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I can't really remember what exact info MAWS showed for each game but perhaps ControlsDat could be expanded to display more data.

Mame Compiler 64 1.3 Released - Many new compiler options added gamepimp: This includes your request

What's New in Version 1.2 ♠ Removal of Open Feint ♠ Local leaderboard & achievement retention ♠ Longer timed hint delay ♠ Minor tweaks

What's New in Version 1.3 * Full iPhone 5 and iPad Mini support * Removal of Open Feint * Local leaderboard & achievement retention * Minor tweaks

Mame Compiler 64 v1.24 Released - Updated to the new toolchain - Added Force Direct Input option Tested and working with Mame 0147u3 and Mame UI 0147 u3 (if you get an error with the latter just press GO! again). NOTE: MinGW is no longer included in the MC64 install. You have to download it separately from here. Download Mame Compiler 64 v1.24

In MCEWebView newer versions of Flash would cause problems with stealing focus. I also believe I had issues with Silverlight. The way I dealt with these issues was to write the following methods. private void BringWindowToFront(){ IntPtr hWnd = Win32.FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", IntPtr.Zero); // Start bar if (Win32.GetForegroundWindow() == hWnd) Win32.SetForegroundWindow(this.Handle);}private void BringFlashToFront(){ IntPtr hWnd = Win32.FindWindow("ShockwaveFlashFullScreen", IntPtr.Zero); if (hWnd != IntPtr.Zero) Win32.SetParent(hWnd, this.Handle);}First I call BringWindowToFront() which would bring my apps window to the foreground, then I would call BringFlashToFront() which gets Flash's fullscreen window and sets its parent to my window. Previous versions would just pop up the full screen Flash player in front of my window so it wasn't a problem.

When showing an exception error like that it's always more informative if you click the "Details" button to show some of the stack trace.

There is really not much to this plugin. First it requires that you have a custom compiled version of MAME with a Hiscore Patch and all it does it download and upload the games associated hi file to an FTP server. So it basically allows people to share hiscore tables online. I recommend using the hiscore.dat file generated from here which I believe is for MAME 0.140. So if everyone uses that version there should be no issues. This is really just a proof of concept and is by no means a robust solution. I just don't think it's possible to really do this properly but perhaps it will be expanded in the future to address some of these issues. Some of the more obvious issues are cheating which I don't think is really possible to prevent. Another is in the off chance you run the same game at the same time your hiscore file might get overwritten. Although it does make a backup of the .hi file so you may be able to recover it. Another issue is some versions of MAME may create incompatible .hi files between some games. So you may download a .hi that is not compatible. DISCLAIMER: Use at your own risk! If your hiscores are precious to you then don't use this plugin! You have been warned! If anyone is interested in continuing development of this basic plugin PM me and I can send you the source code. PlugInHiScore.zip

Are you making the theme from scratch or are you using my Maximum Arcade theme?

I don't think there is a way at the moment. This will be fixed in a future release.

I There is no way around that unfortunately. Tom never got back to me about an FTP address so I guess I won't be releasing the plugin anytime soon. It's probably not worth the effort anyway as it's near on impossible to solve all the issues I've mentioned.

New in Version 1.1.1: ♠ Full iPhone 5 and iPad Mini support ♠ 10 new games added (Aces Up, Crazy Golf, Fred's Spider, Kings Corners, Monte Carlo, Napoleon in St. Helena, Number 10, Patient Doubles, Spanish Castles, Triple Pyramid) ♠ New game modes for existing games ♠ Autocomplete feature for Klondike ♠ Timed hints for many games ♠ Improved offline high scores ♠ New awards ♠ Game Pack 9 (free to purchasers of 'All Games Pack') ♠ iCloud syncing for saved games ♠ Fix for Monte Carlo end game ♠ Fix for game save ♠ Fix for music stopping when launching

According to this post an admin setting was added to set the limit. I can't find it though.

Any news on the update Tom? I'm hoping this release will add our highly anticipated BBCode limit admin setting.

Try going through each of the following settings and try setting them as 1/0 and seeing if it makes a difference. [Options] StartMinimized=0 MinimizeWhenClosingMainWindow=1 RememberWindowPositions=1 AllowMultiMonitorWindowPositions=1 AutoMinimizeOnOpenProfile=0 ReturnToSet1AfterMinimizeRestore=1 ShowTaskbarButtonWhenMinimized=0 ShowIconInNotificationArea=1 I had quite alot of issues dealing with MAME's windows in CPWizard. As you may have noticed the way windows appear to work also seems to be different based on the PC's configuration. The MaLa guys had similar issues their FE losing focus and wrote a plugin called the MaLa Focus Logger. Perhaps we need a little app that will log the top most window if it changes. I guess the article How to Find the Handle of the TopMost Window is a good start.

They are actually binary files with a .hi extension. It's hard to say if they would change or not since they're just a chunk of the game's memory. My guess is that since it is RAM and not ROM it would likely change even if you didn't get a new hiscore. I do have a routine for detecting the version of MAME but currently I don't do this. I really don't know that much about the version differences and incompatibilities it may cause. I believe there would be versions that would work together. I guess it would depend more on if a ROM has changed between versions since the memory locations of the data may also change. The plugin should probably at least backup the current users .hi file just incase. I can easily add that. When I release it soon people are welcome to test it out and see what issues arise. I will also be releasing the source code so others can improve upon it.

Yes we are at the mercy of HiToText to display hiscores in GameEx but is shouldn't effect the sharing of them. HiToText uses an xml file for encoding and decoding each game's hi file so in theory anyone can still add games without needing to recompile HiToText. Okay I've finished the plugin and am just waiting on Tom to give me a special FTP area for sharing the hi files. There are some issues using the plugin and because of that I will say "use it at your own risk". If you're worried about losing your hiscore don't bother using this plugin. - Because it just downloads the .hi when you start the game and uploads when you finish, it will overwrite any hi file you have. If you both play the same game at the same time the last one to exit will overwrite the hiscore table. Sorry but I did say it wouldn't be perfect. - You can't stop people cheating and editing hi files and uploading. This is why we can't take this feature too seriously anyway. - Different versions of MAME mean different versions of .hi files. So there may be compatibility problems with people running different versions of MAME. I will release the source code so others can improve on it. Perhaps someone else can fix some of the above issues?

Actually GameEx already has the ability to display hiscores just like CPWizard using HiToText. I could knock up a plugin to do this actually. It wouldn't be perfect but the way it would work would be using an FTP when you run a game download the .hi file for it and then when you exit the game upload it again. I'll see what I can knock up.

With our latest work on the GameEx databases we are now including all the data required to launch WinUAE games that WinUAE Loader uses. So eventually you'll be able to run them without the need for WinUAE Loader

My HTPC runs XBMC. I think it's great. Thanks Tom.

Have you checked out the VJoy Virtual Joystick Driver?

You can use bezels to do that in MAME. GameEx can actually generate bezels with game info at the bottom but they're not really designed for a vertical screen. Also there is no marquee at the top so you would need to add that.

You have both your main CPWizard display and subscreen set to display one. You can't do that. Screen=\\.\DISPLAY1 SubScreenEnable=True SubScreenDisable=True SubScreenInterval=10000 SubScreen=\\.\DISPLAY1

Can you post the link here and I'll add it to the utilities section of our forum.

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