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Wow... I ask and I shall recieve. That was quick. Thanks Tom for the alternating to snap when video crashes. Good stuff.

Now that Gameex can continue on even if the startup video doesn't work, is there any way to have Gameex play a picture instead of a video in a background them in case the background video crashes? I know in each theme you can have a bak.png and a bak.avi and it'll play the avi. But if the background avi crashes, is there anyway to have it cut to the corresponding png? Tom that would be awesome if you could do that.

Perhaps someone can help me with this? I'm trying to use a background video for my theme. This is the error message that comes up. I remember that Tom posted a how-to on how to get background videos into gameex. Can someone post me a link. I've searched before and can't find it anymore. Also if anyone else can help witht the error message, here it is: Drawing Surface Backgrounds Index out of array I am using a 320x240 video at 3.42 mb in avi format. Does it need to be 25fps or 30fps? I don't know.

Theme editor use to support avi backgrounds. It now tells me that this is this now restricted only to mpg files? Or is my theme editor gone south?

It says in this version that snaps can alternate to another artwork image. Now I know that you can have for a game preview a video followed by a box cover. They switch. Is there any way to add multiple .png or .jpg pictures to a game preview and have them alternate over time. For example, for the game Popeye, I would like to have multiple snaps alternate in the game preview so that I can have a picture of each of the levels in the game preview in GameEx.

I'll try it out. Thanks. Post Tomorrow Evening if works.

Does it have CLI support? I'm planning to dl it when I get back home. Does it have to be installed or does it just fit in a folder and run? Does it support 2 x-box 350 wireless controllers?

[Emulator_14] Enabled=True STARTPAGENAME=Pinball Tables TITLETEXT=Pinball Tables StartPageLogo=Pinball Tables ROMFilter=*.vpt RomPath=C:\Program Files\GameEx\Kenbox Arcade\Pinball\tables SnapPath=C:\Program Files\gameex\Kenbox Arcade\Pinball\Snap TitlePath= BoxPath= CartPath= ManualPath= WorkingPath=C:\Program Files\GameEx\Kenbox Arcade\Pinball\tables MapKeys=True WaitBeforeKeys= SendKeys= ReplaceDash=False ReplaceUnder=False Capitals=False RemoveBrackets=False ShowDesktop=True Debug=False MAPFile= AlsoLaunch=C:\Program Files\GameEx\vpauto.exe Command=..\vpinball.exe -play -"[ROMFILE]" OLDatZip= LaunchBefore= LaunchAfter= configFile= ExcludedFiles= CustomBackground= PlayMusic=False DontShowInfo= PCGame= DATABASE= GamesIn7Zips= PlayInScreenSaver=False ShowMostPlayed=False RandomMostPlayed= CDCheck= CDCheckFile= [GENERAL] DumbyValue= NOTICE THE COMMAND LINE... TYPE AS IS. ALSO NOTICE THE WORKING PATH IT IS ALSO SET TO TABLES AS IS THE ROMPATH IS SET TO TABLES.

ccs.exe should do you fine. It should work if you just map everything to where it works, to where the roms are, and the cmdline which should read as: ccs.exe "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]"

Backup your theme. Try a Gameex Fresh Install. Then copy your theme into the themes folder.

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You could always redraw the image and make 1x1 black dot. It wouldn't show up then.

I worship Gameex. All bow before the almighty Tom. Everyone should take a moment and reflect and cherish upon what makes this world enjoyable: Gameex.

I tried various images through the nulldc loader 1.1 and everything seems fine. I've tried pressing esc and other times pressing ALT f4. It says somewhere in the nulldc readme that the only true way to exit the program is to use ALT F4. Maybe the problem is that you are using the ESC key? perhaps?

TAB or F1 or F2 sometimes F4

Yeah... I'm running WinXP. Haven't tested it in Vista (aka Xp with yet even more Eye Candy) In the future, come back to this post if there are any other problems under Xp. I wonder if NoLogic would have any idea as to what's up with Vista?

I've been dragging my isos onto the loader and pressing alt + f4 to exit. This is how I have been testing it. I'll try it from Gameex in the next couple of days.

Attached is a updated loader for nullDC. Fixes: ------------------------------------------------ Improved mouse hiding - should work for all games now Improved exiting. Should now close off all NullDC windows and nulldcloader ------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS: 1.) Make sure NullDC is set to fullscreen. Won't run otherwise 2.) Unzip and Put this loader into your NullDC folder where the main .exe is located. 3.) Set your Rom path to where your roms are 4.) Set you Work path to where the loader.exe is. 5.) Cmd line should be loader.exe "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" 6.) Set SHOW DESKTOP to NO. -------------------------------------------------- DOWNLOAD: NullDC_Loader_1_1.zip ENJOY!!!

Added the following argument to the end: If $CmdLine[0] = 0 Then Exit(1) I think it's working right now. Let me do some more testing before I upload. I think it works whether you press ESC or ALT F4

Sorry for not posting last night... had to go and get a tattoo! I've noticed that the autoscript stays active in the taskbar when I exit the program. It doesn't matter if you press ESC or ALT+F4. Like Visual Pinball, if vpauto.exe is not closed, eventually it starts to slow down the next time you load a pinball game, and eventually it crashes. I'm also going to investigate I also have a better fix for the mouse cursor. Sometimes, games take longer to open to fullscreen. So, I made the mouse move just a little longer. Should accomodate all games now. Here's the code as it is so far: ; AutoIt Options Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4) Opt("MouseCoordMode", 1) ; Check For Valid Commandline If NOT $CmdLine[0] = 1 Then Exit ; Launch Emulator Run ( @ScriptDir & '\nullDC_100b1.exe' , '' , @SW_HIDE ) ; Load Game WinWaitActive ( "classname=ndc_main_window" ) ControlSend ( "classname=ndc_main_window" , "" , "" , "{ALTDOWN}fn{ALTUP}" ) ; Open Dialog WinWaitActive ( "Open" ) ControlSetText ( "Open" , "" , 1148 , $CmdLine[1] ) ControlSend ("Open" , "", 1148 ,"{ENTER}") ; Display Emu WinSetState ( "classname=ndc_main_window", "", @SW_SHOW ) WinActivate ( "classname=ndc_main_window" ) ; Move Mouse to Lower Right Corner Had to add it as Dreamcast recenters the mouse. MouseMove ( @desktopwidth, @desktopheight, 40 ) MouseMove ( @desktopwidth, @desktopheight, 1) ; Wait for Emu to Exit ProcessWaitClose ( "nullDC_100b1.exe" ) ; Close loader Exit ; EOF Once the exit issue is solved, I'll post another update.

NoLogic basically wrote this. I just edited a few lines to get it working right. INSTRUCTIONS: ----------------------------------------- 1.) Unzip and Place this in your NullDC folder where the nulldc program is. 2.) Cmd line path in Gameex should be: loader.exe "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" 3.) Route your rom path to where your games are 4.) Route your work path to where the emulator NullDC is. 3.) Show Desktop Set to NO 4.) IMPORTANT: Make sure that in NULLDC you have it set to FULLSCREEN, any resolution will do. (Preferably 640x480 or 800x600) DOWNLOAD: ------------------------------------------ NullDC_Loader.zip

Fixed the mouse issue. Found out that Nulldc recenters the mouse after we move it. So, I changed one value and wrote another line. flawless. MouseMove ( @desktopwidth, @desktopheight, 20 ) MouseMove ( @desktopwidth, @desktopheight, 1) I'm gonna create a new topic and post it. NoLogic, you have done me a great service by showing some of the basics of autoit. I'm looking forward to exploring autoit even more.

Tried setting GUISetCursor (7) no effect.

No luck. Back to AutoIt.

It's still in the middle. Do you think that NullDC in fullscreen mode opens up into another window? I gonna try an activewindow info search. UPDATE: Checked. It's the same window ndc_main_window UPDATE 2: Checking for spyware or viruses. Maybe something has control of my mouse? Haven't scanned in a while.