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My wrapper is supposed to be better in that it reads each game from the listview and then gets the actual location of it for the mouse click rather than sorting the list and guessing where it is. It's a much lower level way of doing things and should work on any system. It's the one that is now included with GameEx, but there are still reports of it not working for some people.

See if unregistering iviaudio.ax helps... http://www.free-codecs.com/guides/How_to_f...audio_ax_at.htm

The error "iviaudio.ax" seems to refer to a codec. What do you have set under "DVD MPEG 2 Codec" in "DVD Settings"? You can also try using VMR9/FFDSHOW if you don't have a decent MPEG2 codec installed.

Check your dosbox.conf file make sure you have the following (change the windowresolution to the native resolution of your laptop). fullscreen=true fullresolution=fixed windowresolution=1024x768 output=ddraw

I dont think map files are designed to replace the file name that is launched, but simply what is displayed in the list. So if you have funky ROM names you can have them mapped to more reader friendly names. If you decide to go the batch file way, variables are very handy for passing information to them from GameEx. You can use these variables to save you from creating batch files for every game. Here is an example. In GameEx you have x64.bat [Rom] "[RomFile]" Then in the batch file you can have.. @ECHO OFF IF %1 == "SUSWEET" x64.exe -flipname E:\Emulation\C64\Roms\Su_Sweet_(7523)\Su_Sweet_(7523).vkm -autoload %2 -confirmexit -fullscreen "Su Sweet" IF %1 == "NEXTGAME" x64.exe -autoload %2 -confirmexit -fullscreen "Next Game" EXIT Okay it's a long and painful way to do things, but I can't really think of an easier way to do this. To solve your ESC problem you can add the following line to your Emulator config. LaunchAfter=taskkill.exe /IM x64.exe That should kill the emulator to return back to GameEx (hopefully)

You can't use a mouse button to show the CP, it must be a key on the keyboard. Although you could write an AutoHotkey script that will map the mouse button to the L key.

Didn't I already make a post about this? That is from a Sierra FAQ. "Your sound card is not compatible with the QG Sound Blaster drivers". You have a few options from here... Launch Windows instead and use DOSBox or ScummVM to run your Sierra/Lucas Arts games. There are also some VGA remakes of some of these old classics like Kings Quest that run in Windows. BTW There is a download in the Setup Wizard for ScummVM with an ini file that you can edit to make it work from GameEx. Your other option is to find an old Sound Blaster card. This will depend on how old your PC is as to whether or not you have the right slot for the right card (ie VESA/ISA/PCI). There are drivers for some old Sound Blasters cards here. If you have some geek mates they might have an old Sound Blaster card lying around somewhere. There are audio emulators for new sound cards to emulate the old Sound Blaster cards but they were for running DOS games in Windows (eg. VDMSound/SoundFX/Abandonloader). Though your better off running DOSBox or ScummVM if you decide to run from Windows. Really to run old games in DOS you need an old PC with an old audio card or you should be running these using emulators in Windows.

If you run the Setup Wizard you can enter the key you want for the CP Viewer. Go to "Advanced MAME Settings (1)" and next to "Ingame CP View VK" press the [...] button to enter the new key.

Again, a few seconds on Google...

Check out this page. It has the MOUSE.COM file your after.

You need to run a mouse driver in DOS, I believe it may be as simple typing MOUSE at the DOS prompt or adding that line into your autoexec.bat. Otherwise you may need to download a DOS driver for your particular mouse.

Nice to see you back on the forums too katuuuz You can indeed have 98 boot directly to the DOS prompt but it's been so long since I touched one even though I worked on hundreds of them years ago. From memory you can just edit the autoexec.bat and remove the line that launches windows but I could be thinking of 3.11 which was also around when I was a PC technician. A quick search on Google came up with this link that might help you out with that.

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If they are DivX movies then the player steals focus from other apps and thus minimises GameEx. You can try the registry hack from this post or try a different codec.

Actually the idea I'm talking about has better picture quality. The first output for the first monitor is the SVGA ouput, and the second monitor uses the DVI output (all my video cards have come with a free DVI->SVGA adapter) unless your second monitor supports DVI. So in the end you have two outputs using SVGA, it is clearer than you will ever get using S-Video.

You are running your multi monitor setup in dual view. Then you using Mame's software cloning I guess. You need to set your hardware to clone. It depends on what video card your using but any decent ATI or NVidia card can do this. You need to download the latest drivers and then set it to clone view. Then any software you run will be cloned to the second screen.

Your overthinking things Doing this in pure software would slow your computer down too much for it to be worth it. The good news is most modern video cards allow you to use dual monitors (I'm actually writing this on the second screen of my dual monitor setup). Video cards usually have two outputs, one SGVA and one digital. You should also get an adapter that allows you to plug an SVGA monitor to the digital output. Now you have two monitors setup ready for dual monitor goodness. There are 3 modes of operations, span; the display is stretched across two screens (pretty wild and some games actually work like this), then there is Dualview (each monitor can have it's own resolution) and the one you want is Clone. The good news is you can run your dual monitors at the same time without any noticable lag in display. But you need a fairly decent video card with enough RAM to do this. As for getting GameExtender to work on a secondary monitor. Have you checked out the GameExtender Viewer Settings? There is already an option called "Display on Secondary".

There is an easier way to hide desktop icons, rightclick the desktop, select Arrange Icons By->Show Desktop Icons.

Thanks Tom! And have a Happy Easter everyone!

If you have your keys mapped in Mame for NeoGeo games, the plugin should remap the colors to the new buttons. I have my bottom row of buttons assigned differently in Mame for NeoGeo games and they light up okay for me. Not sure I understand the issue your getting where buttons light randomly and change color. Noone else has reported these kind of problems to me. You could try turning of MameInterop/Audio Attract and Demo Attract. I noticed on BYOAC your trying out Mala. If you need to map your buttons to different controls you will need Mala's LEDBlinky plugin not the other LEDWiz plugin. Arzoo should be able to help you set it up.

The LCD Plugin on the forum is the latest version, so you could have just downloaded that and overwritten your old ones rather than re-install. Oh well nevermind. If you have futher problems, posting your LCD.ini file might help me understand the problem.

Thanks NoLogic, I've used your handy list to update my m2loader wrapper. I've sent it off to Tom to include in the next version of GameEx. I'll attach it here for people who want to check it out. It still dosn't work for some people I think, but I'm not entirely sure. If I'm missing a ROM let me know and I'll add it in. m2loader.zip

If you want to change colors.ini manually you will probably need to change controls.ini to match it.

Colors.ini isn't really supposed to be modified. Do you have your buttons configured differently in Mame for Neo Geo games? If you do, then in the LEDWiz configuration associate your buttons to keys in the LED Options. For example I have my P1 controls set to the following: P1_BUTTON1 -> KEYCODE_LCONTROL P1_BUTTON2 -> KEYCODE_LALT P1_BUTTON3 -> KEYCODE_SPACE P1_BUTTON4 -> KEYCODE_LSHIFT P1_BUTTON5 -> KEYCODE_Z P1_BUTTON6 -> KEYCODE_X P1_BUTTON7 -> KEYCODE_C Now in Mame, I have cfg files setup for all NeoGeo games that remap buttons like so P1_BUTTON1 -> KEYCODE_C P1_BUTTON2 -> KEYCODE_LSHIFT P1_BUTTON3 -> KEYCODE_Z P1_BUTTON4 -> KEYCODE_X As long as you have your keys setup in the LEDWiz configuration, the plugin will automatically remap the colors to the correct buttons for games you have cfg files for. Your not really meant to edit colors.ini because this is supposed to be all automated for you. Let me know how you go.

Here I've removed the background for you