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It sounds to me like his case is probably to thin for anything that might cool better, assuming he has the stock one on there right now.

Id reccomend cutting a hole in the top of the case and putting one of these there. http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/12filfanguar.html Sorry I cant help you more on the slowdowns, but since you brought it up I am quite interested. I use a AMD64 in my HTPC as well. I just figured the games it had trouble with needed a better processor. Had no idea intel was faster at emulation. To see the FPS in the game press F11 Try putting the -afs switch in the command line. I know its not the ideal solution, but alot of games run at 90ish% of the max speed so you wont even notice its automatically skipping frames and you wont have the sound problem anymore.

I find that the databases work quite well with the nointro naming format. Honestly there are very few games that dont pop up from what I have seen, and it could possibly be that they are not in the database to begin with. Either way I think in future releases they were looking at adding nointro naming to them, but we would either have to have 2 versions of the database or tom would have to work something out that gameex would start reading the new column in the database. I personally think it would be easiest to have 2 sets of databases and then the gameex installer will download the ones you want in a similar fasion as the themes download. As far as your shortcuts, since there is no naming standard for PC games, everyone who wishes to use the database will probably have to make sure they name there shortcuts in the sameway moby has the games listed. I believe thats where the current info came from. The allgame info is only for the categories. I would imagine you could just leave them how the games installer creates them and it would work pretty well.

Whatever works! I'm all for it. Id like to have the microsoft/dos ones done!

For those that answered "Whats a MDB and why should it concern me?" The MDB files contain all the information about the games you might have in gameex. When you search by year, search by category, search by manufacturer, that is all info stored in the databases along with the descriptions of the games when you select them. The first phases I believe were to have them more complete with all the games, and then I guess there was a problem with the original ones where it wouldnt always select the right info. So the guys put the goodname names in the databases and now gameex is much more acurate in choosing the game and you should probably have info for most of the games. The current step is to fix the categories so you dont have racing/simulation racing/action racing/shooting racing/driving etc... They should all be neatly found in one category called Racing

I think these are the ones I finished completely: [PC] Commodore 128 [PC] Commodore PET_CBM [PC] Commodore VIC-20 [PC] Tandy TRS-80 [PC] Tandy TRS-80 CoCo [PC] TI-99_4A These are the ones that need alot of work: It will take me a few days each probably if I do it everyday for the amount of time I have been putting into them.... Lets not count on that though! I worked on AppleII today and there is at least another day of work to put in it I believe. [PC] Amstrad CPC [PC] Apple II [PC] Apple Macintosh [PC] Amiga [PC] Commodore 64 [PC] Microsoft MSX [PC] Sinclair ZX Spectrum The rest are probably hopeless in the current situation.

Actually I finished a few of those. I didnt put them on the other thread yet. I should be home tomorrow night and I can post what I have. There are a few that had no xml or a really light xml that I just used Stu's tool on all the xmls from the same era of systems and was able to fill them in half way or so. The rest would have to be done manually i suppose. The "windows/dos" databases will take a bit of work since they are huge and don't have a complete xml.... I just figured we would include what is 100% since there is a lot more than what gameex had originally, and then slowly work on the rest. Its definitely not easy to fill in the missing pieces when its not automated.

Thanks guys! Thats exactly what I need nologic. Do you know why the beatmanias are at the bottom? I wish I knew how to parse the info I need from XML files HK, but I dont

No sweat. I was thinking about it, and I dont think the xml files have the rom names in there. only the game names. I think I had a similar conversation with stu when I was making the catver.ini for mame. I think that might be a problem for any kind of full database we might end up making. Gameex would need the rom name to load all the info from, and we would have to somehow connect those rom names with the game names in the xml file. All I did was load my catver.ini into excel and then load the rom names into "goodname" and the categories I created into "category" It should be close enough until someone can get something worked out to create a full database. Well, if anyone else uses raine or any arcade emulator that uses the standard mame romzip names (the roms inside can be named anything). Try this out and let me know how it works for you. I dont think there is any database for these emulators at all right now so this should only be an addition.

I made a quick database for arcade emulators. It skipped all the steps and went strait to phase 3 with the categories! Anyways if someone would be so kind to try it out and see if you are getting the correct games in the correct categories that would be great! I seem to have the same problem as before where they are correct in the database but gameex is pulling them up wrong. Clearing the dbcache file didnt work this time. Anyways, I dont know if this is from the way my MDB is or if its something still screwy on my end. heres the file, thanks! Arcade.zip

So wheres the party!?

Does anyone know where to get a list of mame games. not the rom names the actual game names. Preferable a txt file or a xls file.

I tried a goodmerged set and didnt like it. I hated opening the rom and having 20 of the same thing to choose from of which I had no idea what was working and whats not and whats what. The cleanest set is the no intro and then taking nologic's (I think) advice and sorting the japan and euros and USA. then removing all the (E) and whatever. Then dropping the USA over Euro Then dropping that over Japan. So you get 1 file of the best available rom. Thats my opinion anyways.

Gameex is run in its own interface. When you launch it from MCE, it will close the MCE app and open gameex. When you close gameex it will reopen MCE for you

I personally dont see how it should concern nointro. If it were me I wouldnt worry about it unless the nointro group specifically contacted you about it. Anywhere you look there will will be someone with a problem about something. EDIT: I personally like the no intro standard, but nologic does have a good Idea.

He might not even be seeing the option to update the rom list. You have to enable that in the advanced config if it is not enabled. Then you will see the update rom list at the bottom of the mame screen in gameex. Its the last option.

I wasnt talking about the broken link! Sorry if thats how it sounded!

I honestly thought there would be a few "what are they for" responses! I know that was me at one point! I like the Idea of the esrb too althought I think that would be up to tom to put in there. It might be possible to just copy the ESRB rating over to the Info field. I dont think it would be usefull except for viewing in that case though. Mostly the older stuff is not rated anyways. I think any of them listed in page 3 of the database thread are complete for this version. I dont know if stu and nologic and the others had more plans for them after the categories. I kinda jumped in to help on this version only.

I saw it outside of gameex too now that I think about it. If you go into ffdshow just tell it to use the official xvid codec instead of the libamp4 codec. See if that helps. Whats great about ffdshow is you can change all the settings and see the results while the video is playing.

Great work man!

Thats probably true. I finished them all up anyways, there is a few that there were no xml files for and the the windows/dos was not filling up so I didn't do those. Didn't HK say that the allgame didn't have all the info for the windows games or something?

Dont feel bad, there is so many configuration options I cant find stuff half the time either, even when I know its there!

I noticed not too many people downloaded the databases we were working (in fact most of the downloads were probably from me on various computers!), especially when look at how many view it had and how many people use gameex. I realize not everyone who uses gameex comes to the forums, especially not frequently. But I am curious what people think none the less.

That does sound like a great program. You can update strait from the gameex GUI! Well, good luck either way!

Definitely needed. I was going to see if there was a way to merge all the relevant info into one post and then pass it on to a mod to do something with it. Especially the Feature request thread. That would make it easier for tom and everyone else to see whats been requested and whatnot.