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Yes it does, the download was updated yesterday to include the D3D renderer and winterblast's input plugin. It also has the latest version of ZincFE so it's easy to setup your key mappings.

I would suggest you use the Setup Wizard and download the Zinc emulator from there. I have it ready to run. All you have to do is run ZincFE to setup your keyboard mappings. Not all of the emu's run out-of-the-box yet, but it's been worked on

In the launch after field make sure it has either the full path to your program, or the program is in the GameEx directory.

I've never tried them, maybe try a search on the forums, or if you don't turn up anything try and configure them yourself. The key to doing that is finding the command line options for the emulator. This is usually located in the documentation on the emulator's website.

I've heard of other FE's being able to program the IPAC on a per emulator basis. It would be cool if GameEx could have a section in the Emulator's key map file where we can have it automatically program the IPAC for each game. If we can get the necessary scripts together I reakon Tom would be happy to add it as a feature.

In regards to the original post, attached is my MapLAlt2V AutoHotkey script which maps the Left Alt to the V key. So you just need to run this before your emulator and setup your mappings to use V instead of Left Alt. Just copy MapLAlt2V.exe into your GameEx directory. I also use this script for chankast as the problem occurs there as well. Saves reprogramming the IPAC anyway. Use the following Emu Config settings to launch and kill it. AlsoLaunch=MapLAlt2V.exe LaunchAfter=taskkill.exe /F /IM MapLAlt2V.exe MapLAlt2V.zip

Hopefully Tom is aware of this issue because it seems to have popped up quite a bit on the boards lately. For now try using a different theme.

Thanks Nologic, and you wanted Tom to delete your m2 wrapper posts in the Config section! This is why it's a good idea to leave them there since my wrapper has not been thoroughly tested. I send it to Tom for testing and he must have thought it was good enough to release with GameEx. So I'm hoping with a bit more feedback and testing we should hopefully get one wrapper that works for everyone. For now your wrappers will be a great help to others. It might be a good idea to edit your post in the Config section and put this updated wrapper there as well, or rather than post it in this thread leave it in the config section, so people don't download older versions. BTW I tried replying to your PM about 10 times yesterday and it kept timing out. So I might try and reply again today (I pasted my post into a text file on my desktop) - so I'm not ignoring you! EDIT: Nope still not working! Looks like I can't send PM's on this forum anymore!

The famous Mr Do! Welcome to our boards And thanks for the bezel, it's been an ongoing issue for a while here. Tom should hopefully see this soon and make the proper adjustments. Unfortunately I think the bezel feature is a registered only feature, but Tom may give you a free reg for testing purposes.

Yeah sorry about that, I have no major ideas right now, and I need to move on to tackling some of the other emu's on my cab. Hopefully after some more feedback we can track down the problem Here is Tom's old wrapper which I fixed to work with my cab (although I think it still might be missing that alphabetical order clicking for some people) It works fine for me though, but I just didn't like watching the mouse move when it selected a game. I also recommend you try Nologics solution in the User Submitted Configs page. His wrapper is a slightly modified version of Tom's aswell. That might work for you. m2loader_Tom.zip

Hmm I have no idea, thats the sort of behaviour I expect when the ROM isn't found. But it could be that the double click is not being registered in the List View. I may need to try a few other things. But I will need to get more feedback from if this is happening from other people. Is anyone else experiencing this? Does it work for others? I've tested it using both the XP theme and classic theme and it works both times. Here is another slightly modified version with a few things tweaked. Can you try this again with the shortcut method. m2loader.zip

Okay, here is a debug version, place this one in the Model 2 directory and try running the shortcut again. You may need to wait up to 10 seconds for the messages to appear. Write down the messages and post them here. m2loader_DEBUG.zip

Just did another update to the wrapper, this time it will wait up to 10 seconds. Place that in your GameEx and Model 2 directory. Go to your Model 2 directory and create a shortcut to m2loader.exe. Right click the shortcut and select properties. Add the rom name after the exe's name. ie. ...\m2loader.exe" topskatr Run the shortcut. What happens?

What system do you have? I have a fairly fast pc in my cab so I only have a short Sleep() between clicking the ROM and checking for it load. Does Top Skater run okay when you run it directly from the Model 2 emulator outside GameEx? Attached is a version of the wrapper that waits up to 10 seconds instead of 1. Can you give that a try and get back to me please. m2loader.zip

I've really noticed the speed increase in the recent releases of GameEx. And it's running very stable. Kudos my man!

Not sure why you PM'ed me a copy of your post above, but I'll answer you here anyway. I have no idea about the enable keyboard direct input feature. That's a question for Tom. None of the core stuff is written by me, that's all the brilliant work of Tom, and I haven't got the faintest clue how he's implemented Direct Input in GameEx. In regards to the Mame vs Mame32, it's a common question. Mame works fine in GameEx as does Mame32. I use the command line version because you are not using the UI when running it in GameEx so I don't see why you would need it. Mame32 includes a UI and still has support for command line arguments so there is practically no difference except for saving a few megs of memory by using Mame. I used to use Mame32fx but the author discontinued it I believe. I used that build because it had code to normalise sound. With Direct 3D support in the Mame core, I don't bother with any other custom builds anymore. I use a Pentium 4 custom compiled version of plain old Mame with auto-skip disclaimer. But I include a custom P4 version of Mame32 in the same directory in case I want to do some testing from it's UI.

GameEx will show all games in Mame by default even if you only have one. In the Setup Wizard under the Advanced config, there is an option under "Advanced MAME Settings (2)" called "Only Existing ROMS". Set that to Yes and it will only show the ones you have. Also you can turn off "Verify ROMS" and it will update quicker. The List Update does take a long time as it goes through every game. Turning of the verify will make it run quicker though.

What issues are you having with Model 2? I just setup Model 2 on my cab using GameEx's built in Model 2 support. I did notice there was a bug in Tom's m2loader wrapper which I've fixed. I also wrote my own wrapper which dosn't show the mouse selecting a game. I'll attach Tom's fixed wrapper along with my version. EDIT: Now just updated my wrapper to work with all current Zinc games! EDIT2: The wrapper is now included with latest version of GameEx. I will remove the download so I don't have update them everywhere.

Yeah I don't think it's necessary as long as your using custominput.ini because IPAC works just like a normal keyboard anyway. It does say in the help section that the option may be needed for IPAC support. But I think it also enables KeyboardDirectInput which may be the cause of the issues you were having.

The Setup Wizard should help with configuring keys because it has a key config section where you can input the key you want by pressing it. There is no need to manually edit custominput.ini anymore.

Well first thing you should always update GameEx. There is no problem doing this I have been doing it every new release for a long time. The recent update requires you to do a manual install, so download the latest binary and just run the exe. It will not mess with you current setup. Also, the Setup Wizard will not change anything unless you change it yourself. The freezing problem you describe may be a Mame issue, so perhaps you need to try running a few games in plain Mame32 to find out it crashes then. One you illiminate a few things it will be easier to solve the issue.

I'm not sure they are the config files posted by Adultery. I thought it was some wierd command line option, but it's probably just a typo.

Thanks to everyone for the bug reports. They will be fixed for next release.

Sorry, can you say that again? Didn't quite understand what you mean. Is this a bug your reporting?

No your feedback is appreciated, so don't feel your nitpicking, your helping out Yes, I noticed that with the Soul Calibur theme also, there is no preview image in the archive. It was made before there were previews. I don't think I have access to that area of the server, so Tom may need to update it or give me access to add a preview image. I agree with the ffdshow thing, I guess I should explain it more, but I don't want to bog down the Wizard with too many pages. It's already big enough I think. Also, there are other issues, I don't want to encourage people to install ffdshow. Some people might have other codec packs installed and some might have the official DivX/XVid codecs installed. There is a limitation to space (screen real estate) that I have to take into consideration also. It's something I will try and think up a solution for though. As for the DXKaraoke plugin you are given a button to install it if it's not already installed on your machine. If you have it installed it won't show so you may have missed that. Showing the emulator versions for the auto download is a good idea. The recommended folder is, as you say, C:\Emulators\Mame32. Unfortunatley trying to be too smart about things and trying to predict things can end up being twice as confusing. If you already have Mame setup in a different folder, just change the folder and it should detect the rest of the folders. The emulator download page has no connection to this setting, so changing that will not effect anything else. Again, this is not because I'm lazy, but because trying to automate things too much can cause issues. I have to assume that everyone wants their folders in different places, and I can only recommend the default paths. If people want to change that, then they have to change things manually. In the future if people use the default paths in the Wizard, we can get a standard style of setup for GameEx users and things become more predictable. Again. thanks for your feedback, much appreciated!