looks like my issues was related to my theme. i changed themes (only took 8 hours of tinkering before i tried that) and it seems like everything is working now. i didn't change any theme settings on my end, but i did update gameex something might of changed? i guess i should learn my lesson if its not broke don't mess with it... i always seem to have something stop working after updates all my PC games are run from batch files and then i make a shortcut and have them all listed under 1 emulator section. yeah i'm using VBA, i use esc to exit out of my games.