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Nevermind I just realised that the log won't say how Mame has exited. The only thing I can think of is that some button combo your pressing at the time is triggering the ESC exit key. What game are you playing when it exits? Also try running a Mame game and pressing every button/joystick combo you can think of and see if it will exit Mame. I assume your using an IPAC, so you can download WinIPAC to check your SHIFT buttons. WinIPAC.zip

You can't have GameEx start up with a Mame game like that, Run on Launch is not for this purpose. It is for launching small utils and such in the background. There is no way to have GameEx startup with a Mame game. Just add the game to favourites and select it from there.

Download my KeyCodes util and run it in the background. Then at least you can find out what the last key pressed is. Is this key mapped to your IPAC? Perhaps then you can unplug your keyboard to see if it's registering the key from that, then try unplugging your IPAC and see if you get the same thing. Problem solving is a matter of elimination. Finally if you have a wireless keyboard I would be highly suspicious of interference. I have a wireless mouse and when I am copying data over my 802.11g wireless network the mouse is unusable!

I had this same issue which prompted me to buy a sound card. Same thing still occured, and I'm not sure what causes it. I have a personal feeling that is may be the VolumeControl.dll (seems to start happening when sound gradually fades out in GameEx after launching a game) which is why I wrote a new one for Tom myself, although he hasn't implemented it and I'm not sure if he will. The current VolumeControl.dll is written in VB6 and is the only file that is dependant on the VB6 runtimes. The one I wrote to replace it is pure C++. Recently I was having sound issues again, but this time I found out it was the connection at the back of my soundcard. So now I'm not certain if it was that (although the fact this happend with my onboard sound as well as the Soundblaster Audigy makes me doubtful). I havn't had much of a chance to thrash my cab again lately to see if it happens again.

There was an incident where there was a rather rude picture posted on GameEx Live when it first came out. We all had a bit of a laugh about it. I believe Tom has updated Extender so it won't post anything from the desktop.

There should be a menu option under Mame called Update List. I think it may depend on if you have flat menu's or not though and Update List enabled as a menu option.

Select Start->Programs->Accessories->Entertainment->Volume Control From the Volume Control's menu select Options->Properties Select Adjust Volume For->Recording Make sure you have Microphone selected as the input source

I don't see any issues with privacy myself. Even the screenies of the desktop are impossible to make out anything. Heh unless you have a big pic of a naked girl or something. But I believe you've removed the screenshot when at the desktop anyways.

Naa nevermind, don't post any torrent links here.

hear hear! Merry XMas all, take care over the festive season! See you all in 2007 for more arcade madness

GUI's are easy. Download Visual Studio C# 2005 Express, and prepare to be daunted at first. Making GUI's are easy. Simple matter of drawing them on the form. Follow this simple tute on making a simple interface that browses for a file, and displays the file name in a textbox. Load up Visual Studio Express 2005 then select File->New->Windows Application 1. Create a textbox on the form by selecting it from the toolbox on the left of the screen (You may need to show it by selecting View->Toolbox). 2. Drag it out the size you want. 3. Create a button, place "..." in the text properties of the button. 4. Double click on the button on the form to create the default event for it (button1_Click()) 5. In the buttons event add the following... private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { OpenFileDialog fd = new OpenFileDialog(); if(fd.ShowDialog(null) == DialogResult.OK) { textBox1.Text = fd.FileName; } } Select Debug->Start Debugging to run your program. Click the button, and browse for a file. Simple first application in C#!

Nice idea, something I think Tom would like also. Post this in the feature request forum if you can.

Nologic: I really wish you would try out coding in something like C#. Then you could create a full interface and everything for some of your tools. I guess it's alot of time and effort to learn a new language, but I just think you have what it takes to do it. Also, I'm here to help if you have any problems. Just a thought

Is anyone willing to upload a MUGEN pack pre-configured for use with GameEx with a good bunch of levels and characters? Not sure if we should even be talking about this because the characters are probably copyright artwork or something. It's a grey area, but I will allow it because there are no ROMs (that is unless Tom decides otherwise).

Yeah occationally GameEx jumps out of Attract mode for me too. It's quite rare, but if I'm just leaving it running in Attract mode I can often walk past my cab and it's back on the menu.

Another question is do you have Attract mode running purely with Mame games or are you running other emu's as well? If it's the latter try switching to Mame only and see if it crashes again.

To be sure, but it's always good practice to not use spaces (hence why I said "for a start"). With the information provided it's hard to say what it could be. Does Mame32 crash outside of GameEx? And Will makes a good point, it could be your exit button being pressed. The GameEx log should help identify if Mame has been exited via the exit key or if it has just closed via a crash. If you can't post the whole log (sounds like it's timing out which happens to me sometimes on here), just past the last 10 lines or so.

I would remove the space in your ROMs path for a start. Ie. Q:\Mame\mame_games\roms

What about the "legend edition"? Is that easy to set up? What does PCGame=True actually do?

I've attached the latest version of LCDTest which has the newer Audio Attract mode for RGB LED's.

Nice lingpanda. Just for future reference though, objects that can't be dragged around with the mouse (buttons/background etc) are because they are locked by default. This is so you don't accidently move them around. You can unlock an object so you can move/resize it with the mouse by clicking on the little padlock icon.

It sounds to me like your running out of memory or something. Try downloading Process Explorer and monitor the GameEx process (you can watch memory and CPU useage).

Check out SetVol. You could run that at the start of GameEx.

I saw Prodigy live at my first Rave Yeah I've been to a few but the whole scene died over here a while ago. It was fun while it lasted though

Damn it! Yeah my worse fears have come true then, resx files built in 2005 can't be compiled as .NET 1.1 resources. I use VS 2003 to compile plugin's, but using 2005 I had the same problem with the same two lines. I don't know what else you can do to compile using 2005 as your IDE. Tom is thinking about upgrading to .NET 2.0 but that will be a pretty big job. I think it's strange you can't use 2.0 compiled dll's in 1.1 applications too. If you figure out a way around it, let us know. Yeah Prodigy rock, I've seen them live a few times here in Perth