Tom Speirs

To be sure, please upgrade to the latest version. Best not to use the EXE I posted, it got rolled into the latest releases.

25th January 2006 - GameEx 5.45 When viewing game artwork full screen you can now navigate through the other artwork without going back, and can also view the snap even if your using video previews. A feature request asked for several times. More intuitive display initialisation: If GameEx can't set a full screen resolution it will run at the current windows resolution and not error. When 32 bit colour not available will automatically switch to 16 bit colour. Much better compatibility with Remote Desktop/Terminal Services. Because of the above should run full screen without changing settings. In most cases GameEx will not crash when connecting to it through remote desktop. Fixes issue where any advanced emulator config game device mapping was mapping all buttons above 6 to 6. Fixes slowdown issue navigating emulator lists when GameExtender enabled and you have no snap for a game. Fixes toolbar not working when media controls disabled.

Yep, and therll be a little competition Ill be running to. PLEASE be patient though, HeadKaze and I still need to do a lot of work making sure it meets the GameEx quality standard in order to meet expectations.

Hi, I hope to make it more intuitve in the future, but you DO NEED to set the language to custom or blank in the ini to get it to work. Thanks, Tom

Hi, yep, you just found a bug. Thanks for reproting it, it really does help when people tell me these things. Its fixed now my end and will be in the next release. Cheers, Tom

Hi Jedah, I am using some of circo's own sets, but wanted confirmation about the mame videos, e.g do all the mame videos show at the correct aspect ratio etc? I recommend FFDSHOW instead for the codecs. http://ffdshow.sf.net

Yes, bug. Fixed now my end though.

ALL: Yep, it's coming, although please be patient, I am having to do some real work at the moment

See: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=1086 For why it's probably working for you now.

I use Ultra VNC and remote desktop, although GameEx does work fine through remote desktop when windowed. I often develop it via remote desktop in windowed mode. It may also work if your using deadzone in fullscreen. It crashes on remote desktop for two reasons: 1. If it tries to set a resolution. 2. When it tries to flip surfaces in DirectDraw (full screen mode, without deadzone). Hope this helps. Edit: In other words, set Deadzone to say 1 to get it to work, or run it windowed.

Hi, It comes with GameEx. Its just disabled unless your registered. Its on the last page in the configuration app. Hope this helps, I hope to get some better docs on it soon, just so busy right now. Thanks, Tom

I saw a post on another site, that the site is in progress of being rehosted and being back up again. Just may need to wait a little.

Hey Jedah, do those videos work OK with GameEx, just wanted confirmation? Cheers.

Yes, right flipper and player 2 is setup as default for using X-Arcade and GameEx. Its in the GameEx docs, but I cant slam you, as I dont read manuals either!

I think this might be due to the change in 5.34 that shows media controls at all times. Things to look at first would be settings related to that and your jukebox settings. I think you may be getting exceptions, do the buttons show highlighted as the mouse is hovering over them?

Yes, but I'd love to be able to hook you up if I could, but it would take a highly different and hugely more complex and time consuming way of implementing TV in GameEx. Have you checked out MediaPortal?

Main reason for just a small update is to help people just discovering GameEx, and wondering why they see no MAME games, when they haven't read the docs.

22nd January 2006 - GameEx 5.44 Much more intuitive for new users setting up MAME for the first time. If the games list has never been created it will prompt to update. For GameExtender, all artwork is now also cycled when a game is launched even when the Game information page has been skipped.

Update: I've had ten people contact me, not all have the required hardware. Anyone else want to pioneer this with me?

It should already have a refresh setting, and does cycle through the artwork if you have the setting enabled to show game info. Although in the next release it will cycle through the artwork even if its not enabled. It also shows the MAME CP. Maybe you posted this before I made these enhancments available. If not go grab the latest version. Its even better!!

No, its working fine, just perhaps it should not say "Warning:" Also I believe the offlinelist support only ever worked for game snaps and not the other artwork. What with Screenshot archive and emumovies, I kind of lost ineterest in supporting offline further. I understand Screenshot archive is down, if anyone knows who to contact maybe I can help them out with hosting?

Not denying there is a bug or issue, but I can in no way see how it relates to the themes. Anything else change on your 3 PC's?

Your'll get a video preview when navigating the mame lists in GameEx for each game.

Hi, In regard to Videos, it does generally work well for most people. You probably have a base case of DLL and Codec hell going on on yout machine. I am guessing the only way yourll get it working now, will be to do a fresh install of windows.

Sorry I believe the help in the config app is out of date the correct location for logos should be gameex/themes/[Chosen Theme]/Logos Not too sure, I think GameEx does two checks, that the folder phyisical exists and that it is equal to something in the config. Maybe an extra back slash is added or missing?