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I didn't realise there were people updating it. Noone has told me about it until now. The original file was created by extracting the data from GameBase Amiga.mdb. Since GameBase Amiga seems to be no longer maintained the file has not been updated since GameBase Amiga 1.6. It's nice to know people have put the effort into updating it manually though.

Thanks wubble I've uploaded the update.

Can never have too many tools and utilities. Thanks Adultery!

You need a No-CD patch. Since you own the original this isn't illegal. http://www.gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_house_of_the_dead_3.shtml

If you mean "The House of the Dead 3" PC game then I wrote a launcher for this a while back. Copy the hod3_launcher.exe into the same folder as hod3pc.exe and set GameEx to launch it instead. hod3_launcher.zip

When I developed chankast_launch I was running XP 64

My dev machine is 64-bit so it should work. I have Daemon Tools installed also. I would just download it and install, it probably has both 32 and 64 bit versions built into the installer.

Still no luck? What version of MAME do you want? 32 bit with the hiscore patch?

I just successfully compiled Mame 0145 again with the hiscore patch applied. I did get an error different to yours Draco but pressing Go again it continued on and finished. EDIT: Just successfully compiled MameUI 0145 too.

Never seen that error before. Wierd. I have successfully compiled MAME 0145 with Mame Compiler so I have no idea what that error is. A search on Google doesn't help either.

Oh right okay I didn't realise that. So the plugin is still useful

I've updated the SetupWizard with the ability to import langauge ini files into SetupWizard xml files and export SetupWizard xml files to language ini files. First of all make sure you backup the SetupWizard xml files in GameEx\CONFIG and the langauge files in GameEx\CONFIG\LANGUAGES because it will overwrite the current files. To export a language ini file from a SetupWizard xml file use the following command line: SetupWizard -exportlanguage=languagecode Eg. For Italian SetupWizard -exportlanguage=it To import a language ini file into a SetupWizard xml file use the following command line: SetupWizard -importlanguage=languagecode Eg. For Italian SetupWizard -importlanguage=it Language codes are as follows: Brazilian (Portuguese)=pt Danish=da Dutch=nl English=en French=fr German=de Italian=it Japanese=ja Spanish=es Swedish=sv This should also help anyone else wanting to do a translation. SetupWizard.zip

Just as a note GameEx has a built in method to exit using a key combo so the plugin isn't required anymore.

It does actually say it's a folder "Specifically for Arcade Ambiance Arcade.mp3 from http://arcade.hofle.com/. MP3 files in this folder play in the background at all times."

Press the [...] button and you will be prompted to enter a key. Repeat for all the keys you want for the combo.

Not sure why the old instructions are still online? The newer instructions are available here

Check out "Layout Maps" in Edit->Options. You can have CPW display certain layouts based on the control type. CPWizard also supports "multi-layouts". To create a multi-layout you name them with a subscript. Eg. MyLayout (0).xml, MyLayout (1).xml and so on. When viewing your CP you can move left or right to rotate through them.

You don't need to be searching around in folders. Everything is configured via the Setup Wizard. Run the Setup Wizard and select Custom->Next->Advanced Emulator Setup->Next. Select the SSF emulator and then scroll down to "Advanced Config". Is there a file selected? You can either select the first (empty) option to turn off the advanced config or you can click the [...] button to edit an existing one.

Glad the patch worked for you cameron and appreciate the tip

Well... technically you wern't wrong because it's an obscure patch that wouldn't work unless someone took the time to update it. I updated the original patch by Zinky back in 2007 from 0111u3 to 0121 and then to 0122u2. Heaps has changed in the MAME source since then so updating to 0144u6 had to be done manually again. Anyway I sent this patch off to MAMEDev and who knows they might include it in the next official release?

Okay I updated the diff to support the latest version of MAME. Once patched to 0144u6 (see Mame Compiler 64) run "mame -verbose" and it will list supported audio devices Eg. DirectSound: 0 = "Primary Sound Driver" (active) DirectSound: 1 = "Logitech USB Headset" DirectSound: 2 = "Realtek HD Audio output" Run "mame -cc" to create a mame.ini file and set the appropriate sound device value to the one you want # # WINDOWS SOUND OPTIONS # sound_device 0 Sound should now be re-directed to that device. snd_0144u6.zip

Read this thread on BYOAC specifically there is a diff to modify MAME to support multiple sound cards (although it supports version 0122u2 it most likely can be modified to support a newer version of MAME).

GameEx doesn't use .NET's built in SendKeys API; it's actually a port of a C++ class I did. If you check out GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\SendKeys.htm you can see it has the ability to send custom Virtual Keycodes. The left and right alt keys are called VK_LMENU and VK_RMENU. Their values are 0xA4 (164) and 0xA5 (165) respectively. You can send VK_RMENU using {VKEY 165}. Unfortuantely there is no way to hold down a non-modifier key and only VK_MENU ('%') is supported as a modifier. The only way around it would be to write a script in AutoHotkey to press the key combo. Under it's KeyList it says So that might be worth a try.

Are you sure? I thought it could be the "Start Page Name" containing illegal filename characters.

That link never works for me. You could add a PayPal button to your apps too. I get the occational donation (not much) but it's good for a few free beers