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I just wanted to tie up this loose end... I have performed a complete reinstall of GameEx and MAME and all seems to be working correctly. Thanks for all your help on this.

Thanks for the info here all. I have to admit I was naive to membership levels! It appears that the plugin manager is no more, or if it is, I can't get it to appear from a new install. As I copied the U360 plugin manually, one of the things I couldn't seem to do was use the 'configure' button via the wizard (though I know you can access this directly). However, I unchecked and checked again and it then worked. So I'm wondering if this was linked to it not working. It's all working now, so thanks for the input. Really appreciated!

I'm completing a new GameEx install to overcome an issue involving the U360 plugin. I'm all set up and ready to try out the plugin, but the plugin manager isn't there. I downloaded the plugin independently, but I can't see how you enable it without the manager. If I try to use the wizard to download and install the plugin, it tells me that I need a subscription. I've signed in online and tried again, but still get the same message. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I've grabbed the latest zip and that's now on my system with pacdrive dll,(though the date for this is 1/3/16). I have unplugged the U360s and this did not cuase the log file to be written - only the empty one as before. However, there is no black screen when loading a ROM. I thought I had stopped GameEx "Run In Background" but after running the wizard, it appeared not! So I have stopped this before performing the above and no difference.

Hi Ben I hate to say it, but I'm getting the same thing - an empty file. To confirm, the date for the dll is 23/1/17. Is that correct? I don't know if they are linked, but there are 2 things going on here - The U360 logging and the blank screen. Another observation I can offer up is when exiting GameEx, most of the time I can't use the mouse buttons for a good 30 seconds, which actually looks like there's an invisible window layer on top of what is visible. If you click on whatever window is up it loses focus, but you can interact with the task bar. Saying that, they must be linked somehow as this doesn't happen when the plugin is disabled. Thanks Dan

Here you go. Thanks. CONFIG.zip PLUGINS.zip

OK I have done all of the above and nothing has changed. I'm running the latest firmware on the sticks as I flashed them just before Christmas.

Yes, it's in debug mode. If I delete the pluginultrastik file it gets regenerated (with no content). Can you elaborate on your PS please? I have just searched and I see a thread where (back in Aug 15) Tom said it was a new feature for GameEx Online. I'll have to check in the settings if this is active.

OK I've installed the updated plugin. The plugin is definitely working, though I'm still not getting a log file - just the same extension-less pluginultrastik file. I'm still having the issue with the plugin enabled where it won't load the ROM. I have a bit of a pattern - in the ten times I've just loaded GameEx, the ROM won't load first time and I get a black screen which requires alt-tab to get out of. I do this by alt-tabbing straight back to GameEx. I can then seem to load a ROM. In this instance, the plugin has reprogrammed the sticks. I know this as I've been using Q-bert to test. So I'm not sure where this leaves things. I'll attach the log.txt again for when the ROM didn't load in case there's something to be had. Thanks for your time so far. log.txt

Thanks Ben, I'll take a look at this and report back.

The install of GameEx is a couple of weeks old. I also have the # removed to enable debugging. I'm running from a user account, so could it have something to do with admin privelidges?

Hi Ben/Tom I found some time this weekend to get onto this. I'm pretty confident the maps were loaded as I used QBert, but again, there was no log created for the ultrastik plugin. It updates the pluginultrastik (no extension) file modified date, but still no contents. But there exists another problem which I was actually seeing before but didn't report at the time. But with further testing, it appears to be linked to using the plugin. So with the plugin enabled, and it is pretty consistent for each time you start GameEx then select a ROM to load, you just get a black screen. You can't Esc to exit, though most of the time you can alt-tab (to Windows), then again (back to GameEx). Worst case I hit the power button (sleep), then again and I'm back in GameEx. One other thing I've noticed with the above is when using alt-tab twice, I can then get the ROM to run. But if I alt-tab, then hit the active GameEx icon in the task bar, it takes me back to the pre ROM launch screen, but there is no text on it, just some empty menu boxes. I've attached 3 log files; 1 - Plugin disabled with the ROM loading as expected. 2 - Plugin enabled with the ROM not loading 3 - Plugin enabled with the ROM loading (after repeating 2 then selecting ROM again) Any help here is appreciated, thanks. log1 - plugin disabled.txt log2 - plugin enabled, no game.txt log3 - plugin enabled, game.txt

Great, thanks! Yes, using the plugin manager so I'll grab that too and report back.

Before updating my version of MAME I have been in touch with Andy @ Ultimarc regarding this. I sent him a copy of the dll from the plugin zip and he told me this is out of date and pointed me to the sdk zip which contains 32 and 64 bit versions of the plugin. I tried the 64 dll first as I'm in W10-64 but this threw up errors in the log. I then tried the 32 dll which didn't display any errors, but it didn't show any sign it was loading maps either. QBert felt like it was working in diagonals, but it's not a game I ever play so I couldn't be sure. Should there be something in the log.txt to show when the plugin is loading maps? Or is this in the pluginultrastik log? The latter is still being generated as an empty file. Working or not, should this have something in it? Thanks

OK thanks Tom. I'll look into it.