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Trying to get my PF videos set up - after rotating the display, etc, the videos for the playfield are being "narrowed" on my PF. although the wheel makes it to both sides. Ive tried running it in windowed, full screen, and fullscreen windowed mode with the same result. If I run it in windowed mode the window shrinks to the size of the video. is there any may to manually override this? Thanks!

Tom, is there a way to use pinballx in cab mode and rotate the video? That would work perfect for me - nice and simple.

Awesome! Thanks Tom! I was looking on the GAMEEX FTP

Like I said - I was ALL FOR getting GX to work. Its just SO DAMN CONVOLUTED!! I mean - Tom did a good job of putting the pop up help bubbles for brief descriptions, but man......ALL I want is for it to boot up to the mame emulator, show the marquee, use the "wheel", and show the ala hyperspin style game theme videos, go right to the game when selected, then exit back to the mame wheel. But for me its easier said than done. At this point I can get it to go to the mame wheel right off, but it still gives me another screen when I click on the game. Before I had it going right into the game somehow that changed as I was figuring another issue out. Seems like every time I figure one thing out something else changes. Plus I cant find in the FTP where to get the game video themes (recorded hyperspin style) Sorry to be such a whiny bitch - its just frustrating to me. Being something that is so basic takes so much effort to achieve.

I appreciate all the input. Im probably going back to HS. Ive been messing with this for 2 days straight and the whole point was to get something working with less "brain damage" than I was having with HS. my HS setup is about 95% functional , I just didnt like having to use Rocketlauncher, EDS, and HyperMarquee programs (not plugins) just to run a second display for marquees. I was hoping that GameEx would have a better interface, but in the end - its pretty damn convoluted- to me. Thanks again for all the help.

Awesome! Thanks for the input - Ill mess with it today. I think its Ironic that to make it a cleaner and simpler setup you have to do more complicated amounts of work. too funny! I went as far as to try and use the pinballx frontend - that didn't work how I had hoped as well.

Cool! Ill try that - next step is trying to figure out how to configure the wheel - Arcade mode its built right in. Im not sure what I have to do to get it working in normal GameEx

I'm going to load the Full GameEx then and see if I can strip it down. I hope Tom considers this as an option for EVO. GameEx runs so solid for me - just has too much fluff for my needs

Whats that?

Thanks for the response! I appreciate you taking the time to look into it for me. Again - its a simplicity thing for when I have a party and have 50 drunk people trying to figure out how to load a game. Its the difference between a console and pc gamer. Console its put it in and play. Usually on a pc theres alot more to getting a game to run then just putting a disc in and turning it on.

I appreciate the question, But as I stated in my original post, I'm looking for something that does dual monitors (FOR MY CAB) with less "fuss" than Hyperspin currently offers to accomplish the feat. I do like the ABILITY to access all the other data, flyers, mappings, etc. However, Id also like the ability to SHUT IT OFF. My experience with having a MAME cab (which I've had for 15 years), that when people - general people - go to play a game, less is more. Something simple to find and identify the game (i.e. videos, marquee, etc) and then start into it to play. Building a MAME cab should be for everyone - not for just me. I can play MAME on my computer if I want to read all the extra BS about every game. I was just hoping that there was going to be more adjustability with GameEx - like PinballX - as I have on my pinball cab. Again, I believe I stated this in my original post - what was the question again? cheers

I REALLY want to use a version of GameEx. I have PinballX on my virtual pinball and LOVE IT! I'm building a multi monitor (widescreen Marquee monitor) MAME cab and have been fighting Hyperspin for over a year now trying to get it to function. I cant stand all the "extra" programs you have to run just to get marquees to show up on a secondary monitor. Now I downloaded the Arcade version of GameEx and it works pretty good out of the box. I have yet to get the hyperspin game themes working - like in the video, but the marquees show up perfectly! With that being said - Is there a way to hide or shut off the extra options and screens? Id like something simple and clean - Im only running MAME so 1 wheel, find the game, select it, it runs. exit the game it goes back to the wheel. Simple. Don't get me wrong, I like the ability to have all the extra info, flyers, button functions, etc. But not "forced" to have to go through it to select the game. So....does anyone know if its possible to do this...and if so...maybe point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Tom, Ive been having this problem as well. Just found the update to 1.88 and installed it. Still gives me a virtual pinball has encountered a problem error upon game exit. I DO notice this is when exiting with a usb controller instead of the esc key on the keyboard. With the ESC key I can exit all day with no issues. but EVERY TIME I use my exit button (wired to buton 9 on my controller) it fails. Is there any way to change the script to function the same way when hitting the exit button? Thanks Para