Kenpachi

Thanks for the replies! I'm going to look into the Logitech controllers and see what I can find. And as for the consoles on a MAME cabinet thing, to each his own. Personally I like not having a ton of consoles connected to my TV. And having a MAME cabinet sitting 30 feet away, I'd rather play stuff off of that than drag out a bunch of cords and cartridges. That being said, if I had an extra room I'd make it a retro console room .

I'm looking for a good wireless gamepad to use for my MAME cabinet. Some games just feel better playing with a gamepad instead of arcade buttons, mainly console games. Here's what I'm looking for: - wireless - enough buttons to play SNES or N64 (what I play most console-wise), for N64 hoping for 6 buttons on right side for A, B, C buttons - fully programmable(to map buttons to keyboard buttons, basically hoping to copy keys that my MAME cabinet is mapped to in emulation setups) - would work right away on PC startup If anybody has any suggestions they would be appreciated.

Goto advanced mame settings in gameEX. You have to add -mouse to command options to enable any use of a mouse in mame, such as a trackball.

Works! Thanks a ton headkaze!

Just tried it, no luck yet. It still stops at the same place. Here's the log file. CPWizard.txt

Here you are, good luck! CPWizard_new.txt

Here's the log file for CPWizard after I run export --> batch bezel. CPWizard.txt

The 976th game that it stops on then is connect4. I'm not sure what to do about this though, even knowing what game it is. There are no .cfg files or any temporary files of any kind for that game, I've never even played it in mame. Is there a way to tell CPWizard to skip that game? I'm not sure how to do that since it's creating bezels from mame itself and not my roms folder... or am i supposed to put my roms into the mame rom folder before I ever run CPWizard?

I'm not sure what game it is exactly that it's stopping on, it's somewhere near the end of C games and start of D games. But each time I try this, it creates exactly 975 bezels and stops. This is a fresh install of mame .123 btw, so there are no cfg files except for the default.cfg file for general controls and one for 1944, the one game I played. It did create the bezel for 1944 also.

I ran export --> batch in CPWizard and selected bezel, etc. However, it stops creating bezels after 975 files are created. CPWizard simply stops creating anything, yet is still running and doesn't show up as unresponsive. I've tried using mame .123 with the hiscore and bezel 121 diff patches applied, and also mame .123 with no patches at all. Both end in the same result. I'm completely lost on this one. I managed to make .png files with export --> batch for the entire mame .123 set just fine, but it doesn't like it when I choose to create bezels. Any thoughts on all of this would be appreciated.

Thanks for the fast replies. I tried your suggestion first headkaze, but I'm not sure what's going on now. When it boots up, it stops loading and there are two consoles open, one for gameex.exe and another for cpwizard.exe. Just two boxes open, nothing goes beyond that. I also tried your suggestion bkenobi, or well I was going to try it. Apparently XP Home doesn't have gpedit.msc . I tried following a guide online for adding it to XP Home, however after successfully getting it onto the Home machine there isn't any scripts option. From what I've read so far that's just as much as you can possibly get transfered onto XP Home. Any other ideas? I'm thinking I'm either going to have to install XP Pro on my cabinet or forget about instasheller for now. Otherwise, is the .121 bezel patch only for MAME .121, or will it work for .123? (I currently have .123 on the cabinet) I tried patching the source with that diff patch but when I pause MAME the image of the controls doesn't come up.

I just recently did an overhaul on my cabinet and decided to play around with CPWizard. I have instasheller installed already and it boots right into GameEX on startup. My Problem is that I can't get CPWizard to also boot on startup. I've enabled startup in CPWizard's options, but with instasheller it doesn't load up. I've also tried to put CPWizard in GameEX's boot on startup option. This gives a GameEX error of: Launching and waiting cpwizard.exe Error: File not found at microsoft.visualbasic.interaction.shell .... (etc) Is there any way to have both instasheller and CPWizard boot up? As a solution I had thought about exporting with CPWizard and making a bunch of images of controls for MAME. What I want is for when I pause MAME, for the control image to show up. I tried the bezel .121 patch mentioned in the sheller guide, but that didn't work for me. I might be missing something obvious, but I can't figure it out. Any ideas/help would be appreciated.

It's the best because it's updated all the time based on user's input. I can't think of another program, game, or even company that has this much user friendly help and keeps in touch with it's users so well. Oh ya, and it's all done by one person... and it's a FREE program!