TalkingBull

Is there a way to display what type of clone is in the list? Right now, for instance; I have clones on and some games may have up to 10-15 clones. they all have the same name. I would like it better if it was somehting like: Galaga Galaga Version 2 Galaga Hack Something like that would be better than: Galaga Galaga Galaga

It isn't a bad idea but I think most people don't really use a keyboard as a feature on their machines. When you go to a game in GameEx, it has a list of similar titles and sequels at the bottom where the history is. I have always used that and the KLOV (Killer List of Video Games).

Where is that feature in the config? I couldn't find it.

Fixed it! Thanks Tom!

Is there a way to map the keys for navigating around in the jukebox? What I mean by that is if I want to skip to the next track (Or the previous one), I have to hit the Player 2; buttons 2 or 5. I would rather have them set to be the player 1 joystick where moving it to the right would skip forward and moving it back would skip left. I feel like I saw this option somewhere or saw a topic where someone talked about this but I can't find it. Is it in the config file somewhere?

Good idea and a great site! I look forward to all the themes getting thrown on it!

OK, I tried it on a different theme and it worked with no problems...I don't understand though. It used to work on that theme.

I will try it when I get home today... it used to work on my theme though.

Anyone have any ideas?

Here is the entire log: 21:00:56.1 5/15/2006: GameEx: Version 6.10: Starting Log 21:00:56.1 5/15/2006: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 21:00:56.1 5/15/2006: Operating System Name: Windows XP 21:00:56.1 5/15/2006: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600 21:00:56.1 5/15/2006: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed 21:00:56.1 5/15/2006: .net Framework 1.1 Installed 21:00:56.1 5/15/2006: Checking Registration 21:00:56.2 5/15/2006: Running Randomize() 21:00:56.2 5/15/2006: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 21:00:56.2 5/15/2006: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 21:00:56.2 5/15/2006: Running Misc startup tasks 21:00:56.2 5/15/2006: Setting Menu types 21:00:56.2 5/15/2006: Opening Configuration File 21:00:56.2 5/15/2006: Getting Configuration Values 21:00:56.2 5/15/2006: Using Theme: Talking Bull With Videos 21:00:56.2 5/15/2006: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Talking Bull With Videos 21:00:56.2 5/15/2006: Launching HideOS.exe 21:00:57.0 5/15/2006: Hiding Taskbar 21:00:57.0 5/15/2006: Is Media Center running? 21:00:57.0 5/15/2006: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 21:00:57.0 5/15/2006: Media Center Mode 0 21:00:57.0 5/15/2006: Text/Language: English 21:00:57.0 5/15/2006: Applying Language/Text 21:00:57.1 5/15/2006: Creating Scancodes.txt (List of DirectInput scan codes) 21:00:57.1 5/15/2006: Snap Delay set to: 6 21:00:57.1 5/15/2006: Get other settings 21:00:57.1 5/15/2006: Desktop set to Hide ICONS and set Background to Black 21:00:57.1 5/15/2006: Backing up Registry Wallpaper Settings 21:00:57.1 5/15/2006: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 21:00:57.2 5/15/2006: SlikStik support enabled 21:00:57.2 5/15/2006: Start work for Form 21:00:57.2 5/15/2006: Getting Original Screen Size 21:00:57.2 5/15/2006: Loading ICON 21:00:57.2 5/15/2006: Initializing Component 21:00:57.2 5/15/2006: Initialising Bass Audio Library 21:00:57.3 5/15/2006: Loading default loading screen 21:00:57.4 5/15/2006: Version 2 Theme being used. Loading. 21:00:57.4 5/15/2006: Loading Button Data 21:00:57.4 5/15/2006: Loading Font Data 21:00:57.4 5/15/2006: Loading Layout Data 21:00:57.4 5/15/2006: Loading Taskbar Data 21:00:57.4 5/15/2006: Using 3D Alpha Blended Animations. This could be slow 21:00:57.4 5/15/2006: Using General Font: Tw Cen MT 21:00:57.4 5/15/2006: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS 21:00:57.4 5/15/2006: Starting GameExtender on: 127.0.0.1:8383 21:00:57.4 5/15/2006: Initialising DirectDraw 21:00:57.5 5/15/2006: Creating DirectDraw Device 21:00:57.5 5/15/2006: Using Device: RADEON 7500 SERIES 21:00:57.6 5/15/2006: Setting Resolution to 800x600 32 bit color 21:00:57.6 5/15/2006: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces 21:00:57.6 5/15/2006: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode 21:00:57.6 5/15/2006: Creating Back Buffer 21:00:57.6 5/15/2006: Loading graphic surfaces 21:00:57.7 5/15/2006: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs 21:00:57.8 5/15/2006: Creating Surface Volume 21:00:57.8 5/15/2006: Creating Surfaces Arrows 21:00:57.8 5/15/2006: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text 21:00:57.8 5/15/2006: Creating Surfaces Toolbar 21:00:57.8 5/15/2006: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds 21:00:58.7 5/15/2006: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls 21:00:58.7 5/15/2006: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo 21:00:58.7 5/15/2006: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit 21:00:58.8 5/15/2006: Creating Surfaces Snaps 21:00:58.8 5/15/2006: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars 21:00:58.8 5/15/2006: Creating Fonts 21:00:58.8 5/15/2006: Creating Menu Font 21:01:00.0 5/15/2006: Creating Game Font 21:01:00.8 5/15/2006: Creating Game Font Standard Size 21:01:01.7 5/15/2006: Creating Font Black 21:01:01.8 5/15/2006: Creating Font Black Small 21:01:01.9 5/15/2006: Creating Game Font Faded 21:01:02.7 5/15/2006: Creating Title Font 21:01:04.2 5/15/2006: Creating Control Panel Font 21:01:05.1 5/15/2006: Fonts Created Succesfully 21:01:05.1 5/15/2006: Initialising Windows Media Player Component 21:01:05.1 5/15/2006: MAME Path is: E:\Mame32 21:01:05.1 5/15/2006: daphne Path is: D:\DAPHNE 21:01:05.1 5/15/2006: daphne EXE file is: Daphne.exe 21:01:05.1 5/15/2006: Use daphne on. Daphne.exe will launch games 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: ZiNc Path is: E:\ZINC 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: ZiNc EXE file is: zinc.exe 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: Use ZiNc on. zinc.exe will launch PSX games 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: MAME EXE file is: mame32.exe 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: ROM Path is: D:\MAME 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: Catver.ini is located at: D:\Data\catver.ini 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: controls.ini is located at: D:\Data\controls.ini 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: History.dat is located at: D:\Data\history.dat 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: nplayers.ini is located at: D:\Data\nplayers.ini 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: D:\Data\mameinfo.dat 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: Loading Controls.ini map file 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: Loading Custom Emulators 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 1: Nintendo 64 Games 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: Loading OfflineList Dat File for emulator: 1 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: Cannot Find Offline List Dat File 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 2: Nintendo SNES games 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: Loading OfflineList Dat File for emulator: 2 21:01:05.2 5/15/2006: Cannot Find Offline List Dat File 21:01:05.3 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 3: GameBoy & GameBoy Color 21:01:05.3 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 4: Nintendo NES Games 21:01:05.4 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 5: Atari 2600 Games 21:01:05.4 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 6: Sega Genesis 21:01:05.5 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 7: PCEngine Turbo Grafx 16 21:01:05.5 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 8: Gameboy Advance 21:01:05.6 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 9: Atari Lynx 21:01:05.6 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 10: Sega Master System 21:01:05.7 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 11: Intellivision 21:01:05.7 5/15/2006: Loading Emulator 12: Colecovision 21:01:06.1 5/15/2006: Snap Path is: E:\Mame32Plus\snap 21:01:06.1 5/15/2006: AVI Snap Path is: E:\Mame32Plus\Videos 21:01:06.1 5/15/2006: Flyer Path is: E:\Mame32Plus\flyers 21:01:06.1 5/15/2006: Cabinet Path is: E:\Mame32Plus\cabinets 21:01:06.1 5/15/2006: Title Path is: E:\titles99 21:01:06.1 5/15/2006: Panel Path is: E:\Mame32Plus\cpanel 21:01:06.1 5/15/2006: Icon Path is: D:\Icons 21:01:06.1 5/15/2006: Marquee Path is: E:\Mame32Plus\marquees 21:01:06.1 5/15/2006: MAME CMD options: -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy 21:01:06.1 5/15/2006: Attempting to load game list 21:01:06.4 5/15/2006: Loading last used Game List 21:01:06.5 5/15/2006: Loading Start Page 21:01:06.5 5/15/2006: Setting Music Volume 21:01:06.5 5/15/2006: Creating DirectSound Device 21:01:06.5 5/15/2006: Trying: Primary Sound Driver 21:01:06.5 5/15/2006: Loading Sound Files 21:01:06.6 5/15/2006: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 21:01:06.6 5/15/2006: Creating ICONS 21:01:06.6 5/15/2006: Restoring Cached ICONS from File 21:01:07.5 5/15/2006: Gamepad/Joystick disabled 21:01:07.5 5/15/2006: Initialising DirectInput for Keyboard support 21:01:07.5 5/15/2006: Playing Startup Video 21:01:08.8 5/15/2006: Initializing MCE Remote 21:01:08.8 5/15/2006: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx! 21:01:08.9 5/15/2006: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame 21:01:09.3 5/15/2006: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully 21:01:14.3 5/15/2006: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured: Exiting 21:01:14.3 5/15/2006: Error in the application. 21:01:14.6 5/15/2006: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.DrawInternal(tagRECT* destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, tagRECT* srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags, DrawEffects& bltEffects) 21:01:14.6 5/15/2006: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.Draw(Rectangle destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, Rectangle srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags) 21:01:14.6 5/15/2006: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuText(Int32 x, Int32 y, String textstring) 21:01:14.6 5/15/2006: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuText() 21:01:14.6 5/15/2006: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuImages() 21:01:14.6 5/15/2006: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DisplayFrame()

I will post the whole log when I get home from work today. It happens every time I select Jukebox and it doesn't happen at any other time on any of the other menus. I can't figure out why either because I didn't change anything at all other than upgrade regularly... and since no one else is having this problem, it must be something on my system.

GameEx has always worked but for some reason, I started getting crashes whenever I start my jukebox. Don't know why, I haven't changed anything and I update whenever Tom makes any changes. Here is what the log says: 21:22:29.3 5/14/2006: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured: Exiting 21:22:29.3 5/14/2006: Error in the application. 21:22:29.6 5/14/2006: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.DrawInternal(tagRECT* destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, tagRECT* srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags, DrawEffects& bltEffects) 21:22:29.6 5/14/2006: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.Draw(Rectangle destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, Rectangle srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags) 21:22:29.6 5/14/2006: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuText(Int32 x, Int32 y, String textstring) 21:22:29.6 5/14/2006: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuText() 21:22:29.6 5/14/2006: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DrawMenuImages() 21:22:29.6 5/14/2006: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DisplayFrame() Anyone, please help me if you can.

Tom, I saw this on RetroBlast and was wondering if there was a way to incorporate it into GameEx: "It Freakin' Talks! - PowerMAME 0.105.0.0 beta Released!!! Posted by: James McGovern PowerMAME Speaks Are you kidding me? Talking MAME, that's right TALKING MAME!!!! Mike Quinlan, the programmer behind the PowerMAME project has just earned my total respect and admiration with this new release of his MAME port which features speech routines that can give you some history on the game you are about to play as well as describe the controls that are used for each game. Couple this with the LED Wiz support and your control panel not only talks, but also lights up the controls used as part of the demonstration. Ok, I have had more than one cup of coffee here, but you have got to see the movie Mike is hosting on the PowerMAME site, it just blew me away with the overall WOW factor. Make sure and check out the details at the PowerMAME project site and chime in on the project at BYOAC PowerMAME Speaks! (WMV)"

Thanks Tom, worked like a charm!

Is there a way to display a snapshot when you are looking at a video to play under Media/Videos? I put all of the Family Guy eps on a drive and have them in there and it would be cool to have snaps... don't know if this is a feature request or if I just don't know how to do it

Mine show up when I display with no clones... I had a question about this though, is there a way to actually use 2 monitors to play aplayer's choice game? I have two set up where one is for GameExtender.

Actually, I tried all three and got the same result.

For some reason, whenever I select a game, it will go to a different game. It doesn't do it for every game on the list but I would say about 60% of them. I checked and it is doing it in every section (MAME, Emu, Favorites, etc...). I have no idea why it is doing this but I noticed it after I updated to 5.73 For example, if I want to play Puzzle Bobble from my favorites, I will select it and instead of taking me to the Puzzle Bobble page (With the game, flyer, history, etc...) it will go to a different game on the same list like Dig Dug. Help!

Whenever GameEx loads, it shows my MAME background as my start. When I go to another page, the correct StartBak loads and remains but it is always wrong when it loads up. Also when I go to the Emulators seciton, my StartBak is there and not my EmuBak, that shows up on each Emulator's page.

I can't get emulator backgrounds to show in GamEx. I created the Themes\Eulators directory and it keeps showing the background I specified for the Eumlator page. I went into the config page to set it there and it found the file but it sitll isn't showing in Gamex.

Actually, I would rather move those objects rather than get rid of them (I like them). the problem is that it pushes the picture down and to the right which makes it fit outside the border of my background. Also, am I doing something wrong or is it not yet possible to have seperate layouts for MAME/Daphne/Emulators/etc...?

Is ther any way to turn off the: BY NAME BY CATAGORY BY MANUFACTURER BY YEAR Or is there a way to move it around in the Theme Editor? I can't figure this one out and my layout is getting screwed up whenever I use it. Also, I would like to have a different layout on each of my emulators. I se the templates and everytihng in Theme Editor but when I change one, it changes all of them. This wouldn't be too much of an issue but it doesn't look right with all of the backgrounds. I don't know if I am doing something wrong or if this hasn't been developed into the editor yet. Also, when I go to the emulator page, it displays the background/layout for MAME instead of the one I have set for the emulator. One last thing, I made the /Themes/Emulator folder and put the images into it but it hasn't changed anything. Thanks!

I tried it but got the same result. It keeps kicking me back.

It used to be when GameEx was running in Attract/Screensaver mode and I walked by and saw a game I liked, I could hit the insert coin button and begin playing it. Now when I do it, I can only play the game for about 20 seconds and it kicks back to GameEx. I didn't change any of my settings but I update whenever Tom does a new release. Is anyone else having this problem?

Looks like it is coming along great! I can't wait to give it a try!