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Does this help?

If you've got the storage, I highly recommend http://emumovies.com/ as well. Vids are way cooler than snaps.

I don't think project64 supports 7z files, only zip files. It sounds like you have a full GoodMerge set for n64. There's usually multiple roms in one 7z (ie, the US version and the Japanese version) to save space. You should extract the n64 games you want to want to play, and change the GameEx rom filter to .z64

Yes. I'm running a Radeon 9500 using the DVI -> component dongle, and Powerstrip was pretty much mandatory until the last few Catalyst releases. I've actually had a much more pleasant experience using the ATI HDTV wizard in their latest drivers. I dunno if its my TV, but I've never been able to do anything higher than 480p without some overscan.

Lots of good ideas floating around here, no wonder Tom seems to be making so many updates. I put GameEx up on a TV. I've fine tuned the resolution as much as possible, but there's still a bit of overscan. None of the text is chopped off, but its pretty darn close. What would be nice would be to set a dead zone percentage for the border. GameEx would still draw the background as normal, but squeeze everything else in a little bit.

Ratmonkey, you may be interested in my progress here: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=431

SendKeys.cpp works great! There seemed to be some bugs in the special keys lookup, but it had no problems sending input to MAME. As a bonus, I'm now able to fully automate ZSNES as well using the Hauppauge remote, something I always thought would be impossible. It seems to lag a bit in MAME, but thats probably because MAME is sucking the CPU from the IR application. I'm attaching a program (and source) I wrote, called SimKey, which just simulates keystrokes you pass to it. Special commands are enclosed in square brackets, so you can pass arguments from irremote.ini This is the irremote.ini I use for my Hauppauge remote to control MAME. It should work fine with all models, though you may want to change the layout. [MAME] MENU={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "[TAB]")} BACK={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "[ESCAPE]")} GRNPOWER={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "[ESCAPE]")} 1={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "1")} 2={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "2")} 3={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "3")} 4={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "4")} 5={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "5")} 6={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "6")} 7={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "7")} 8={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "8")} 9={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "9")} 0={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "0")} RED={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "5")} GREEN={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "6")} YELLOW={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "7")} BLUE={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "8")} CHNLUP={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "[UP]")} CHNLDOWN={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "[DOWN]")} VOLUP={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "[RIGHT]")} VOLDOWN={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "[LEFT]")} OK={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "[ENTER]")} PAUSE={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "p")} STOP={run(C:\EMU\SimKey.exe "[F3]")} SimKey.zip

Thanks for the feedback. This makes perfect sense considering that the scripts (AutoIt or VBS) sometimes worked, sometimes didn't. I think I'll see if I can whip something up in VS.NET this weekend.

I'd like to be able to exit MAME, do the in game menu, pause & reset via my remote control. I think MAME is using DirectInput, because regular entries in the irremote.ini don't work. I've also tried writing some VBScript to call SendKeys, but I can't get that to consistantly work in every game either. Please lemme know if you've gotten something to work 100%. If you've tried something that didn't work, let me know that too (save me some time).

Sure. Its an Athlon XP 2500, 512 MB RAM, and a Radeon 9500. The OS is Windows XP. I'm displaying on my HDTV at 1776x1000 using a component adapter, but standard TV resolutions work fine too.

I never realized there were so many MAME derivitaves (MAME32FX, MAME32 Plus, AdvanceMAME, etc). I'm about to set it up on my HTPC, and it would really help to hear what some other people are using, and why. Thanks.

It certainly is. Thanks a ton.

Make sure the AVI's have the same name as the ROM they're for. Then, in the GameEx config, set the SNAP PATH to the folder that has all the AVI's.

I would love this feature too.

Cool, thanks for looking into it. In case it helps, I don't have the "snaps in new thread" option on.