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** Edit - dang it, I'm having problems attaching the file. Perhaps it's too big @ 6mb? ** OK, that was easily found. I'm uploading a RAR of the originals. They are not Photoshop files like I originally thought. They are layered .png files using Fireworks but I think Photoshop can edit them too. The backgrounds are only 4 layers and relevent parts are grouped together to make layout changes easier. To ungroup an object, the right frame for example, select it, Modify->Ungroup. You can easily create any color of this theme by making a few changes. Just remember to flatten the final graphics so as to decrease their size. Hope this helps Rob

Man with all of the cool new themes I'm surprised people are still using those old things. If I can find the original .psd files I can try and fix any layout issues you may have. Or at the very least, upload the original so others can modify it to their individual tastes.

I finally got around to fixing this. All the wmv's I have are actually stream captures from launch.com and therefore were not indexed. I found a video fixer that re-indexed them so all is well.

Thanks for the response Tom. I'll continue to play around with it. I'm afraid I broke one of my own rules and did multiple upgrades at once: GameEx and 7 months of MS patches. Rob

Hey folks, Now that winter's here, I'm tinkering with my cabinet again. Hadn't done anything to it all summer other than enjoy it. GameEx and everything else "just worked". I upgraded to 5.24 and now it appears as though my wmv music videos grabbed from launch.com won't play. The screen goes black and after hitting Backspace several times it'll return to the menu. MPG's play fine, and I'm able to play the same WMV files in WMP from outside of GameEx. Because of Tom and his crazy release schedule, I'm already several versions behind again in just over 2 weeks. I'll try upgrading to the latest version but was wondering if anyone else has had similar problems. Thanks, Rob

Glad I could help!

Yes you can. You can just add -mouse as a mame option to enable mouse/trackball support.

I just read this the other day on ultimarc.com: By default, MAME does not have these buttons assigned to any keycodes. Just go into the MAME controls menu (press tab in a game) and assign them. Button 5 is "I" and Button 6 is "K". Hope this helps

Strangely, I didn't have this problem until 3.47. Since then it's happened at least 3-4 times (all games being replaced by favorites). I went back to the previous version and will see how that works.

I'd gladly pay $30 or so for improved customization and jukebox capabilities. Not sure how hard some of these would be to implement, just throwing them out for consideration. - ability to customize/re-organize menu - improved jukebox (some of these features may already be there and I just haven't discovered them and/or know how to use them properly) * being able to go by Artist -> Album -> Title * pressing a Play button plays entire selected. For example, highlight the group "Blues Travelers" and hitting Play plays all of their songs. Highlight their album "Four" and press Play and all songs on that album play. Hitting Enter still takes you to to the next sublevel. *Playing a selection either Adds to Queue or Plays Now -ability to map controls to buttons/sticks Thanks, Rob

I'll chip in for 4 and 5 also. As for 6, perhaps he's talking about MAME Multiplayer? I don't think there's a way of disabling it. I have a few more features I'd like to see but I'll respond to your GameEx Going Shareware thread.

I haven't tried disabling waitVsynch yet, but disabling triplebuffer did the trick for me along with enabling high_priority and setting audio_latency=2. Sampling rate is back up to 44100. I'm very happy with this combination. Dave - try enabling high_priority. It's off by default and maybe that'll fix your tearing problem. Worth a shot anyway.

Woo hoo! Finally got GameEx running as the shell. Seems as though I had to add this to my registry: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer and change DesktopProcess to 1 Not sure why I didn't have to do this on my other box, but oh well.

Hi Toonces, thanks for the reply. I lowered the sampling rate to 22050, increased the buffer from 1 to 2, and enabled the priority setting in MAME and everything sound great. I think I'll continue to play around with those settings and see if I can bump up the sampling rate a bit more.

Oops it looks like I forgot to include the log file in my last message. Anyway it's promising that someone else has gotten it working so I know it's possible. The actual registry change is no problem, I've been running an alternate shell on another box for quite a while now. Not sure why I'm having problems with GameEx. I'll continue to play around with it when I get home. Thanks for confirming it works!