nightgaunt98

Right now I am using the "Just Black" theme. Did you try that one? Curious if it is an issue with the theme, but I did try several other themes and had the same issue. Not all the logos are from Hyperspin anyways ;-) Where would I upload the logos, "Other Uploads"? And what should the folder be called? The template I used is 256x240 pixels. Attached is my PSD Template. The boxes displayed in Gameex actually changed size on their own when I edited the List section in Template Editor. Didn't know there was an option for size. Where would I find that setting? SQUARE TEMPLATE.psd

Yep. I've tried both enabled and disabled. As well as all combinations of disabling / enabling between the two plus the Display Background Image and Display Snap. Whole lotta nada. None of those combinations made any difference at all. Attached is a screen shot of the current settings.

Yep, dynamic marquee. It's a USB powered monitor that used to be in my Virtuapin, but I just got a real DMD for it. Cut out a rectangle in my bezel and mounted it in my Arcade cab. It's an old MK2 cabinet, nice large monitor glass and bezel space on that cab. Plenty of room for a widescreen monitor with the USB one above it. I'm using your Marquee Masher which is brilliant by the way! It takes a bit on startup for the dynamic marquees to start showing up, but it's really not that big of a deal ;-) Once it gets rolling it's smooth. Yep, I can upload the title logos that I have. It's not a whole set, only about 300 of them. (I handpicked out roms I would actually play) Both full sized as well as a cropped/resized set to fit in Gameex's boxes. A lot of them I found on the interwebs searching for "(game name) Logo" and just photoshopping the background out. Some of them are from HS, but I'm not sure if there would be some sort of stigma with me uploading them to Gameex's FTP? I'd really rather not piss anyone off, if you get my meaning. Speaking of Gameex boxes. Back to it for a bit.... I think so too. I've gone back into my Gameex.ini and the Settings Wizard and poked around for anything dealing with anything remotely related to alpha channels, display, blah, deblah. Still can't find that 1 silly setting that may need to be changed. Because you know it's going to be one of those slap the forehead "of course" kinda things in the end.

Thanks for helping out with this! Would it help if I included a zip file here with my png title images? In case it would benefit the troubleshooting process... Oh yeah. Warriors on the Edge of Time is one of my favorite "blasting through the cosmos" Arcade soundtracks ;-)

Yeah, I've been working with graphic design for quite a long time and never heard of "ogo" files! Soooooo, you are saying to use a logo file instead of videos in the background? Hmm, I would really rather sort out how to get it working this way. I dig the fullscreen background videos, the dimming option is icing. But if I can't get those black boxes to disappear, I'll have to go back to the drawing board on this one. Sigh. That is actually a speaker on top of a rather old footlocker. There are speakers everywhere down here, and that one adds to the surround sound (Hawkwind really loud while blasting away at strange aliens is pure bliss) and creates a nice place for setting drinks and wot not.

"Origin Pro Graphic Object File" Alrighty, new one to me! Are you suggesting I convert my png files to ogo format? If so, I'll do a bit of investigation on this after work. Thanks yet again!

I don't even know what a ogo file is! Haha. I am using png files for the title images and screen recorded mp4's for the video snaps...

I'm more of a visual guy and can't stand text lists if there is the possibility of using artwork instead! Growing up in the 80's, I LOVED the art style arcades used. Especially when the game was so silly looking because of graphics limitations back then that they had to attract with killer artwork. Example: Old Atari box art. Horrible blocky graphics, but looking at the awesome box cover artwork it helped us to use our imagination more while playing the game. "Oh, that weird square thing is an awesome tank. Got it!" To create this view I used the Theme editor and removed Image + Image 2. Then stretched out the Lists field to fill the screen. I then had to completely resize all the title images I had when I was using Hyperspin (shudder) to fit in Gameex's box format. They where horribly cropped before. Then i kept hitting "Change View" until my title images and screenshot videos of gameplay show up in the background. I think I've exhausted my brain on searching for clues to those damn black boxes. I'll come back to it later and poke around some more. Gotta get to work, bands will be screwed and quite unhappy if merch is not at the venue in time. Pac Man is not a valid excuse for missing deadlines apparently,hahaha! Oh, and while I'm rambling about my arcade, here's a pic of my "Break Room"

Tthurman: Thanks for the compliment! I own a screen printing company and do all the graphic design myself. (As well as everything else. 1 man operation for about 20 years!) My Arcade + Pinball cabs are what keeps me sane, haha! I uploaded a video to youtube so you can see the Accursed Black Boxes in action: Hopefully this can help narrow down the problem? Draco1962: Thanks for looking into this for me, seriously appreciated! Yeah, my rig may be a bit of overkill for Galaga, but my son loves playing Star Wars Battlefront with the additional flightsticks on my cab. Gotta keep them graphics clean ;-)

Yeah, I am trying to set it up so there is a grid list with title images and when you scroll to a game, the video plays in the background showing you gameplay. This is why the black boxes are an issue for me, they block out the video! The black boxes still happen with no video playing in the background. Attached are two screen shots, same thing as in my first post. Scrolling down a line or two, the titles that were there before have the box, the new ones displayed on screen do not.

Apologies if I keep harping on this here, but it kinda helps me keep track of what I've tried ;-) Wondering if this bit of info will help? I just noticed that if I hold down the joystick (or up) for a bit until a couple pages would have gone by, those black backgrounds on the titles do not show when I stop. The black boxes only happen when you scroll down or up a line or two and you can still see the lines of titles that were there before. Make sense? If you look at the two screenshots in my first post, the two lines on the bottom starting with After Burner ending with Asteroids from the first image are the ones still visible in the second image but now have the accursed black boxes around them. But the newly pulled title images are nice and clean. So Gameex is having trouble keeping the transparency on the old images while pulling in the new ones from the next lines? Or maybe I should stop rambling, step away from the cab, and remind The Mrs that I still exist, hahaha!

During my lunch break I went back into the Gameex.ini to try out a few more thoughts on this. Pretty much tried "True" or "False" on anything that seems like it would have any affect on images or page loading. No luck. Read somewhere else that someone was having almost the same issue and the only resolving answer was to disable "AdvancedGFX". Tried that, nope. I can't remember exactly where I read that, I've scoured forums for a few days now looking for a solution. Ah, well. Hopefully someone has some input. Meanwhile, I'll keep poking around periodically until something clicks. If I manage to sort it out on my own I'll post the fix here in case someone else encounters this issue...

Gotcha. So "Sit tight and keep fiddling about with it until it's sorted or Tom takes a look"? No problem. Thanks again!

Cool, thanks. Yeah, I tried to fiddle about with anything I could find regarding any alpha settings. No luck. Long time lurker, short time posting, so please forgive my ignorance: How should I contact Tom? Would that be through messaging, PM, whatever it's called?

Thanks for the quick reply! I love this place ;-) Yes, it happens on different themes as well, tried quite a few- both Default and downloaded.

I can't seem to sort out why a semi-transparent black box appears behind my title images in the list. It happens when scrolling up or down and Gameex loads a new page of titles. I don't think it's an issue with the image files, sometimes an image has a box, sometimes it doesn't. Attached are a couple screen shots showing when Gameex first loads and then the black boxes that appear after scrolling down to the next page. Also attached is a shot of my graphics card info, system info, and the Gameex.ini + Theme.ini There's 8gb of ram in there currently, I just ordered 16gb of Corsair Vengeance ram to replace the stock memory and beef it up. Maybe that will fix it? Cheers! GameEx.ini Theme.ini

The Zen FX2 cab support is brilliant, thanks for that! It would be great if there was a way or an option to choose the number of players (hotseat) when loading a table. My son loves these tables and it's a bit of a pain to try and play with him as it is now. Having to exit out and mess around with a mouse on my cabinet glass just to change the number of players... Not too fun. I know Nukelauncher has this capability, but I could never get it to work properly. The new cab support built into both FX2 and Pinballx works flawlessly otherwise. Thanks!

Will do, thanks for responding with the quickness!

Anyone know of a way to have Pinballx stop at the hotseat menu screen when loading a table instead of directly launching it? My son loves these tables and it's a bit of a pain to try and play with him as it is now. Having to exit out and mess around with a mouse on my cabinet glass just to change the number of players... Not too fun. I know Nukelauncher has this capability, but I could never get it to work properly. The new cab support built into both FX2 and Pinballx works flawlessly otherwise. Thanks!