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edit2: this is a non-issue. my mistake. please scroll down for real issues alright, spent a couple of hours on this, got some improvement (first i had bad bios) but i still can't get some games to show up in gamex. e.g. the entire 'King of Fighters' series. they appear, validate and run fine through MAME32FX gui. MAME32FXPP.exe is what i use in gamex. i've updated all the support files i can think of (mameinfo, catver, nplayers, history). doh, what am i missing?! edit: here's all relevant config afaik: OnlyWorking=True AllowImperfect=True VerifyRoms=False OnlyRoms=True NoGameInfo=False GameFilter=Japan;Korea;Asia;Hispanic;bootleg;french;german;hack;prototype; hardware GameFilterOn=False NoAdult=True NoClones=True MameOptions=-skip_gameinfo -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy -skip_validitychecks edit2: yes the rom paths are correct, because i have ROMs sorted by system and other Neo-Geo games show up.

sorry, my bad - its the only one i'd found with graphics effects thats competitive (regular updates etc). although that one does look like it could be a goodun? hopefully now with v.100 more alternatives will be updated for us http://www.mbox32.com/zeta/

no i mean mameplus already doesnt show the "screen of crap". but that derivitive seems to have broken controller support in some way.. maybe someone should report that to him :/ it was the only one with Scale2x etc.

oh fair enough, im pretty new to arcade games. ok that's no problem then. if its like that on real system.. but mame derivitives can do something about it. i certainly wouldnt want to complicate things with a load state workaround.

i can play them for a minute or two if im lucky, then it exits thx for the explanation.

ok i think this belongs here, cos its just me being thick: when i interrupt attract mode to play a game (that was demo-ing), why is that i can hear the game's sound, but very quiet ?

call this a bug report, i dont know where to post it sorry: if you start playing a game in attract mode, for me at least, gameex still quits MAME automatically!

ah maybe thats a bug in the config app. open GameEx.ini, search for SNES and blank the relevant line.

yeah ok from now on ill post feature requests in the feature requests topic, you dont need to do it, cos ill go through and take whats still relevant. thank*you*

ok , just came across a problem. if you add a game to favourites (<note the english spelling and then the rom name changes, gameex doesnt validate before launch that the game still exists. this leads to hung app in background-type nastiness. edit: im talking about other emus, not MAME, where gameex refreshes ROM list each time... obviously MAME needs the listupdate run. maybe check all the favourites exist when opening favourites menu and delete any that don't

MAME32fx - i see red screen, then green, then screen of mixed crap, then game MAME32plus, i see red screen, then game not actually sure which is faster, havent timed yet. any thoughts on getting rid of the "screens of crap". i know this is more of a MAME q than GameEx q sorry. edit: but rather more importantly, MAME32plus is not reading my arcade sticks! arg. back to MAME32FX what a lot of kerfuffle

oh yeah! i forgot about turning off window animation. f**king good point!

no sorry most of those problems arent new to this version, except 1 which i cant replicate but may have been related to using sendkeys - ive no realised Snes9x has a -hidemenu command so ive stopped using sendkeys there, may have helped, or maybe just a freak computer screwup crashing gameex. 2) is not new, but i wonder why sometimes i see desktop and sometimes dont. also you sometimes see all sorts of title bars growing and shrinking (Esp with MAME) whats that all about? 3) i had another idea, how about moving the pointer off screen or to the bottom right corner, this is what some apps do? presumable with a sendkeys type command 4) was supposed to be the getting minimised problem. also i'd like to know how other people handle system standby and resume, but this is probably a topic in itself 5) yeah ill check that sorry.. ok AttractModeAudio =2 , but i thought there was a control to start MAME sound when 5 pressed .. am i going mad? thats not possible is it?

yeah the only bummer with having lots of categories is: you have lots of people posting in the wrong ones..

just upgraded from 5.06 to 6.09, nice, 1) just had gameex quit with no error a few seconds after launching a SNES game.. probably not useful.. i'll keep a lookout for cause. having some problem with GameEx getting minimised in general. edit: not seeing this again, maybe a one off. 2) why is that i can often see the desktop after quitting an app ,with ShowDesktop=False? these are apps which quit themselves on ESC, not using mapkeys 3) also got problems with the mouse pointer occasionaly showing up in games, when starting and sometimes while playing, i think sometimes as a result of the mouse being moved. so its not being properly hidden. any ideas there please? :/ edit: i think its apps themselves showing the pointer.. how about a force hide pointer option, per app? bad idea? 5) when inserting coin during attract mode, sound doesnt start (MAME32FX v99u8) alright sorry i think that takes care of all my outstanding Qs atm !

or you can set up your own DVD player. e.g. ZoomPlayer Pro, customized shortcuts to exit on ESC, and a config like this: Enabled_3=True Name_3=Play DVD (ZoomPlayer) Path_3=C:\Program Files\Zoom Player CMD_3=zplayer.exe /F /LOCKFS /DVD /PLAY /VOL:90 Snap_3=Daphne(2) ShowDesktop_3=True MapKeys_3=False WaitBeforeKeys_3= SendKeys_3= that's just an example.. i know it doesnt solve the prob, just a suggestion ok (i did this for features, not because GameEx's didnt work)

how about an option for back/ or "return to previous menu" button added at the bottom of each menu.. like MAME! people have trouble getting back in the menus. also i'd like some way to show the controls on the gui somewhere?

wow its only a year old? i dunno i assumed it was a lot older. that was a compliment btw

can you overwrite e.g. 99u6 with 99u5 ok, do you know, without causing smeg ups?

alright that worked, here's my tweak, a version that works with folders with spaces in their names aswell dir /b /ad > baredir.txt echo junk > dirs.map del dirs.map for /F "delims=" %%s in (baredir.txt) do echo %%s "%%s" >> dirs.map del baredir.txt some issues: 1)you still get the play game screen! perhaps we need a way to turn this off on a per-emu basis.. (for now i've just changed the text to "Launch"! 2).. er n/m i fixed 2 so nothing serious remaining. just need to script up some folder update/file sorting commands. this is great tom and djrobx thanks, batch files are still not my best thing.. idea: how about a way to reverse alphabetical order the rom lists, again per emu option? then i'd have most recent photos at top (dirs start with date in Ymd format)

massive amounts of w00t. unfortunately i have to go to bed now, been up (again) fighting with the new pj64 site.. will try tomorrow cheers Tom

Snes9x? if you have problem with an emu you should really take it to emu board and not, you know, post here..

eeeurggh thats v1.5, can't recommend that. you can modify 1.6 in the same way, but the main problem is decompressing it, this is the main reason i havent offered a patcher to mody to exit on escape.. its ok to do yourself if you know what your doing but we dont want people distributing modified binaries really.. otherwise id recommend just using Gamex's MapKeys, it works ok.

thanks very much djrobx i'll try that in a bit.

i think every version is better than the last, really. and when Tom does break something, he ups a new build very quickly. of course, if he knew he was going away or something a last known good build would be a good idea. i think the way he's doing things is fine, but one idea would be to the host the one previous version with the new one, just so people can see if something was just broken.