headkaze

Updated to include recording video

Try removing "-vol -32" from your mame command line option.

Perhaps it's time to make GameEx support plugin's, that way people can add/remove the features they want. That is the problem with a feature rich application, for some it's just useless overhead. Although GameEx has great features that XP users dont have, people using MCE might feel the extra stuff is just unessesary (perhaps they just want a simple front-end to play Mame?). Another benifit of plugins is that other authors can add features to GameEx. GameEx would be more modularized thus adding features, fixing bugs and maintaining code is much easier (ie. Bug in karaoke plugin -> fix karaoke plugin). Things like GameExtender, Karaoke, Weather, Radio, TV, (etc. etc.) perhaps even multi-emulator support could all be made into their own plugins. Although I've never written plugins for a .NET application (I've written DLL plugins before just not in .NET), so I'm not sure how you would do it; there could still be a DLL solution for .NET. What do you think Tom? If you want I could help you design the specifications for them and even help you document and create an SDK if you want. I know I wouldn't mind writing a few plugin's for GameEx myself.

I've noticed the same thing here, sometimes I get 8 or so icons. This is unrelated to GameEx though. I think there is a bug in ffdshow or something, run your mouse over the icons and they will dissappear.

Like where? url?

You can use ImageMagick to batch convert them to size. Photoshop can do batch too I think.

The ahk file would only launch if Tom is using "Start *" to launch it. He may not be using that method, in that case the ahk would not be executed. Try compiling the ahk script to an .exe file and trying that instead. You may need to browse to your AutoHotkey directory to find the compiler but it's in there somewhere.

You should be using backslashes...

Thanks Tom, appreciate the offer, and I will probably take you up on that. I'll shoot you off an e-mail soon. I'm currently looking at adding video recording to this application.

It takes about 15 seconds to show the list. I assume it's loading each tag every time you go in there. Perhaps you could add an option "use tags" or "dont use categories" so it just loads the list without reading the mp3 tags. Also, it should play a song when you select it, from memory when people "do" karaoke the next song is usualy chosen while the current one is playing rather than a preset playlist. I would expect people would choose a song from the list just before they "sing" it. But I am by no means a karaoke expert (thankfully).

Hi Tom, just found a small bug in the Pictures module. Basically I was viewing some photo's from my webcam application to test it out and found that occationally when you press enter to view a photo it will actually display the last photo you looked at. It seems to occur when you go to the next photo and hit enter to display it before the snap is displayed. Then it displays the last image you viewed instead.

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Hi just to let you all know a friendly fellow by the name of uncletr2 has kindly uploaded his set of VP screenshots to screenshotarchive. http://localarcade.com/screenshotarchive/screenshots.htm

Hi Tom, tested version 5.76 and now the list shows, but when I select a song nothing happens. It's supposed to show the graphics/text for the song in full screen right? BTW I don't think I'll be using this feature, I prefer using my method with wmpfull because: 1. The built in method takes ages to display the list of songs 2. I have lots of songs but none of them seem to have mp3 tags so it makes the categories useless

Yes, I have both mp3's and cdg's.

Hi Tom, the Karaoke function dosn't seem to work for me. It's saying "no media found". I definately have it pointing to the right folder.

I'm wondering if there could be support for WMP vizualizations to display whilst playing a song from the Jukebox. A really awesome plugin is called G-Force which will create an infinity of entertaining patterns along with the music.

There are a few methods, one is to use an Autohotkey script to launch before the emulator that maps the keys the way you want. (Do a search on this forum for "Autohotkey" for more info). The second method is to use Resource Hacker on the WinVice executable. Do a search for the VK_ESCAPE mapping and swap it with another virtual key mapping. The third method uses the ConfigFile=<name> option under [Emulator_X] in the GameEx.ini file. You place the file <name> in the CONFIG\EMULATORS directory and use the following options... MapEscape=False KeysToSendOnExit=%{F4} The above will disable the escape key for exit, and send ALT-F4 to exit.

Just a guess but I would try the "-cdrom <letter>" option. Just make sure you don't have the -loadbin option. Dunno, try a few things.

I'll assume your using ePSXe. Check out the command line options here

I found the daily builds because Tom mentioned he was using them... So I would expect he would recommend them. I've also tried them and they work fine.

Not quite sure what you mean by remove "rectangular background color of the selection screen". What do you mean? The dashed box that surrounds the selected object? Why would you want to remove it? Don't worry too much about this error, if you have changed an image or something and the Theme Editor can't save the image for some reason (those missing directories a few releases back come to mind) then it will show the error. But it will probably save the theme ok anyway.

*lnk's are not text files they are shortcuts. You can right click in Explorer and select New->Shortcut from the context menu, or you can right-click and drag to "Create shortcut here". Once you have one shortcut made for "chankast_launch.exe" you can copy it and just change the appropriate parameters for each one.

Okay I can confirm that I had the official XVid/DivX codecs installed... I've now installed ffdshow latest build.. I'll let you know if it works... BTW I have been using an old version... didn't know there were daily builds.. for those of you that don't know, try the following link for the latest build ffdshow EDIT: yep, that was it, just uninstall divx/xvid codecs from add/remove software then install the latest ffdshow. EDIT2: The only issue I seem to be having now is that sometimes videos & snaps will take up for 5 to 10 seconds to show. I highlight them and then there is nothing.. I wait about 5 to 10 seconds and either the snap or video will show. Others will show straight away. Strange. EDIT3: Can I just say this, it's amazing how I can have my Soul Calibur theme running with FMV in the background and have video snaps at the same time. Really AMAZING stuff Tom, using DirectDraw this is amazing stuff!!! Kudos to you my friend! GameEx is truely an awesome piece of software!

My issue is solely with the snap avi playback... I am using the mame_videos_shrunk torrent if that's any help. Tom: if you can give me a step by step of what I should do to test this then I will. I know how to check what codecs I'm using, so just tell me what I should do to fully test this and I'll see if we can figure this one out.