Robert

One problem I'm having is with the blacks on the 3D models being transparent. GameEx is rendering the models like the attached images.

I have the same problem with the image not matching the last game played:

Yes, it seems to be fixed. Thanks to Tom for the quick turnaround. Strange about the Game Card game/screen shot mismatch. I do have a snap for joust2, so I think it's a bug.

I love the option to control the menus with the spinner. It's so fast! But here is one issue I've encountered: if I'm navigating with the spinner, GameEx will go intro the screen saver after the idle time. Relatedly, the spinner will not bring it out of the screen saver. That's not such a big deal, but having it go into screen saver while navigating the menus is a bit of a problem.

This is really a cool feature. Love it. But I am also not getting a picture. It would be cool to expand this to additional stats if possible, and maybe show your name instead of your tag.

Great, thanks!

Yes, that was the problem. It worked when I put in 121. Thanks. Is there a list of the virtual key codes somewhere?

Perhaps I missing something really basic here, but I can't get this to work. I changed the key code to 68 (F10) because I don't have a keyboard with a numpad on it, but when I hit F10 while in a mame game, nothing happens. Is some other setting conflicting with this function (like use CPWizard?) I also tried hooking up another keyboard and using the default numpad 5 key, but no luck. If it helps, log attached. log.txt

I had a similar issue in a different context. I found a little freeware program that converts .bat files into .exe files. Do that and have GameEx run the executable instead of the batch file. That solved the problem for me, but it was in a different context so I'm not sure if it will work for you. Can't remember the program, but you can probably find something with a Google search. If not, I can check tonight.

The Z: drive is not an external drive. It's just a second internal drive. But I have some more info about the problem. It turns out that the custom text item "Menu - MAME" is not the problem. That can be anything and things still work. But the custom text item "List - MAME" is a problem. When that is anything except "MAME" then the Favorites will be empty when you filter by System and choose your custom text.

Not using custom menus, just custom text. Log attached.log.txt

Did that, and no change.

It would be nice if you could set the favorites to default to a specific system, like mame. I have lots of favorites set for all the different emulators, but most of the time I just want to see the mame favorites, so I'd like that to be the default view instead of all games.

I changed the name of the Mame Menu in the text/language custom configuration. Now when I go into may favorites, the mame games are listed when I have all the favorites listed, but when I select "by system" and select mame (actually, select my custom title)it says "no games found." Is this a bug?

There is one spot where GameEx always chokes for me. Itâ??s after I pick a game from a list of games for a particular emulator, but before the game info screen comes up. The list of games and the videos comes up very fast, but then the game info screen for a particular game always brings up the â??please waitâ? progress bar. Iâ??d like to make this faster, but what is the source of the delay? 1. Itâ??s using a lot of CPU doing whatever its doing, so I need to upgrade the CPU 2. Itâ??s accessing the hard-drive a lot, so I need a faster hard drive 3. Iâ??ve got too many roms and videos, so I should get rid of some (but the list of games comes up fast.) 4. There is a setting in the Advanced Config for GameEx that I can change that will make this go faster 5. Something else I'm hoping its number 4! Thanks for any assistance!

I don't want to hijack the thread with my own problem, but this at least relates. LED Blinkie does this nice thing that when you're in a mame game and press pause, it blinks each button as it announces the function of the button: "shoot," "thrust," etc. I could have sworn that my cab used to do that with HeadKazes's plugin, but it has stopped working and I can't figure out why.

Oops, meant to post this in the "Feature Requests" sticky. I'll post it there, and then this post can be ignored or deleted.

The special Daphne configuration screen could use the options for "Also Launch," "Launch After," and "Launch Before" that other emulators have. I need it so that I can load xpadder with the correct key mappings, and then load xpadder with my GameEx mappings when Daphne exits. Thanks!

Although excellent for Mame, I'm not sure CPWizard is up to the task for emulators. In another post, for example, Headkaze says "some emulators just don't like being minimized like Project 64 so some of them won't work with CPWizard." This seems like something everyone would want to do in GameEx (how else can you remember which button on your panel maps to "left shoulder button" in the N64 emulator, for example?)

I have so many emulators set up and can't keep the button assignments straight. For emulators, the button assignments don't really change per game, so I just need to set up one image per emulator that I can access while in GameEx. I know there is a way to have such an image pop up for a few seconds whenever you launch a game, but that's not really what I want, because I just want to view it when I want to. And I know there are Custom Folders, but that is expecting a folder of images with rom names. Any ideas as to how best accomplish this?

Thanks, bkenobi, that helped a lot and I'm very close to a solution, but there is still one problem. First, the success: When GamEx exits, I check the value of "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" and if it is anything other than my desired theme, then I run the code to change the theme. Works like a charm. But, there is one other thing that HideOs.exe must be doing, because I cannot right-click on the desktop when there is a black screen, and still cannot after my script runs and sets the theme back to my desired theme. However, if I launch GameEx and exit, then it allows me to right-click on the desktop. So there is one other thing that is happening that I need to duplicate in my script. Any ideas???

That would be fine if I'm the one playing on the machine, but if someone else is, they won't know to do that. Plus, something that worked automatically would be more elegant. Here is a way that my problem can be simulated: 1) Launch a mame game from GameEx 2) ctrl-alt-del into the task manager and kill the GameEx process and the Mame process and the HideOs process. Now, you'll see a black screen on the desktop (this is where I end up sometimes randomly) But if you go into the correct registry values for current theme, it has the correct, desired theme listed. But, if you go to the display control panel, it lists the theme as "Modified Theme" and if you change it here to the correct them (or do the same thing with my AutoIt script) then the theme is set just fine. So, I'm almost there. I have a script that will set the correct theme every time GameEx exits, but I only want to run the script when this black screen phenomenon has happened. So, what I need is a way to detect when it has happened. Does anyone know what is causing the screen to remain black when I go through steps 1 and 2 above? If I could detect that that process is still running after GameEx exits, then I could run my script.

Well, it does it randomly (usually after kids have been playing the cab all day, pushing it to the limits), so it might be a while before I can get a log file. But in the meantime, I'm looking for a workaround with an AutoIt script.

Occasionally, when exiting GameEx, my XP desktop theme is not restored and my desktop remains black. I think it's a problem with the HideOs application. So, I wrote an AutoIt script to change the theme back to the one I use when GameEx exits and that works, but it is annoying because it takes time and you can see it working. So I added an "if...then" statement so that it would only change the theme if it needed to, i.e., if it somehow didn't get changed back the way it was supposed to when GameEx exited. That didn't work, because when the "failure" happens, the registry value that I'm checking does show the correct theme. So, the correct theme is loaded, but it still shows the black background. I used the task manager to make sure that HideOs.exe was not running, but it still shows the black screen. Is there some process I need to kill in order to get the theme to show? What is causing the black screen? I'd appreciate any coding, or other, advice.

I'd like to use my spinner to navigate through the long list of Mame games in GameEx. Is there a way to do this?