Stu1983

added 202310 - Ridge Racer Unboundedjust wish Steam had a refund policy, its like steering a brick

some very nice themes appearing now, good work guys, I'm spoiled for choice

added the following to the ftp 223220 - Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams

Thanks Tom posting this through Tapatalk, its working great

excellent, I don't have anything to test with at work but will try it on my tablet at home

what would need to happen to add TapaTalk support? IP.Board 3 is listed as supported

I was using Daemon Tools compressed MDF/MDS format, it was the best compression ratio I could find years ago but having upgraded to a 3TB drive I now have room to live with NTFS compression, the benefit being I can keep the likes of PSX in bin/cue format with audio tracks, I have started recollection my PSX and Saturn images. For Wii and GameCube I just used the built in compressor that comes with Dolphin (right click rom and choose compress).

I really like the sound of this plugin. I have a couple of suggestions. Does the ini file change even if a user doesn't manage to achieve a hi score? If it doesn't would this be possible: UserA starts game Plugin grabs the ini from server UserB starts same game Plugin grabs the ini from server UserA finishes with new high score Plugin detects ini has changed so uploads UserB finishes without a new high score Plugin detects ini has not changed so doesn't upload Still wouldn't avoid peoples scores being overwritten if both users had a new hi score but would avoid some conflicts Can you detect the version of mame? Could the ini's be uploaded and downloaded from a different sub folder on the ftp depending on the version? Even if the version of mame can't be detected the plugin could ask the user to select the version as a config option

Added the following to the FTP 203140 - Hitman: Absolution 205930 - Hitman Sniper Challenge I also added Orlin's Zombie Driver wrapper to the FTP

nice one, thanks Tom

I just finished setting up my AimTrak and I must say the accuracy is incredible. I had a few problems at the start, I'm running on a 50" lcd and trying to shoot 3 meters from the screen but I spoke to Andy and he released a new firmware which solved all my troubles. I can now easily play "Sports Shooting USA" which has to be the most accurate arcade gun games. I made the sensor bar longer by tapping a Wii sensor bar to the side of the AimTrak, this made the gun near pixel perfect, you can buy a larger sensor bar from http://www.arcadeguns.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=225 but this is probably only required if you are looking to shoot from larger distances like myself.

Just to add... the official Dolphin page has moved, it's now http://dolphin-emu.org They have a bit more information on requirements in the new faq they are recommending the i5-2500k

Can't agree more... always spend as much as you can afford getting the best CPU for you money, GPUs come and go, you can easily pop one out and stick in a better one later as new models come out and force the price down on old models. The CPU on the other hand, you're pretty much stuck with the CPU as replacing it will generally mean a new motherboard and even new ram as well. You definitely want to avoid on board graphics though but a 660 way more than you need for emulation. I was running my 460 on my i7 2600k gaming rig before upgrading to the 560 but I don't notice any difference at all in Dolphin, Battlefield 3 on the other hand is silky smooth with the 560. Remember your GPU can only work as fast as the CPU can send data to it.

I got the i5 760 for £105 which is about $170 and that's with 20% VAT included, it was a really good bargain at the time... I had been eyeing them up as I already had a motherboard for it but they where always nearer £200 then one day I seen it on offer for nearly half price... snapped it up in an instant

On my i7 2600k with GTX 560 pretty much every Wii/Gamecube games works fine though there are few games that no current system will play at a decent speed. I recently built a small media HTPC and used an i5 760 and GTX 460 this handles most games fine but there are quite a few that it struggles with: Mario Galaxy 1 Mario Galaxy 2 Donkey Kong Country Returns I'm just shy of full speed on those 3 usually about 55fps instead of 60fps but does dip to 50 so not ideal. I think if I overclocked the CPU I could hit full speed but I have it in such a small box that there's just not enough room for a decent cooler. I have an old Core2Duo E8500 with a ArcadeVGA and it handles Mario Kart Wii perfectly fine so there really is quite a mix of hardware supported.

well done

Happy birthday mate

I've been working with Andy recently to fix a few bugs (mainly accuracy problems at 2.5+ meters and recoil issues) so it would be worth updating to the latest firmware as well.

I didn't have any problems with my AimTrak side buttons but I did have problems with off screen reloading not working in Lethal Enforcers, cursor would move to bottom left but seemingly wouldn't click. It ended up being something set wrong in my mame.ini. I deleted my mame.ini and created a new default ini mame -cc I then followed the guide on Ultimarc for setting it up properly and everything has worked fine since. I had looked at my config file previously and thought it was all setup correctly but there must have been some setting somewhere that wasn't right. Maybe this will help you too.

Has anyone tried this yet? Looks awesome

+1 for Xpadder... I remember helping Jonathan test the control set feature way back when he was adding it. It's a really excellent piece of kit though development seems to have stalled lately. I remember at one stage he was on a monthly release cycle.

seen it was on offer today and couldn't resist 202070 - Choplifter HD not bad for 2 quid

As far as I'm away if you use bsnes.exe the rom just gets sent to purify.exe, converted, stored in bsnes' structure and launched through bsnes.exe... you still end up with 2 rom sets. bsnes really is a pain in the ass... I gave up on it very quickly... what real benefit does it offer? I know it's the most accurate but what games does it really play so much better than the likes of SNES9x? I'm not a huge SNES gamer but I've played tons over the years and never noticed any problems. Stu

The problem with search roms in folders for this is that it needs to take the name from the folder name e.g. After conversion you end up with: Roms\Super Mario World\program.rom Roms\Super Mario World\manifest.xml Roms\Super Mario Kart\program.rom Roms\Super Mario Kart\manifest.xml

You can launch roms through purify.exe that comes with bsnes I haven't set it up in GameEx but if you just have your roms all in 1 folder then just tell GameEx to launch purify.exe "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" You also need to use the 'Keys To Send' to send 'F11' to go fullscreen You don't even have to convert the roms first as purify will convert them before passing them to bsnes What I don't like about this method is that purify will take a copy of your converted rom and store it in the bsnes directory structure. So this means you'll actually end up with 2 copies of each rom