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Hmmm Marvel vs. Capcom 2 certainly doesn't work in mame =). There may very well be a time when it is not necessary though. Last I read on mamedev is that they aren't all that interested in fixing Naomi, because there are so many viable alteratives.

So far about 30 games with no issues. My thoughts are that I dont have an arcade monitor and am playing the games off an HD LED TV, which looks much better with AA to help deal with the resolution differences. If I had a 32" arcade monitor.... well this would probably be a different discussion.

If after updating those files I dont see any games after the letter C, which one is screwed up? Answer: The .152a history.dat file has some issues in the entry after Carn Evil. (last game that shows up right. ) . That is the only version listed. I think I found the corrupted character in CarnEvil, but I sent my notes off to the arcade-history folks to take a look at. </Thread JacK>

So my arcade box runs a 32" TV at 720p (1280x720). I was thinking the jagged lines kinda bothered me... then I remembered I have a good video card in this new rig. So I went into the nvidia control panel and then setup mame.exe to force 16x ansiotropic filtering and 8xAA instead of letting the application control it WOW!!! So far no issues! Run through about 20 games. They all look so much better! Excitement done. Good night!

I will be creating separate MAP files since we have to load the games with different command line options, and GE has already separated that into 2 emulators. So updating the map file should fix the issue where Naomi games show up under Atomiswave and the opposite. Probably wont get to finish that tonight, but if I don't I will polish it off tomorrow.

Here are the databases... now current with DEmul 0.852. At least for Atomiswave and Naomi atomiswave_naomi_dbupdated.rar

Ok... I think I just made a mess.... that is so cool!

Suweet! My arcade box makes the Pacman starting game sound now when it loads!

Do those files just need to be in the mame installation folder?

So... I am now stumped. I went through the map file and the databases. They look correct. But inside of GE, I am getting some things that don't line up. Best example I can give is this: Under Emulated Games > [Arcade] Sega Naomi There are 2 Entries that baffler the crap out of me -Marvel vs. Capcom 2 -Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes The kicker is that the first entry is correct and displays as Genre Fighting. 2000 Capcom Co., Ltd. and is the correct one to launch The second entry is actually point at house of the dead 2 and shows Shooter. 1999 Sega Inc. and the pop up for it accurately describes house of the dead 2. This is why I though something was screwy in the map files or db. When I turn off "Use Database Names" this goes away =) Any ideas where to start looking, and is there a good way to spit a screenshot out of GE?

Hey guys, I am working on my DEmul setup now, and realized there are some things that need some tweaking here. The help file says the database file should be in access format, but the db3 tag makes me think it is SQLite. I don't really want to hork it up, so I figured I would ask. Afterwards I tidy up the database, is there somewhere I can upload it to make it into future builds? No sense in other people having to redo the work. Also, there are a number of pretty common settings that can be tweaked in the demul.ini (file location being a big one), along with what are now common settings. Would it be possible to add that to the emulator menu to make adjustments from within GameEX? Also, last question I promise, is there a way I can set it to search for DEmul roms and only populate the entries that exist like we do for MAME? Cheers!

Tom rocks. After a few iterations, I think he managed to nail everything (even with the crazy steam oddities on my system due to all the earlier troubleshooting). If you have the same problem, the update should be out soon.

Where do you want to open the thread, and is there anything I can do to help?

RE: Off Topic - Just a bit... the name comes from a fantasy role playing game where there was a character class called "slavearms" that used sentient weapons which eventually completely melded with the user. The more a weapon melded with the owner, the more powerful the owner became. The cost was, the consciousness of the weapon became a stronger as well. Over time, it was difficult to tell who was in control. The weapon or the person. I think of it similar to Venom from the Spiderman series.

It figures... I take a week off to build a new arcade, and get stuck troubleshooting steam integration for 4 days, only to discover a steam update ruined my life (at least sucked away 20+ hours). I think I am just going to write a script to collect the app IDs from steam\steamapps\*.acf, select everything between _ and . to get the appIDs installed, query steamdb for app info, have it build link files using steam command line with steam.exe -applaunch [appID] -login <username> <password> , then populate that into the emulators section under, "Slavearm Ghetto Steam Integration", just need to make sure I have it execute steam.exe -shutdown when it is finished. That seems like a bit of work to me though... and I still have a lot of other things to finish on this bad boy before my party next week. Wish I didn't suck at .net. If Tom doesn't cook something up, I will write this towards the end of the week. Fair warning... if you want to use my version you are going to have to install python, because I will not have time to do it in any other language.

Just verified this. Deleted config.vdf on my desktop, and when I reloaded steam, there was not an "apps" section in the newly created file. And now when I launch GE, Bioshock doesn't even show up. Found the problem.... Dagnabit.

Makes sense... steam had an update on the 7th. I had installed Bioshock Infinite before then. Nothing I have installed since shows up on my PC, and even on the arcade machine, Bioshock Infinite does not create the same entry in the vdf.

config.vdf Has some data...

Same thing. My steam password has some special characters in it, specifically = [ ] . Wonder if that is causing grief. Also, should I use my steam user name or user id? Username = slavearm, UserID= 48765468522101 or something like that.

No screenshots. But there is a sharedconfig.vdf under 7 which contains a list all my titles and last played. under steam\userdata\50226191\config\localconfig.vdf contains all the games, friends, etc. But screenshots.vdf does not exist on either my arcade machine, laptop, or desktop.

So that one doesnt show up on the arcade machine either. No firewall is installed on either machine. UAC is disabled. I checked the logs of my external firewall, and nothing but accepts. Does anyone know how GE works in relation to steam? Because it will take me days to run it through a sandbox and reverse engineer the entire process, at which point in time, I might as well start writing my own plugin.

Man... I really want to do some cartwheels.

Run setup wizard, select custom, check off emulator groups, click the right arrow (next type deal), select emulator group 1 from the drop down, then select enabled : no, also do this for 15 since that seems to be the other one it is trying to load.

Only thing goofy I see (I am not a great expert, but I have been staring at these log files since thursday.) Is that it is failing to load your emulator group. Perhaps try disabling them in the configuration and see if that works?

One more question. If you guys install a steam game right now... would you expect it to show up in your list of steam games the next time you launched GE?