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Yeah, I wrote that one for my driving cab that only has 2 buttons plus 2 coin door buttons (which stick). That was before Tom released the GameLauncher option which solved a lot of problems for me since it only needs 2 buttons (well, to be fair, you can run GameEx with 2 normally too). Only problem is that I was experiencing weird unexplainable crashes, so I have that cab on the back burner for now. In any case, I put a wait in there to require the buttons to be held for a wait period prior to sending escape. I may reduce that or remove it altogether if I end up using this script. I wasn't sure if there was a way to do this directly in any other language like AI or something, so I asked.

I was just thinking and realized that I can do the quit without any extra code. For MAME, I can just use the combination exit built into MAME. For the other emulators, I can use the advanced settings to have a combination exit. As for Pause, I can have the combined keys in MAME again, but I don't know what to do for the emulators. Any thoughts? For now, if nothing else, I guess I can forgo pause in emulators. Or, maybe I could rewire the coin buttons to be combos and quit and pause to be real buttons. MAME is the only one that needs a coin button, so maybe that would be easier all around.

I know this has been discussed in the past, but is there an easy way to remap multiple keys to a single command? I need to remap up + down (actually gamepad up + gamepad down) to Escape and left + right to P. I tried AHK, but when I use "Up & Down:", it works, but it disables the up key. I kinda need it for playing games though I wrote something a while back that could do this and I could use it again, but it's a bit complicated and seems overkill. I wanted to know if anyone knew of a SIMPLE way to do it? Oh yeah, I tried XPadder to do this and was very unsatisfied with the results. It wasn't very reliable, timing, etc. Thanks guys! BTW, here's my code from before... #InstallKeybdHook #SingleInstance force #Persistent SetTimer, WatchQuitCombo, 250 return WatchQuitCombo: if GetKeyState("Joy1") AND GetKeyState("Joy2") { SetTimer, ComboQuitDown, 100 SetTimer, WatchQuitCombo, Off } return ComboQuitDown: if GetKeyState("Joy1") AND GetKeyState("Joy2") { QuitWaitTime:=QuitWaitTime + 100 if QuitWaitTime >=2000 { IfWinActive MAME { Send {Blind}{Escape} } ;IfWinActive <Another Emulator> ;{ ; Send {Blind}{Escape} ;} QuitWaitTime:=0 SetTimer, WatchQuitCombo, 250 } } Else { QuitWaitTime:=0 SetTimer, WatchQuitCombo, 250 } return

I ran the machine from this morning to about 6pm and NO PROBLEMS!!! I swapped ram to the matching stick to verify I won't have any problems with that one. If it's still running in the morning, I'll put both in and be pretty satisfied that the problem is fixed. I think the different voltages on the ram may have been it! Yeah, we lost power here around 5pm as well and got it back ~9pm (our neighborhood is right next to the sub station, so we always get back up first ). Apparently, the power flashed at ~1am since my alarm didn't work but my wife's did. I was hoping neither one would make it through the night so I could sleep in

What do you mean? I have my system shelled out and if I need to get to the gui, I just ctl-alt-del and run "explorer.exe" as a new task. It launches the full gui for me. In any case, if you want to have access to windows as a normal pc, then there are 2 ways to do that. 1) Do what Michael suggested and add GameEx.exe to your startup folder. This will work, but it will look like you are booting a windows pc. Not a problem if it's a pc, but not the most attractive if it's in a cabinet. 2) Use instant sheller to replace the windows gui (explorer.exe) with GameEx.exe. Then, go to the advanced configuration wizard and go to "Tweaks/Performance" and in the "Launch On Exit" field, put "explorer.exe". Then, go to the second page of "Enable/Disable Features" and turn "Disable Exit" to "No". Now, if you run GameEx and select exit, it will shutdown GameEx and launch the windows gui like normal. If you select shutdown, it will turn off the computer straight away. Either way works, just depends on what you want it to do!

PARTY IN TOM'S ROOM!!!! ...well, his chatroom anyway

What I mean is that GameEx should work great and most everything else should work fine with GameEx running. I haven't seen a case where something runs great from Windows and Poorly with GameEx running. I guess what I was trying to say is that GameEx isn't really a resource hog.

Isn't this the second corrupt MAME32 problem we've had in the last month? I've never had a problem with corrupted files when they were extracted from zips, so that's a bit peculiar. Oh well, glad you got it up and running!

I actually had a 9250 in there to start with and tossed it to the parts bin for that same reason. I found a really good price on x1300pro's and bought a couple. They seem really quick and stable. The 9250 was a fanless card, so I probably could have added a heat sink fan to it and been ok, but the cost of a fan wasn't worth it for the card and price of a new one (<$50 for a new faster card or ~$30 for the fan). I could have cobbled something together, but I was pretty sure the card was FUBAR anyway since it was a hand-me-down that was replaced due to problems. I had the cab running yesterday since the previous evening, but we had a wind storm knock out power before I got home, so I haven't been able to tell if it crashed prior to the power failing. My wife said she played a fighting game prior to the power going out, though, so it sounds like the ram may have been the problem! I'll know more in ~2 hours when I check some logs.

WOOHOOO!!! A new version

The point of adding running the batch file is to see what error pops up when you execute it. If the game runs correctly, then there will be no error. If it doesn't, there should be something in the command prompt window that pops up. If there is an error in that window, can you post it here so we can try to help figure out what it's asking you to do?

See, I knew Brian would have the correct answer to clear up my ramblings

HAHA That Morse code one is funny!

Actually, many of the users here are not American...

If you can run a program via the command line, you can use it in GameEx. This is generally done by putting all files associated with that program (videos for PowerDVD for example) in a single folder, then telling GameEx to look for files in that directory. You use the [RomDir] and [RomPath] arguments in place of actual filenames and paths in the command line you use. I can't be very specific on the exact location of where these go in the setup since I'm not in front of a computer with GameEx installed, but Brian might be able to put together a few screen shots showing where to put those things in. As far as organization, there are a few things that you can do and some you can't. For instance, you can group similar emulators together into a single emulator group. This can help if some roms for a console play better on one emu, but others work better on a second. You can have them in a single list as though it was a single emulator. Or, you could group systems together. For example, maybe you want all Gameboy systems (GB, GBC, GBA, VB...) in a single list... YES, you can use any type of executable file you want! It can be a real exe, or a scripted one in any format (batch, vbscript, wshost, autohotkey, autoit, etc.). It all comes down to how you define the command line in GameEx. If you can determine what you want done, you can make it happen. If you can't figure out a way, or just want to see how others have done something, ASK! There are a bunch of people here that have put MANY MANY combined man years into configuring GameEx with different applications. Just so you know, this forum is VERY friendly. We like to keep it that way, so if you have a question, you will NOT be belittled in any way. We will help you solve the problem the best we can. Actually, the only one to avoid is nologic...he's a real jerk j/k!

Your system should be sufficient to use GameEx without problems. KI plays fine outside of GameEx, but poorly inside?

I agree that a media player would be cool! I was just saying that the audio/video jukebox included is designed as a jukebox moreso than a media player. The other thing is that the jukeboxes don't get as much time as the emulator side (from what I gather). Things get worked on just the same, but most comments here are requesting work on other stuff.

You guys are so tricky...

I just finally copied my intro movies over to my cab the other day. I installed CCCP and videos play fine in windows, but when I run GameEx, the preview box just shows black. I can hear the sound, but the video doesn't play. When this is happening, GameEx freezes and doesn't allow any inputs. I have to kill the process with the task manager. I've currently disabled videos by removing the path. I know there's been a lot of discussion on videos, but I don't know the right thread to read through. Perhaps someone might be able to suggest either the correct thread or suggest an answer (maybe a setting in CCCP that's wrong)?

Yeah, you probably are running an older version of a ROM for the version of MAME (e.g., ROM for version 0.88 and MAME version 0.119).

It will NOT affect the bezels for actual game play in MAME...unless you play the game from screen saver of course. If you pick a game and launch it from a menu, it will load with whatever switches you have specified. The only thing different here is that the -bezel option and the -bezel_dir options will be specified to some GameEx directory location (please note that those actual switches are surely wrong, they are just for affect).

I like it! Thanks for the quick turnaround on this. I expected it to be one of those "cool idea...I'll get to it when I can" sorta things. So, this will likely be included in v9 when it comes out?

When it crashes, it hangs/freezes. The Mobo is nothing special (Soyo K7VME), but I'm not convinced it's a part of the problem. I suppose it could be one of the chipsets, but that will be a last thing to worry about. If swapping ram, video, PSU, and a good cleaning don't fix it, I'll probably be getting a new Mobo and maybe CPU. I can get a cheapo combo from Fry's for under $100 that should use the same ram. It's not long enough to claim victory yet, but the cab was still running fine this morning. Of course, it was running fine before I left yesterday morning too, so...

I just looked at the ram this evening and it looks like the two sticks are both KVR, but from different purchases. Basically, I don't know it's an issue, but they are not identical. I pulled both and stuck in another stick that I KNOW works and set it to play overnight. The first thing that sticks out is that one is labeled as 2.5v and the other as 2.6v. I have 2 sticks that I purchased at the same time and are identical ready to go in the cab, but 512mb should be enough to test MAME overnight anyway. If it still crashes, I'll try the video card since it's also an easy swap. The PSU is a bit more difficult, but I can probably set one inside the cab and just disconnect the other one for testing. I'm hopeful this is a freaky memory incompatibility problem (but not overly optimistic). Oh, and no cats or dogs (a couple ferrets, but they are caged). It's definitely a strange set of entries in the log, but I don't have any way to verify it actually happened...

I used Everest as the second program. It was a trial version, so I wasn't able to get all readings since that's a limitation of the trial. I just launched MBM5 for the first time and it has a LOT of stuff there. It does show that -5 isn't monitored at all, so I guess that's why speedfan reported the wrong value. It looks like the CPU (AthlonXP 3000+) is running at ~118F and the case (actually the MB ambient) is running at ~104F. I guess I'm not overly worried about the temps if that's correct (which seems about right). I wrote an addition to my startup script that starts speedfan and appends the date and time of the crashed session to the GameEx log file. The cab crashed just after I left this morning, but I have a couple log files that show some interesting results. One thing I found was that for whatever reason, GameEx exits the screensaver randomly when there is noone using the system. Between midnight and 6am this morning, the screensaver kicked out and started a few times...while I was sleeping I'm going to try the power supply, ram, and video cards next since I have parts that I can swap from my other cab for testing.