headkaze

Do you mean your using the exit plugin? That is designed to exit GameEx not games. Take a look at "Map File" in the Emulator Setup (2) in the Setup Wizard. It allows you to assign a file that has custom exit combo using a gamepad.

Check out Arcade Art for some controls. Just put "buttons" in the search.

I'm more suprised the daemon tools one doesn't work When you send command lines to a batch file it works differently, so in GameEx, you have LaunchBefore=C:\Wherever\MyBat.bat "[rompath]\[rom]" Then in your MyBat.bat you have @ECHO OFF c:\winipac\winipac.exe c:\winipac\profiles\ssf.ipc "c:\program files\daemon tools\daemon.exe" -mount 0,%1 I'm not sure what your doing wrong with the winipac line, but with the daemon tools line, %1 is replaced with what is sent through the first paramenter (ie. "[rompath]\[rom]")

Yeah thats what you do

Yeah thats all you do write it in notepad and save as a .bat file. Basically it allows you to do more than one command. So after the @ECHO OFF line you just have a line for each command you want to launch.

Use a batch file, which is basically a text file.. Eg. Runme.bat @ECHO OFF winipac ... daemon ...

I think you just use Mame32 to record an AVI of a single game.

If you run ZincFE then select Options->Setup there is a setting there called "Use Settings per Game". This will allow you to go through each game and configure it manually. I must admit, it's pretty damn confusing though!

Using Nologic's wrapper will probably let you setup controls closer to how the real games were played, but if you just wanted to get your P2 controls working in Zinc, then you should be able to use the Setup Wizard to download it with everything you need for basic controller config. It has a FE in there (called ZincFE.exe) which you launch, then select Options->Controller Setup. I believe I may have the defaults setup already using default Mame buttons.

You might like to convert your mng's over to avi... Buddabing's MNG2AVI Silver's MNG2AVI

People often say over in BYOAC that the screen should be the most expensive part of the cab. Hey rygars, I would love to buy one of these when I can afford it, I wonder how much it would cost to import them to Perth. I can't find anywhere over here that sells these. I would guess it would be a couple of hundred AUD to get it sent over.

Sorry but this is not really possible right now because of the way I have written it, colors.ini was not meant to be customized in this way. The Px_CUSTOMx were really meant only for admin buttons, not in game lighting with colors.ini. Don't you just have your admin buttons set on Always Stay Lit? Perhaps I can make it more customisable in the future, I still need to add in profiles for other emulators too.

There are issues with MDX 1.1 assemblies running in .NET 2.0, the first issue you would probably encounter is loader lock which you can turn off (but aparently this only solves the issue most of the time). The more I'm researching this the more I'm suprised you don't have more problems running GameEx in .NET 2.0. Let hope it's not this underlying problem, as what I have read about it has more specifically been about Direct3D 1.1 assemblies in .NET 2.0, I have no idea if it effects DirectDraw, but it probably does. The next thing is MDX 2.0 has expired (if you try to use it a messagebox pops up saying so) so there is no moving to MDX 2. I'm not even sure what the last version of MDX 1.1 is but you can't move to MDX 2.0 anymore, and forget XNA because you can't use the System.Drawing namespace and my guess is you are using it for some things. Microsoft has done a disappointing job with MDX and alot of people have been burnt trying to keep up with it.

This could be an issue with using the MDX 1.1 runtimes in .NET 2.0, but I'm not entirely sure. One thing I do recommend though Tom is to update your Visual Studio 2005 to SP1 if you havn't done already.

It was actually Tom that suggested I add support for custom module layouts so I assume he wants to eventually add this to GameEx. Currently they are not supported, but I'm sure he will get around to doing it. No harm in having them made up and ready for when it's added. Tom decided to release the latest version of the Theme Editor a bit early because some of the earlier ones were a big buggy.

Hehe indeed, reminds me of the NBA Jam sample "He's on fire!". You might like to include the new LCDPlugin with the next release also. I LOVE the video preview feature btw EDIT: Oops just fixed another bug in the LCDPlugin, it's now at 1.92

The SMExclusions registry setting tells DivX what processes not to use the DivX Tray application with. That way it does not steal focus with the programs listed there. I just added GameEx.exe and HideOS.exe to this which should solve the problem for GameEx.

No worries, I'll add these in. The latest release fixes the crashing and stutter bug in Videos, but now when I play a video the audio from the preview video continues playing also.

LCDPlugin 1.91 Released - Fixed cfg xml reading error - Fixed config bug

Thanks Tom BTW The video preview feature is actually on by default and it will only show picture snaps if you have them already generated under GameEx\MEDIA\VIDEOS. Perhaps you could add an override feature if video preview is enabled.

Thanks Tom I will delete my threads here regarding this so people don't get confused about installing K-Lite.

Eventually I will add support for other emu's, just a matter of finding time to do it.

It looks like a great feature, although when I go over a video it will start twice like a stutter Ie. plays video -> 1 second of playing -> restarts video and plays. BTW I just uninstalled K-Lite and installed ffdshow-20051129.exe again because of the mpeg crash I was getting but I'm still getting the error I reported in the other thread. So now I'm thinking it must be something introduced recently because these videos played before with this codec.

This problem is the LCDPlugin NOT GameEx. Can you please zip up your Mame config files (<Mame Folder>\cfg\*.cfg) and attach them to a post here. This is a bug I need to fix.

Okay I've just tried this myself and there are issues with Angelic's method. The first problem is when you install K-Lite there is no DivX folder and the DivXToolbarToggleTool.exe does not work without an official install of DivX. I'm not sure what Angelic did to get this working I can only assume he installed the official DivX along with the K-Lite codec pack. But there is a better way without needing to do that! 1. Uninstall all codecs 2. Run the CODEC Reset Utility and launch menu.bat (if using XP Pro x64 Edition run menu64.bat instead). 3. Install K-Lite Codec Pack Make sure you add a tick next to Xvid under DirectShow filters (GameEx will not work with the default ffdshow Xvid decoder in K-Lite!) 4. You don't need to do anything fancy to fix the DivX focus problem. Just run the attached registry file to fix it (BTW Tom you may like to add this to the install of GameEx to fix this problem once and for all!) Everything should work fine now, the only problem is I don't notice any performance difference from using ffdshow-20051129.exe (which is the codec pack we usually recommend for GameEx) although my video snaps are in XVid format, so with DivX ones you may see an improvement as Angelic has mentioned. There is one final problem, when viewing an mpg video under Videos in GameEx it will crash (only seems to happen in full screen). It does play the video for a few seconds before crashing so I would expect it to be a minor bug. Tom any chance you can take a look at this? GameExDivXFix.zip