darkdraco

thanks! starting to understand the the arcade version a bit better.

thanks for the replies. is the configuration search feature working or am i using it wrong?

i think i found the option in the config.ini. still curious about the search feature.

Was checking out the newer versions of gameex and noticed a missing setting. http://www.gameex.info/wiki/index.php/GameEx:Enable_/_Disable_Features_(Setup_Wizard)#Disable_MAME Cant seem to find the option to hide Arcade/Genres from the main menu. Also, how does the "Search Select" work? In the past i could search for a setting and the next page would be the setting i was looking for, now it doesnt seem to work, if i search and select a setting, the next page just cycles through all the settings normally. thanks in advance!

that did the trick. thanks alot!

finally upgraded my cab to new hardware and win7 x64. all was going good and i finally put the instantsheller back on. problem is it seems to start on a random page when booting. even if i go to the home screen and shutdown, it will either boot into my favorites or on the play screen of a recently played game. i looked for an option to always start at the first page but cant find it if there is any. any ideas? thanks

guess thats not gonna be as easy as i thought. i would have to open my CP and rewire since i cant seem to reprogram what key is assign to what button =/

my player 2 coin and start button are mapped as 6 and 2 and are very easily hit at same time causing games to close. just wanted it to change that if possible. is it a bug or is it there for a purpose? edit: player 1-4 start is 1 2 3 4 and player 1-4 coin is 5 6 7 8. guess i could change some numbers around or something... still curious as to why 6 and 2 exit

just did that but now the new mapped key closes mame and so does 6 + 2.

When playing a mame game, the game will close if you hold 6 and hit 2. How can I stop this from happening?

Id like this as an option too

What I am tryin to do is keep the fact that you can hold down a key to page by letters but disable going to a letter by pressing the letter. In other words, Im using a slikstik control panel and as we all know it uses a keyboard encoder. when player 1 is going through the game list, people on other controls can be hitting keys to make it harder to scroll through the games. I didnt see an option to do this so if its possible, add it in a version to come please?

thanks for the help. 1 problem im kinda having now is that i deleted the select button to change it to something else but now i cant set it to anything because i cant select lol.... how do i chsng it back EDIT: changed my default.cfg file and works fine now.

tested the mame119 outside of gameex and its still running galaga sluggish so its not an issue with gameex. attached a copy of the log anyways log.txt

according to slikstik, the escape is set to to start + pause. seeing that it didnt work, i remember looking at these forums to figure out how to exit games and saw this: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...tart=#entry8274 Tom says that all the he made the p2 start+coin the exit. So it seems it needs to be changed in gameex somehow.

how do i get the log?

I know this is old but my cab was just updated to 119 and games are lagging. Work fine on my laptop but not so good on the cab x.x

I have made a couple autoit scripts to run with gameex like changing my slikstik mouse clicks into keypresses for zinc and mugen and to change joyIDs for some emulators to be able to read controllers. But what you can help me is with how to write a script to disable coin2 and start2 from escaping the game, from there i should be able to finish it.

makes sence, but anyways to change it for all games like zinc and emus

Last i remembered it wasnt possible to change how to exit a game. After having friends over to play my cab, people tend to hit the coin and start buttons too fast causing the games to exit. Possible to add a way to change how to exit games?

it works fine after some tweaking but im still wondering if its possible to change the font and make it bigger

played around with all the options in the theme.ini and finally have it working in 800x600 but ran into issues with font size, seems the gameex config has no effect on it. the theme.ini is set to -3 and when i change it i get an error again. i can only set it between -4 and -1. anyway i can make the text bigger?

i tried looking up what caused this problem and found a thread but it didnt help me. the theme loads fine but when i select an emulator and gameex tries to load the rom list, gameex closes and gives me this error: 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: GameEx: Version 7.71: Starting Log 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: Operating System Name: Windows XP 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: .net Framework 1.1 Installed 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: .net Framework 2.0 Installed 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: Genuine Intel® CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: 1.67Ghz - 2 Cores or CPU's 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: Running Randomize() 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: Loading PlugIns 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 09:21:46.4 2/26/2007: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Running Misc startup tasks 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Setting Menu types 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Opening Configuration File 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Getting Configuration Values 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Using Theme: Default - Future Retro 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Future Retro 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Launching HideOS.exe 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Hiding Taskbar 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Is Media Center running? 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Media Center Mode 2 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Snap Delay set to: 2 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Get other settings 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Start work for Form 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Getting Original Screen Size 09:21:46.5 2/26/2007: Initializing Component 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: MAME Path is: D:\Games\Emulators\Mame32 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: MAME EXE file is: Mame32.exe 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: ROM Path is: D:\Games\Emulators\Mame32\roms 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Catver.ini is located at: D:\Games\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: controls.ini is located at: D:\Games\GameEx\data\controls.ini 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: History.dat is located at: D:\Games\GameEx\DATA\history.dat 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: nplayers.ini is located at: D:\Games\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: D:\Games\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Loading Controls.ini map file 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Snap Path is: D:\Games\Emulators\Mame32\snap 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: AVI Snap Path: Not Found 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Flyer Path is: D:\Games\Emulators\Mame32\flyers 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Cabinet Path is: D:\Games\Emulators\Mame32\cabinets 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Title Path is: D:\Games\Emulators\Mame32\titles 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Panel Path is: D:\Games\Emulators\Mame32\cpanel 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Manual Path: Not Found 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Icon Path is: D:\Games\Emulators\Mame32\icons 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Marquee Path is: D:\Games\Emulators\Mame32\marquees 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Loading Custom Emulators 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Loading Emulator 1: Nintendo 64 Games 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Loading Emulator 2: Super NES 09:21:46.6 2/26/2007: Loading Emulator 3: Nintendo NES 09:21:46.7 2/26/2007: Loading Emulator 4: Sony Playstation (ePSXe) 09:21:46.7 2/26/2007: Loading Emulator 5: Sega Genesis (GENS+) 09:21:46.8 2/26/2007: Using 2D Animations 09:21:46.8 2/26/2007: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS 09:21:46.8 2/26/2007: Using Title Font: Alien League 09:21:46.8 2/26/2007: Initialising DirectDraw 09:21:46.8 2/26/2007: Creating DirectDraw Device 09:21:46.8 2/26/2007: Using Device: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 (Omega 3.8.330) 09:21:47.3 2/26/2007: Setting Resolution to 800x600 32 bit color 09:21:48.2 2/26/2007: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces 09:21:48.2 2/26/2007: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode 09:21:48.2 2/26/2007: Creating Back Buffer 09:21:48.2 2/26/2007: Version 2 Theme being used. Loading. 09:21:48.2 2/26/2007: Loading Button Data 09:21:48.2 2/26/2007: Loading Font Data 09:21:48.2 2/26/2007: Loading Layout Data 09:21:48.2 2/26/2007: Loading Taskbar Data 09:21:48.2 2/26/2007: Loading graphic Surfaces 09:21:48.3 2/26/2007: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs 09:21:48.3 2/26/2007: Creating Surfaces Volume 09:21:48.3 2/26/2007: Creating Surfaces Arrows 09:21:48.3 2/26/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text 09:21:48.3 2/26/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar 09:21:48.3 2/26/2007: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds 09:21:48.3 2/26/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls 09:21:48.3 2/26/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo 09:21:48.4 2/26/2007: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit 09:21:48.4 2/26/2007: Creating Surfaces Snaps 09:21:48.4 2/26/2007: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars 09:21:48.5 2/26/2007: Creating Fonts 09:21:48.5 2/26/2007: Creating Menu Font 09:21:48.5 2/26/2007: Creating Game Font 09:21:48.6 2/26/2007: Creating Font Black 09:21:48.7 2/26/2007: Creating Font Black Small 09:21:48.8 2/26/2007: Creating Game Font Faded 09:21:48.8 2/26/2007: Creating Title Font 09:21:49.2 2/26/2007: Fonts Created Succesfully 09:22:12.3 2/26/2007: Text/Language: English 09:22:12.3 2/26/2007: Applying Language/Text 09:22:12.3 2/26/2007: Initialising Bass Audio Library 09:22:12.4 2/26/2007: MAME CMD options: -nowindow -joy 09:22:12.4 2/26/2007: Attempting to load game list 09:22:12.4 2/26/2007: Loading last used Game List 09:22:12.4 2/26/2007: Setting Music Volume 09:22:12.4 2/26/2007: Cannot Load Play List. Check Path and filename 09:22:12.4 2/26/2007: Creating DirectSound Device 09:22:12.5 2/26/2007: Trying: Primary Sound Driver 09:22:12.5 2/26/2007: Loading Sound Files 09:22:12.5 2/26/2007: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 09:22:12.5 2/26/2007: Creating ICONS 09:22:12.5 2/26/2007: Recreating ICONS 09:22:12.6 2/26/2007: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support 09:22:12.6 2/26/2007: Looking for Device: Logitech® Precision Gamepad 09:22:12.7 2/26/2007: Logitech® Precision Gamepad Not attached. Trying First Device 09:22:12.7 2/26/2007: Unable to create a joystick device 09:22:12.7 2/26/2007: Playing intro sound file 09:22:12.7 2/26/2007: Initializing MCE Remote 09:22:12.7 2/26/2007: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx! 09:22:12.7 2/26/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame 09:22:13.0 2/26/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_1: Custom Background: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_1: Custom Background Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_1: Snap Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_1: Snap Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_1: Database: N64 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_1: Title Snap Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_1: Title Snap Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_1: Box Art Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_1: Box Art Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_1: Cart Art Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_1: Cart Art Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_1: Manual Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_1: Manual Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_2: Custom Background: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_2: Custom Background Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_2: Snap Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_2: Snap Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_2: Database: SNES 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_2: Title Snap Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_2: Title Snap Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_2: Box Art Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_2: Box Art Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_2: Cart Art Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_2: Cart Art Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_2: Manual Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_2: Manual Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_3: Custom Background: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_3: Custom Background Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_3: Snap Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_3: Snap Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_3: Database: NES 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_3: Title Snap Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_3: Title Snap Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_3: Box Art Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_3: Box Art Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_3: Cart Art Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_3: Cart Art Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_3: Manual Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_3: Manual Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_4: Custom Background: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_4: Custom Background Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_4: Snap Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_4: Snap Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_4: Database: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_4: Database Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_4: Title Snap Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_4: Title Snap Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_4: Box Art Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_4: Box Art Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_4: Cart Art Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_4: Cart Art Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_4: Manual Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_4: Manual Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_5: Custom Background: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_5: Custom Background Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_5: Snap Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_5: Snap Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_5: Database: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_5: Database Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_5: Title Snap Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_5: Title Snap Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_5: Box Art Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_5: Box Art Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_5: Cart Art Path: 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_5: Cart Art Path Does not exist 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Validating: Emulator_5: Manual Path: G:\stella\manuals 09:22:20.6 2/26/2007: Warning: Emulator_5: Manual Path Does not exist 09:22:20.7 2/26/2007: Restoring Emulator from Cache 09:22:20.7 2/26/2007: Restoring Emulator Database From Cache 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured: Exiting 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: First Exception: 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: Error in the application. 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.DrawInternal(tagRECT* destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, tagRECT* srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags, DrawEffects& bltEffects) 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.Draw(Rectangle destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, Rectangle srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags) 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuText(Int32 x, Int32 y, String textstring) 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuText() 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuImages(Boolean over) 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DisplayFrame() 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: Last Exception: 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: Error in the application. 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.DrawInternal(tagRECT* destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, tagRECT* srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags, DrawEffects& bltEffects) 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.Draw(Rectangle destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, Rectangle srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags) 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuText(Int32 x, Int32 y, String textstring) 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuText() 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuImages(Boolean over) 09:22:21.3 2/26/2007: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DisplayFrame() ive tried running with different settings like arcadevga on/off, advanced graphics on/off, 16bit/32bit, 800x600, 640x480, 1024x768, and some other stuff from another thread but non helped me.