experienced the problem myself.

That's because they changed.

Windows media player with FFDSHOW works fine.

Hi, this problem come up once in a while. Theres no known fix for it sorry, other thant ro reinstall windows. If you search the forums yourll find it mentioned. I have no idea why this happens. It's not a gameex issue, its a windows issue.

Pressing both shift keys. e.g CTRL-ALT should load the start page. Of course then the MAME list wont be the last page. Sorry, don't plan on addressing it any other way for just now (probably will happen eventually though). Too much other stuff to do. Thanks. Tom

26th May, 2006 - GameEx 6.19 Default themes updated to fix one of the version 2 themes stopping media center from closing The logging has been optimized, and some other optimisations have been done at initilisation, so GameEx should now startup quicker Most of the scanning for files and folders has been optimised, meaning DVD lists, Karaoke, Emulators, and Jukebox when in tag mode should all load up a fair bit quicker. This will likely be very noticable when your content is on remote computers Main point of this version is to hopefully improve performance and resources use The theme picker now displays the name of the theme only without starting with "Default - " in front

Its either a MAMEPlus issue or your bezel got corrupted. If its the later delete the directory c:\program files\GameEx\Bezel and reinstall GameEx.

I would like to say he's right GameEx is my baby, but folks HeadKaze has been a HUGE help on several things in GameEx, and is really valued by me. I hope to involve him more in the future too. He is deffinitly my number 2 as far as I am concerned, and also a very decent bloke! I don't think the rotation is going to change for now, although believe me I am actively looking at it. At some stage I'm probably going to make the display code more object based maybe even plug in based. This will allow GameEx to use Direct3D, WinFX, or SDL (possibly for Linux in the future), and when that happens the rotation will improve and we may see the GUI looking even a little more flash. I'm currently looking at developing or getting developed a 2d library using Direct3d instead of DirectDraw. Shaun, I will post an updated exe that has no restrictions on the roataion in this thread shortly. Perhaps you can test it for me, and see how the speed looks? Headkaze, I ended up just modifying the surface memory in a C++ routine. I got over the main speed issue by loading the surfaces in System Memory rather than video memory. Thanks, Tom

Hello. It seems MediaCenter mode is set to 0 even though you have it set to close and restart which is 2. It may be you have this set in the theme.ini your using perhaps? Either way it should be set at 2. Check that out and let me know If you want to be called something other than Amos, I can try and change that Not sure if I have that option but Ill try. Thanks.