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Try setting d3dversion setting from 9 to 8 in mame.ini.

A few things you can try.. Check out the "Video Tools" section in the Utilities post. Also there is a custom version of MAME called GroovyMAME. But just to quote a post about it from BYOAC: EDIT: You beat me to it. AVRes is listed under the "Video Tools" link

I would send off those pictures to Guinness in the hope they'll send you back a years supply for free I love Guinness but it's expensive over here so I only buy it for the occational treat. Kilkenny aint bad either although it's alot lighter than the creamy full flavour of Guinness.

Great idea for a plugin!

Could a third party application have done that?

Thanks Adultery!

ROM Managers, Renamers & Dats CLRMame Pro A popular ROM management program. Designed to help you maintain and organize your emulators roms collection for various gaming systems. ROM Center Another popular ROM management program. OfflineList Another ROM manager. ROMSorter A program that can sort ROMs based on flags in the filename Eg. Sorting all US (U) and Japanese (J) ROMs. MAME Content Manager It's a simple program that makes it easy to control what types of ROMs you keep on your PC. MCM lets you easily rename or delete all MAME ROMs and data files by category - Adult, Quiz, Mahjong, Puzzle, etc. ROMLister Use this tool to locate MAME ROMs that will play on your machine. ROMDeleter Do you have 100000s of roms that have been renamed using TOSEC and Good Tools? If so then you probably have GBs of extra roms such as bad dumps, overdumps and unwanted translations. Use this free app to delete them from your collection using filters. UnGoodMerge This program makes it very convenient to convert a large amount of GoodMerged 7-Zip archives into formats that emulators can read. GoodTools GoodTools is a common name for set of Rom Renamers for a wide variety of systems. Created by Cowering, they are distributed as .exe files with a built in database. The GoodTools are some of the oldest rom renamers still in existance. NoIntro What "No-Intro" does is fill some .dat files, to be used with ROM-Managers, with information about the known ROMS released. TOSEC TOSEC is an acronym standing for "The Old School Emulation Centre", and is the name of an organisation dedicated to creating a database project, cataloguing the complete software libraries of old computer and console platforms. Redump A great source for disc verification DATs. Maybe-Intro Maybe-Intro is a project dedicated to the preservation and cataloging of ROM hacks and especially the fan translations of video games. Input Mapping Software AutoHotkey Automate your applications. Maybe used for these games, that have trouble to get working in a cabinet (most wrappers seen to made in this utility) AutoIt Powerful scripting application that can be used to write wrappers. Can compile custom scripts to executables. Joy2Key Program to simulate keypresses from joystick inputs (useful for some emulators) PPJoyKey PPJoyKey is an application to convert keystrokes into Windows joystick input via the PPJoy Virtual Joystick interface. VJoy Virtual Joystick VJoy Virtual Joystick is a software application and virtual driver system that allows keyboard input to be translated to joystick input. J2K - A Joystick to Keyboard Mapper There are already very feature-rich joystick to keyboard mappers out there, be it JoyToKey or XPadder. However, both are not Freeware and both lack the possibility to easily switch configurations from outside the applications, which would be necessary if you use game front-ends like GameEx. XPAdder Great software for keyboard and mouse emulation. (By Jonathan) Mame Analog Joystick Map Editor This is a Mame analog joystick map editor. Loads/Saves Mame ini files that can specify analog control map for specific games. Some example ini files included. Save the ini files to the Mame's ini folder (create one if it's not there). Name the file [ROM].ini. (By HeadKaze) Timer (HyperAttract) This is a application to auto quit your emulator under a amount of idle, which you define in the ini file. Pinnacle Game Profiler Pinnacle Game Profiler is a keyboard keymapper, mouse emulator, game manager, and input device programmer—all rolled into one. List Generators Mame LCDGen LCD text file generator for creating *.lcd files to send to a LCD attached to your PC's com port, typically used in a Mamecab in conjunction with a frontend. (By Silver) ListGen This utility uses a free SQL engine (SQLite) to create an internal table from MAME's -listxml output that can be used to generate MAMEWah game lists. It also can be used to generate batch files for Cakemeister's MAME Movie Maker. ListGen is a fast, open source way to filter game lists. (By Cakemeister) ROMLister A windows GUI based application that also uses MAME's xml output file to allow you to create custom filtered lists of games based on your input criteria. (# of buttons, joystick type, monitor orientation, etc) The program can create numerous output files for many popular front ends as well as generic formats like XML, CSV, and batch files. Open source and freeware. (By NOP) MultiMame MultiMAME is a command line application which makes multiple emulators and/or subset of games look like a single emulator. (By Lilwolf) RomDir2XML Utility for generating MaLa game lists for emulators other than MAME. (By Spiderstyle) CFG Magician Create Custom Mame Cfg Files Automatically. (By Morpheus) Video Tools MultiRes Program to change the screen resolution (inc. from a commandline) UltraMon UltraMon is a utility for multi-monitor systems, designed to increase productivity and unlock the full potential of multiple monitors. PowerStrip Program for setting custom resolutions. See Custom display modes (Windows) - Powerstrip MAME Resolution Tool Tool for generating cfg files with resolutions to match closest authentic resolution for games. (By MinWah) AvRes Another tool for generating cfg files with resolutions to match closest authentic resolution for games. (By Gavin Benson) Soft-15k A simple tool programming videocard drivers to support 15 Khz AND arcade resolutions. Supports ATI Catalyst, NVidia ForceWare, Matrox PowerDesk and various 3Dfx Voodoo3/4/5 drivers. See Soft-15khz. (By SailorSat) iRotate iRotate uses the hardware rotation capabilities of the video card to rotate the screen. softSpin softSpin's screen orientation support utilizes the rotation capabilities present in most of today's graphics card drivers. mng2avi The mng2avi is a utility which converts MNG video files into AVI video files. It does this by first breaking down the MNG file into a series of pngs, then running a VirtualDub script to create the AVI file. Optionally, mng2avi can be used to create demo loop movies directly from MAME's MNG output. (By Cakemeister) mng2avi Another mng2avi program. (By Silver) Audio Tools CabVol Control volume with your spinner/trackball/joysticks/buttons. (By Ahofle) VolumeTray This little utility lets me map a single button/control on my control panel for Volume up and down that works regardless of emulator. Command Line Volume Run this utility before and after you run an emulator and it will restore the volume last set for it. (By HeadKaze) Master Volume Lock/Fix Run this script on system startup to lock the sytem volume at a given level. (By Kelroy) Ambience Ambience runs in the system tray to play audio samples randomly or in order. While designed to play the Arcade Ambience samples it can play any samples on a primary or secondary sound card. (By TheShanMan) SoundSwitch SoundSwitch makes it easier to switch playback devices (sound cards). Quick Sound Switch Quick Sound Switch makes it easier to switch playback devices (sound cards). Control Panel Software Johnny 5 Johnny5 is a label layout program, controls viewer, and artwork generator. You take your own background image and add where you want your labels to go, such as Up, Fire, etc. Johnny then takes information from controls.dat to populate the labels and creates a psudeo-interactive display from it. Optionally, Johnny can just save the display to a file via command-line. J5 can also display instruction cards, control panel images and supports the command.dat. Johnny also includes a GUI. (By Howard Casto) You can find full information about Johnny 5 controls viewer here Johnny 5 home page CPMaker CPMaker is a label layout program, control panel layout program, controls viewer, and artwork generator. The CPMaker GUI, which was released in February 2006, allows the user to easily create his or her own control panel out of artwork pieces. (By Cakemeister) CPMaker home page CPViewer CPViewer is a label layout program and controls viewer. jcrouse says this about what CPViewer is: "CPViewer is an add-on for Mame. More specifically for the front-end you use to launch your Mame games. It uses a file called controls.ini (part of controls.dat) to lookup the controls for a particular game. 'It then displays them on the screen so you know what buttons and movements perform what actions in the game that is currently highlighted in your front-end. Did you ever sit do to play a little and decide to try a new game? Then ask yourself, "What buttons do what?" Well if the game has been documented in the controls.ini file, this won't happen again. Simply press a hotkey (one of your control panel buttons) and a graphic of your control panel will be displayed with all of the character movements or button assignments displayed so you know what buttons perform what actions. It's that simple." (By John Crouse) home page CPWizard CPWizard is a control panel editor, control panel (controls.dat), game info (listinfo.xml/Catver.ini/nplayers.ini/HallOfFame.xml), game history (history.dat), mame info (mameinfo.dat), special moves (command.dat) and hiscore (story.dat) viewer. CPWizard is a CP editor and viewer with a graphics library designed to build a custom CP. It runs resident in the icon tray and can be invoked by pressing pause in Mame without the need for command line options. It can export CP as images or bezel artwork that can be toggled on or off inside Mame. It also supports emulators other than Mame. (By HeadKaze) CPWizard Home Page LED Software LEDBlinky w/ Animation Editor Arcade LED Control software and Animation Editor. Supports LED-Wiz, PacLED64, PacDrive, and U-HID lighting and output controllers. (By Arzoo) LEDWiz SDK LEDWiz SDK. (By RandyT / MikeQ / HeadKaze) PACDrive & U-HID SDK PACDrive & U-HID SDK. (By HeadKaze) LuminAudio Engine™ LuminAudio Engine™ is a "light organ" application for the LED-Wiz and LED-Wiz+GP Lighting and output controllers. (By RandyT) LuminAudio Engine™ FE Integration Scripts Scripts to help integrate the LuminAudio Engine™ software for use in Front Ends. (By AlexDog69) Front-End / Jukebox Plugins LEDBlinky w/ Animation Editor Arcade LED Control software and Animation Editor (LWAX format). Supports LED-Wiz, PAC-Drive, and U-HID lighting and output controllers. (By Arzoo) PluginLCD GameEx plugin that supports LEDWiz, PACDrive, BetaBrite, BPP-440, CrystalFontz, PJRC, ProLite hardware devices. It also supports Speech and Sample event driven effects. (By HeadKaze) UltraStik Plugin GameEx plugin for UltraStik 360 (By HeadKaze) GameEx Plugins Other GameEx Plugins JukePlugSys Jukebox Plugin System. See Jukebox Plug-Ins (By Unclet / Space Fractal / HeadKaze / Loadman) Screen Savers EmuSaver Emulator Screensaver (By Howard Casto) Mame Screensaver Mame Screensaver (By Tom Speirs) Random Mame Launcher Randomly loads a new random MAME ROM for a specific amount of time (which you specify). Useful for arcade cabinets in which you want to randomize your game selection (e.g. have your games run a new random game for each different day). (By emb) TB_ScreenSaver TB_ScreenSaver is a Windows 2000/XP/Vista picture screen saver that displays pictures from a user-specified directory using one of nine formats. TB_ScreenSaver supports MAME by displaying MAME pictures then running the games. (By Kenneth W. McKirahan) File Renamers Oscar's File Renamer Program to rename files using text editor type functions like Quick find, Replace, multiple Undo/Redo, Macros and of course normal editing. (By Oscar) Bulk Rename Utility Bulk Rename Utility is a utility which allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extemely flexible criteria. Add date-stamps, replace numbers, insert strings, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and subfolders....plus loads more! (By Jim Willsher) Flash Renamer Batch rename multiple files in a single click! A great time saving tool for managing your file collections, such as digital photos, mp3 music, movies and so forth. (By Dan) Generic Artwork Renamer A neat little program written by Howard_Casto (author of the Dragon King Front End) that allows you to easily rename files. A great program that will attempt to rename screenshots by cross-referencing with a given list of game filenames. (By Howard Casto) FuzzyRename An easy to use tool to help rename png/avi files to match your rom/zip files. Uses fuzzy logic to match names that are similar.(By NOP) FatMatch Image renamer. Immediate Progress Report on Fuzzy Matching, folder selection as opposed to list copy-pasting, treeview of results for easier match picking, software-controlled file renaming. (By Fatone85) Skinny Match Image renamer. Run Skinny Match, and you will be asked to browse to your rom, and art paths. You can use the 'Add Path' button to add additional art paths. The first art path that you enter will be the primary path that is used for matching. Any additional paths will have the art renamed, if the names in the secondary paths match the names in the primary path. (By Tempest) Run Files as a Service XYNTService This utility lets you start and stop any program as if it were a Windows System Service. This is especially useful for starting programs in the background even if you have Windows set up to boot directly into your Frontend. (By Xiangyang Liu) RunAsSvc Another program for running apps as a service. (By Dieter Schmeer) Emulator Wrappers BYOAC Wrappers Wrappers are small utilities used to "wrap" an emulator to automate it's launching and exiting. (By BYOAC Community) Visual Pinball Wrapper Wrapper for launching Visual Pinball (By Howard Casto) Chankast Launch This is a wrapper for the Dreamcast emulator Chankast. It works with all versions of Chankast, even those that are not designed for full screen mode. It is also written in C++ and is only 72k in size. (By Headkaze) WinUAE Loader WinUAE Loader is a WinUAE launcher for arcade cabinets. It supports GameBase Amiga, SPS and WHDLoad game sets and allows you to remap input to suit arcade controls. (By Headkaze) Misc Tools Daemon Tools Program to create virtual drives (useful for mounting CD images) Mame Compiler 64 FE to help compiling Mame and applying diff patches. Supports Mame 32/64 and MameUI 32/64. (By HeadKaze) Hiscore Diff's Hiscore diff's for all MAME versions without hiscore support (107u2 - current). (By MKChamp) Instant Sheller Hide Windows boot up screen, cursors, desktop and boot straight into a Front End. See Hiding Windows (By Tom Speirs) Quick Sheller Hide Windows boot up screen, cursors, desktop and boot straight into a Front End. See Hiding Windows (By Lave Laar) Mame Interop SDK The MameInterop SDK is a collection of source code projects to help with writing applications that communicate with Mame using it's built in output system developed by the MAME Team. (By MAME Team / HeadKaze / Howard Casto) Mame Hooker Program to control hardware through the COM/Parallel ports including LEDWiz, PACDrive, IO Warrior and Keyboard LED's using a scripting engine. It can communicate with Mame and other software as well as display artwork on a secondary monitor. (By Howard Casto) WMPFull Play video files using Windows Media Player in fullscreen. Will exit when ESC is pressed or the video has finished playing. (By HeadKaze) Web Cam Snap Attach a webcam to your cab and take snaps or video's of visitors. Play them back later in your Front End. (By HeadKaze) Scanner A hard disk usage visualization tool. An extended pie chart displays all major files and folders. (By Steffen Gerlach) Joystick Utilities Several useful joystick utilities are located at this site including Clear Calibration Utility (clear the calibration of your joysticks), DXTweak 2 (Tweak various settings such as deadzone), JoyIDs Utility (change the Id's of your joysticks), Poswdm Utility (Allows you to see axis and button data). SetDMD SetDMD is a tool, mainly for virtual pinball cabinet owners, that allows you to easily set your DMD position as well as some other parameters in the DMD for all installed ROMs in the system at once. (By BigBoss)

Chankast Launch This is a wrapper for the Dreamcast emulator Chankast (http://www.chanka.org). It works with all versions of Chankast, even those that are not designed for full screen mode. It is also written in C++ and is only 72k in size. CPWizard CPWizard is a control panel editor, control panel (controls.dat), game info (listinfo.xml/Catver.ini/nplayers.ini/HallOfFame.xml), game history (history.dat), mame info (mameinfo.dat), special moves (command.dat) and hiscore (story.dat) viewer. CPWizard is a CP editor and viewer with a graphics library designed to build a custom CP. It runs resident in the icon tray and can be invoked by pressing pause in Mame without the need for command line options. It can export CP as images or bezel artwork that can be toggled on or off inside Mame. It also supports emulators other than Mame. FixColorKey This program is for people who want transparency in GameEx but also want to keep black areas black. What it does is let you browse to a folder and it will scan each png file and if it contains transparency it will brighten the rest of the image by 5% then make the transparent area pure black. Now when you display the image in GameEx blacks should be black and the transparency should be transparent. Detective DS London, 1974. You are a famous Scotland Yard Detective who must solve the murder of the rich aristocrat Angus McFungus, who’s body has been discovered at his home at 427 Park Lane. Arriving at the residence you soon discover that this will not be a simple ‘open and shut’ case, and will take all your finely honed detective skills to solve. Can you put your finger on the killer? GameEx Login This program allows you to have multiple users in GameEx each with their own game lists and favourites. You can have up to 10 users including a "Default" login, select a custom username and avatar and password protect certain users. This should be good for people who have children and want to have a gamelist that does not have adult games, but also another password protected login with them included. Jungool 'Jungool' a physics based platform adventure with a touch of puzzle solving. LCD/LED Plugin GameEx plugin that supports LEDWiz, PACDrive, BetaBrite, BPP-440, CrystalFontz, PJRC, ProLite hardware devices. It also supports Speech and Sample event driven effects. MAME Analog Joystick Map Editor This is a Mame joystick map editor. Loads/Saves Mame ini files that can specify a control map for specific games. Some example ini files included. Save the ini files to the Mame's ini folder (create an ini folder if it's not there). Name the file [ROM].ini. MAME Compiler 64 FE to help compiling Mame and applying diff patches. Supports Mame 32/64 and MameUI 32/64. Manic Miner: The Lost Levels This game is a collaboration of Flash (ASM Coding), Headkaze (Coding Support), Lobo (Graphics), Spacefractal (Music), Sverx (libXM7 music system) and Rev.Stu (Concept, Research & Story) and has been the culmination of 3 months tireless work spread over the last 26 years since Willy's first outing. Marquee2Bezel This program that will convert your marquee collection into custom bezels for use in MAME. PleasureExtractor This program is made to extract Visual Pinball, Visual PinMAME and Future Pinball collections from PD. PlugIn Launch This plugin allows you to launch apps before and after games in GameEx. It also allows you to launch games with extra variables from GameEx's standard launch method. PlugIn Rotate Rotate using LPT port or LED method (or both so you can use the keyboard LED to indicate the rotation). Auto Rotate GameEx to the correct orientation when starting a game. PlugIn UltraStik GameEx plugin for UltraStik 360. VJoy Virtual Joystick VJoy Virtual Joystick is a driver and icon tray application for converting keystrokes into joystick input. It supports two virtual joysticks as well as command line control. It has signed drivers thanks to Ultimarc (no need to place your machine into driver testing mode) and supports 64-bit systems such as Vista and Windows 7. Warhawk DS Were proud to present the first Nintendo DS game by Flash and HeadKaze called Warhawk DS. It's based on a C64 SHMUP from 1986 and has been designed to maintain it's retro gameplay and charm. WebCamSnap This program will allow you to take photo's and video's from your Webcam and view them in GameEx. Basically you add the files in the attached zip to your GameEx directory, then setup the program in GameEx config under External Applications. This program will display your webcam stream live in full screen. You press a key to take a photo or record a video. Make sure the PhotoDir and VideoDir settings are the same as your GameEx Pictures and Video directory. Now you can view your photos and video's in GameEx under Multimedia->Pictures/Videos. Windoze Solitaire Solitaire for Windows users have been spoilt over the years with three of the greatest and most popular Solitaire games of all time; Klondike, Spider and Freecell. Now, we bring these games to iOS for free, keeping the original feel but bringing a fresh new modern look and simple intuitive control system. WinUAE Loader WinUAE Loader is a WinUAE launcher for arcade cabinets. It supports GameBase Amiga, SPS and WHDLoad game sets and allows you to remap input to suit arcade controls. WinUAE Config Creator This program will take a collection of ROMs and create uae configuration files for them based on a single uae config file.

It shouldn't matter if your LAN is using 127 addresses. You can't use 127.0.0.1 though because it's your localhost. What IP Addresses do you get listed in the combobox? Do you know which one is your LAN address? If you want to get your LAN address you can select Start->Run and type 'cmd' then enter 'ipconfig'. It should display your IP under "Local Area Connection".

Check out this post where I have a few screenshots showing how you can view GameExtender from a mobile device.

The Setup Wizard's search feature is handy for this type of thing

Try disabling all the plugins you're using.

You missed one

I think aasterbeatrix's a bot.

I have and we've added this capability to GameEx but I'm not sure if SendKeys has been modified to use the RawInput hook. Tom I thought it was?

In the Theme Editor you can set a theme to support Alpha Channel. I can't remember if it prevents GameEx from converting pure black to alpha though? Can anyone confirm?

What video card do you have? Have you installed the latest drivers for it?

The Theme Editor was first released around 2005 and around that time GameEx themes were much smaller. So loading everything into memory was never really a problem until recently.

Thanks guys although I still think the graphics should be set to dynamically load at some stage. This is fine for the meantime though.

Yes it does and the log shows no error when I load your theme now. So all should be swell

Okay I figured out the cause of the errors. The Theme Editor was compiled for 32-bit and the process limit for that is 2 GB. So it was running out of memory. When I compile it with 64-bit support it will load the theme no problem. Anyway here is the Theme Editor compiled for "Any CPU" so it will run in 64-bit mode on a 64-bit machine. If you have a 64-bit machine you should have no problem loading larger themes using this binary. ThemeEditor_AnyCPU.zip

It looks to me like you're running out of memory, although GDI+ can trigger that message for numerous reasons, this time it really does look like a memory problem. It loads a bunch of images and then starts reporting the error for every subsiquent image. The Theme Editor actually loads each image into memory and makes a copy for rotation and scaling reasons (so it can do non-destructive editing). The problem is with such a large theme it doesn't have the memory for it. I'm thinking the Theme Editor will need to be modified to use dynamic image loading. So only images of the layout you're currently working on is loaded into memory. I'll have a chat to Tom about it.

You can see a video of GameEx using the PluginLCD to control a BetaBrite.

I've added logging to the ThemeEditor so we can get a better idea of what's going wrong without the need to have everyone upload their themes. Copy the attached ThemeEditor.exe over your old one in the GameEx folder and then it will output to a log file in GameEx\LOG\ThemeEditor.txt. Please attach your ThemeEditor.txt files here after attempting to load the theme. ThemeEditor.zip

I would need to look at the entire theme and recreate the error to be able to debug it properly. If you can upload it somewhere I can take a look.