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You don't need an ipl.txt file. I think this message has to do with a command line switch that is obsolete. Make sure you are using the latest version which is 1.2.11. The neocd.bin BIOS file should be in the same directory as neoraine32.exe. I have attached the raine32_sdl.cfg which goes in the config subdirectory. Also I have attached the GameEx INI file for the emulator which has the correct command line of course. raine32_sdl.zip Neoraine.zip

Have you used neoraine ? http://rainemu.swishparty.co.uk/html/download/neoraine.html I think it has a speed hack setting that sets the drive to 8X speed and you can directly load *.cue files in neoraine. The games seem to load up pretty quickly from what I can tell

I think it might be related to the anti virus program running on my system. The data\runitgame.bat was getting locked by the anti virus program. When I tried to delete this file I got this message the action can't be completed because the file is open in avgidsagent This is what triggered the following error in the GameEx log 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open. I disabled AVG and I was able to create a bunch of scummvm snaps. It's odd because I have configured the entire emulation folder where all my emulation stuff is to be excluded. Mark this one as resolved. Thanks for the help!

I imported the scummvm config from the configs included with GameEx. Here is how it is configured to exit from the ini file configFile=[Mapping Off] Exit ScummVM (ALT+X)

The game looks cool. Great job guys!

According to this link, there were some titles released exclusively for the Neo Geo CD system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_CD Also it looks like some CD versions of the games my have slight differences. This post for one particular game shows AES Vs CD Differences and CD Extras http://www.egameaddiction.com/neogeocd/games/realboutspecial/index.html

I just tried another emulator and ran create snaps and it successfully ran through 26 games before I canceled it. I went back to ScummVM and tried it and it created two snaps before GameEx exited the create snaps process on its own. When I launch the create snaps again for ScummVM it immediately crashes. Each time I do this runnng ScummVM it continues to the next games without snaps, so it is not the same game that is crashing it. Here is the section where it crashes. The common denominator seems to be scummvm or the map file. I have attached my config for ScummVM emulator. I am suspecting the map file. Note the log entry at 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open. 08:25:01.0 3/3/2011: Shutting down display 08:25:02.4 3/3/2011: Running: cmd.exe /c C: scummvm.exe -f brstorm 08:25:18.7 3/3/2011: Running: cmd.exe /c C: scummvm.exe -f sky-1 08:25:35.9 3/3/2011: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured 08:25:35.9 3/3/2011: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. 08:25:35.9 3/3/2011: at ag.r(Boolean A_0) at ag.ad() 08:25:35.9 3/3/2011: Trying reinitialising the display after sleeping for 4 seconds 08:25:35.9 3/3/2011: Exception count will be dropped to 15 08:26:31.0 3/3/2011: Shutting down display 08:26:33.8 3/3/2011: --**-- 08:26:33.8 3/3/2011: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured: Exiting 08:26:33.8 3/3/2011: Closing database connection 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: First Exception: 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open. 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options) 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at System.IO.StreamWriter.CreateFile(String path, Boolean append) 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor(String path, Boolean append, Encoding encoding, Int32 bufferSize) 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor(String path, Boolean append) 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at System.IO.File.CreateText(String path) 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at ag.c(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1) 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at ag.bw() 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at ag.br() 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at ag.ad() 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: Last Exception: 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at ag.r(Boolean A_0) 08:26:33.9 3/3/2011: at ag.ad() scummvm.txt

For me, it didn't crash right away. It did after taking several snaps. Did you let it run for a while? Thanks for checking this.

It appears to me that those warnings about paths not existing happen if you leave it blank. Blank is the default if you don't specify a path so these should be ignored I guess. 21:46:19.5 3/1/2011: Validating: Emulator_1: Custom Art Path 4: 21:46:19.5 3/1/2011: Warning: Emulator_1: Custom Art Path 4 Does not exist The emulator that was experiencing the problem with in both cases was scummvm. I was concerned particularly with this error in the log: The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open.

Thanks for the suggestion. I downloaded the latest databases and deleted the cache files in the data directory as you recommended. Unfortunately the problem still exists. Here is the log from the last crash. log.txt

If an emulator has a map file specified it seems to crash the create snaps function. Is this expected behavior? Can this be fixed? I have attached the log. log.txt

Thanks for the help on getting ScummVM up and running easy. I used this information to configure it on my system. To make it even easier, I wrote a script to use after adding the games inside ScummVM to automatically make a map file to use in GameEx. It reads the ScummVM.ini and outputs a map file for all the games in the correct format. Simply run it in the same directory as the scummvm.ini file. On My Windows 7 system I found the scummvm.ini file in C:\Users\[userid]\AppData\Roaming\ScummVM. For other operating systems it will be located in a different path. 1. Download the ScummVMiniToMap.zip attached to this post 2. Extract ScummVMiniToMap.vbs 3. Copy ScummVMiniToMap.vbs to same directory as the scummvm.ini 4. Open a command prompt in this directory and run "cscript ScummVMiniToMap.vbs" This will create a ScummVM.map file that you can configure the ScummVM emulator to use in GameEx. ScummVMiniToMap.zip

Thanks for the very useful utility! I have a couple feature requests: 1. Support for multiple snap extensions 2. support for manuals like the snap extensions PDF and TXT having the keyword feature to include "manual" "rulesheet" "readme" "readme 1st"

I can confirm the issue goes away if "load playlist on thread" is turned off under Tweaks/Performance. Yes!!! Thanks!!! Wait I might miss that song....

LOL. After hearing it so often I have to agree. I do love 80's new wave music though. Here is my GameEx.ini and log.txt GameEx.ini.txt log.txt

Understood. I am at work at the moment. I will post my log / gameex.ini later when I get home.

I have the same issue. A long time ago, GameEx would play songs randomly when starting up GameEx. Now it plays the same playlist starting with the same song. I don't remember what changed that may have triggered this because it was a long time ago. Perhaps it was going to Windows Media Center and adding the same directory of music there? So now every time I start GameEx we all start singing along to "Song for a Future Generation" by The B-52's. And I see how quickly I can change the song by going into Mulimedia/JukeBox/Playlist/Clear and Queue All then Playlists/Shuffle Current Playlist. Now I have rebuilt my system from Vista to Windows 7. Hoping the problem was gone. However, when starting GameEx it has the same problem only with a new play list. So we will now get sick of a new song. Or if there is a fix maybe we won't have to get sick of the new playlist before I deploy the rebuilt system back to our living room... I found an old post about this problem to give a timeframe for how long the problem has been around: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=535&view=findpost&p=43114

Give Need For Speed World a try. Play against others online. It is free. http://world.needforspeed.com/ *update: I jumped the gun on Give Need For Speed World. It doesn't work when launched via GameEx. If I get it working, I will post how. However, this game works: BIG CITY RACER. Another free online racer works from GameEx and we have been having fun playing: www.bigcityracer.com

Tried the online keyboard and it works great. Thanks! Qwerty is fine and the real time filtering of all lists would be great! This could take care of a couple of my feature requests including search within game list for a selected system and being able to jump to a specific system in the list of emulated systems (useful when you have a lot of emulators.)

There are really two: Future Pinball and the second is Visual PinMAME/Visual Pinball which are used together. Both work well with GameEx. Future Pinball is a little easier to configure and looks a little better. There are more tables for Visual PinMAME/Visual Pinball and most of those look very nice as well. Future Pinball and Visual PinMAME/Visual Pinball do not have the same tables so in the end you may want to use both Future Pinball and Visual PinMAME/Visual Pinball. You could use an emulation group to combine them into a single "Pinball" entry under "Emulated Games" list.

I have slowly been working on system images. Eventually I would like to post all of the ones I have edited. I have completed one for Jaguar CD. Here it is.

Using emulators that support multiple systems such as MESS, Mednafen and Fusion is nice for things like setting up controllers as you can set them up across multiple systems using similar processes. Here are some I can recommend: blueMSX:Microsoft MSX blueMSX:Microsoft MSX 2 CCS64:Commodore - 64 Daphne:Laserdisc FCE Ultra :Nintendo NES FreeDo:Panasonic 3DO Fusion:Sega 32x Fusion:Sega CD Fusion:Sega Genesis Fusion:Sega Master System Fusion:Sega SG-1000 Fusion:Sega Game Gear geepee32:GamePark - GP32 Jum52:Atari 5200 jzintv:Mattel Intellivision MAMEUI32:MAME Mednafen:NEC PC-FX Mednafen:NEC SuperGrafx Mednafen:NEC TurboGrafx 16 Mednafen:NEC TurboGrafx CD Mednafen:Nintendo Famicom Disk System Mednafen:Atari Lynx Mednafen:Bandai Wonderswan Mednafen:Bandai Wonderswan Color Mednafen:Nintendo GameBoy Mednafen:Nintendo GameBoy Advance Mednafen:Nintendo GameBoy Color Mednafen:SNK Neo-Geo Pocket Mednafen:SNK Neo-Geo Pocket Color MESS:Atari 7800 MESS:Bally Astrocade MESS:Coleco Vision MESS:Emerson Arcadia 2001 MESS:Fairchild Channel F MESS:GCE Vectrex MESS:RCA Studio II MESS:Entex Adventure Vision MESS:Hartung Game Master MESS:Watara Supervision MESS:Atari 8 Bit NeoRAGE:SNK Neo-Geo AES NeoRAINE:SNK Neo-Geo CD NullDC:Sega Dreamcast O2EM:Magnavox Odyssey 2 O2EM:Philips - Videopac+ Project 64:Nintendo N64 Project Tempest:Atari Jaguar Project Tempest:Atari Jaguar CD psx:Sony Playstation Reality Boy :Nintendo Virtual Boy Sim Coupe:SAM Coupe SSF:Sega Saturn Stella:Atari 2600 UNZ:Fujitsu FM-Towns Marty Winape:Amstrad CPC WinUAE:Amiga CD32 WinUAE:Commodore CDTV WinUAE:Commodore Amiga WinVice:Commodore - VIC-20 ZSNES Windows :Nintendo SNES

Cool feature. Got my game card.

What file extension? I have not been able to get GIF files to work. I don't know if it is a codec issue or not supported by GameEx. I convert them to PNG. You can use a utility like IrfanView to do this.

I have had some success with grabbing screenshots / scans from websites with a program called Web Retriever