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The "sub menus" are the listings like "CPS" and "Neo Geo". If you go launch the Setup Wizards and search for CPS, you should be able to get there quickly. Just disable everything except "All MAME Games" like Smocca said and you should be golden!

Since the IPAC is a keyboard encoder, you could try using the keyboard to make sure it's not your system. Try playing the game(s) in question with the keyboard to see if it still has the lag. Also, if you are playing a game that's heavy on system resources, you might get a lag because the game is not running at full speed (even though it might look like it). If that's the case, you could launch your task manager and see how much memory and CPU is available. If it's maxed out, that's not a good thing.

T:Y 4:G should be T::Y 4::G

I tried Golden Eye a few weeks back and remember how cool it was on the real thing...I was disapointed by the difficulty aiming though

This most likely has to do with your artwork crop setting. You can have MAME either display the whole bezel, crop to the best fit, or I believe something in between. It looks to me like it's cropping to the best fit of your screen. As a result, you only see a couple lines at the top and bottom of the screen (the top is likely black).

I think the language problem has reared itself again. I'm guessing she was trying to post a favorites list, not a list of games that should be linked. Of course, as always, it's hard to say.

Thanks Tom!

I've heard nothing but good things about the Logitech wireless controllers. I keep saying I'm going to pick up a couple so I can actually play the console games as they were meant to be played, but then I never get around to it. At some point, I'm actually going to get a pair of Logitechs!

If you are using MAME32 to run MAME in GameEx and then you deleted the executable, then you have a problem. GameEx needs the exe in order to generate the list. If you update the list after you delete the exe, it might crash, or it might just kick back no games. Either way, it's bad... I didn't fully follow the description due to punctuation, so if I missed something, sorry...

Interesting. With quad core and a dedicated sound card, I didn't expect there to be a problem. Guess that means that -tripplebuffer isn't really a good option to use! Are you running a 64-bit compile of MAME? I wonder if that would help when using -tripplebuffer.

You know, instant sheller just performs a bunch of tasks that can be done manually. If you want the same result that you get from Instant Sheller, you could always manually perform these task. * Change mouse to dot * Change shelled program * Change background * Change default background * Change default mouse * Change boot logo * Etc... Although the program doesn't work, it should be possible to change at least most of these. Check out the shelling guide on the main site.

-tripplebuffer is used to create 3 locations to write screens to. As far as I know, you have: 1) The frame on the screen 2) The next frame to be displayed 3) The frame being written to If you have tripple buffer turned off, you will only have 2 frames available. As a result, if the PC isn't fast enough or the game slows down for whatever reason, you will get tearing because the next frame will not have been written completely yet. The down side to using this extra buffer is that it takes more power from the PC which could affect other system resources. For instance, if you have an onboard sound card like pretty much everyone does these days, it may not have enough CPU cycles to keep up and may stutter. One option is to use a dedicated sound card if you REAAAAAAALLY want to use tripple buffer. This is as I understand it. If I missed something or misrepresented, could someone please correct me.

Are you saying I should check my vision? Maybe too many hours on the computer has wrecked my vision and now I need glasses.

A lot of times the sound problem can be fixed by removing the -tripplebuffer argument from the MAME command line.

I don't think you can simply remap the keys like {PageUp} :: send {LCtrl}{Z} I think it has to be done in two steps {PageUp} :: { send {blind}{LCtrl keydown}{Z keydown} send {blind}{LCtrl keyup}{Z keyup} }

If you have a trackball, then you have a mouse. If it uses a keyboard, you can use either XPadder (for gamepad -> keystroke) or an ipac. If you want to play a game and you have the real desire, you can play anything on a cab! Of course, it may not be very fun

Huh, I guess I need to learn to read.

Actually, that's a really good suggestion. Any game that can be connected to a JAMMA harness can be played on a TV with the Supergun. I saw one advertised on my local Craigslist and didn't buy it. Probably a mistake, but I think he wanted too much. I don't have any boards ATM anyway...

I guess what I'm saying is that if you can't get it to work with HideOS.exe running, you will have no choice but to change the setting. Hopefully you can get the emu setup to work nicely!

There was a question?!

Show desktop = false is designed to allow emulators that will not go full screen to still be usable with GameEx. The idea is that if an emulator is set up properly and plays nice, when it launches, you don't want to see icons and such in the background for the split second while the program starts. If it doesn't go to full screen, then when the emulator launches it won't reside on top of the black HideOS.exe program (this is what show desktop = false runs). Anyway, the point is that if your program won't go full screen, you will have to resort to setting show desktop = true. If you have icons etc. on the desktop, I suggest you hide them if this is a dedicated cab. Either use the built-in windows setting, or, even better, shell the machine!

It's true that map files are used with emulators to provide a mapping between rom filename and game name. AFAIK, GameEx will automatically generate a map file based on the database though. I haven't had a problem with this myself, but I know that some people have resorted to building their own map files. I would try the database first since it's useful stuff, but if that doesn't provide the look that you are going for, a map file is the ultimate solution.

Cool beans!

Set the database to "[console] C64" (or whatever it's called). If your games are named according to No-Intro or GoodName format, you should be good to go!

GameEx can accept keystrokes from an AHK script no problem! That's what my Mouse2Key script is for!