bkenobi

Your button remapping script is pretty rudimentary, but it should work. It will just have to run more than once if you press button 1Joy9 before you press 2Joy9. The process closing script won't stay resident if that's what you were expecting. It will run and close those processes if they exist. If not, the script will happily move on to the next statement.

Ahhh, I didn't realize you couldn't get lower resolutions with standard GameEx.

I don't know that this is the solution to your problem, but you can only kill a script if it's compiled or if you know the process ID. If you try to kill an AHK script with another AHK script and you don't know the PID, it might kill the wrong one (the script you are trying to use to kill the other script). Anyway, if you compile the first one, then it will show up in the task manager as whatever you compiled it as. By default, all AHK scripts just show up as "AutoHotKey.exe". Btw, don't you need Alt-Enter for switching to full screen? AHK can do that easily if it's for a keyboard. If this is for a joystick, then it's a bit more complicated.

The built in model2 list. You can have GameEx display a list for all model2 or Zinc games if you want.

Just out of curiosity, can you try turning off GameLauncher mode on both installs? If that fixes things, then it will give Tom more information about why things aren't working.

Well, this is a very long list of demands.... Fortunately, GameEx can do everything you asked for. The only thing is that some of them will require a small bit of effort to set up. I'm not going to try to give you a tutorial on everything you asked about primarily because you will see how easy it is once you install it. There are a few things that you will probably need help with, but fortunately this forum is very active with highly knowledgeable people! Have fun with it and come back with any questions.

I guess either I voted already or I'm dumb cause I can't find the vote button

That's a V4 theme. I think you can edit your theme of choice to move the items around. It should be easy, but I haven't tried it to know if there are any tricks to it. Just launch the theme editor and load the theme you want to use.

That would do it!

Someone just had this problem a couple weeks back: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=6882 I believe they fixed it by manually downloading the installer.

I just realized that if you don't have model2 enabled, then no model2 games show up in my list. I think that's because the MAME shows them all as imperfect or not playable. I added them to the do not filter list, so they should show up now. Interesting that most zinc games show up without having to do this (I added them anyway).

Perfect black is the color that GameEx uses for transparency. One solution is to adjust your images to shift perfect black to something slightly gray. I don't remember the command in Photoshop, but you can do this pretty easily. Basically, there are 256 levels of black available. You need to make sure that you don't have anything in the max range. One notch down won't change the appearance, but it will keep it from going transparent for you. There was a thread about this a LONG time ago, so it might be hard to find it with the search tool. As I recall, HK gave a quick set of directions, so I know it's not hard.

As long as there's nothing else in the directories than single rom files, you can turn off the filter. Otherwise, you will want to put several in there depending on what you have (e.g., *.iso, *.cue, etc).

I'm pretty sure that you should be good if you set "Don't switch resolution". As long as Windows is using 321x240, then GameEx should leave it alone with that setting. I agree that it would be better to fix the problem rather than to scab on something to fix the symptom.

This might be a really good location to host controller files as well. There is currently no repository for a controls.dat project for consoles. If there was a wiki-esc entry where users could update the controls info (and other stuff that's not filled in), that would be spectacular. This information is usually available in the user manuals (which it sounds like you may be hosting on gamesdbase), so the information is available if people want to help enter it. Great site already! Nice work.

GameLauncher mode doesn't get updated much since there aren't that many people that use it or at least not very many that come to the forum to ask questions. If you are having problems with a feature of GameEx, I know that Tom will want it fixed! It's definitely possible to watch the resolution of the screen to see if it's changed. SysGet, Width, 0 SysGet, Height, 1

1) The easiest way is to run your set through CMP or RomCenter with a NoIntro dat file. That will give you one copy of a game, but it will still include different regions. I remember someone on this forum (Adultery?) was putting together a set of dat files that would just keep the one best copy of a game, but I can't seem to find it now. If that's not available, you can take your NoIntro set and make a few directories (USA, Japan, Europe, Other) and move games to those directories according to what's in the brackets. Then, rename them to remove the bracketed text (there's a bunch of renaming tools out there, I can recommend one if you need help). Finally, recombine the files in the opposite order of your preferred region. So, if your preference is USA, Europe, Japan, Other...move the files to a new directory in this order: Other, Japan, Europe, USA. That new directory contains your new, clean, one game only set. The only thing this can't help with is if the game has a slightly different name for a different region (e.g., Destiny's Sword -> Sword of Destiny). 2) For GameEx, you can customize what buttons perform actions. For MAME, just hit TAB and remap as needed. For other emulators, you will have to either use the built-in remapping tool or use a script. If you choose to go with a game pad emulator, you can use programs like XPadder to remap joystick buttons to key presses. 3) Have fun!

Ok, so you were right I just remembered the other reason I put model2 and zinc in the loader though...I need to start XPadder with special configs and there's no launch before/after option for either.

Games don't show up in with model2 turned off if you have certain filters turned on/off (allow imperfect, allow not working). If you have model2 turned on, then all model2 games *should* show up. This is one of the reasons why I put model2 into my loader script. For some reason, GameEx still wasn't displaying these games and they weren't playing in model2 (as I recall). I think it's simply a matter of having Tom update the model2 list so it plays the appropriate set of games. Tom just updated everything in GameEx, so it should play all model2 v0.9 roms correctly. I'm going to have to check about the path stuff that Frequency was talking about. If he actually knows what he's talking about , I'll probably switch off that part of the loader.

TOTALLY!

HAH! I didn't even look at the config. I'm so good ...either that or I got lucky

You might want to make a backup of your MAME settings while it's working. That way if something breaks, you have a reference to some known working config. At least then you might have an idea of what's changed to get you started in the right direction!

There is a setting that tells GameEx to mess with the resolution. First off, make sure it's turned off. Second, if it's still doing it then Tom might need to fix something in GameEx. It's definitely possible to have a script watch the resolution and change it to something if it gets changed. I don't think you should have to do that, but it's a backup if nothing else works.

Maybe that's what's going on with model2 (I can't remember what it was doing ). I know Zinc was sending the path, which I didn't want. Oh, the other reason I put it in the loader was cause I wanted to be able to control where certain games were loaded. I think GameEx was not loading a couple with model2 for some reason, so I made sure it did!

So then it plays just fine? If it runs with the batch file, I'm not sure why it wouldn't run from GameEx since it's the exact same commands.