headkaze

One of my favourites is the Pixelbox but there are quite a few good examples on BYOAC.

I like the bartop design's better

We are proud to present the release of MMLL! For all infomation and download, please visit : - HERE PS. Happy birthday Stuart Campbell (released with 1.5 minutes to spare!!) 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. The game contains 20 levels taken from versions of the game that you may never have seen, and also 10 new all new levels based on movie themes. Along side these levels are a further 20 levels for the adventurous to discover. So. we are proud to present "Manic Miner in the Lost Levels"

Added a video to the first post showing some of the new features.

Nice looking theme! You can change font color by going to Edit->Options->Fonts->Text Color.

Death Rally top-down racer Windows re-release.

Good point, you don't need god powers to edit your own post... oh well my statement of Tempest being a naughty boy still stands!

Haha! Good one BTW I did notice your little "edit" in the other thread.. abusing your power again naughty boy

I can't believe I didn't realise that lol. Thanks for pointing it out. I've uploaded a new version which shows the marquee images over the top of the arcade machine now. Looks alot better It would probably be best to go into the Setup Wizard and remove all the images apart from marquees for the full effect.

That would be nice, but it must be something in the way GameEx handles images. Like I was having a hard time getting the video to stay behind the monitor when switching from a 3:4 to widescreen display. I still don't think it's right. It would be nice if objects would stretch into the area of the rectangle. Not sure why the marquee/snaps etc. don't display at all though.

Thats more like it!

I am going to release this theme I made and if there are any complaints from the original author I will take it down. I don't think the font is quite right so I will change it if I find a better one. Download

I remembered why I don't release beta's much anymore because noone bothers to downloading until it's out of beta meaning I don't have anyone testing the program! So I'm gonna take it out of beta and just deal with issues as they come along. I did test it quite a bit myself so I think it should be okay. Any problems just post a log

CPWizard v2.3 Released - Multi-Layouts - Sub Screen Display - Auto Show - Advanced Layouts This is quite a big update done over the weekend adding some features I've been promising for a while now. Thought it was about time to put them in. The first new feature is Multi-Layout support which means you can have layouts with multiple screens. Just name your layout with a " (n)" (including leading space) at the end of the filename and you can use the joystick to rotate through them by moving left and right. Eg. "My CP (0).xml", "My CP (1).xml", "My Cp (2).xml" etc. This is for people who have complex panels that require lots of labels. You can split your panel up into sections or show multiple controls such as gamepads on seperate screens. The second new feature is Sub Screen which can display layouts on a secondary monitor. This can be used in conjunction with Multi-Layout's which will rotate through the screens while MAME is running (and other Emulators but haven't tested it yet). You can display any layout including the new Advanced Layouts (more on that below). Auto Show allows CPW to show itself when MAME has been detected. You no longer need to send CPW command line args for it to show before MAME. Now it will detect MAME has launched, minimize it and show the CP for a set period. After the set timeout it will hide CPW and maximize MAME. If you press a button while it's showing you can exit back to the menu or set it to close (check out the Data tab in Options for configuring this as well as in Display options). Finally Advanced Layouts allow for more complex layouts that include information such as Hall of Fame stars, status bars, display info (like the built in GameInfo). You can also display images such as snaps, titles, cpanel's, marquee's etc by using special built in image types (Eg. IMAGE_CABINET, IMAGE_CPANEL, IMAGE_FLYER, IMAGE_ICON, IMAGE_MARQUEE, IMAGE_PCB, IMAGE_PREVIEW, IMAGE_SELECT, IMAGE_SNAP, IMAGE_TITLE). You can move and size them as standard Image objects but when displayed will replace the images for the current game. These can be used in conjunction with the Sub Screen and Multi-Layout features to have whatever info you want displaying on a secondard monitor. One thing that didn't quite make it into this release is a feature I plan for the future and that is for people with secondary monitors that want the full CPW menu available at all times. The Sub Screen feature will eventually be expanded to support the full menu system using custom defined controls. This would probably be most practical to control the menu using the shift feature of the IPAC so you can hold a key and use the joystick to browse the menus on the secondard screen while MAME is running. If you have any problems please post your full CPWizard.log (and perhaps temporarily put the log in Verbose mode to get any additional info).

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=7688

If the videos are in DivX format it could be that old focus issue. You can try the GameEx DivX Tray Icon Fix to see if that fixes the problem, or as Brian says install the latest ffdshow (or as I often recommend the Vista Codec Pack)

There has been practically no testing or feedback but I wrote a plugin for GameEx called Launch. Give it a try and let me know if it works for you.

What codec are you using for DVD playback? The Vista Codec Pack does not provide an MPEG2 codec for DVD playback that is compatible with MCE AFAIK. So you must be using some other codec. Personally I use the "NVIDIA Video Decoder" but it's a commercial codec (ie. Costs money). If you have WinDVD somewhere that will install an MCE compatible codec aswell. You can run a program called DecCheck to find out which one you are using. But as I said I recommend the NVIDIA one.

You're probably using that old version of ffdshow we used to recommend. You don't need to run the old one anymore since I rewrote the video playback code. Uninstall ffdshow and install the Vista Codec pack.

What codecs are you using? We generally recommend to uninstall all codec packs and then install the Vista Codec Pack (which does work on XP too).

Just thought I would mention that Warhawk DS made it into the Top 10 R4 DS Homebrew competition.

Run the Plugin Manager and there is an plugin called "Exit GameEx". It allows you to exit using a key combo.

Thats strange I didn't experience that during my tests. What I've done is add a line to bring focus to the window (even though it should already be in focus because it's window is maximised). Can you download it and try it out?

I'll ask Tom about that and let you know

A few people reported the same issue on BYOAC but I have no idea what causes it.