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Added [Mobile] DoJa.zip

Added [Mobile] BREW.zip

Added [PC] Amstrad CPC.zip

Tell me about it.... I started putting one together with spare parts I had laying around.... Then I needed DX9 for MCE (had an ATI AIW8500), Then I needed a nice looking case, then a matx motherboard to fit in it. Then a different CPU since the AthlonXP motherboards were expensive and it was cheaper to get A64 stuff. Then I wanted a HDTV tuner, then the bill was $800 Just do it in increments, get the basic stuff now, and upgrade later! You don't really need a super CPU except maybe to play the newer mame games. You don't need a TV tuner, you could use 1 stick of 1gig memory for now and get another later (which is plenty anyways), you might have a older HDD laying around (10 or 20 gig if you keep the files on the Cab).

Oh, another thing, Why don't you just make a small HTPC and have it load the games and vids from the cab over network? $300US will buy you a pretty good HTPC for what you seem to need. Things might cost more there though. That would probably be what you would spend in the end for extending everything. I think that would be much better than trying to run USB and VGA and etc to your living room. Then you have to go to another room and turn the cab on and off when you want. It would be much more flexible to say the least.

Sorry I cant really answer your question. But at one point I bought a 25' belkin VGA cable and the picture was complete crap at best. So I dont know how much better cat5e cable is to run it through your house. Thats probably why there are VGA extenders instead of VGA to Ethernet adapters.

Thats the first site I put in!

I think ddraw is supposed to be faster, not better. Thats how I understood it anyways. It definately looks crappier. But plays well. D3D plays almost nothing on the laptop I use.

I run winxpMCE + Purevideo + CCCP + WMP11 on my HTPC and dont have any problems in gameex.

I do still have the problem, I am registered. I use fullscreen. It happens weather I use remote or inmenu standby. The laptop does not have the problem though. As far as I know.

maybe a piece of plexi-glass would work better?

I think tom said he will have a fix for that in a coming up version of gameex.

So this is where you are going with it? I was a little confused. Sorry I thought you wanted xpadder to be in one place so you could just put that path in your script and it would all be good. But you want to have a way to automatically enter any path it might have in your script. Correct? Which is why the registry key would be best.

Ok, I see now. Is there a way to write your program to: A. Go to xpadders download page or B. search the HDD on first load, then if A. It would just tell them install the program to this directory. Or B. if it finds xpadder.exe on the system. Just copy it over to the folder needed while leaving the original in place for whatever it was being used for? Both with a popup that would ask if its ok first of coarse. The only other thing I can see helping you would be to ask the author to include xpadder with your script, or wait till he finishes trex as I believe he will have an installer. All though I dont believe he will be adding much to the registry as he seems against installers in the first place.

Maybe tom could add something in gameex to ask where the executable is similar to how it asks where zinc is? Then it could write it to the ini file? Or use the ini file and have it default to C:\xpadder\ Then where they setup zinc in the config it could tell them edit the ini if xpadder is in another location. Or maybe he could just add a launch before and launch after in the zinc section. Then everyone could set it up just like a regular emu. Just some thoughts I guess. Why does the loader need a joystick mapper anyways? I didn't realize the current one used joy2key.

Added [PC] Atari 8-bit.zip

Is this supposed to replace the zinc loader that gameex already uses?

You cant go wrong with emumovies! They are great work! I personally found a torrent somewhere that had videos with no sound and lower frame rate, but high resolution (not emumovies). That kept the quality up and size down which worked for me! Im sure not everyone will feel the same. I do use emumovies for all the emulators I would suggest using a bit torrent client that will let you download only the files you want. Then you can take 1 file from each torrent to see what looks better and go from there.

My opinion is that if you want to register based only on those two features mentioned, its probably not worth it. I thought they would be great features too, but they are honestly lacking if you ask me. Sorry Tom From Tom's post it sounds like they might get better soon though. Overall though, I recommend everyone donate if they use the software! Even if most of it is free. Its not expensive for such a great piece of software and will only help Tom make it better!

Man, I feel like the next few releases of gameex are going to have a pretty long list of new features!

No, he is correct. The blank bar you are seeing has nothing to do with updating the list. It is a seperator to show you what the last games played are. Play another different game and you will see it will go on top of that blank bar as well. If you really want to force a new list to be created then you have to go to the data folder in gameex and you will see emu1.map emu1.dbcache emu2.map emu2.dbcache etc. delete all those and then gameex will re-cache the list next time you go to those emulators. It will not fix your problem though.

For anyone who has been following this, Stu's tool looks promising so far! Ill let you know shortly. Work computer is slow

Thanks Stu! Starbuck: Like he said, if you are using the original databases that came with gameex then there is lots of stuff missing and it went by game name. Not rom name. The version 2 databases added the goodnames I believe. And these will add better catagory sorting. If you use the original databases, there is a good chance the games not in there.

Yup, that one needed quite a bit of attention. I asked Stu to mod his tool so we can import all the work I already did strait from the csv file. That way I wont be searching for the same games for every system.

Added Commodore64 Stu: Here is the csv file if you needed to see how it is set up. C64.zip