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If you want to take that bet you can I need to go through all the emulators in the Setup Wizard's download section and configure them to work using all their default paths. It's a big job so if your willing to help out PM me.

Well you did get frustrated with some of the setup if I recall This release will definately be a big help for new users. But your totally right, without setting things up the hard way how do you learn? I've noticed you turn from a newbie to a pro in a matter of weeks. Now your a great help to others and it's because you did it all yourself that makes you able to do that. The Setup Wizard does help, but it's still not to the stage where you can automatically download the emulators and they just work. There is still alot of work getting each emulator setup for your own controls and to run full screen etc. But I'll be working on that so that the emu's will get close to running without too much manual configuration. It's practically impossible to automate everything though.

The setup wizard has been designed so that you can run it at any time and it will not mess with your current settings. The intro page actually mentions that. So don't be afraid to run the Setup Wizard, you can exit it at any time and it wont change anything. The only time it will make a change is when you change a setting. It dosn't even write to the config file until you make a change.

I used a cool little program called BootLogo to change mine. Don't know if it's any better or worse but it allows you to customise the progress bar colours as well. bootlogo.zip

I would also like to thank Adultery for his config files which are now included in the default install of GameEx. He saved me alot of time it would have taken searching out a bunch of default configs, and they now match up with the emulator downloads. I havn't done enough testing with all the emulators, and they certainly do not run out-of-the box yet. But I'll be working to improve that in the near future.

Sorry I don't know much about the SlikStik or what may have changed since the update. But what are "the playfield buttons"?

For your florescent light try to get something low watt so it dosn't generate too much heat in your cab. I have a 13W 550 mm Crompton Fluorescent light in my cab. My marquee was printed on translucent film. Any local printing shop near you should be able to do it for you.

The Setup Wizard will be released soon and it will allow you to change the order of your emu's without editing the ini file. It should be a little more safer Glad you got it fixed!

Install Tweak UI and under the Desktop option you have tickboxs for all the desktop icons.

Could be a rounding bug or something for the bounds checking. Hopefully Tom will read the thread and check it out.

Not all FE's have thier own forums like we do, so they often get alot more traffic for them. Just thought I'd try and even up the score a bit Shame you have to register to vote though, I think that may lose us a few votes. Were winning at the moment with 33% of votes

Okay working now in 0.109. It was that bloody bezel issue again. I just happened to be unlucky enough to test it with a vertical game

This topic is just for a bit of fun, but someone has made a poll on our beloved BYOAC forums asking "Which FrontEnd are you using currently?". So which FE are you using? http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=58586.0

Thats not true! You can use AutoHotkey to map the ESC key to any other key on your J-PAC. Also isn't there software to change the mappings in the J-PAC itself?

I always just test with 1942 cos it's top of the list, but I tried a few others and same thing. I just replaced the 108 exe back and it's working again. I think I'll wait for Tom to check things out before I bother with the update.

Anyone else have trouble with 109? GameEx returns back to the menu for me.

Hey Chazz, I got Image Magick converting the marquees to the format you need okay, but the results vary alot depending on the marquee. You need to make a batch file and copy one of your images over that has the palette you want (in this case I used your pacman.gif). Say you have a directory of png files, the following command will convert them all to gif, resize them to 120x16 and use the palette from the file pacman.gif. You might want to look at the mogrify command line switches and try some other switches to see if you get better results. mogrify -contrast -interpolate nearest-neighbor +antialias -resize 120x16! -colors 4 +dither -map pacman.gif -format gif *.png

katuuuz there is no need for three posts on the same topic. I am not 100% sure about the situation with the Mame and Daphne backgrounds, but from what I can gather it's simply a limitation at this time. I did mention about fourth post on this thread, that it's probably on the adjenda when Tom looks at adding more support for the Theme Editor. As you can imagine there are heaps of things to do, and it's not always the feature you want the most that is next.

Perhaps the download is bombing out without finishing. Maybe try a download manager that supports resume like FlashGet.

It certainly wouldn't look as good as hand doing the marquee's like you have done Chazz, but using a program like Image Magick would allow you to bulk convert all the marquee's to 120x16 using a variaty of algorithms (nearest neighbour would probably be best) then lowering the colours. But yeah, the results could be questionable. BTW I'm glad to see the method I showed worked okay. But was there anything you needed to change, just so in the future if someone asks the same thing we can give them the right command line argument.

I got to read posts properly, sorry I misread your first post into thinking it wasn't playing the video at all. But playing the video in the background plays no sound by design. It's so you can play the Jukebox etc.

Try downloading the theme again and overwriting the old one.

I can write a little app to send the *.lcd files to the COM port if the copy command dosn't work. But I'm pretty confident you can get it to work with GameEx using the method above. Also, as for the Alpha signs that use 120x16 gif files, has anyone thought to batch convert all the marquee's to that size? That would be bloody cool to have it display the marquee of the game while your playing. If someone here has an alpha sign, I'd like to see if I can get that to work.

Okay I've done a bit of research and I think you can get a BetaBrite working in GameEx quite easily. What you need to do is download the LCD Gen program and generate the *.lcd files for the BetaBrite. Move them into a folder (Eg. C:\MAME\lcd) Then use a batch file to send the rom name to the serial port or directly copy it using the Run on launch (ShellBeforeLaunch) command in the Advanced Mame Settings. E.g. ShellBeforeLaunch=copy /b C:\MAME\lcd\[ROM].lcd com1: GameEx will replace [ROM] with the actual name of the rom. None of this has been tested, so can you get back to me and let me know if it works.

Sorry about that I totally forgot, your right, you have to convert it to an AVI. I used a program called mpeg2avi to convert my mpg to avi for the Sould Calibur theme. I think I used the ffdshow MPEG-4 codec.