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You can only run GameEx on a Windows system that has Direct Draw and .NET Framework 2.0+ installed. If you can set that up that via Wine or something on a PS3, then there's a chance you can get it going.

Check out HK's CPWizard application. It can do a lot more than the built in viewer ever could! It's also integrated into GameEx now, so you can get it set up and use it just like the built in viewer.

I'm starting to think that I'll just keep Circo's stuff and trash the rest. I know he will keep a single naming convention and he includes dat files. I think his stuff uses the No-Intro naming convention to start with, so it should match my files pretty well as is. The only thing is that he doesn't have all the content for carts, boxes, manuals, etc. that some other sets seem to have. In the end, I just can't justify the time it would take to make the perfect set. Oh well. Thanks for all the input!

That's what I was afraid of... Actually, I'm sorta having the same problem with my romsets. I have the DATs for No-Intro, but for some reason that doesn't mean it includes all of the valid US roms for a set. For example, Ecco the Dolphin for Game Gear is not in the No-Intro set. I know it exists since Wikipedia has a page for it (and Wikipedia is ALWAYS right ).

I have a bunch of content that I've collected over time that I want to get on my cab. The problem is that I just have too much stuff and it's all mismatched. I have 4 Sega Saturn manual collections for instance. They all are from different sources with different naming conventions. I can't even tell if any of them are complete, if there are gaps, if there are overlaps (there are), etc. This is the same for videos, snaps, box art, etc, etc, etc. For roms I can use clrmame and get things straightened out using a dat file, but I don't know where to come up with one of those for extras. I'm really looking for advice on a procedure to simplify this. I'm really just overwhelmed at the moment and looking for advice from anyone who has done this before. I've seriously considered junking it all and finding a single set...if I could find one. The only thing I can think of at the moment is to dump everything in one directory and let GameEx use the best matching to pick the one to use. That seems like a lot of extra HDD space used for no reason though. Thoughts anyone?

Nice!

Yup, that's the easiest way. No sense in coding a parsing routine to look through the entire GameEx.ini file when you can just copy it to another file. Cool beans!

I think you are making this too complicated. What I think you are trying to do is tag the games you want with the GameEx delete function and then take that list, with the aid of a script, and copy/move the desired games to another location. I didn't look at Tempest's script, but all it needs to do is run through your list of filtered roms and one-by-one copy/move them to the new location. This is pretty simple. I think that's what Tempest just wrote for you. If not, I can modify his script to do it.

I was just saying that if your media files are on a network drive (and not on the local hard drive) that the network could affect your performance. That would be a separate issue to your video driver problem. I was merely trying to suggest another possible path you might want to investigate...

Any chance you have video snaps enabled and your videos are on a network drive?

If the input stops for the keyboard, then this isn't a power setting issue IMO. I don't know what the problem is, but that's most likely NOT the problem.

Cool stuff!

There has been a movement to include more interactive stuff in MAME, but I haven't followed what' they have done. They were talking about having the capability to control solenoids or lights among other things. You might want to search on the MAMEdev site to see what they have accomplished to this point.

I think one thing would be to allow for more dynamic controls remapping. If you wanted to have controls set up a certain way for a set of games, it would be easy to put together a list and call xpadder with that config. I don't think it's as useful now that Tempest's control remapping script is available. It's a bit of work, but probably less work than putting a script together to change xpadder profiles. I think the more useful thing is being able to send commands from other programs that aren't in raw format. For instance, I haven't tried it yet but it might make using WinGun with the most current version of MAME possible again. The guns track, but they don't fire. I suspect it's the raw system that might be partially to blame for this. Anyway, just thought I would throw the info out there since it's been lost from the other forum.

I was viewing the XPadder forums a while back and found a post where Jonathan (the author of the program) discussed how he modified the MAME source code to once again work with XPadder. This mod would make it possible to use AHK etc once again too. Here's what he wrote (I would link the post, but the forum is no longer available): So the question is, is this a good idea or are there potential negative ramifications from disabling the raw input system? This is a really simple change and would allow for a lot of control to be given back to the user, but if it will screw things up in a big way then it's not worth it. Comments?

I think it's the boomerang factor. I can't even buy one around here let alone carve my own.

Looks like HK won the MVP this year

Since Tempest didn't step up, I figured I'd better do my best in his absence...

Freak! Put your cloths back on...

GameEx is supposed to use ctrl-TAB to rotate, but my system uses TAB as well. I'm not sure why ctrl isn't required, but it's a bit obnoxious really. If I try to alt-TAB over to another app, it rotates the screen. I end up using ctrl-alt-del and bringing up the task manager usually (when I remember).

Couldn't you just send the keys to load the disk? Each emulator has a send keys feature in GameEx, so you can send whatever combo is needed pretty easily.

I've got a little problem with v1.96 (although it probably has been there for a while...unless it's just me). I have my MAME setup working great, but when I try to create a setup for an emulator, I'm having a problem. I start out with a new layout and select "Add Image". I right click and select "properties" and it brings up the window and the new image is selected. I select the "..." to pick the image and navigate to it (in this case "C:\Program Files\CPWizard\Media\Controllers'\Nintendo 64.png") and click "open". The filename is put in the Name box ("Nintendo 64.png"), but the image doesn't show up. When I look at the included N64 layout, the Name box shows "Controllers\Nintendo 64.png" and the image shows up. I'm not able to manually include the "Controllers\" part. The only thing I can really do is manually edit the xml file and then reopen. Also, I'm probably missing something obvious, but how do I lock the aspect ratio of images so they don't get skewed? Help?

Interesting. This is something I wouldn't have run across then since I use D3D. I'm glad you figured it out and even more happy that you posted the solution! Have fun!

Well, there's most definitely something wrong. The problem is likely related to the paths that you are specifying in the GameEx setup, but it makes it hard to tell when there's too many configurations involved. I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned in the thread earlier (I haven't gone back to check), but GameEx creates a file in the GameEx Start folder called "Run Last Game.bat". This file contains the exact set of commands that GameEx used to run the last game. If you run that batch file, you should see exactly the same thing as when you run the game from within GameEx. Basically, you can use this file to check whether things are set up correctly or not. What I was basically trying to say is that if you set up MAME from scratch again and then point GameEx to the new version of MAME, you will be able to see what the problem is in a simpler form that we might be able to help with.

This may not be taken as a friendly suggestion, but I think your best bet at this point is to create a new directory for MAME and start a fresh config. You can copy your cfg directory over, but I would keep everything else new. When you configure too many versions of MAME in the same directory, things can get too complicated and confusing. That's just my opinion based on my own personal struggles way back when (and even recently to tell the truth ). We can help better when the situation is simpler as well...