bkenobi

I appreciate the input. I've used most of these techniques outside of my cabs, but not with them. The problem is that I'm not trying to shut down the machine remotely or locally from the desktop/command line. What I'm trying to do is have GameEx shut down when I select "shut down" from the normal controls inside GameEx. If I login remotely and am still logged in when GameEx goes to shut down, it will put a confirmation dialog in the background. I guess what I really want is a way to have Windows hide that message quickly or a way for GameEx to shutdown when I tell it to. I think the best way would be for the shut down item in the list do a forced shut down rather than a normal one that waits for dialogs to be dealt with. I could even use a command with launch at shutdown or something, I just don't know what to launch yet.

Sounds like you are using a V3/V4 theme on the new install.

That's an interesting application, but it doesn't appear to do what I need. I have my machines set up so that they can be turned on locally and go straight into GameEx since they are shelled. When I need to do maintenance, I typically will then go to my main PC and login remotely to do what I want. The problem is that if I forget to logout prior to shutting down the cabinet, there is a warning message that displays indicating that another user is logged on. All I want to do really is disable that warning. Perhaps there's another way to do it with that application, but I didn't see it. This is a discussion of what I'm trying to do and a possible solution. I'm going to check it out, but I'm out of town for the next week. I'm just posting it here so that I don't forget about what and where I saw it. If someone else wants to figure it out in the interim, I would not complain http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-2688069.php

I have both of my cabs shelled out with GameEx. I set each up with the concurrent login hacks for XP to re-enable remote login correctly. When I login remotely to manage my machine, if I decide locally to shut down, GameEx just sits there. What's happening is that there's a dialog in the background that says something like "Hey dummy, there's someone else using your box. Do you really want to kick them off? Yes/No" What I'm wondering is if there's a way to have Instant Sheller or GameEx help deal with this? If I say shut down locally, I mean it. Currently, I have to find the keyboard to alt-tab to the message box and hit 'ok' before it will shut down. Just curious? I didn't want to add a feature request until I thought it was a good request (and a GameEx request). Comments/suggestions?

Those games aren't in the controls.dat project. If you really want them, you will have to add them manually. There is another thread Tempest just started last week that was discussing updating the controls.xml file.

You could post your gameex.ini file if you want someone else to take a look.

Use the GameEx Advanced Configuration utility and select 'Advanced MAME Settings'. On the first page near the bottom is 'Catver ini location'. You can also set the path for nplayers, history, MAMEinfo, and controls.

I think GameEx will accept any avi file that has the codec installed correctly in Windows.

You can put them wherever you want, but you need to make sure the paths are set correctly in GameEx. I personally keep all my dat and ini files in my MAME directory, but GameEx uses a default location in the C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA directory if I'm not mistaken.

An example of a rotary game is Ikari Warriors. When you rotate the stick, the character turned.

This is looking really good! If you finish it, I'm gonna have to switch to this one. Good stuff here!

RomLister can do it!

Yup, no control, just tab.

In your mame directory, you have several sub directories that contain game specific settings. One of those is 'cfg' which contains the settings for inputs among other things. When you launch a game for the first time (e.g., asteroids), mame will create a file in that directory with the .cfg extension (e.g., asteroids.cfg). If you don't adjust any of the settings for inputs for that game, the file will be mostly empty. In that case, the settings that will be used for inputs will come from the default inputs (stored in default.cfg). If you get everything screwed up and just want to start over, you can always delete the .cfg file for a specific game, the default config, or everything just by deleting the appropriate files in the cfg directory. In this case, you want to start from scratch on Asteroids, so go to the cfg directory and delete asteroids.cfg. If you still have problems, go back to the cfg directory and delete both asteroids.cfg and default.cfg. Be aware that if you do this, you will need to set up your default controls again. Hopefully this description will be enough detail to help. If not, just ask for more specifics and either myself or someone else can fill in what's missing. Good luck!

You got it!

The only thing I can suggest is applying a filter so that you end up with fewer roms to see if the list will generate icons to the end. That doesn't solve anything, but it might help narrow it down to definitely being a caching problem.

Hmmm, I don't remember having problems with this, but I haven't checked that specifically. My list only displays ~2000 roms. Do you have significantly more than that? I really don't have much to suggest. I think Tom will probably have to help with this one...

Hmmm, I'll have to give it another try.

...or an incompatibility of the patches with the 64-bit compile or 64-bit Vista for some reason. Either way, it's strange.

I have CPWizard running on my AMD XP 3000+ with less memory and when I launch a MAME game via GameEx, the CP displays much quicker than that. I don't display the CP before games, but it also pops up within a couple seconds when I pause.

All of them show up? I was thinking perhaps one was broken and it kept all the following ones from showing up. Like I said, it's a long shot.

I think greatflash suggested deleting it if it was there.

You have the path set in your mame.ini hiscore_directory hiI was pretty sure there was some line that said enable hi score or something, but I can't remember and I'm at work now so I can't check.

If you are using a mame.ini file, just make sure all of the settings for the hiscore patch are set. I can't remember what all needs to be set, but I know the high score directory needs to be right. That's about all I can think of...

If you launch the game and go to the controls (hit tab and navigate to the game's controls), you will see everything that can be set for that game. If you have no game specific .cfg file (or apparently a system .cfg like vector, neogeo, etc.), then everything should show up as you have it set in your default.cfg. If you have anything that is different from what's in the default.cfg, those items will show up with a high lighted background. If you want to set things back to default, go to the control and hit select (enter by default) then ui cancel (escape by default). If it doesn't go back to default, try again (it cycles through sometimes). You can also do what greatflash suggested, but this way doesn't require you to drop out to your OS if you are on a cabinet. Just another way to get the same results. Have fun!