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Just curious. I ran across a usable version of 1.7 to play around with the other day. It seems to work well, but it has a "Emulation Started <Time>" displayed across the bottom of the screen. Is there a way to turn it off? It's not a huge thing, but 1.6 doesn't do that.

You can put the script anywhere you want. I personally keep all of my scripts in C:\Emu\scripts, but it doesn't really matter. Once you are happy with the way the script works, just launch Instant Sheller and tell it to use that exe. Restart, and it should be good to go. If something doesn't work, just use ctrl-alt-del and start explorer manually to fix things. Oh, if you are launching other things also, you will probably want to put those in the script as well rather than leaving them in the start menu\startup folder. The easiest way to do that would be to add them to the script you have with a run statement. Get the command line and start path from the shortcut. From AHK help files: Run, Target [, WorkingDir, Max|Min|Hide|UseErrorLevel, OutputVarPID] So, for example: Run, XPadder.exe, C:\Program Files\XPadder Hope that helps.

Yes, but you might need to compile the script to an exe. I don't know if Windows will let you shell a non exe file.

You should be able to use the send keys and send keys delay to get the results you want without writing any script.

Yes, this is a good way to do what you want!

Actually, Tempest has been working on a script to launch GameEx unless a button is pressed, then Windows starts. This could be modified to launch a different version of GameEx depending on what key is pressed! Check out the thread here: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=6901 EDIT: guess you already saw it!

I just finished going through this a couple weeks back. I feel your pain! To compound that problem, No-Intro just changed their formatting as well. They used to use (UJ) to represent a USA and Japanese release, but now it's (USA, Japan). That means that older No-Intro formatted snap sets will be different than current ones. If there is a .dat file associated with your sets (yeah right, that would be too easy) then you can use clrmamepro or romcenter to rename them to something else. Since they don't, all I can say is what I was told when I asked the same question a few weeks back..."your in for some work!" Here's what I can suggest though (and this is what I did). 1) Go grab PimpDaddyStu's FuzzyTextMatch Utility. 2) Create a text file for each of your sets (one file for each type of content: roms, snaps, titles, etc) that contains just the base name for each game (no extensions). 3) Put the rom file in list 2 of FuzzyTextMatch. 4) Put one extras file (snaps, boxes, titles, etc) in list 1. 5) Deselect "Remove brackets" 6) Run the tool (this can take a few minutes for larger sets. 7) Check both check boxes on the right and put an extension appropriate for the extras type (.png, .jpg, .avi, .pdf, etc). 8) Check to make sure everything matches appropriately. This can take some time but it's better than doing it manually! I went through 2-3 times per pair, once for each column. I sorted by the first column and checked for accuracy and duplication. Repeated for column 2. Then I sorted by column 3 with lowest percent on top. Titles below ~65% can be wrong. Above that are *usually* right. 9) Export the list to a batch file. I gave things an appropriate name (e.g., NES-Snaps.bat), but you don't have to. 10) OPTIONAL - create hard links for all content you are planning on messing with. This way you always have the source if you need to update your set or things get screwed up. This also doesn't take up the space that copying would. 11) Once you have your batch file, you can drop it into the directory containing the content (NES snaps in this case) and run the batch file. 11) OPTIONAL - If you want, you can remove anything that wasn't renamed. I created a subdirectory called "-=UNUSED=-" and moved all files that weren't renamed into it. The easiest way to do this is to run the batch file and move all files from the top of the explorer window down to the directory (these are the only ones that haven't been touched). If you have 100% matches, those will be moved out as well, so you might want to make a batch file to move anything that matches exactly back... Repeat for each set and you're golden!

Here's the software: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellex...nkshellext.html I wrote up a tutorial for using hard links with Circo's emumovies collection for MAME. It's the same procedure...more or less, so you might want to check it out. http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=5908

Ooooh, fancy! A beep and everything

I can understand wanting to have access to the desktop for maintenance tasks, but I believe it would be pretty easy to get IE or Firefox set up to work within GameEx. I'm not sure this would be a common enough request to put it in the main installation. I don't have that much use for it personally since I just ctrl-alt-del, kill GameEx and launch explorer. If it bothers you having to do that, then I would go with Tempest's offer and have him put together a simple script. Tempest: You will need to set a timer to kill the script, but you might be able to just map the 'c' key to kill GameEx and start explorer. I'm thinking: settimer, timelimit, 10000 timelimit: exitapp return c:: { Process, Close, GameEx Run, C:\Windows\Explorer.exe exitapp } I didn't test this, but I'm thinking it could be that simple...

If you change your mind, check out AutoHotKey. It's really easy to develop scripts with and it runs as a startup script just fine.

Or create hard links for each iso file and put them in a single directory. Then point GameEx to that directory. This makes GameEx happy and keeps things organized for you. It's not ideal, but it is a workable solution if you don't like either of the 2 frequency suggested.

You don't "lose" the start bar because of GameEx when you set it to the shell, you lose it because you aren't loading explorer. If you kill the GameEx process (with it set to shell), you will see your background image and nothing more. If you hit ctrl-alt-del, select task manager, file->new task, type 'explorer', and hit enter, you will then have the full windows desktop. So, there are a couple solutions for what you want to do. The easiest thing to do would be to just hold down the shift key like Robert said assuming that works. The next best thing would be to do what Brian suggested since it will work and it requires no real extra effort, but it does require you to wait till GameEx has loaded before dropping back to windows (takes some time). I like Tempest's idea of using a script set to the shell, but I think there's another way that might be a little cleaner...maybe. Here's what I offer as a suggestion: * Set GameEx to the shell * Create a startup script that checks for whatever button(s) you want to use to load the standard windows environment * If the keys are found within a certain time frame (say 10 seconds) then the script will kill the GameEx process and start the explorer process If you do it this way, then Windows can't complain if there's a problem with the script and fail to load. You can add other things to the script to do your other startup type tasks (WLAN drivers, connect network drives, start other applications, verify GameEx has focus once it's fully running, etc.). This is basically how I do things and it works great! I might actually consider adding the explorer option to my script since it does seem like a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion

Try implementing Black Viper's suggestions. Some of these things are actually required for GameEx, so you will probably want to implement his suggestions in stages so you can see where GameEx barfs. http://www.blackviper.com/

I was wondering about that. I grabbed a version of 1.7 off emule a while back to see if there was anything worth donating to get and it tripped my virus scanner. I decided that it wasn't worth it and have been using 1.6 ever since. Maybe I'll take another look at 1.7. It might even be worth the donation if things play smoother!

-= Off Topic =- This is probably a simple question, but what video plugin do people use for Project 64? I was using the Rice plugin, but it was causing lags on Mario Kart when the small video screen appears (in the first level and in wario stadium). I tried the Jobo plugin, but it's SLOOOOOOOW. I was just watching a video on youtube where someone apparently disabled the mini video screen somehow. If anyone knows how to do this or can suggest a better plugin, that would be MUCH appreciated! For reference, I'm using v1.6.

Interesting. I'm at work now, so I can't try this on the same system. I'll grab it with my work computer and throw it on a flash drive just in case it gives me troubles later this evening. Thanks!

This is the way it's supposed to work. The point is to have the files named the same way the set was built (NoIntro, GoodName, Tosec, etc) but still have the ability to see a nice, user friendly name in the FE. If you only want to have one version listed, you could remove the other versions, but if you want to know the difference between them, you pretty much will have to turn off database names. Hope that explains it clearly.

It looks like the installer didn't get updated on the server. The download is still for v2.04...

I wasn't sure if you needed [ROM] or [ROMFILE]. I think the later includes the extension, so that's what you wanted after all. Glad you got it working!

It might not be a bad idea. It's possible that the installation got corrupted or something. If you do reinstall, make sure you delete the C:\Program Files\GameEx directory (or move it to another location if you want to keep your setup files). Oh, I guess I didn't mention this (I usually do, but forgot this time)...make sure your rom set and version of MAME are matching. If you use different versions, then some or all files will/may not work.

So I presume you launch this with "launch also", correct? You might want to watch the process and kill the app when the process closes. #SingleInstance force control::b alt::z space::m winwait, psx_emulator_window_title winwaitclose, psx_emulator_window_title exitapp Note: This will only work if the psx emulator has a consistent title that you can watch for. If it doesn't, you will probably want to use the script to launch the emulator so you can get the process ID.

I think the question is "can I have all my PC games in one list?" If so, then yes! Create a directory somewhere. Create a link for each PC game's exe and put it in that directory. Rename the file to something descriptive that would look appropriate in the menu. In GameEx, setup an emulator called "PC Apps". Under the filter field, put "*.lnk". Under the field for the command line, put "[rompath]\[rom]". I'm pretty sure there's already a config for this included in the GameEx install. You might want to use the Setup Wizard for this by going to the Emulator Selection screen and clicking import. I think one called PC Games or something is in there. It will be set up for you and once you add the path to your link files, you'll be good to go.

Post the script. We'll get you going pretty quickly!

Jeez! I didn't even get a chance to grab 2.1. Now I'm 2 versions behind.