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Don't you have to switch this off in GameEx? I thought it was a command line argument sent from GameEx when a certain option was enabled. Bezels maybe?

Yeah it's the Google ads I believe. It seems to wait for them to load before it shows the page. I get the same thing and often have to refresh a few times to get the page.

Hey Nologic did you send all your wrappers on to Tom for hosting? I was wondering why only my stuff seems to be hosted. I've seen heaps of stuff released on these boards by other people. I wish I could find that UAE wrapper that someone posted here ages ago, I never got to try that out.

I believe the differences are mainly to do with the new input system which supports multiple keyboards. But I thought there was a command line option to enable/disable it. Perhaps there is more to it?

Are you an IRCop on there or something? Why is foreverchat so good?

Noone else get this problem? Turning off videos in attract mode seemed to have solved my problem, but obviously something in the video code has changed to cause this. I'm going to have to investigate this further. I moved to the K-Lite Codec pack some time ago so perhaps it is now causing an issue in newer versions of GameEx. I have a feeling it's a DivX or Xvid codec issue.

I'm working on an IRC chatroom system for cabinets. It's actually one of the reasons why CPViewer is taking so long to be released. I probably should have released it without the chatroom first. It has full colour support and onscreen keyboard. People will be able to chat from their cabinets or join the room using a Windows IRC client. I havn't decided on the server or channel name yet, but we can debate all that when it gets released. I might be going with EFNet but I'm not sure.

I was just running my cab in Attract mode and noticed that the screen was blank but my LEDWiz was still running in attract mode. I couldn't CTRL-ALT-DEL to end the GameEx task so I rebooted. There was an "ActiveMovie" task that would not shutdown because it wasn't responding. I have never had this problem before so I thought it might be related to some of the new stuff that was being done with video. I believe this was some error occuring when playing one of my videos. Just thought I would report this.

How did you make these or where did you get them from? They are cool, I think we should get more of these together. Maybe Tom will host them? I really like having video backgrounds, I think they look awesome.

I don't know if thats possible in the Theme Editor. The track info is part of the Toolbar I believe.

Go to Start->Programs->GameEx->Setup Wizard->Custom->Video/Movie Settings and make sure your Startup Video/Dir is empty. See if that solves GameEx minimizing on startup. I have a feeling it's your video codec causing this issue.

GameEx can't show messages while a game is running. So it won't work like that. Also without a plugin written specifically as a host for YAC there is no way to prevent it from minimizing GameEx. The Caller ID plugin just displays a standard GameEx popup message while your in GameEx. It only works with certain types of modems that support caller ID output too.

I would go the beers first! The rest can wait!

Yes the bezel artwork can cause performance issues I believe but I find changing the default command line option in GameEx from "-video dd" to "-video d3d" can also fix speed issues. Check out "Advanced MAME Settings (1)" in the Setup Wizard. The MAME Options override what your default options for Mame are. So when you run Mame outside GameEx those options are not applied and may make it seem like GameEx is causing performance issues in Mame.

I have noticed changes been made over versions and so the method to skip has also changed.

Not sure when I will get the time to add support for it. It's on my growing to-do list It's a solid looking device though. I was actually going to see if you wanted it for your Jukebox project when I finished adding support for it! The offer is still there

It's definately a skill worth having Now you can compile your own versions and remove the loading screens and disclaimers. Makes the cab a bit nicer that way I think. Just a quick note, I noticed you have done the "make" to compile it. I recommend you trying "make I686=1" or "make P4=1" to get optimized versions for your processor. You can just compile them in the same folder as your current source code, it will keep the optimized versions separate. Eg. It will output mameppp.exe for Pentium Pro optimized version (I686), and mamepp4.exe for Pentium 4 optimized version (P4).

Brian I have a feeling you didn't make the patch correctly (or my program is failing for you). I created a patch here with your dll you sent me along with the original dll you also sent. I get a 7MB patch, but you have a 1MB patch there. I don't see why your patch would be that size and mine another if were creating a patch from the same files. Not sure what else to tell you. I guess you could send me your patched zip if you wanted. But not a big deal.

Okay I just tried patching my own compiled version and I get a 7MB patch file too. Oh well, I guess it doesn't work as well with dll's. It's still a possibility that the guy who compiles the versions on the site is using a different GCC version to the one they have there to download.

I believe several versions ago Tom finally removed the command line box thing. It annoyed me too, but should be gone now. Glad you got it working

Attract mode should work when GameEx goes into attract mode (screen saver type thing). Usually takes about 5 minutes of waiting without input. The LEDs should stay lit all the time in GameEx for the colors your've set them too. When you browse Mame games they should change color. Seems to me like it's working as I would expect. You just have to wait about 5 minutes until GameEx goes into attract mode. It has to be turned on in GameEx though. Also I would probably turn on the lwa and plasma modes for attract. I think they look the best Good luck!

It does work patching the dll, I just tried. But the patch file is 7.21 MB in size. This might mean your using a different version of MinGW to the one they compiled but I'm not 100% sure. I'll see what mine comes up with.

Okay I figured it out and you didn't do anything wrong. I just didn't realise Mame Plus was so different. It has 3 components to it but it looks like most of the code is inside the dll (as you thought in your previous thread). Try patching mameplib.dll instead.

Please don't post links to Mame executables you've modified. We don't want to piss off the Mame developers here. AFAIK patches are okay, but modified binary's are not. Please don't do that. I could tell you did something wrong before because the patch file was only a few k in size. The zip file it creates should be around 1MB. Don't stress we will have it working in a sec