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How about this. The steam support appears to be a bit suspect. Here is why. I just installed GE on my desktop PC where I have a pile of steam games installed. Most just recently. The only game that shows up at all is BioShock Infinite in steam games. I even tried to them manually alter the steamdata.ini with the AppID of KOFXIII just to get it to show up... but no dice. So now, I am trying to install BioShock Infinite on my new arcade box to see if that is the issue, but that will take a few hours for me to know for sure (its freaking huge). So if this is the issue, what is the best approach to get the games into GE one way or another? If this is something that needs some coding work, what would need to happen? I am brilliant in python, and I get by in a few other languages. More than willing to help.

For giggles, anyone have an older version laying around?

Responses above about the registry entries.

These are steam games I have purchased through the steam store, then installed via steam, then ran a couple of times to get through the steam initial game play. When I want to play one outside of GE, I have 2 options. I have a shortcut that steam created on my desktop that points to steam://<appid> or I can launch the steam client directly, then go to my library of games, then double click or right click on it > select play.

c:\GameEx c:\Steam Is there a cheap steam game that you have that you know works? I would be happy to buy, download, and install to see if that makes it all gravy. Games I currently have installed through steam: -StreetFighterIV: Arcade Edition -Skullgirls -King of Fighters XIII (13) I tell you, the crazy thing here... I have uninstalled, reinstalled, blown out the whole OS once even. That is why I was concerned it might be a 13.20 issue, or maybe even a steam update.

I got an idea. I just dug through the GameEX\Media\Steam\Wrappers\ and noticed there is a list of what seem to be Steam App ID.exe files. I went to steamdb and noticed that none of my installed steam games have a wrapper. Do they need one? Also, the date the wrappers were last updated appears to have been in 10/4/2012.

About ready to bust out a fatality on this thing. Is there a debug option or something?

full blown windows 7 64bit Ultimiate edition with service pack 1. Already activated, purchased via my microsoft store account. I reinstalled the key a couple of times... just tried installing it again and then running GEX. Same result. Under emulated games, I just see All Games, [Arcade] Naomi, [Arcade] Atomiswave, and GameEX Arcade.

Is it possible I have a bad registration key? Nag screen goes away. What version of IE are you guys running? I did not let my win7 upgrade beyond 9. Is there a way to force it to sort of relook for games, or does it do that everytime it launches?

Steam moved to c:\steam. SSDD (same s#!t different day).

I disabled UAC on mine straight from the get go. . I am logged in as admin, and have tried running GameEX as admin. System does have full control to the folder where gameex is installed. Moving Steam Now

If steamdata.ini does not contain any sensitive info... maybe I can just copy someone elses and modify it?

The steam install is a default next next next next finish install, that I just reinstalled at the wee hours of the morning. I can see in my c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\ the manifests for the installed games. Maybe I should try reinstalling it to like c:\steam. Perhaps the spaces are giving it grief? Is there a way I can tell it where to look for the steam files? That being said, Steam Games do not even show up under emulated games. .. GameEx\DATA\steamdata.ini Does not exist Windows Firewall is disabled, and I just turned off microsoft security essentials. Still no dice.

Just out of curiosity, you know steam uses the steam://gameid format to launch the games. Do I need to have a specific Internet Explorer version installed for GEX to find it?

Yah... and I launched SF4AE just to make sure then closed it and launched GEX. And Boom goes the dynamite. Fixed. Now just have to use a delay and send keys to get the fullscreen magic happening.

I think I know what is wrong with DEmul. The wrapper is passing the wrong -rom=value Instead of using the zip name -.zip it is trying to load a file within the zip. Goofy. I am going to have to figure out how to create custom mappings probably to solve that one... For steam I dont have a clue at this point. I tried disabling the auto signin, as you do, but nothing shows up still

Log.txt Gameex.ini Demul Emulation Settings

So, I just wiped everything and started fresh. I installed steam, then installed skullgirls, SF4AE, and KOFxIII from steam and ran each of them. I have imported my DEMul emulator and MAME 0.152 to c:\arcade\[emulatorname]. I have run demul and mame directly and everything works. Then I performed GAMEEX setup, had it say yes to steam, installed both demul variants, and installed mame. Now, I went through the demul emulator settings and pointed them at the correct directories for my setup under c:\arcade\demul. Next I went to mame setup, and pointed it to my mame folders in c:\arcade\mame. Here is what is working: MAME (and I mean everything. only existing, cab images, pcb... everything)Not working Demul (Naomi)/AtomiswaveInside the list of games under the emulator, when you select one, the actual title is greyed out, but there is a list of numbered files that I can only assume are the roms/zips When you select one, Demul just opens and brings your to the Demul Select a ROM screenSteamI am not an idiot at this point. It doesn't work in this version. It doesn't even show up anywhere. I don't get the nag screen and have a valid regkey. Also it passes all the checks in the verify, and I can launch steam games directly from steam without issue. At this point... I am willing to do a webex (I have an account) with anyone willing to work through this. Something is not right with 13.20. It is either broken, or the instructions are no longer accurate.

Is there a good way to completely remove gameex and all of it's settings so I can try a clean install? Steam is not working and it is doing some cool double mame thing with different settings for each. Also... why does it really like mame32? Since it is a frontend, why not just leverage mame? Right now, when I did a manual mame load, it only shows me the zip file names instead of the rom names and even when I launch one, it just flashes the screen then comes back to gameex. I guess maybe this is such a fun experience because I already have working emulators and front-ends and I am expecting gameex to behave the same way.

1. I am going to try the copy over method since I have the emulators already setup on my NAS. I did something in the middle, and think I like this approach. Plus I know my MAME 151 and matching rom set are golden. Since they split DEmul into its subcomponents, I am still going to have an issue here potentially, but we will give it a shot. 2. I am going to reinstall gamex. I initially had the non-registered version for about all of 30 minutes. But I will try again. I can launch steam games, and ensured steam is running. I have only 2 games installed locally that I want to work. SF4 Arcade and KOF13. 3. What I am trying to do is make lists of games regardless of emulator. Fairly easy to do on my older systems, not sure I have a clue how to make that happen in GameEX yet. 4. I will be on it. @Adultery = I really like the Ultra Edition Theme.

Let me start by saying, I have built 3 arcade cabinets, and this is the first time I have tried to do it with GameEX. Since this is the first cabinet I have built with a high end PC/Monitor/Graphics/etc. I decided to purchase GameEX on the spot for the steam support. Please don't take this the wrong way, but I am going to list the things I am having problems with in order of how badly they make me want to slit my wrists. 1. Emulator Download and Install I tried using the auto install feature... apparently the versions supported have not been updated for a VERY long time. I wish there was an easy way to tell GameEX, "Hey, I got that crap installed right here, give me the customization menu to change settings for it" without having to install the dated versions listed on the download button. (there probably is, but my frustration level is soooooo high at the moment I am losing the battle for sanity). The absolute most frustrating of these is DEmul. I have a pristine working .582 with perfect config for my system running outside of GameEX. But getting it to even recognize all my games, let alone sort them by some other means than "naomi/atomiswave/etc" is seeming to be all but impossible. I almost wish I could just write a bunch of batch files to launch DEMul with the titles I want and then just add the item to the launch screen under "fighting games" or some other easy to understand for someone who does not build these for a hobby. Because I tell you, 99.99999999 percent of the people who go to play on my box, don't have a clue what any of it means. But they do know that, "hey, under fighting games, I can probably find marvel vs. capcom 2", or that r-type will probably be found under "2d scrolling games" 2. Steam Support This is the SOLE reason I went with GameEX and donated sight unseen. Yet, I have fiddled and fondled, and default configured, and reinstalled, over and over again without success at getting steam to show up. Steam even passes the config verification screen and in the gameex.ini file, steam is enabled. 3. Custom Menu Why for the love of pacman can I not just select a dang game as an item from the drop down? Is there a good way to make my "personal" groups of games without having to build a flippin database for gamebase? 4. Gonna Stop here If I can get the top three dealt with, I will personally do cartwheels down the freaking hall, record it on my brothers go pro, then upload it here for everyone's enjoyment. I can figure everything else out... or at least get to the point where I am focusing on building a silly awesome theme or something. Take care, sorry for the rant, thanks for the help, and if I need to upload files or something so that it is easier to help me avoid a trip to the psychotherapist... let me know.