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I think advanced mame stopped development around version 106 So there is probably going to be no vista fix unless a 3rd party makes something.

I dont think I tried that. I will tonite. Somehow I dont think thats the problem because It usually shows the task bar in those situations. And it was not there at that time. Ill try though.

All I did when I tried it recently was put "use advanced mame" = yes and then point to the directory where it was. Worked great. dont have to disable mame or anything.

Well, I have not used my model 2 roms because I hated the idea of having to set controller config seperate for each rom. I finally sat down and set the configs last night, The problem I am having is that most of them will have the classic load and play but screen is black syndrome. It doesnt happen on all of them. But most yes. Every other system or whatever works fine. These roms work fine out of gameex. What would be causing this? All my emulators are set to "show desktop" I dont remember if mame has that setting, but im almost positive i would set it to show desktop if it did. I do have the setting "remove icons and set black desktop" for the general config of gameex. Would that cause the problem with the select few games?

make sure its .zip not .rar or .7z

Id like to see a pinned topic with all these loaders that are made. So they are all in one easy to find place. Its a little more work I guess, but it would be even better if once posted they could be moved to the first post and have a list right there. I.E. demul loader - nologic makaron beta loader - nologic Hoffmame sexual chocolate patch 119 (whatever you ended up calling it)- hoffman etc....

Yes thats what I was asking. I actually didn't recall being able to exit mame from an internal mapping. I always thought I did it through gameex before I started using xpadder.

I wonder why that is, gameex is so MAME oriented, im surprised tom has not implemented that feature for mame.

I could swear I saw a advanced config file to use with mame somewhere, but I cant seem to find it now. Does it have the option to use an advanced config file similar to how the emulators do?

Sounds good to me! Thanks for the info everyone!

Does gameex come with the latest history.dat and catver.ini and etc when you get the gameex updates? If not and I should get them myself, I imagine I put them in the gameex\data\ directory?

I think I may have mentioned it when someone was having a problem playing mkv files. But I dont know. I usually get a different version of ffdshow than whats included. But they should all work the same!

Are you selecting a game and then looking right under where it says "Play Game" there should be Cartridge, box etc..... Just highlight what you want. If thats not working try turning on/off the "snap best match" setting in the Tweaks/Performance section of the advanced config. Then try again

CCCP is one of the only packs I will use. Never tried klite... but between ffdshow and CCCP I havent really had a problem playing anything.

When you select "No clones unless better" How does gameex determine if its better? Does it only show the clones of nonworking games or did Tom determine whats better himself?

This is probably not very helpful in fixing the problem, but I dont think it is the video memory. I have gameex working on a laptop with 8mb video memory on a rage pro 2x agp video. Of coarse thats with all the display options turned down. But I dont get that error.

That would be ideal for me! I think I would like that more than the search personally. Thanks for all the great programs stu!

I dont know, the rom managers say you can create dummy roms for roms you dont have or dont exist. It seems like a useless feature to me, but I thought maybe someone knew if it could be in some way useful.

Whats the purpose of making dummy roms?

Sorry, I didnt read it well the first time. That does sound like a bug to me. But did you try what I mentioned above? Just go to the controller control panel and add a new joystick. pick any of them and let it sit there. See if gameex will allow you to put it in that use joystick x box. That way you may not have to spend any money on a joystick.

maybe spend $10 on a cheap joystick, shove it in the back of the cab, then do like HK said and tell it to only use that stick? EDIT: Better yet, you could probably just install a older Joystick port type joystick and not actually have one. Just add hardware and tell windows you have whatever 1axis 4 button stick.

Did you check out the franknstik site I linked above. might work out for you. I requested this almost as soon as I found out about xpadder, he says it was already on the list of things to do. But I didnt get the feeling it would be implemented in the near future. I think its probably alot more work than he wants to do right now, I dont know.

I agree, try different drivers. even older ones. sometimes they fix something and break 10 other things What is displayed in itunes. Ive never used it believe it or not! Is it just like a regular program, or does it play ad videos from the net or what?

xpadder does, yes which is why I use it. mame does not. As of right now, the new version of mame wont work with xpadder. I'm just using 117, not that big of a deal, but eventually after they make more changes to mame I'm sure I would like the newest version.

Im going to try. Mostly the problem is that if you have 4 controllers plugged in for example, windows will always make controller 4 joystick 1, and maybe controller 2 joystick 2, and controller 3 joystick 4 etc. If the buttons dont match on each controller then mame will just see joystick 1 button 1 does this. button 2 does this etc. Now get a controller with different keys and the buttons wont go with what the should. Its very confusing to me sometimes, so I can only imagine what you are thinking of me right now, hahaha