RIP-Felix

UPDATE: Ok, been having trouble with my home network. For reference below is my network map. I ran into troble when I needed to print. Nothing happened. So I looked at my network places and can see my PC (where the Printer is physically attached), but when I double click on it I get the standard "...Inaccessable...you might not have persmissions..." error. I know the switch and gateway need to be on the same subnet, which they are. I have turned off "Password Protect Sharing" in advanced network options. I'm not sure that the "local IP" is where I need to change the default 192.168.1.1 a Linksys WRT54GS is set as to 10.0.0.2. So that is one possability, since the Gateway and switch need to be in the same IP range otherwise there can be networking issues. The last thing I've read about but not tried yet is cloning the MAC adress, mainly because I'm not sure what they meant. Any Ideas? I know Ideally I should have the printer connected on the HTPC side of the switch if I want to print to it from my HTPC, but that is not feasable because it's in the living room attached to the familyroom PC, whereas my switch/HTPC, PS3, and X-Box are in my bedroom. BTW: I'm now reccomending that If you can swing it, buy this one instead. It has 3 RJ45 ports per adapter instead of just 1. The extra $20 would be worth it to avoid having to use a switch. I'll definatly buy thoes when I'm ready to extend my network again.

Yeah, I have the TP-Link ETP adapter as the internet source for an old Linksys WRT54GSv7. That is what is supplying internet to my Home Theater paripherals (Xbox, PS3, HTPC). It also acts as another wireless access point in addition to the main router on the other side of the house. I have them named differently, but was kind of curious what would happen if they were the same. By the Way, I ran another speed test today and I'm still getting the same numbers. For reference we have a 1500sq-ft home, TP-links on opposite side of the houes, 1 electrical breaker, and the normal barage of electrical interferance you would find in a residential home/suburban community - Microwaves, cordless phones, 11+ wireless devices, someone always streaming video content, online gaming, surfing/downloading, and etc. This product has my endorsment! Exactly what I needed to eliminate the majority of networking issues I've had related to connection. Screw wireless adapters, I'll get more of these for sure!

UPDATE: Ok I just got the TP-LinkAV1200 model no. TL-PA8010P here and setup, pretty easy. I just pluged one of them into an outlet and to my router. Once my router reset, I plugged the second one into an outlet elsewhere. I pressed pair on the one connected to the router, then pair on the other one. Once a LED lit they were paired. Then I just moved it to its final location and plugged it directly into my computer. Note: I did have to troubleshoot the Local Area Connection because it wasn't set to DHCP. The troubleshooter fixed the problem and I was able to reach the internet. So that was the only hiccup. There is a noticable snappyerness to webpages loading, they're much faster loading now. Keep in mind it's only the first day of use, but so far I'm impressed! Here is the result of that: (Computer directly jacked into the ETP adapter) IPv4: Ping=14ms, DL=89.46 Mbps, UL= 12.22 Mbps IPv6: Ping=14ms, DL=87.46 Mbps, UL= 11.95 Mbps Server distance~50 miles Computer connected to Linksys WRT54GS wireless router access point so that X-Box can also make use of the connection) IPv4: Ping= 14ms, DL= 75.93 Mbps, UL= 12.17 Mbps IPv6: NA Server distance~50 miles Note: All I had to do was plug everything in and since the router was setup from before, I literally did not need to do anything else. Now there's another 2.4GHz wireless connection on the other side of my house with a different SSID I can connect to If speeds are slow on the other one. Hmm...I wonder what would happen if I changed the SSID to mach My other one? Would your device simply switch to the one with stronger signal, or would it screw everything up?

Shipping... Sigh, It's still in route. So stay tuned! Just discovered KOTOR 1&2. I heard about them being great, so I thought I'd give them a go since I was resurrecting the XBOX anyway. I've only played the opening sequence of the first (Escaped the Ship). I'm pretty impressed so far, seems like fun. Plus who doesn't love star wars! BTW: why buy new games when theres so may good old title I've yet to play? I already have like 15 game I want to play from the last 10 years I gavn't hat time to really get into. And that's when I'm not replaying my nostalgic childhood titles. I'm a console generation behind and don't see myself going much further.

Crimson Skies was actually alot of fun online back in 04 when I last had an xbox live account. As for FPS on computer, that's cheating! Just kidding, it is superior to use the mouse, but I perfer the controller. Actually I even perfer Morrowind on xbox even though I have it for PC too. The PC has a lot more options, mods, expansions etc, but I like how casual it is to use the controller and not have to fuss with the keyboard. Psychonauts was best on the xbox anyway. So I decided it was time to untomb the original xbox and place it prominantly back in my entertainment center where it belongs. Mainly because I'm just catching up to the party where the "altering" is concirned.

It's fully functional and thanks to XLinkKai I can re-live the glory days of Halo2, or other online games (but no one plays anything else. For that matter they only play a handfull of old levels, pretty annoying actually). Beyond that it's...Um...altered such that I can use it as an HTPC and FTP server. You know what I'm not talking about .

The two meld so perfectly. I'd love to see Fantasia redone with artist interpretation hand drawn in VR like this. I think it's untraveled territory that melds the analog and digatal atrform in an entirely new, but seamless maner. I think it will be gloryous! I always perferred the hand drawn animation to CGI. Ithink this would bridge that gap nicly.

I didn't even know they made thoes...but then I've been away from my xbox since 2005 (Collage, work, more collage + work = Life). I was able to find a simple workaround. I connected the xbox to my HTPC directly with an ethernet (Not crossover) cable, then in my USB wirless adapter's Network properties, I enabled Internet Connection Sharing, and then selected the LAN adapter. Bam! The XBOX in DHCP automatic IP mode was assigned an IP perfectly, no router necessary. For reference, here is my speedtest using my Encore ENUWI-N4 USB wireless N mini adapter connected to the 2.4GHz channel of the Comcast triple play modem/ wireless ac router they gave me (not sure of the exact specs, I'm too lazy to get up). I think we Pay for 25Mbps. I'm not sure whay it was so slow today, the last time I ran it I saw about 24down, up was about the same though. My adapter says I'm connected via n with 72Mbps all bars(96%). It is a USB2.0 adapter though, but since I've seen a higher speed test I know it's not at the limits of USB2.0 speeds (which is like 480Mbps/60MBps theoretically). IPv4: Ping=22ms, DL=13.49, UL= 12.09 IPv6: Ping=16ms, DL=13.38, UL= 11.82 Server distance~50 miles I'll be happy it the ETP plug beats that.

Yeah, just looked into it a little deeper. These seem to have minimized the issues with the ungrounded earlier models. It is very simple, just pair them then move one. Looks like I can use it to add a second access point/switch using my Linksys router. I went ahead and got it. I'll see if that clears up my issues. Just waiting on shipping now...

That's the next step, I probably will get one anyway, since where my PS3 is located it doesen't get the best signal. On that topic though, I read that there may be a significant hit in Mbps with ethernet-through-powerline adapters depending greatly on circuit distance and etc. Would this be noticeable while streeming netflix or online gaming? That is pretty much the purpose I'm intending, so the connection has to be sufficient.

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to connect my xbox (original) to my computer's wifi connection. My wireless router, xfinity ac router, is in another room. My computer connects to it VIA wifi. I have an extra Linksys WRT54Gv8 that I'm trying to use between my xbox and computer, but can't figure out if it's possable to use my computer connected VIA wifi, EG: Xfinity ac (WIFI) --> HTPC in another room's LAN --> Linksys WRT54Gv8 WAN --> xbox. If I had a crossover cable I could just connect the xbox directly to the computer, but I'm not sure how, or even if, I can connect through my computer's wifi connection. I have ddwrt bios installed on the linksys WRT54Gv8 and tried to set it up as a client-bridge, but it got a DNS error and although it would connect, it couldn't reach the internet. Maybe I didn't do it right. In any case I'm trying to avoid buying one of these. I might if I have to. If so, will this work?

My mother has always packed things away in the garash, burried deep so no one can ever find it, then forgets where she puts it! I used to find stuff years later, "So thats where my Genesis was all this time. Oh, helly yeah! Its time for some nostalga !" Other times I'd ask her if she maybe stuffed it away in the garash only to find out she took it to the Goodwill! "Not my Nintendo, nooooooooo... ." The Goodwill was like a swear word in our house, a dreadfull fealing came over me when I couldn't find a console or game I hadn't seen for a while! Luckily, she knew that Games were something that would really upset me, so that didn't happen much. But other toys? It was like a worm hole opend up in space-time, ate my beloved toy and dissappeared. It even happened to a couple of pets too! Ahh, childhood...

Perfection! I'll make the change to my earlier post. Thanks for the Help!

Actually, there is one more thing I'd like to do. Problem: I have my Nintendo Wii/Gamecube roms in different folders. Dolphin defaults to the last folder you browsed to when adding locations for it to add to the game list. If that wasen't the folder containing the game your trying to play it can't find the disc your trying to swich to when you paste the Romname into the open file dialog box.Therefore I need to copy the Rompath\Romname into the clipboard. I see that p=%~1 is for the Romname. So what is it for the Rompath and how would the new batch script look?EDIT: I tried p=%`f1 to see if that would return the whole filepath\Romname.ext, but it didn't. I'm not sure if I was doing it right because I think that is correct. At least that's waht this says. I don't really know what I'm doing anyway. Maybe I sould try a different switchdisk command? Perhaps somthing like "[ROMPATH]\[ROMNANE]", then the batch file will copy the whole thing? I tried that too, but it didn't work either. I could have all my gamecube and wii games in the same directory and avoid this trouble altogether, but then GameEX will display wii in the gamecube section and visa versa. I could use the filter. but then I'd have to do it game by game since there's no unifying file extension (at least not all my games are *.gcm or *.wbfs, some wii and GC are *.iso). I'd perfer just pasting the whole filepath\name.ext into the open file dialog box. Besides that is a more complete approach anyway, it eliminates problems like this.

Yup, its figured out now, I edited the post and made it a tutorial. I was forgetting to put a copy of the batch into switchdisc's directory.

Ok It's working beautyfully, Thanks. For reference here are the settings for anyone interested in doing this for Dolphin. clipboardpaste.bat (put this batchfile in 2 places on your computer. 1-The Switchdisk directory where the configurator and switchdisk.exe are located. and 2-The working directory of Dolphin where dolphin.exe is located.) echo|set/p=%~1|clipIn Dolphin I set: Disk change operation = F10 (this can be whatever you want as long as you change it also in the "send keys before" string. See below)In SwitchDisc's Emulator Configurator set: Send Keys Before = F10, |100|, MENU, |100| (F10 calls the change disk menu in dolphin, change this to whatever key you set it to, and alt, = "MENU", brings the disc change menu to the front. The timings are optimized for speed)Switchdisc command = clipboardpaste.bat "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]"Send Keys After = [CONTROL, VK_V], |100|, RETURN, |100|, [MENU, RETURN], |100|, [MENU, RETURN] (CONTROL, VK_V pastes the romname into the dialog box, Return hits Ok, MENU+RETURN restores down the screen and the second time it restores fullscreen. This is needed because game window is behind the dolphin emulator window. This brings it to the front.)

is the batch file necessary? if so, is it literally "echo|set/p=%~1|clip" as the only text in the *.bat? It goes in the working path directory, right? Lastly, what does VK_F & VK_V represent? I'm guessing Control + F, and Control +V, but not sure.

Having some trouble with the Open_file box option. What I'm trying to do: - Set up multidisc gamecube resident evil in switchdisc, EMU is Dolphin (v4.0-2826). The Problem: - Althought the log sucessfully parses the correct rompath, it doesn't it paste into the open file dialog box prompt. It just sits there waiting for me to make a selection. How can I get it to paste the rompath of the disc I want to change it to into the open file dialog box and hit ok so it will finish the disc change? Config: LOG:

I agree, awesomness is in sort order to follow.

$350 for the Rift dev kit 2 on their website. There are cheaper options, including just folding some cardboard to hold your phone rinning an app that splits the screen for each eye's perspective (See Google Cardboard). However, the Rift is supported by the most game ATM including DolphinVR! Apparently you can play Windwaker in VR, your head controls the Camera. Looks immersive. Of course the point of VR in not only perspective and panoramic viewing, it's also sterioscopic 3D, which Dolphin VR now nativly supports. Dolphin rocks!

You still need to buy the lenses, right? Yeah, the only reason I've held out as long as I have is because there's competition and maybe a cheap simple hack will become available to allow me to use an old phoe and some cardboard. If the only thing I have to buy is a couple of lenses, providing they are not too expensive, I'd be all over that. So long as it will dork in Dolphin;)

I see. Well regardless, the black space fights the GameEX generated Black in the transparent portions the Logos are displayed. You might want to magic wand the black and make them transparent. Just a small detail I noticed and fixed in my copy. Thought I'd pass it on, I'm a bit of a stickler for the details. Based on your work, I'd say you are too. Seriously, I'm liking the new version. Any ETA on a revision update?

The rift is supported by way more projects than anything else right now. So, yeah rift. If you knew brail then you could read the keyboard buttons by feel and wouldn't need to see it! Otherwise you would need to be really familiar with it. But be carful not to be more familiar with you keboard than you are with you wife, she might get jelous . That sphere game looks reminiscent of Tempest, only in 3DVR. IDK, looks kinda weird.

Sometimes it's possable to fix problems with your windows instalation by booting into your installation CD. Have you tried to fix windows and failed? If not, try that first. Otherwise, what null said. Its easy to copy the GameEx folder to another drive while reinstalling windows onto your OS drive (If your compuiter is setup that way - I recomended it). Then just re-copy it to your C: directory afterwards and reinstall gameex over the top of it (it won't wipe any settings). You'll still need to reinstall all of your apps, some emulators (like project 64 for ex.) and paripherals, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It'll refresh your skillz . Once you have everything working to your liking I reccomend creating a windows image. Then if anything like this happens again you can at least start again ahead of the curve. You'll still have to reinstall whatever you added since the image, but not have to start again from scratch.

If you just want to launch pinball x from gameEX it should be just like setting up a PC game. I just named an emulator section "PC Games". Then I pointed it at a folder that contains shortcuts to the PC games (you could put the shortcut to Pinball x in it).Rom filter = *.lnk,. Command line = ""[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]"", Working/Rom Paths are both your folder containing shortcuts. Hope that's what your looking for. It was somewhat difficult to decipher your english. Good Luck.