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Xarcade came in, 3 days , US .. not bad at all for the shipping. Had to open her up 2 times in 30 mins tho >< Once to fasten a loose board connection ( thank god twas the problem) that was keeping the P2 High Kick button from being recognized. This of course was essential for all the d3 hurricane kick closers the little ones had been dreaming about. Second , sadly to set the calibration as it was replied that i would probally have to in order to get a faster click response with the Joy stick. P1 kept sticking in the up position if I barely tapped it up. Everything else seems ok so far. Still need a good ol usb X360 pad w/ Xbcd on quick draw for those games out there that just say NO to keyboard mapped controllers. And dangit theres no excuse that redeems the fact that I deleted a 1000+ words from the first post. I know for a fact there would have been a flame engulfed suicide demonstration. I'm working on a Back 2 the futurish type time traveling theory and hope to be able to stop my self from deleting the 6 deleted chapters and maybe try out the HotRod instead of the X-arcade, just to see the difference in the 2 controllers and at the same time get a splash and a dash of sado-masochism. Yoga Flame.

Here's Johnny ~ jonny . >< , =D , umm feedback. tru , tru , .. crack .. NO.. crazy.. sadly tru.. ok serious ........ now Yeah , I thought Xarcade was prob just not that far off from its overall control response and classc feel as the Hot Rod has been written to have over the X. Maybe its a slight less authentic, but nonetheless it seemed to be one of those mentioned cons that the writeres had to delve deep in order to really try and Vs. battle these things. Havnt seen to many slik Vs. out there , Maybe due to the ,, heavy price tags on the ones past Fighter version, even tho this setup is still one of the, if not THE most expensive Dual of its kind. ( altho the space between the control areas is a way, waa WAY plus, Lessen u have that cute gally as your next challenger .) . and yes I heard she is currently being tracked in the Seoul underground birdseye/sidescroll shooter ( loser gets cattle branded ) Pit Meets. The info on the calibration, and modification is a way plus, reminded me , I could prob fine tune this thing to work like or close to what I needed. Plus the dual syatem Xover still seems to be a really decent plus , cept , the price tags. ...containg, wild .. hurry .. must end ,,. scripts. Thanks yalls, a promise is a promise. >^^<

Hey all , lil new to this scene (caused by a crazy love for this GameEx thing >>>>^^< NOT to the emu Jernt <-- thingy, etc .. to all you Ancient Civs >^^<. Its so dang nice to trade the toilet prolonging, life stealing, job destroyer that is an MMohRpeeGee. for some good ol emu action. Hell im not even sure if i can send this post w/o a 6 player Group/team/i.e 2 hours of looking (cause my static just split up >< ) .. kk No more of that sissy no frills nonsensa. I love the work and results from this FrontEnd. ( Thats how I see it, maybe its got some hyper pre teen nostalgia surrounding a predestined nickname for the phenomonom we kno as[gameex] Never posted before I shot out some long winded boring model 2 hedache enducing topics.There kinda fun cause who knows ""Are they just plain'o net litter or could they contain enough info to be deemed informitive .. hmm.., deff not , Whatever you do , dont keep it alive. Bludgeon it like a 1h Mace and shield Pure Def/Heal Cleric does to Orcs who forget there song hymnals. Well he doesnt really have the dice to hurt them but it would take over 2 hours to whittle his Def down enuff to outline his base HP. Sorry. :: Just bought a(n) X-Arcade Dual. been a fan of em forever. Looked at the HotRod. liked the price and the litereature involving a "more" classic/REAL? feel of the material and control response (for the HOTROD)... Waiting on the Xarcade in the mail, it shipped and the god of mail says it shoup be here Monday .. Im sure there are 400 topics about .. make that 401 about this debate/comparison/post. But Now thats its to late to change the outcome of my purchase easily. ANYONE got any....., Points , Vs. Battles, Opininons, Praises and/or Pure Ordained Hatred Rants, about either one of these 2-player style arcade sticks (X-Arcade / HotRod, heck , SlikStic, etc..). They both seem nice. Basically I bought one after I got back into emus and found myself spending alot of time with this cool program(GameX). I went with the XAracde because , I do remember a friend getting one around 4-5 yrs ago that I admired and had fun with, way back when MAME was a wee 3500+ compatable feller. Also I like the fact I recently read that it can now work on most consoles,without TOOLS that is ^^ , via purchased Converter Adapters. Which are real CHEAP =D.. ....UMMM NO sir they are NOT CHEAP. I'll be lucky to get a 360 one if it makes it out. ((but they do give u a free one so when they send it You CAN really use it with one of your systems, man thats real nice of them >^^< Maybe one day they'll throw in some manure.. That is on pure asumption that you opted to select an adapter that fits one of your systems !!)) ok but it did just drop from 140 to 120 , so that is a good thing. Unless its due to the fact that the Directional Joy is being redone with a shaved carrot X-Arcade / HotRod / SlikStick(Little outta my price range for the multi player styles)/ any other Classic Dual brands welcome too. Did I make the right choice with the Xarcade, or is the HotRod a Sin to be without. Cant believe i didnt take that second job and dragon punch with a SLIKStic , You tell me. From what I have read and seen they all look great. I just want to hear what the gameXers roc with. I kno theres a large interest surrounding size due to custom cabinets that apply to many lucky folks. I am just on a widescreen HDTV that needs a Dual, Classic feel Joy , where the size is not much of the matter. (( whoaa now, Im not saying MY size... LMAO, incrimination killed the single guy .. Seriously tho, Cabinet space limitations is one area I dont have to worry about in my current setup (My .. VS. Battle Enemies, couch Co-Pilots, chili dinner eating teamwork comrades) dont face our video game fortunes and failures in a cabinet. We just usually play console style, via the (Dont get up , just use the lazy man remote style MCE offspring.. THANKS GameEx. I knew you would be awesome, your many inventions always change my life ans seem to alter the course of human history. This is almost as good as that time you made those ninja weapons - - - Throwing Stars. I'm for real,I still see people using those things to alter the outcome of close death battles, and silent battle plan stealing infiltration missons. How do u come up with this stuff. I mean Throwing Stars, Calendars (Featuring the Cutest Kittens the world hasnt eaten yet) and NOW GameEx!!! Freakn Genius !!! And in the famous words of a quick "DariusGaiden - Silver Hawk" ending. "Penny Arcade fun, battle was done, we had Lots run Home, for now. Galaxy safe in time. Dinner before trouble in solar Base. to amke more mishions" (pumping fists in a victorious gesture) .. ok ..... >< for the one person who actually made it here that wasnt me. and 'YES' I kno it was by accident .. and I am SOrry for this. PS.. No more long posts I swear ^^, just had to holla a bit , figure if you all are Gamexers, you should kno who u fish with ^^. So kno one ends up wearing a pain induced defensive penetrating barbed hook on there back.. arggh.. Cause no ones wants to get a Knuckle samich for Xmas.... Fish safe. Game safe. and I forgot to tell you. You thought i didnt notice, BUT I DID >> Your 8/16 bit games dont look a day over 1989, That Sai treatment you did was worth it. You look marvelous , The age just melted away. Why I coulve swore Gauntlet Legends was your sister not ur mother. Sheer magic Darlin. CIAO-

After even further review , Bel,Gunblade, and any game that uses an onscreen aiming reticle can actually be played fullscreen IF you HOLD the fire button down , and after and only after you have calibrated the aim. I still find it alot better to play these games in a maximized window enviornment rather than full screen , why? because you must hold the fire button down if you choose to fire outside the allowed graphic window. if u press fire outside of the alowed window you will be ported outside the game into a seperate window. I have only been testing these scripts with the actual emu and not inside the gameex enviornment. I will have further information on how the scripts do as the result of setting " Show Desktop" to true and false. This may all together clear up some fullscreen errors , but I still find running v0.3 you can achieve better results by using modified Au3 scripts. House of the dead .. a game in which has no On screen graphic that designates the aiming reticle WILL NOT work fullscreen mode for me in v0.3 of model2. I still use the pre made scripts in order to launch all my fullscreen Gun games. , in BEL for instance , if I decide to Fullscreen it , I can . it is the only game i have found which can thoroughly be half way enjoyed in fullscreen mode using v0.3.. But u must fire and hold towards the middle of the screen to achieve these results. my typical HOTD and other gun game scripts for use in the model2 v0.3 Run ( "emulator.exe" ) WinWaitActive("Model 2 Emulator") WinSetState("Model 2 Emulator", "", @SW_MAXIMIZE) MouseClick("left", 20, 37, 1) Send ( "{DOWN}" ) Send ( "{ENTER}" ) MouseClick("left", 35, 365, 2) WinWaitActive("House of the Dead") MouseClick("left", 457, 11, 1) WinSetState("House of the Dead", "", @SW_MAXIMIZE) WinWaitClose("House of the Dead") Please remeber this is for those who enjoy v0.3 .. trust me it runs much faster and smoother than 0.2 espeicaly if u like using the higher resolutions in games that can actually be played in fullscreen mode.

I have posted several entries on this topic and hope that it helps someone who has any of the Model2 problems I am encountering. I have rewrote my own Au3 files to wo get v0.3 of Model2 to work with GameEx , . Problems I have encountered :(v0.3) - The ALT key does not function. This prevents AutoLaunch from highlighting the Emulation menu which in turn prevents the loading of the rom and the transition into Fullscreen mode. - Full screen mode does not show the MOUSE aiming reticle in Light gun games. - I have switched backto v0.02 but still seem to get errors such as wrong games selected and the refusal to go into Full screen mode. Also I like to use v0.3 because it ... IS faster. - heres a solution I have come up with that I am finnaly satisfied with: I use v0.3 model2, I do not use the GameEx Advance mame option to have GameEx start Model2 from the mame List. I enable the model2 emulator on its own with the Auto launch instructions provided with the Au3 script and mouse package made available by h8sh8 and then through Tom's post on the subject. I edited the Au3 files with the included mouse position program. This let me write scripts that opened the Emulator,Video,Help, etc.. menus with a mouse click rather than with the ALT key. This was easily done by deleting the ALT key script and replacing it with the correct mouse position click to Load the rom and to switch the game into Full screen mode. - For Light Gun Games such as "House of the Dead" etc.. I did not use the switch to Full screen click , (because in my versions its useless, why? i cant get a mouse aiming reticle to appear in this mode.) I opted to write in a window maximize code : WinSetState("House of the Dead", "", @SW_MAXIMIZE) The screen looks a bit stretched but proves to be better than no aiming reticle at all. All this code does is Maximize the window instead of completly going into fullscreen. I have found by using this method, All my games are fully playable and enjoyable in the fastest v0.3 model2 I have not tried the light gun games with a light gun , These scripts are written to be of use if the mouse is to be usable as an aiming reticle. Alas , in trying to compensate for my 4th post on this subject and the length in which they are posted =D Please understand. I cant get Model 2 to work in either version available, with any of the ways , ideas, or programs availabe in these forums. I have listed my work here in hopes that if someone has these problems are a new code is written for v0.3 compatabilty in the future of GameEx this may help.

I have posted issues I was having with the v0.3 release of Model2 in the Model 2 error topics. My main problem started when I had to switch to a rewrite I did of the Au3 files as opposed to being able to use the GameEx advance Mame options. This is due to a problem I found in V0.3 .. There is no ALT support to bring up emu menus , file etc.. This of course makes the Autolauncher useless, So after doing my own rewrite of the Au3 files I thought i was doing fine, .. I then found that the gun Games do not support the aiming reticle in Full screen mode in V0.3 I have run trests with this , and I have also looked for any other topics like this one in the forums , but due to the weird search errors I get , (such as the search hitting no matches with keywords like Model , 2, but single words like Model2 net hits.. weird) I had to switch back to V0.1 and theres seems to be none of these problems. Also to the fact the author of the model2 seems to be retiring his work with this emu , I wonder if addressing any of these issues with him would be in vain. If anyone is also having the same problems with these issues , its probally best to switch or find a version 0.1 alpha of the model2 to go with the GameEx frontend. 0.2 was unpublished so it is not on the net. ( I also have some posts on how u can get compatabilty with v0.3 and gameEx in the model2 error topics, but it still will not display an aiming reticle in the Fullscreen mode.)

I was having all the same problems as mentioned in this post. Using the GameeX game launcher or even the old Au3 game launch way , I never could get the Model 2 emulator to auto launch any of the games. I would be left with an Autolaunch icon in the system tray , with a pause script message. Finnaly I made headway. I noticed that the scripts the autolauncher uses includes the ALT key to open the top menu "Emulator".. The same exact way the ALT key highlights the file menu in a normal windows folder/app/program. Example: If I hit ALT now it will Highlight the File menu at the top of this page , i can scroll to Edit,View,Favorites,ETC.. by pressing left , ENTER opens the submenus. In my version of the Model2 , which is the latest version from the nebula homepage. I cannot get the ALT key or any key for that matter to open the EMULATOR menu , i.e File etc.. I had to use the old Au3 Autolauncher program that was provided in earlier Model 2 posts from I think H8sh8. This of course is no new news and I am sorry for embelishing, If this ALT problem does seem to be your dead end , just play around with opening the Emulator menu with Auto Mouse Clicks rather that an Auto ALT key Press. If u still need help and u think that your problem is the ALT key problem , u can can get in touch with me and I can send u the Au3 files I have edited to work with mouse clicks rather than ALT presses. I have searched the forums for an answer and am not sure if this hasnt been addressed somewhere else, Please let me kno if this has alrdy been clrd up with an easier way .

I was having all the same problems as mentioned in this post. Using the GameeX game launcher or even the old Au3 game launch way , I never could get the Model 2 emulator to auto launch any of the games. I would be left with an Autolaunch icon in the system tray , with a pause script message. Finnaly I made headway. I noticed that the scripts the autolauncher uses includes the ALT key to open the top menu "Emulator".. The same exact way the ALT key highlights the file menu in a normal windows folder/app/program. Example: If I hit ALT now it will Highlight the File menu at the top of this page , i can scroll to Edit,View,Favorites,ETC.. by pressing left , ENTER opens the submenus. In my version of the Model2 , which is the latest version from the nebula homepage. I cannot get the ALT key or any key for that matter to open the EMULATOR menu , i.e File etc.. I had to use the old Au3 Autolauncher program that was provided in earlier Model 2 posts from I think H8sh8. This of course is no new news and I am sorry for embelishing, If this ALT problem does seem to be your dead end , just play around with opening the Emulator menu with Auto Mouse Clicks rather that an Auto ALT key Press. If u still need help and u think that your problem is the ALT key problem , u can can get in touch with me and I can send u the Au3 files I have edited to work with mouse clicks rather than ALT presses. I have searched the forums for an answer and am not sure if this hasnt been addressed somewhere else, Please let me kno if this has alrdy been clrd up with an easier way .