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Polyurethane or spar urethane? The latter is better suited for wet environments. I used several coats of spar urethane on a couple drink rails I put in my game room and after glasses weeped on them and weren't cleaned up until the next afternoon, there were ZERO water rings. I'm not sure the same would have been true if I used poly.

I did something similar with my cab as far as the color scheme goes. I have a 7 button Neo Geo/SF layout, but I have everything set up to use the 4 Neo Geo buttons by default. So, I have them colored Red-Yellow-Green-Blue (like the original machines used) for the bottom and black for the rest. Oh, my opinion, but I think the spinner should match that player's controls. I would definitely switch the sticks and buttons if it were me. Looks really nice!

This is obviously a problem with the code that needs fixing. My personal opinion (not Tom's), is that the GameEx code needs to address this issue. Anything we come up with in this thread to "fix" the resultant symptoms is not a "solution", it's a hack to make things work. I was interested in helping make it work in the mean time, but I was hoping Tom might see the thread and step in with a suggestion. Anyway, I don't really have any idea what would keep the mouse from working on the desktop. I'm not even sure what to search the registry for in this case. Sorry, I've got nothing... EDIT: After sleeping on it, I realized that it's still possible that both of these systems have the same issue due to a setup problem. I still have no clue what could be wrong, but just because two systems have the same problem doesn't mean that it's the core code, it could still be either the way you have GameEx set up or an outside application causing this. Perhaps you both could post a log when this happens. I know you said it doesn't always happen, but if it's a problem with GameEx, then it would have to be determined what's going on to cause this. If it's an outside app conflicting with HideOS, then you might want to think about what else you have running at the time. Again, I really don't know. That's my best suggestions though. Good luck!

If it works outside of GameEx, then it's probably just "Hide Desktop".

Sounds like it should be a simple script containing just 4 remapping statements and some logic around it to make sure it's only mapping when GameEx is active. Post what you have and I can take a look (Tempest or one of the other guys might beat me to it though )

It sounds like GameEx is just modifying elements rather than applying a theme. If you can check what the background is set to, then you might be able to just fix those specific elements. EDIT: So I did a quick test and it looks like you could just check the "WallpaperStyle" and "Wallpaper" registry entries to see if you need to run the script. When I have a image set up, it has a path to the image in "Wallpaper" and a "0" value for "WallpaperStyle". When I have a black background the values are blank and "2". Hope that helps a bit. Here's the path the the relevant values in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Congrats! Looks cool. No DS here, so I'll just have to rely on the video.

Maybe you could use Brian's suggestion and just press the hotkeys to change the theme if it's wrong?

Tom will probably need a log file in order to see what GameEx is doing/not doing.

My main point was that if you are running a newer version of MAME (newer than 0.131), you will want to update GameEx. Tom has fixed the issue AFAIK, so you shouldn't need to worry about MAME versions really.

I'm not sure what you mean by "it was able to run more games and run them more fluently". MAME32 uses the same core as standard MAME. The only difference is that UI includes a Windows based GUI that can make some things easier for beginning users. The only reason I can think that you would see a benefit would be if you were comparing a different version of MAME and MAME32. In any case, this is either a filter thing or you are using an old version of GameEx and a version of MAME newer than 0.131 as it appears they have changed some things (as usual).

I haven't tried it, but Helium Music Manager indicates it will do lyrics automatically. I'm sure Album Player and Media Monkey have scripts to do it if it's not built in.

It might be too big for his email? Maybe you could upload to his FTP or send a link to Rapid Mega Ultra Share?

Can you use PPJoy to map keyboard input to a virtual joystick? If so, then you wouldn't need GlovePIE. I find GlovePIE very easy to program with and PPJoy very frustrating...

Hmmm, it might be possible to use GlovePIE and PPJoy with keyboard input. I haven't tried it, but it seems feasible.

Some of the themes already include them. If you want a larger pool of stuff, try importing a MAMEWAH theme. You will need to touch them up a bit, but the background itself should get you pretty close.

I haven't looked much into the specs cause I figured my cab was woefully underpowered to fire this bad boy up. Does anyone know if a AthlonXP 3000+ w/ 1GB of ram is sufficient? I just checked and my ATI x1300pro does have pixel shader 3, so it sounds like it comes down to raw horsepower now.

The Setup Wizard definitely goes above 100. I have several emus set up in the 100-110 range and I think it will scroll down much further.

Since it doesn't appear that this is a bug, just a different interpretation of what the numbers mean, maybe you could submit a feature request to add what you want. I think it would be pretty easy for Tom to make a variable or whatever available to the Theme Editor in order to display that value. He already has it (it's shown before you enter the emulator), so it's just a matter of having it available in a different location. Just a thought...

Maybe there's just a difference in how you see the number and how Tom intended it to be interpreted. I agree that a number listing how many roms are available would be cool (and how I thought the listed number worked), but I also see why Tom coded it the way he did. On the other hand, when you select a system the number given is correct (the number of roms available to play) and the number inside the emulator list is also correct (position in the list and total list items). Perhaps the best advice is that you could edit the theme you are using so that you have a custom background with the number hard coded into the theme's background?

You could launch the script at Windows startup. That way it would run prior to GameEx launching and you shouldn't have any conflicts that way. Alternately, you could opt to run the script during shutdown after GameEx closes.

It may be counting the total number of lines it needs to display. There is a blank space that could count as the last item. 991 roms 2 recently played + 1 blank space -------------------- 994 items

Is it possible that GameEx is including the "recently played" list? I think you can have 3 in that list by default, so that might be the extra 3 that are showing up.

Post a link to a rapidshare (or similar) download and Tom will probably grab it to host locally.

You will have to make lists for 1, 2, and 3 player games. Also, you will need to know which games are alternating 2 player unless you intend on having them use the same controls (center position). Anyway, you will be building configs in at least 3 stages. CFG Magician will be able to help, but you need to build the lists first. Fortunately, you aren't asking for anything that's that complex, so it shouldn't be a problem!