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I did have a little chuckle.... This forum would be an empty void without you mate...

I am sorry to say that your time with the codecs has been wasted. GameEx does not support the recording of sound. Another option is to use software like hypercam, or fraps (make sure record sound is selected) to record the video with sound, or download the videos you require from Emumovies.

Right..... good god Here is an updated loader for ScummVM. This one uses a completely different way of running the games and (i believe) gets round all problems with the ID's being different for different versions of the games. HK: Please (just for me) - import the config and check all is ok this time... It is always good for another to check things... Also uploaded another DB to go with it.. Several little amendments and a game added. _PC__ScummVM_v1.033__Flash_.zip ScummVM.zip

Here is the db you have all been waiting for since Tempest took the reigns of the editor and... and.... ? Oh well... had a bored few minutes so I have done the Fairchild Channel-F db. Sorry Tempest - I just couldn't help myself - honest! As always, the file is in XML and useless to anyone except Tom and Ben. HK: If you are reading this, please flick back a page as there is some other stuff posted.. _Console__Fairchild_Channel_F_v1.015__Flash_.zip

Ok, Have updated the ScummVM config and docs to include information on the game "ID's" HK: Please check all ok for me, i can't check as i am at work (sadly). Also, please read the Readme file for me... Right.. Now gonna get back to that intellivision DB.. Cheers.. PS: The ScummVM DB has also be updated (upped as XML again - for HK only) EDIT: loader uploaded again. EDIT: Scumm loader REMOVED - think i have found a better way of doing it _PC__ScummVM_v1.032__Flash_.zip

HK: Been looking at the scumm loader (that you didn't check ) - my fault - i should have checked it more... The problem is that v0.12.0 (and possibly earlier ones) soem games use different ID's to the directorys stated in the readme file. In the readme 'Big Thinkers Kindergarden' is said to reside in 'thinkerk' in the readme, but.. the id (of the version i have) becomes 'thinkerk-us', this stops it from working as the dummy file is 'thinkerk'. BASTARD! This affects tons of the non-mainstream roms. Games like monkey island. kyrandia, etc (like in your loader originally), the 22 games that every scummvm user has, work fine... It is the less known ones that have changed id's. Not sure what to do - what if other versions give another id - ie 'thinkerk-uk' or such.. ?? ?? ?? Have you got any suggestions my friend (god! won't sleep tonight for panic) There are still lots that work though.. all the original ones and 30 more... God - will have to rename my vidsnaps and modify the db to contain variants... Perhaps there is another way of firing off the command line?? PS. an ini is of no use - command only needs game id to run, and mention of custom something or other? please be my savior (again) EDIT: Tried to use implicit paths as mentioned in the docs, no joy. The only way round it is to edit the loaders docs to mention that from time-to-time the id of the game may need to be edited to match the name stated. ane example is that the amiga version of elvira 2 is "Elvira2-amiga" where as the docs tell you "elvira2". If the id is edited then all is fine. Different versions of several games have slightly different id's.. I can see no other way than editing the loader docs to include this info.

Thanks mate. I did find it, i looked in the faq and did not scroll down to the next one Well... It works, so happy now... Thanks

Help! I want to set up gameex so that my son can play just the games that i allow him to.. What i want to do is have a icon on his user desktop that he can double click on to run his own limited version of gameex I dont want all the features and just to have a handfull of emu's set up.. Silly me tried installing gameex to his desktop and setting it up that way... seems to have caused lots of problems including direct x error when exiting a game and media centre starting on exit of gameex....??? Im sure there is a command line or something to use as a launch option... Im sure i am being a complet t*t again - but thats me

they are in gameex/THEMES/<current theme>/MEDIA/LOGOS/ The ones you may be looking for are Exit.png LogOff.png ShutDown.png Suspend.png hopefully this is what you meant...?

here here... (it wasn't a double post - that was an echo)

Here Here...

now - you have checked it for me havent you? thanks...

you would be suprised how much them few seconds add up... 60 of them and it is very nearly a minute, or in metric - 3 fluid oz.. Thanks for all your work.. Hope you have had a chance to check the scumm thing out... Can I leave it to you to upload to tom (or new post) and give tom the DB for inclusion in the download? (when the next gameex release is out anyway - not much use without the DB) Thanks again.

Regarding the ini, this is constructed when you add games to ScummVM. In the amendend readme i made note that the scumm readme file contains the names of the directories the games should be located in. Ie. place your games in the dirs and add to ScummVM via "Add games" and the ini is constructed. The ini is stored by defaut in \Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ScummVM\ under Vista and \Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\ScummVM\ under XP, so the install dir for ScummVM is not used for the ini anyway. SNK of america is valid as many american/euro versions of the game use this on the title screen. SNK corp usually refers to a jap or jap only release and ...of america relates to the others. I know it is prob. neater to have them all listed under one heading even if not strictly correct. what are your thoughts? Had a play with the latest db editor doing the intell set a bit more - got that allgames problem again... It could just be an error that will crop up from time to time... It is not of great concern really. (ps. using home broadband so it is not an issue with the hsdpa) PS. my scummvm.ini looks like this - not much help really.... scummvm.zip

HK: here is an updated ScummVM loader supporting the latest V 0.12.0 of ScummVM and the latest DB. This no-longer needs the map file or the scummvm.ini file. I have updated your readme file also... (hope you don't mind) You know the password Please have a look and check it out for me. Works fine this end........... (we have heard that before ) Cheers PS. Updated the Emu import ini to add db and naming.. ScummVM.7z

yes they could... Oh why oh why oh why did you not reply when i was on "A" Got a bit caught up playing Elvira for a mo.... Back on track now...

What a fool - just realised (by the time i got to the letter P) that a map file will not help... If the dummy file is in /Games then it will be displayed in the list regardles.... Silly man.... Will make a note in Doc that you should delete names of the ones you don't have from /Games

I will post some pictures when done, just priming it and doing sealing on the keyboard surround... Thanks for the update to the Editor. Cheers! (did you stop me having to tick when modifying a group? - earlier post on previous page) Just realised i have to do the map file for scumm loader as not everyone (including me at the mo) has all correct roms supported in v0.12 - bugger. I forgot that by using dummy names in the games directory would result in the display of all games regardless when just using the db. oh well - getting quite used to all this typing at the moment.... Oh, had a lovelly e-mail of Tom and printed it out and framed it... (not really - nice to get a "gold star" now and again - "Yellow moons" are so yesterday) Cheers HK

that is the best idea i have heard for ages.... Well hours at least, I had a great idea today - to airbrush my laptop... Hmmm... Need to wait for a few days and see how it looks with the air-varnish coat all dried...

PS. can i please have the save button back, perhaps a big red flashing one The amount of times I have forgotten to select save and then lost all the roms i have added

um..... No!

Thats where i go wrong, i keep strapping my motorbike to the car. I think i will stick with my rolls royce, even if it does need a lick of paint. The motorbike will always look nice in the showroom.. Whooo there boy, slipped into one there.... Getting back to it.. If you feel that you need to run 2 fe's, best to keep them seperate. HS would make a nice fe for mame in a cabinet for strangers as it has a uniform front to it. GameEx (imho) shines on a media centre based pc or on a home pc with a large monitor and keyboard.. right, now off to take the rolls for a spin... (all this spinnig is a bit much now i think )

Hyperspin and GameEx are both very different front ends. I also can not see the point of running both? even more so within each other. Hyperspin has it's plus points as does gameex but they both have different goals. That reminds me: How do i fit my motorbike in my car?, am i best to use them both seperatley?

Ok, this is a full DB for ScummVM. The DB has increased from the original 24 games to a more comprehensive 87. This now includes all known working games for ScummVM except the Fan made ones. I decided not to include these for now as I personally am more interested in the history of games, and this is what the DB is for - so you can read the history and see when these were released. I was gonna add them but decided against it... The Loader for Scumm (hk's) will be updated hopefully tonight to also include all the games and to make inplicit use of the db to create a cohesive naming scheme for all the games. The map file is no longer needed for the names and is too small to make any difference to the time it takes for GameEx to scan the roms. If it really MUST be included - please let me know.. Anyway - for some reason this db that I thought would take an hour or so has taken the best part of 5 hours to do The years are all based on the EARLIEST release of the game rather than the platform you may be using to run it (dos, win, mac, pc-fx, st, etc). Cheers... (this is the XML file and no use to anyone except Tom and Ben) The DB will be added to the main set in due course. _PC__ScummVM_v1.029__Flash_.zip

when i select 'Edit Games', do i really need all the tick boxes first. Could it not just display the edit box and change the ones i alter?