jakec

Wow that was a through and speedy response, the second i saw it i bought my license, if people are that helpful this is definitely a community i want to belong to . thanks so much 1) ok first off i got girder working and if anyone else is trying to use it or wants to know anything about it please let me know and ill do my best to help out, its a wonderful program that gives you a lot of options, it can control emulators to so you can save games or whatever. 2) secondly thats great about the reg key and when i move in with my friends next year and there using gameex in our living room ill see if i can get em to throw so more donations these developers definitely deserve it, unfortunately that 25 bucks tapped me out for now, thats a week of drinking 4) ya i was worried about the decompression time, i here theres a nice little plug in for epsxe that splits them into different compressed files to cut down on extraction time, ill check back here if i have any luck getting it to work, its called mooby something. 5) the buttons not a specific button its one of those standard ones that displays emulator names or jukebox or whatever so i don't think i can delete it or black it out without getting rid of other menu items. 9) i cant really run anything on my primary as i run cables from my comp to another room where my tv is but ill just wait till they update zsnes or i get another computer to be a dedicated media system. and thank you so so much for all your help -jake

-> 3) ahhh ha ha i totally got girder to work, it turns out for some reason you cant have custom keyboard commands enabled in the gameex config, but this is not a problem for me

OK I've got several questions to get gameex where id like it, and if anyone could shed any light on them id be much appreciative. ill try and organize my post in case it gets long so if you know the answer to one question you don't have to read through a bunch of gibber jabber. 1. my basic setup and goals. 2. when i purchase a license can i use gameex on multiple computers? 3. i cant seem to get gameex to receive custom commands from girder. 4. with 7-zip support will gameex work with ISOs, multiple files bin and cue? 5. there is a random blank button that does nothing on my flat menu. 6. questions about secondary screen. 7. has anyone found a nice setup for the logitech cordless rumble pad 2 to mock an N64 controller? 8. does gameex send an alt-f4 command to close emulators? 9. has anyone found a snes or genesis emulator that works full screen on a secondary monitor. 10. my gameex log. 11. Thank you, thank you, thank you -> 1) ok basically i launch gameex from a media front end called meedio, which i control with a remote wonder two. it launches on my secondary monitor which is a 27 inch TV and works beautifully. from there it launches gameex as an external application. gameex then launches on the secondary and also functions beautifully. except for the above mentioned problems, i even managed to match the two themes so it looks like im still in the original front end. now what id like to do is have the remote control seamlessly switch to controlling gameex, which i understand is possible with a program like girder, if i can get that to work i should be able to navigate menus and control and exit my emulators as well. which would be crazy neat because i could mute them if i wanted to listen to music or save my games all from one remote. -> 2) I regret not having already purchased a license but as a collage student 25 bucks is mucho denaro, anyway heres my question. at the moment I'm just trying to configure my whole system to work correctly so when i move in September i can set it all up on a new computer with my roommates much better hardware and high def tv mmmmmmm. so I'm wondering when i purchase a license can i move it to another computer and also possibly have it on a few others so i can have it in my room and bathroom as well, ok well maybe not the bathroom, but we all have dreams. -> 3) ok heres the one thats really driving my nuts. girder is a program that will recive comands from pritty much anything, in this case a remote wonder 2 and someday one of those fancy logitech remotes and a usb-vert, and then sends custom commands out like key strokes. try as i might i haven't been able to get gameex to receive any commands from girder I've tried setting gameex as the target window, having the commands sent to the foreground process, disabling and enabling a bunch of options in gameex input settings including keyboard direct input, and i just have had no luck. girder is successfully finding gameex when it is the target window gameex just isint accepting the commands, and im at a complete loss for why it could be. if anyone has had any luck with this please help. -> 4) assuming that 7-zip support means that gamex will extract the file and then execute it, will it work with multiple files like with an iso. im trying to reduce the consumption of my playstation isos that i run through epsxe but im wondering if gameex will be able to distinguish which file to open, has anyone had any lock with this. -> 5) this ant the end of the world but its kinda bugging me, on my flat menu i have 4 emulators and an exit gammex button, everything else is disabled. however right above the last button which is exit theres a blank button that when selected does absolutely nothing and i would like it to be gone . -> 6) ok i run gameex on a secondary screen which is a tv and theres a few weird things going on and im just wondering if its normal if i try to click anything on my primary gameex minimizes also if i move my mouse on my primary in the positions where the buttons would be if i ran gameex there it changes the buttons on my secondary. i would love to be able to run gameex on my secondary and still use my primary at the same time for whatever like i do with meedio, but im guessing were just not there yet, am i right? -> 7) pretty self explanatory just thought i d toss it in there, i just cant seem to find a setup for my cordless rumble pad two that simulates the n64 controller correctly just curious if anyone had a nice setup for this. -> 8) just for when im setting up my remote im wondering if alt-f4 is how gameex exits emulators. -> 9) i got fusion to work pretty nice by just sizing the window correctly but theres still a menu bar at the top and for the life of me i cant find a snes emulator that will work correctly on a secondary monitor. -> 10) heres my log in case anyone wants to take a lock, i know it ain't pretty but its doing the trick for the moment. 16:08:45.7 5/30/2007: GameEx: Version 8.12: Starting Log 16:08:45.7 5/30/2007: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 16:08:45.7 5/30/2007: Operating System Name: Windows XP 16:08:45.7 5/30/2007: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600 16:08:45.7 5/30/2007: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed 16:08:45.7 5/30/2007: .net Framework 1.1 Installed 16:08:45.7 5/30/2007: .net Framework 2.0 Installed 16:08:45.7 5/30/2007: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ 16:08:45.7 5/30/2007: 2.01Ghz 16:08:45.7 5/30/2007: Running Randomize() 16:08:45.7 5/30/2007: Loading PlugIns 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Running Misc startup tasks 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Setting Menu types 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Opening Configuration File 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Getting Configuration Values 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Using Theme: Default - Custom V2 Default 800x600 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Custom V2 Default 800x600 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: GameEx will display on Secondary Device 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Launching HideOS.exe 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Is Media Center running? 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Media Center Mode 0 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Custom Keyboard Input enabled: Getting custom codes 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Snap Delay set to: 2 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Get other settings 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Using DirectInput for keyboard input 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Start work for Form 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Getting Original Screen Size 16:08:45.8 5/30/2007: Opening Database Connection 16:08:45.9 5/30/2007: Initializing Component 16:08:46.0 5/30/2007: Loading Controls.ini map file 16:08:46.0 5/30/2007: Loading Custom Emulators 16:08:46.0 5/30/2007: Loading Emulator 1: Nintendo Entertainment System 16:08:46.0 5/30/2007: Loading Emulator 2: Nintendo 64 16:08:46.1 5/30/2007: Loading Emulator 3: Sega Genesis 16:08:46.1 5/30/2007: Loading Emulator 4: Sony Playstation 16:08:46.3 5/30/2007: Using 2D Animations 16:08:46.3 5/30/2007: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS 16:08:46.3 5/30/2007: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS 16:08:46.3 5/30/2007: MAME CMD options: -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy 16:08:46.4 5/30/2007: Initialising DirectDraw 16:08:46.4 5/30/2007: Creating DirectDraw Device: Secondary Device 16:08:46.4 5/30/2007: Using Device: RADEON X800/X850 Series - Secondary 16:08:46.4 5/30/2007: 501mb video memory available 16:08:46.5 5/30/2007: Setting Resolution to 800x600 32 bit color 16:08:46.5 5/30/2007: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces 16:08:46.5 5/30/2007: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode 16:08:46.5 5/30/2007: Creating Back Buffer 16:08:46.5 5/30/2007: Version 2 Theme being used. Loading. 16:08:46.5 5/30/2007: Loading Button Data 16:08:46.5 5/30/2007: Loading Font Data 16:08:46.5 5/30/2007: Loading Layout Data 16:08:46.5 5/30/2007: Loading Taskbar Data 16:08:46.5 5/30/2007: Loading graphic Surfaces 16:08:46.6 5/30/2007: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs 16:08:46.6 5/30/2007: Creating Surfaces Volume 16:08:46.6 5/30/2007: Creating Surfaces Arrows 16:08:46.6 5/30/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text 16:08:46.6 5/30/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar 16:08:46.7 5/30/2007: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds 16:08:46.8 5/30/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls 16:08:46.8 5/30/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo 16:08:46.8 5/30/2007: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit 16:08:46.8 5/30/2007: Creating Surfaces Snaps 16:08:46.8 5/30/2007: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars 16:08:46.9 5/30/2007: Creating Fonts 16:08:46.9 5/30/2007: Creating Menu Font 16:08:46.9 5/30/2007: Restoring Menu Font From Cache 16:08:47.0 5/30/2007: Creating Game Font 16:08:47.0 5/30/2007: Creating Font Black 16:08:47.2 5/30/2007: Creating Font Black Small 16:08:47.3 5/30/2007: Creating Game Font Faded 16:08:47.3 5/30/2007: Creating Title Font 16:08:47.4 5/30/2007: Restoring Title Font From Cache 16:08:47.4 5/30/2007: Fonts Created Succesfully 16:08:47.4 5/30/2007: 457mb video memory left available 16:09:10.5 5/30/2007: Text/Language: English 16:09:10.5 5/30/2007: Applying Language/Text 16:09:10.5 5/30/2007: Initialising Bass Audio Library 16:09:10.6 5/30/2007: Loading last used Game List 16:09:10.6 5/30/2007: Loading Start Page 16:09:10.7 5/30/2007: Setting Music Volume 16:09:10.7 5/30/2007: Cannot Load Play List. Check Path and filename 16:09:10.7 5/30/2007: Creating DirectSound Device 16:09:10.7 5/30/2007: Trying: Primary Sound Driver 16:09:10.7 5/30/2007: Loading Sound Files 16:09:10.7 5/30/2007: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 16:09:10.7 5/30/2007: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support 16:09:11.3 5/30/2007: Using Device Microsoft SideWinder Game Pad Pro 16:09:11.3 5/30/2007: Using Device Microsoft SideWinder Game Pad Pro 16:09:11.3 5/30/2007: Using Device Logitech Cordless RumblePad 2 USB 16:09:11.3 5/30/2007: Initialising DirectInput for Keyboard support 16:09:11.9 5/30/2007: Initializing MCE Remote 16:09:11.9 5/30/2007: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx! 16:09:12.0 5/30/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame 16:09:12.4 5/30/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully 16:09:20.0 5/30/2007: Exiting GameEx! 16:09:20.0 5/30/2007: Saving Settings 16:09:21.7 5/30/2007: Disposing Plugins 16:09:21.7 5/30/2007: Closing database connection 16:09:21.7 5/30/2007: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit -> 11) and finally thank you so much to everyone that put all this work into this program, for all my above rants it actually works amazingly, better than anything i could have hoped for, and also thanks to anyone that actually read through any of this. - jake

Gameex is so wonderful I've decided to simply list the few reasons I could think of that its not the best. 1. I cant fit it in my wallet. 2. I'm not a big fan of names with more then 5 letters in them, perhaps rename it Gamee, ohhh or Ameex, oh wait... 3. It can't shut my neighbors yappy dog up, although I here there's a plugin coming for that 4. It doesn't give its competitors a fighting chance.

I was just wondering if anyone might be able to shed any light on why keyboard commands through girder don't seem to be affecting gameex. Ive fiddled with the direct input option and still no results. I'm afraid I'm net very experienced with girder but I have noticed when the girder window is open and gameex is running (its on a secondary so i can see girder without losing focus on gameex) cannot find window is displayed on the girder window when i use my remote. I'd appreciate any help -Jake