headkaze

All my favicons in Firefox appear as they should without a plugin?

This is a bug in the Setup Wizard.. will be fixed in the next release.

I've had display issues on this forum and EmuMovies in IE7. Both use the same forum software but both exibited different behaviour. Here I had layers overlapping, such as the toolbar in the reply area covering the middle of the textbox. Really annoying. On EmuMovies pages would stretch out miles long and made it impossible to read anything. It would also just sit there and never finish loading some threads and it has a shoutbox that would freeze the whole browser when it refreshed. A nightmare! I've come to the conclusion that this forum software hates IE7.. Aparently IE8 works better but I just moved to Firefox.. a much nicer browser and it's so similar looking to IE you hardly notice you've changed

Is this AniBak by any chance? If you open the Theme.ini for your current theme and change the following AniBak=false Does that fix it?

To use POV joystick input, go into the Setup Wizard select Custom->Joystick Input. From there you can press the "..." buttons and press your POV controller.

NullDC doesn't need a loader, just do a search on the forums and you will see how to edit the config file to make it run in fullscreen mode. I think Brian will be fixing the auto-download version to be set for 640x480 sometime. Brian? EDIT: Thanks for piping in with the info there Palmore

How will the new release of HS step up GameEx theme support? It's not trying to be HS and I don't think any FE can do what HS does better than it. What exactly do you think is missing from the Theme support in GameEx? What would you like to see specifically? While the default look of GameEx does look alot like MCE there are quite a few themes available and it's very customizable. You can pretty much make it look like anything you want. Take a look at my for example. That doesn't look very "microsoft media center" to me.GameEx's audience is two fold, you have people who want to play retro games in their living rooms and use the HTPC features and those that run it on their cabs. Some use a combination of both, for example sometimes I'll put my cab in jukebox mode. I guess it all depends on what your particular taste is.

Your 32" plasma should have a VGA input so all you need is a $5 VGA splitter cable from eBay and you should be good to go.

There is a new intro video by DeLuSioNal29 released on BYOAC... It comes in two flavors: 640 x 480: http://arcadecontrols.com/files/EyeCandy/DeLuSioNaL_Retroware_MAME_Intro_640.zip and 800 x 600: http://arcadecontrols.com/files/EyeCandy/DeLuSioNaL_Retroware_MAME_Intro_800.zip

No problem! Have fun

This part of the log tells you the problem and how to fix it. So you need to go and check your RomPath for Emulator 2 ([Arcade] Nebula).

The joystick locking and going in a different direction are two distinctly different things. One implies there is not enough CPU to poll the joystick and the other implies something else like a hardware issue such as wiring or faulty joysticks. What sort of joysticks are you using and do you have PPJoy installed? Try uninstalling PPJoy if you have it and perhaps unplug your keyboard as input from that is accepted in MAME and could be conflicting. The best way is a process of elimination by subtraction potential causes until you find the problem. The easiest way is by hardware first but unplugging things and then by software by running MAME outside of GameEx etc.

You can go into "Enable/Disable Features" in the configuration program and turn off "Show Game Information". Now when you select a game it will launch instead of going to the info screen.

XMas party went without a hitch and you could not get people off the arcade machine. Had people all over it all night. GameEx ran flawlessy too

You used to need a loader for Model2 emu but not anymore. I wrote the one GameEx used to use (m2loader.exe) but it's much better when the authors add native support via command line.

BTW As with a previous user having a similar problem I do have PPJoy Virtual Joystick installed so it could be that causing it. Either way my points about using SetRange() are still valid as this is still the most likely cause of the problem. EDIT: I can confirm it is the PPJoy Virtual Joystick and probably because it's POV range is not set and it's detecting movement. The temporary solution for now is to only enable joystick input for the Logitec's *phew*

I wish I hadn't left setting up my cab to the last minute as the latest version of GameEx constantly moves the selector bar downwards as if I'm holding down on one of my Logitech wirless joysticks. I tested my IPAC and keyboard and it's not them, and it's pretty obvious that it's the joystick. So I launched one of my own joystick test programs and the joystick is fine. My guess is the following bugs in the DirectInput implementation can cause this problem: 1. Not using DInput.Device.Properties.SetRange() to set a common range. Some joysticks have different min and max values and that can be different depending on callibration aswell. The only way to ensure the data is consistant is to use SetRange() 2. The axis threshold is too low so it detects input when it's in it's deadzone. Usually 1. will solve this problem. The values I set using SetRange() are: private const int AXIS_MIN = -255; private const int AXIS_NONE = 0; private const int AXIS_ERROR = 128; private const int AXIS_MAX = 255; When I acquire the joysticks, I use the following: m_joyDevice[m_joyCount].Properties.AxisModeAbsolute = true; SetAxisRange(m_joyDevice[m_joyCount]); And the code to set the range: private void SetAxisRange(DInput.Device joyDevice) { // Enumerate any axes foreach (DInput.DeviceObjectInstance doi in joyDevice.Objects) { if ((doi.ObjectId & (int)DInput.DeviceObjectTypeFlags.Axis) != 0) joyDevice.Properties.SetRange(DInput.ParameterHow.ById, doi.ObjectId, new DInput.InputRange(AXIS_MIN, AXIS_MAX)); } } The AXIS_ERROR is the "deadzone" which is quite large but works fine on the joysticks I've tested. A large deadzone for a FE is fine and ensures even the most loose joysticks won't have unintentional input detected. I will see if I can turn off joystick input in GameEx for now..

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? This is a remake of the 1986 C64 game for the Nintendo DS by Headkaze (Code), Lobo (Graphics), Space Fractal (Music), Flash (Support), Sashanan & sverx (Testing). The original was by Sam Manthorpe, characters by Paul Jay and the plot was cunningly devised by the Magnificent Seven. Download and more info please visit :- Official Detective DS Homepage

Does the wrap around feature include menu accelleration? So when you browse through long lists you can speed up scrolling? Anyway I did try and help with that I hope it's in there

You would want to exit xbmc to get back to GameEx otherwise you will be launching another instance of GX.

You should be able to setup XBMC as an "External Application" in GameEx.

Just to let you all know this project has been a great success. Many thanks to Brian for the help with the uploads and getting the extra data needed for the new features. This project ties in with a massive update to the Setup Wizard I've been working on over the last several weeks. Some pretty cool new features to make setting up emulators as easy as possible. You don't even have to go searching on the web for emulators anymore, you can now auto download and have the Setup Wizard import the profile for you automatically. We are currently in testing phase now and hopefully you should see this great new feature soon to GameEx

What are we waiting on? All I need is the updated spreadsheet and the downloads moved to SetupWizard\Emulators\Download on the FTP and we're ready to test. I just need to generate the profiles again.

Yes I am sure Tom will have this issue resolved very soon, please be patient

Oh dear yes, a P4 1.6 with 512 MB of RAM. That is CPWizard minimum requirements then your running GameEx and MAME aswell. I would try and upgrade to at least a P4 3 Ghz and 1 gig of RAM (2 gigs even better). You should be able to get that upgrade really cheap these days (although you may need to look around a bit to find). Be careful to get the hardware to match your motherboard.