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yeah i don't know what's wrong though. i think something perculiar to his system (video drivers) that doesnt like hiding gameex and starting pj64 (too quickly perhaps). maybe he is short of video memory or something.. without full system specs we're guessing.

ah thanks, that might be another way.. my knowledge of batch files is really quite sh*t thanks for your attention, i'll try that.

nope, just noticed some of my emus had games and some didnt, and said in my best german accent 'zer must be some differences in ze config' i guess i have high tolerance for very boring testing lol Tom can you check out my thread please i have a weird Snes emu problem i really need your help with please.

yeah thanks, i did find and post a workound - set Capitals=True

see end of my thread "3 questions"

tom i have kind of a special request please i'm trying to use Snes9xPP (desperate for a SNES emu that works properly, there are weird show-stopper bugs in everything else ive tried, zSNES and Snes9x normal etc) and have run into a major problem: Snes9xPP doesnt seem to load its .ini if started like this: > CD path > .exe ROM it has to be started like this: > path\.exe ROM all in one line. (you think i'm smoking crack? link below!) this is some weird bug with Snes9xPP i think, ive been playing with batch files, and narrowed it to this. (or if you can think why an app would behave like this, id love to know, i dont see why theres a difference) gameex, if you put the whole path into the commandline, truncates to just the .exe as you know. i need to be able to put the whole path into the command, so the emu will load its config.ini. otherwise i cannot config the emu. please pretty please can you help? if anyone wants to see this problem for themselves (or proove im going mad!) here's where i got the emu: http://www.aep-emu.de/Emus-file-emus_detail-id-283.html it works so well, if only i could use it with gameex, so tantalisingly close ! edit: actually thanks to Filemon i found it is loading a config, but from the system folder (C:\WINDOWS\) when started like this by gameex! maybe i can deal with this..

Vynce no, wrong, don't do that. pj64 puts its own quotes on, and double quotes = error msg. (unless you have pj64 v1.7x, then you should be ok either way) this isnt his problem, the app is starting ok.

wtf? just noticed all the games are not showing for n64, snes and nes.. gba and md still show.. what have i done now# AHA. major nasty evil bug alert! set off the sirens! call the authorities! alert the media! phone batman etc if Capitals=False, no games will show for that emu! at least thats how it is for me in 6.19 damn that was 20 minutes to find, anyway hope that helps tom heh

if you open gameex.ini you can copy paste config. that looks ok though. make sure you have enabled auto fullscreen in pj64 options if you're sure pj64 starts ok w/o gameex, i can only think gameex is interfering with dx somehow. what's your video hardware? try changing 16<>32 bit desktop you could try showdesktop=true aswell, not sure if that makes difference. i can't remember is there a way to tell gameex to delay x milliseconds before launching emu?

thanks for the icons, but they are too low res for my system (1024x576) - although on the tv they sorta look ok. gameex seems to stretch icons, yes? i've been trying to find decent quality pics, making my own pngs. but im not so great with photoshop.. its the edges that are tricky..

does MAME+ (MAMEplus!) even support bezels? theyre missing from the gui (and does that matter to gameex anyway) yah i dont get how bezels work at all.. also, i want just to fill the space, not make the tiny screen even tinier. i'm giving up on this for now, got bigger fish to fry

sorry if this is OT: MAME+ 106 doesnt work at all for me (exception on load). MAME+ 106u1 seems to work (not sure about artwork yet) should i be using the gui or the command line version? both seem to work, i just think maybe it makes a different to artwork support?

ah it always was turned on in gameex config - i get nothing turned off artwork in mameplus - still nothing i should have said sorry, i don't want a banner that says "gameex", (that seems to be what comes with gameex?) i want those custom artworks made for each game its not really important but i do remember this working once. do i turn off the bezel in gameex and on in MAME?

i don't think i've ever seen bezels working. but now i'm motivated to have a go. does anyone have some instructions on setting up bezels anywhere please?

"no clones unless better"?! i gots to try this! /me skips happily away i love these crazy new fuzzy options! edit: the Q is: what makes "better" how do you define that please?

gameex changed mine too. now instead of playing games (which wasn't tragic enough), i play with something for launching them. just KIDDING! i always found ways to avoid playing games serious small print: gameex/tspeirs are doing a very impressive job and deserve to dominate the windows-based frontend market imho (based on what i saw before i found gameex - really haven't looked at anything else since!).

just realised you implemented the thing i weally weall wanted : allow control by any gamepad! yay. but my Q is: is there any way to customise the buttons by pad name. what i think i want is to make the A button on every pad be select and the B be back, for example. now, button 1 on every pad is select, 2 is back etc. i can understand this because i have the directx mapping of each adapter type memorised, but no way can anyone else know without randomly stabbing buttons! so is custom mapping per controller name possible? if not i guess ill make a feature request please. Q2: about the Attract/screensaver business. the way it seems to work now is: a demo is running, only sound is ambience.mp3 i come along and insert coin, start playing game a few seconds later, game quits (!). screen is black as game exits. loud "greeting" sound plays (!) now im back in gameex menus and can start a game with game audio like normal this can't be right? do i have the config wrong? surely i should be allowed to continue to play the game that was demo-ing. and gameex should mute the ambience.mp3 and start the game's audio? or if adjusting the audio is not possible, at least let me play the game

or an option to disable visual update indicator and instead have a keyboard shortcut to look for updates - something like CTRL+U? this should be in feature requests right?

thanks i gameex found the update before i saw this post update system is saving so much copying around its fantastic - only concern is if something got broken (for a particular system) and people go to switch on the machine and apply that update, there is no way to back out without a geek (i.e. me) present. but cant think of any way around that without turning off the update really. perhaps a more subtle update icon that i would see but no one else would?

that's the standard error anytime you have a video driver problem and the plugin can't init... if you can put some delay in between gameex and the emu that might help.. i'm not sure. btw, any reason you're using the dx6 plugin? v1.6 default d3d8 plugin is generally better.

you don't have to update your game list for that to take effect do you? trying again now ah: at some point you changed from: "System" seperating out to "SystemStart" and "SystemList" and i'm still using an old custom language file, so i had the old entries. sorted cheers

thanks Vynce i'll give that a go. this is really dorky but its driving me nuts. i can't find the text string for "Playstation" in the start page menu anywhere.. ive changed every instance of the word "playstation" to "system 11/12 arcade games" (in gameex.ini and my language.ini) and still it refuses to change in gameex. argggghh!

hey, having that fixed anytime in the next 6 months is fine by me what was stressing me out was this is the type of thing that might be very difficult to track down.

damn, its started hanging on Most Played again. i don't want to keep resetting all my data if this happens.. any ideas please? (i have not actually tried resetting all data from Admin screen before, Most Played just started working again).

hey the return to gameex time seems to be about half what it was. did you do something 6.14-6.16? remember that handy util setvol.exe that you made before? well im still using it, i wonder can you possibly add mute/unmute to its functions? one more q sorry this is probably answered, after enabling/disabling special arcade emus like Zinc, does the game list have to be updated for the change in emu to take effect? edit: answered myself: Yes! you do many thanks again. i have another Q only slightly related to gameex -- you know those arcade games with the screen above the game screen, the top one showing instructions etc.. well, itd great if you could toggle off the top screen, or put the 2 side by side, so the game is bigger on a wide tv. anyone know anyway to do this with MAME?