Fullasoul

Hello, I'm having a problem getting a few emulators working correctly from within Game EX. The 2 emulators I'm trying to get working at this point are ZSNES and FCE Ultra...and both of them are working perfectly on their own (ie OUTSIDE of Game EX). First off, for some reason, I can't get ANY of the emulators I'm testing to run fullscreen on this new PC I'm using (except MAME which seems to work perfectly in fullscreen). When running the emus alone outside of Game EX and trying to go fullscreen, FCE Ultra told me something about not being able to draw a second surface (a DirectX error message I believe), and ZSNES just fails. So, I managed to put both of them into a windowed mode that takes up the screen space well anyways...actually ZXNES will allow you to use a windowed mode with the option of "filling" the screen anyways, thus it becomes fullscreen after all. I got FCE Ultra into a windowed mode that worked well for me, then began trying to get them both running inside GameEX. The results were not good When I go to run FCE Ultra from inside GameEX, I get an error message saying "cannot load "U".zip"....or "cannot load "E".zip".....whatever the last letter of the rom name is, that's what it apparently is trying to load. I've actually tried changing the command line around a few different ways....in fact one without including ROMPATH at all since I've defined it in the emu's config, and no matter what I try, it still does the same thing....it gets to the ROM dir and tries to open what I point to, but only recognizes the last few characters of the ROM name as what is meant to be opened Then with ZSNES.....it opens the rom properly and apparently begins the emulation...but I don't see it, only hear it. The sound of the game begins, and if I push "start" the game indeed begins....yet there is NO video....just a black screen. Again, when I run this emulator OUTSIDE of Game EX, everything works perfectly So, does anyone have any idea what could be happening in these scenarios? Any help would be much appreciated.... Fullasoul

well whadayaknow....I'm NOT crazy after all Turns out it was indeed the build of MAME I was using (fastmame). I installed plain 'ol MAME and it works perfectly Of course I'd donate limbs if I could ever figure out how to get ADVMAME working on my TV, but that's a lost cause... Fullasoul

nope...running it locally....right now I'm using the newest version of fastmame, but just for the sake of ruling things out I will go and try it with the latest "official" MAME. I've configured and reconfigured MAME more times that I care to recall over the years, but admittedly it's been awhile....so I was hoping that this came down to either me making an oversight somewhere, or there being a switch/option in Game EX that I'm not familiar with that's causing the ruckus. By all logical accounts, and especially when it very quickly and easily will hand me game-specific cfg's, there simply is no reason why it won't edit/save/use/reuse my default.cfg without wiping it out each time I start up.... Fullasoul

First off, hello.....my first time here, only just found out about Game EX 3 days ago, and although I'm already at a snag, I GREATLY look forward to how much I can seemingly do from within this nice frontend So, today I spent the day graphing out a custom key layout that would correspond with Game EX, MyTheatre, and MAME...all within one "template" for my programmable gamepad. I assign everything to keyboard strokes (NOT gamepad buttons), and both Game EX and MyTheatre have reacted just as I expected them to. But perhaps it's just been a long time since I've tweaked with MAME and I'm missing something, because for the life of me, I CANNOT get it to hold my custom keystrokes in default.cfg! I have "initialize joystick" DISABLED in GameEX (since my gamepad is only emulating keyboard strokes), I have "0" next to "joystick" in mame.ini, I've tried both editing the default.cfg from WITHIN MAME (using the "Input - General" screens) AS WELL AS manually in a text editor. Each time I set it the way I want it, I start up Game EX and miraculously, my default.cfg has been overwritten by a new one with MAME's default key assignments! I even tried making default.cfg read-only...and interestingly, enough, while my default.cfg file remained unaltered, the settings were not used when I got into MAME (only the standard MAME defaults again!!). Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I mean I know it's been a couple years since I really spent some time with MAME, but this step really shouldn't be brain-surgery..... Thanks in advance, Fullasoul