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Hold down the same button and press left/right.

Thanks, no rush!

It's possible that GameEx is playing only 2ch audio and not surround sound. If the DVD has both surround and 2ch, but 2ch is default, you would have to pick the surround sound setting. That's my best guess.

I'll say this one more time. If you aren't planning on updating your roms, DON'T update to the current version of MAME. A version of roms that old will give you tons of headaches since a lot has changed since that release. If you do want to run the current version, run your set through ClrMAMEpro to build a 0.125 compatible set at least. That way, you won't try to play any games that won't work and end up frustrated. Just my 2 cents...

Sounds like the version of MAME is not compatible with the rom you are attempting to load. If you upgraded MAME, you need to have the appropriate version of the rom as well. If you upgrade to 0.125, you will still have to upgrade your roms, so keep that in mind...

I think it could depend on your system specs as much as the hard drive itself. If the rom is located on an external drive and you have low memory (and/or it's a large rom), it could play from the page file. If that's true, then you could be copying the game from the external drive (high lag, but good throughput) to memory (fast, but dependent on bus and drives holding the data) and then to the page file drive (if this is slow, it won't help). In any case, it's not ideal, but a usable option if required. BTW, I went through an extensive benchmarking effort this spring when setting up my file server in order to get the best possible file transfer speeds I could. I found that when comparing internal PATA, external PATA via USB, external PATA via FireWire, 10BaseT, 100BaseT, 1000BaseT, RAID5 (various combinations of locations and connections), USB and FireWire were practically identical in my setup. The speeds for internal was faster for writes, but for reads things weren't too far off for the external setups.

The biggest advantage to using multiple partitions is fragmentation of files. On your OS drive, you will be creating many small files here and there and then deleting them out of order (both because of the way the OS works and your typical use). In the case of roms, you won't likely have a fragmentation problem since they won't be changing much. However, the OS might cause some fragmentation. I guess I would say that it couldn't hurt to put them on a different partition, but you won't get any huge advantage from it (other than not having to defrag as much). If you have the option to install a second drive for roms, that's the way I would go.

I like the idea of a hints and walk through type item, but I don't know how much use it would be. I guess that would basically be for strategy guides?

It's possible that you may be able to use these dats to rename your snaps too...

One option is to create a new emulator for your SNES and start over. Setting up one emu (especially a common one) is pretty quick. It would probably be quicker than trying to fix that setup. Just a thought to consider.

No, the "run last game.bat" file is just that...the last game that you ran. Basically, you need to try running the game that failed, exit GameEx, run the batch file, and figure out what the problem is. We can help with the last part.

Perhaps you could verify that the "Run Last Game.bat" file still works outside of GameEx. It's possible the command line got screwed up. If so, it won't work.

As Henry Rollins once so eloquently stated "I will never tell a lie".

Well, I've wanted to do that kind of remapping in the past and was unable to come up with an easy way. BUT, I have couple options. 1) Create a MAME32 compatible list that contains all the games you want to remap. Update your list and go to that list so that you can edit them one at a time and know you're done when you get to the bottom. 2) Use the MAME_Loader script I wrote to use different versions of MAME. All that's required is creating a second copy of MAME with a different default control setup, creating a list of games that you want to play with that version, and editing the script to include that setup. This is exactly why I created that loader! This is the thread.

SWEEEEEEET!!!!! I didn't know that could be done! I haven't read the docs on the Linux/Unix ln command recently. How does LSE compare? I see there are around half a dozen ways to implement a link via LSE, but I'm not yet clear on which one to use on a typical implementation. Guess I'll just have to play around and see how it works. Thanks!

Actually, I've been offered mod and have passed on the opportunity for now (too much other crap going on)...

You know, I knew there was something wrong, but I couldn't put my finger on it. ....errr, I mean, I was just testing you guys to keep yall honest!

No. You can have multiple config files that are launched from the command line that could include paths to different favorites.ini files. But, that's about as close as you can come. It requires restarting GameEx for each user.

A password has been requested in the past, but has not been interesting enough for incorporation. It would require a way to say what is and what is not considered mature. Maybe it could be done fore MAME, but perhaps the same thing is needed for emulators too. What about videos and/or movies? I personally think a mature content password would be awesome, but potentially a big PITA! Also, what about previews? If it's mature, do you get to see a preview? I mean, either it's displayed in the main list and you have to take care of it, or it's only listed in an alternate "mature content" rom list.

Oh, flags. <slaps forehead>

The flash drive key would be interesting. I was thinking that AHK would be a good candidate for the scripting language, but you could use anything you want really. It would be a matter of checking for the existence of a file and maybe doing a hash check if you wanted to go that far. Then, have the script map a drive to a certain location. You might find that subst would be a good command for this. Then, you just have it setup so that GameEx always starts out of the "G:\program files" directory (for example). That would work and would allow for a switch at startup rather than launching prior to the switch. OHHH, you could also have a check at startup that asked for a password (key/joystick combo) and if wrong, it would boot standard GameEx. If you got it right, it would map the Mature directory to the target location. That's a pretty interesting idea....

1) It's best not to talk about any questionable activities related to obtaining your roms. We won't ask where you get them, we expect that you won't say either. Read the forum rules. 2) CPS2 games became playable recently (v0.122 I think), so you will need to have a recent build of MAME for it to work. Also, since your romset it 0.125, you should be using that version of MAME anyway. 3) Alex Kid has to roms available from MAME (alexkid1, alexkidd). MAWS is an excellent resource for this kind of info for future reference.

guess so!

That wouldn't be a problem in Linux since it has a good linking system. Unfortunately, Windows link files SUCK! I don't think there's any way to do this. It sounds like you are trying to use subfolders which is a problem from the start. I don't think videos or games can be in subfolders. I think it's ok with music, but the others just don't work.

I don't think that will work. Won't the batch file wait for daemon.exe to finish before it starts xpadder? Maybe daemon.exe runs and quits? I don't use it at the moment, so I'm not sure.