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I have noticed that since I upgraded to 5.33 that when I try to configure the text to be different lets say from "Emulated Games" to "Console, Handheld, and Computer Games" that it doesnt work. Is this a bug? Has other people experienced this? It used to work in older versions......

yeah thanks a bunch tom. You rock. I totally didnt see those things and I will check out my ini files when I get home. i think I replaced all in my ini file with the wrong thing, that definitely could of caused some havoc. It probably didnt know which batch file to launch since launchbefore had a duplicate. I never knew about runit.bat. Thanks a bunch Tom. In regards to the separate emulators, do you think that I could create a map file of all my PC games and game names and EXE's to launch and then pass the game EXE into it? I just am not sure how screenshot can be produced then. Wouldnt the screenshot have to have the same name as the "ROM" or in this case an "EXE" or BAT file? Tom you are a cool guy.... someday you should have a get together at your house and we could all bring our PC's and could show off our gameex systems and configs and stuff. People use it for many things. We could have some kind of gameex competition or something!!! Who has the coolest setup, ya know.... Do you have a bio on your site or anything? Thanks dude. Happy new year.

[Emulator_176] Enabled=True STARTPAGENAME=A Dudley Dilemna (1989)(Lane Barrow) TITLETEXT=A Dudley Dilemna (1989)(Lane Barrow) StartPageLogo=A Dudley Dilemna (1989)(Lane Barrow) ROMFilter= RomsInFolders=False RomPath=E:\Games\[More Great Computer Games]\A Dudley Dilemna (1989)(Lane Barrow) SnapPath=E:\Games\[More Great Computer Games]\A Dudley Dilemna (1989)(Lane Barrow) WorkingPath=E:\Games\[More Great Computer Games]\A Dudley Dilemna (1989)(Lane Barrow) MapKeys=True WaitBeforeKeys= SendKeys= ReplaceDash=True ReplaceUnder=True Capitals=True RemoveBrackets=False ShowDesktop=True Debug=False MAPFile=E:\Games\[gameexprograms]\generic_game.map AlsoLaunch= Command=dudley.bat OLDatZip= TitlePath= LaunchBefore=E:\Games\[gameexprograms]\kill_in_between.bat LaunchBefore=E:\Games\[gameexprograms]\launch_in_between.bat All of my DOS Games wont run in GameEx 5.33! What the heck. Emulators that pass the ROMs will work fine, but EXE's, BAT or any other commands wont run at all. My log shows "22:05:38.4 1/3/2006: Loading Emulator 176: A Dudley Dilemna (1989)(Lane Barrow)" "22:07:22.3 1/3/2006: Running: cmd.exe /c E: dudley.bat" That error log line isnt very helpful. Gameex just comes back to the interface. I have tested the same gameex.ini in version 370 and everything is fine and the games boot normally. WHAT CHANGED! Additionally if you know anything about controller inputs going crazy when you try to navigate games, that would be cool too. But this is most important. Thanks for reading about my problems.

Hey Tom. I think a great idea would be to include a programable rom section so that I can tell gameex to launch these game manuals that I have acquired in PDF form. So now my end users can look at the box, the cartidge and the game manual for each game. All these images really add more of an expeirence for me and others. Cause.... who doesnt like to reminisce when perusing the games. You could either make it programmable, or you can just build it in to launch adobe acrobat. What do ya think? Also another addition I think would be nice would be the ability to kind of have some kind of hierarchy in your games like this. 16 Bit Emulators (indicated by some kind of header title and graphical indication) Super Nintendo ....USA ....Japan ....etc ....#My Favorite Super Nintendo Games Other ideas for possible features could be to include some kind of CD image mounting utility so that people can run ISOs on newer computer games. My final feature request might be something similar to my script that I built for the DOS emulator gameex.ini creator. You might want something like that to create thousands of "emulators" for DOS games. My top feature request would be the PDF game manual section. I am sure you can easy import an internal PDF viewer into GAMEEX. I hope you are doing well Tom. I am sure you will have a very successful year. Happy programming.

Yeah..... I am currently running the scripts to acquire the screenshots. And it will totally take a lot of time. Maybe a month or a few weeks! Theres 2400 DOS games. I am deleting games that dont work on windows XP as well. It would be great if you could get this working on your PC and maybe we can split up the screenshot work. It will take a few script changes to get it up and running on your machine. If you have the exact torrent i mentioned, you need to replace all folder name spaces with underscores so DOSBOX can work properly. But I am sure I can guide you on what you would need to change, the script has comments on the dependencies. I set up the file to be fairly dynamic so you can just point your directories and such. There is also a dependent executable that will take a screenshot (built in autohotkey)(you might not have to install ahk if you just use the EXE) I will attach the files now. Talk to me more on here on what you think of the script and let me know if you get it up and running. Maybe we can break up the work if you have the same download. Heres my first version for everyone http://www.boydpotions.net/davidrenne.com/..._Dos_Script.zip

thanks a lot man.

Any idea why my intro video might be flipped horizontally and vertically when running version 5.33? It runs fine under windows media. Not sure what I did to mess this up.

Hey guys. My gameex is getting sooo huge now. I am perfecting it soo much. Now I am wanting to take 2000 DOS games and put them in my system too. All of them are in separate folders named by game name and year. (found at LINK REMOVED torrent site) This task seemed too daunting so I created a script in Macro Express that will loop through each directory and wait for me to find the "working" .com .bat or .exe file that will actually launch the game. Once that is done, it will launch DOSBOX (dos emulator) and will launch it through there waiting for you to press SPACE BAR. Once you press that, it will take a screen shot of the game and it will save it off to C:\Program Files\GameEx\THEMES\Default - Default\MEDIA\LOGOS\. The reason that I used DOSBOX, was because I found out that you cant take screen shots of full screen dos windows. (WHAT A HASTLE!) After it saves off the shot. It will then reference the exe used to run the game and all the working paths and pictures and will write them off to a temporary gameex.ini file like this. [Emulator_167] Enabled=True STARTPAGENAME=3d Table Sports (1995)(Time Warner Interactive) TITLETEXT=3d Table Sports (1995)(Time Warner Interactive) StartPageLogo=3d Table Sports (1995)(Time Warner Interactive) ROMFilter= RomsInFolders=False RomPath=E:\Games\[Killer Instinct]\KI1 SnapPath=E:\Games\[Killer Instinct]\KI1 WorkingPath=E:\Games\[More Great Computer Games ]\3d Table Sports (1995)(Time Warner Interactive) MapKeys=True WaitBeforeKeys= SendKeys= ReplaceDash=True ReplaceUnder=True Capitals=True RemoveBrackets=False ShowDesktop=True Debug=False MAPFile=E:\Games\[gameexprograms]\generic_game.map AlsoLaunch= Command=ts.bat OLDatZip= TitlePath= LaunchBefore=E:\Games\[gameexprograms]\kill_in_between.bat LaunchBefore=E:\Games\[gameexprograms]\launch_in_between.bat Its frickin sweet! Keep in mind I use a generic map file that has one entry in it so that the program can launch properly. Would anyone find this useful... I would gladly post the MXE scripts and any other information. Check out http://macroexpress.com/. You can download a free trial of this amazing software. Tom, this would be a cool idea to possibly impliment too, for all the DOS game lovers.

Well like all tools and software.... users only use like 20% of the functionality. I thought I had looked and read through all the switches for game ex. But you do have so much flexibility. Thanks for all the coding! Please release your source code someday! ;-P

I guess this is the link I am refering to http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/Images/16.jpg I like how it is off to the side, because my screenshots stetch full screen and they kind of invade the user trying to read the game text. I like this screen shot cause it looks cleaner. I guess the other thing I notice with this one is that the game text has a light blue background to it. I kind of like that too, but the functionality to do this probably has been depreciated.

I would like the ability for you to integrate an item into my new MCE PC. I read somewhere that you can drag any shortcut into the "more programs" section and it will put a link there, but on my version (just bought this weekend) it wont allow me to drag the gameex shortcut. Anyone have any suggestions to integrate this into MCE?

Okay thanks Tom. Would I have to re-create favorites should you impliment this feature? Or can I go ahead and use the system to add to favorites? It looks like you track the emulator number in the file. I bet you could grab the system name from the configuration to filter with the name of the system.

Hey Tom.... its Dave. I was working on the new build when I got home and I already have some questions. If I add Abadox for nintendo it appends this: "AbadoxUEMU4=True|4|Abadox|Abadox (U).nes|Abadox (U)" Before this was released I was already building .map files with my favorite emulators before this new feature and I would rather use database processing to insert records into this new "ini" file. But I dont understand how GameEx will parse the first column if there is no "|" delimeter. Is this a key of some sort you use? I am just curious what each entity in the ini file stands for. What does the True mean? As well as which one is the display name? But I already have yet another enhancement request. I was wishing that the favorites list can be viewed when you drill into each emulator, rather than all combined. (I might have to put the name of the system in the display name to make it logical for me)