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I just bought myself a VideoMate Vista T750F for MCE 2005 and is my second card I bought for it which originally had a WinFast DTV1000T card. Both times I feel I was the subject of false advertising. These cards are sold as "Dual Tuner" cards but do not show in MCE as being two separate cards, so you can't record and watch another channel at the same time even though they say you can on the box. They advertise them as MCE compatible but don't say the dual tuner feature only works in their own software and not in MCE. So now I just use both the cards together in the same box and MCE detected them both and I can record and watch separate channels. In the end that's about $200 AUD to actually be able to do that which I think is pretty steep for a real dual tuner experience. So I warn people to be careful when they buy a "dual tuner" card and that you can "record and play different channels at the same time" as that may not be the case at all for using it in MCE. Other than that I'm quite happy with the card, although after I bought the T750F I found out the DTV1000T had dropped price down to $50 AUD so I would have been better off getting that and then being able to afford to replace my authentic Microsoft MCE remote with another one for just $50 AUD which is 100 times better than the crappy remote packaged with the T750F. So for less than I paid for the T750 I could have bought the DTV1000T and a better Microsoft MCE remote.

Yes, only use the state buttons to turn them off. The tickboxes mean "I will be turning this LED to turn on and off using state". If you don't have a tickbox next to the control you wont be able to turn it on at all. The game profiles on the other hand only have tick boxes next to the controls it uses. But you can add extra tickboxes if for some reason you need to light up more buttons (as you know sometimes Controls.xml can be wrong so you may need to change a game's buttons for some reason).

You could use an Advanced Config to kill WinUAE.exe. Since the attract mode is launching the loader it won't kill off WinUAE.exe unless it knows about it. So in your Advanced Config have the following: Process1=WinUAE Process2= Process3= Process4=

Okay I'm taking a good look at the files you posted. Your "LED Input Map" section is wrong. Your reusing outputs from your LEDWiz which is a problem. See the attached image I also took at look at your Profiles\GameEx.ini file. It's empty, so according to what you uploaded you don't have a GameEx profile. Your GameEx profile needs to have ticks next to all your buttons. If you don't want one lit use the State checkbox. It's really important you get your LED Input Map setup correct and your GameEx profile before you can do the Mame default profile. Give it another go, and if your still having problems post your LEDInputMap.ini and Profiles\GameEx.ini and Profiles\MAME.ini and I'll let you know of any problems I see. EDIT: I just realised the repeating outputs are actually a different LEDWiz Id so ignore that. How many LEDWiz do you have or is that a mistake?

No worries mate, I'm happy to help out the regulars here, you guys keep the place alive You have to have a tick in the box to be able to set an LED's state that's why it's not saving, that's what I've been trying to say. It sounds like your still using those tick boxes to turn off an LED you shouldn't be using them. All your buttons should have tick boxes on especially in the GameEx default profile, then only use the "State" tick box to turn them on and off. The only time your LED's don't need the tickbox is in the actual games profile. These tickboxes mean you can add buttons if the ones I create from Controls.xml are wrong. Say it has 3 checkboxes, P1_BUTTON1, P1_BUTTON2, P1_BUTTON3. Then if you wanted to add a forth button you would put a tick next to P1_BUTTON4 and then set it's "State" to on. DJ Infinity: Not sure whats been done since 2.76. Not much probably.

I agree!

There are a few ways to do this, first is using a sound patch I updated for Mame although I don't know if it will work with the latest Mame as it was updated for 121 but it might work. The patch allows you to specify which soundcard Mame uses. Another way is to use a program like Quick Sound Switch which can use the command line to change the primary sound card. You would set that before you run Mame or some other emulator using LaunchBefore. Only problem is I don't think you can have a LaunchBefore for Mame so the patch might be the only way. I'm also not sure if the program changing primary sound card will mess with GameEx's jukebox already playing or not. So the patch sounds like a more promising idea at the moment. For more info on these techniques check out this thread over on BYOAC.

Tempest: I couldn't see anything going wrong in your log file so it must be a config issue. Remember to turn off verbose logging now. The first thing I can think of is that you don't understand how the configuration works. - Only use Always Active if you want the button Always Active. The profiles work like this GameEx->Emulator Default->Game. If you have "Always Active" set in the GameEx profile for an LED, it will stay Always Active in Emulator's Default and Game. If you want to change the state of an LED, don't set it to "Always Active". Also if you have it set to "Always Active" in the Emulator default, no matter what you do in the Game profile it will stay Always Active. So as I said in a previous post, don't use "Always Active" if you want to turn off an LED for a particular reason. Always Active means just that, stay Always Active you can't turn it off after that. I use that for my admin buttons that I want to stay Always Active no matter what game or emulator. Don't use the Always Active if you want to turn off the LED, you can't turn off an Always Active LED so go back to your GameEx default and make sure it's not Always Active. Also don't use the checkboxes to the left of the list, use the "State" checkbox to turn it off. - The tick boxes don't mean "Light up this LED" they simply mean "I will be using this LED". In general you shouldn't use the tickboxes in the profile section because it takes away your ability to turn LED's on/off. - The "State" checkbox is the one used to determine if you LED is lit or not. Use the State checkbox to say if you want the button lit or not. If it's still not working for you then please zip up the following and post it here (from the GameEx\PLUGINS\PluginLCD folder) - Events (folder) - Profiles (folder) - LEDInputMap.ini - PluginLCD.ini Also I wanted to say, I understand this is all very confusing. I never thought this plugin would end up so complicated and there were some bad design decisions made early on. But I think if you understand some of the fundamentals of how the profiles work then you should be good to go Unless of course there is a horrible bug somewhere causing things to fail for you which is possible as well and why I'm doing my best to help figure it out with you.

popcorrin: If you want joysticks lit, then go into the "LED Input Map" and next to P1_JOYSTICK/P2_JOYSTICK, enable them and assign the correct info. Then add a KEYCODE_LEFT to P1 and KEYCODE_R to P2. Next go into Profiles and then GameEx->Default and turn on P1_JOYSTICK/P2_JOYSTICK. Tempest: Attached is PlugInLCD 2.80 (dll only so overwrite the one in GameEx\PLUGINS). What I've done is add some debugging info to help me figure out what is going wrong. Run the config, and under Options1->Misc Options turn on "Verbose Logging". Next run a game from GameEx and then return back to GameEx then exit. Then attach the PlugInLCD.log file here for me to take a look.

On your previous post, only use "Always Lit" in your GameEx profile if you want the button always lit. You can't turn off an always lit button, as they are meant for admin buttons that you always want lit. You can have a button lit but not set to "always lit" and then you can turn it off in other profiles. When you come back into GameEx from a game it should light up the buttons according to how you set them up in the config. That is, if you have "Use GameEx Profile in List" then returning from the game the GameEx profile should show. Otherwise it will show the buttons lit for the game selected unless you turn off "Light Game Buttons in List" in which case it will light the emulator profile or GameEx profile depending on what the "Use GameEx Profile in List" option is set. If it doesn't work the way it's intended (ie. as above) then let me know.

Hey Flash can you please change the title of this thread to be a bit more descriptive eg. "Flash's new theme". I understand it was a joke title in the beginning, but I think you've created a great theme and it's getting some nice feedback, so you should give it a proper name So the question is, what is the name of this theme? "Flash Blue" maybe?

Okay this theme is now a download pack of backgrounds. Please read the first post for more info on how to use them.

Post #3 was a mockup I made. It would have been fine but I don't have all the videos and snaps setup on my dev machine, so I never could test them. The problem was when I decided to add pictures of the consoles. What I should really do is put the console in the background, and have the video in front of it. I might spend some time remaking this theme properly that way.

Looks sweet! One suggestion though is to have the inside of the Mame logo filled in and alpha faded so there is a slight difference in color but you can still see through to the SF characters. Nice work though! EDIT: You inspired me to create another SF bezel! EDIT2: Actually I quite liked this one without the Mame logo so I've included one with and without the logo. Also included the psd. Bezels.zip

It has been for me, when I update I always copy my custom bezel over, but setting it to read-only is a good idea.

Your kidding me? I never got a chance to check the theme with snaps/videos and I had no idea they appeared beneath the foreground. I don't know mate, it looks like this theme was a waste of my time then unless I remake the whole thing using only backgrounds.

Seems some people are having trouble displaying the foreground images. The only thing I noticed is you have to have both a background and foreground image defined to display them. See the attached picture. Other than that I have no idea and Tom probably needs to chime in and give some advice.

You should not be using GameEx to create snaps for WinUAE. You should use WinUAE Loader's Tools section and download the snaps from the GameBase Amiga website, and WinUAE Loader will convert them for you. Download the screenshots from http://gbamiga.elowar.com/files/

Can you post your GameEx log?

Sorry I didn't mean to sound offensive Tempest, I was only trying to give some suggestions incase there was a config problem, but it looks like your right I didn't implement it correctly. Can you please try PlugInLCD 2.79?

Tempest: Definately something wrong with your config there. I would probably start again and read the 3 screenshots I posted which unfortunately is about the best tutorial I've put together for setting it up. The small tutorial: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...amp;#entry30660 And Toonces is absolutely right about mame.ini, it has to be located in the Mame folder especially if your using a ctrlr file. I have explained things throughout this thread, and I know it's boring reading a whole thread but it might help you understand how it works. Like how a Mame profile and GameEx profile works. They override each other, like say your viewing a Mame game. It goes GameEx default->Mame default->game. So if a game doesn't have an entry it will use the default profile for that emulator. The GameEx profile is main profile used inside GameEx. You can also create profiles for individual games that override the defaults.

You have the Theme set in GameEx? I'm not sure but try deleting the "Custom Background" setting. I don't have it set for any emulator.

All you need to do is rename them like you've done. I don't think you need to point each emulator to one of the images, as that is automatic based on name. You may need to leave the "Custom Background" blank, as all mine are blank and it works without it. BTW I have updated the first post showing all the different overlays.

The hardest thing about setting this theme up is matching the backgrounds with the emulators setup. I did have them matching all the new default profile names, but if you've changed them you will have to either change the "Title Text" or the media files in the theme. Take a look at the attached image and make sure the images match up.

Try opening the theme up in the Theme Editor and see if it's displaying there okay and make sure the Theme Editor is version 2.1 or greater.