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thanks for the input i pointed ahk to the lnk and i set the shortcut to maximized. it still hasnt focus though. when i click on the window it displays maximized but it still starts up in the background... pretty weird!

Hey guys, this is not Gameex related but I know that someone could help me out with this problem over here (maybe tempest?) I'm using AHK to have Total Commander open when i press windows key + e This is my script #e::Run "C:\Program files\totalcmd\TOTALCMD.EXE" very simple and it works! one little thing is not working as supposed to: the window is not active! it starts minimized and i have to click in the taskbar to restore the window. it works for the first window when total commander is launched, but all following windows start minimized. when i click on the exe of total commander it starts a new window in the foreground.. i was reading the documentation and tried commands like winactivate or winrestore but i can't define a window title since they are all named Total Commander with [n] in front depending of which instance is running.. (eg "[3] Total Commander") So how could i make this window appear? is run the wrong command? thanks for any help

thanks for reporting back, jombee! i'm on vacation for a month I will try to fix this issue as soons as i'm back...

thanks m8 i never felt disrespected by you so no worries

thanks for letting me know, jombee! maybe its a problem with mame plus then.... lets see

i guess it doesnt if you look at my error msg from last page... but it is the most recent rom from the 0.130 set

Guys, don't get me wrong: I don't want to complain or blame the mamedev team. These guys are doing an awesome job! I know that they see themselves as preservators of electronic history. I guess thats why features that are much appreciated by the community such as high score support have been stripped back out of mame. I was just wondering if the magical drop rom is working for you guys. SInce some of you reported it is working I wonder why it isn't working on my end. I use mame plus 0.130u2 (self compiled/no errors) with the 0.130 magical drop roms. it's not working outside of gameex so it must be an issue with my mame build or romset! I would like to know who has it working with which mame build and romset. thanks in advance for the info!

mayhem, i agree! the last version i didnt have any troubles with was 0.127... with 0.128 i couldnt run capcom games so i updated to u4. now i cant run some other games that worked before... well, i guess we can be thankful for all the updates that the community receives. but i decided to not spend so much time with converting chds to new formats, update my romset with every new version and download all these LD releases that I'd probably never play. I'm enjoying the games i have (esp pang and donkey kong) so from a gamer perspective there is no real need for all these new goodies... Right now I'm just trying to get the sstuff working I have on my cab... It really bugs me that magical drop is not working anymore since i really like this game as a two player game. It's weird that some of my roms dont seem to work since during attract mode it sometimes returns to gameex which indicated that a rom couldnt be loaded. this happens after like every 10th rom playing (estimated) 130u2 still gives me the same error when starting magical drop III

hey tempest, i didnt see you alreday replied! i'll compile u2 now!

i got the two roms magdrop2.zip and magdrop3.zip from the 0.130 romset and I'm using mame plus 0.130 and now i receive the following error message when starting the game: C:\Programme\GameEx>cd DATA C:\Programme\GameEx\DATA>runitgame.bat Warning: unknown option in INI: m68k_core Warning: unknown option in INI: m68k_core Warning: unknown option in INI: m68k_core Warning: unknown option in INI: cheat_file Assign joystick MP-8866 Dual USB Joypad to player 0 Assign joystick MP-8866 Dual USB Joypad to player 1 Assign joystick PPJoy Virtual joystick 3 to player 2 Assign joystick PPJoy Virtual joystick 4 to player 3 Assign joystick PPJoy Virtual joystick 1 to player 4 Assign joystick PPJoy Virtual joystick 2 to player 5 233-p1.bin NOT FOUND 233-s1.bin NOT FOUND sfix.sfix NOT FOUND 000-lo.lo WRONG LENGTH (expected: 00020000 found: 00010000) 000-lo.lo WRONG CHECKSUMS: EXPECTED: CRC(5a86cff2) SHA1(5992277debadeb64d1c1c64b0a92d9293eaf7e4a) FOUND: CRC(e09e253c) SHA1(2b1c719531dac9bb503f22644e6e4236b91e7cfc) sm1.sm1 WRONG CHECKSUMS: EXPECTED: CRC(94416d67) SHA1(42f9d7ddd6c0931fd64226a60dc73602b2819dcf) FOUND: CRC(97cf998b) SHA1(977387a7c76ef9b21d0b01fa69830e949a9a9626) 233-m1.bin NOT FOUND 233-v1.bin NOT FOUND 233-v2.bin NOT FOUND 233-c1.bin NOT FOUND 233-c2.bin NOT FOUND 233-c3.bin NOT FOUND 233-c4.bin NOT FOUND ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run. same happens when i use the mame plus gui tool

other neo geo roms seem to work fine the last romset update i did was 0.127 to 0.128 update... maybe i should get magical drop from the most recent romset and see if it works thanks for the help!

oh true... i forgot about the batch file! will do and report back, thx for the hint bkenobi

ok weird! i dont get an error message in the gameex log i should start it seperately and check for errors maybe

Quick question: Does this game run for you? I updated mame 0.128 to 0.130 because magical drop III (and II) wasnt workin. It's a funny and action packed two player game! Now with 0.130 its still not working. It worked fine with 0.127.. does it work for you?

over here screensaver is disabled. gameex is just waiting for input, i'm in the main menu (flat style) when it becomes unresponsive

this could be similar to the problem we discussed recently over here: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=7153

there is a way... you can use audiorepeater! it doesnt work too well in conjunction with gameex though. frequency wrote a wrapper to have the program only turn on when i'm in the karaoke section in gameex. but we had some serious issues with losing focus of gameex.. i basically needed that so the mics wont be on all the time since i dont have a button to switch them off... but if your mic can be switched on and off manually then you could just start audiorepeater with the computer! What audiorepeater does is just echoing your signal. you need a quite fast pc with it (dual core) but then it works quite good. i hope it doesnt take away processing power when its running without processing your mic input. so please check this out and report back! audiorepeater is part of the virtual audio cable package. just download it here (audiorepeater is not limited even if vac is a trial) if you have any questions regarding the settings jsut ask me again. i think i had it set to 96 khz and the buffer size was quite low, like 50 or something. i could look that up for you! Anyways, I decided that I'll just get a hardware solution for karaoke because audiorepeater crashed during a karaoke session on my cab (after a few hours and possibly because it was launched 2 times). Anyway, I had to pull out the keyboard and fix it which was a bit annoying,especially when you have friends over! so i'll just buy the behringer minimix 800! it costs around 50 bucks and gives you two mic inputs and a reverb controller!

i don't have a keyboard attached either... only the gamecontroller! maybe this is part of the problem... i cant test it right now since the gameex pc is at another place. but maybe this is part of the problem! aen, could you try to see if it works with keyboard attached?

these are two features i was waiting for! the flags and the custom input! thanks tom, cool release!

tempest, what kind of dell monitor are you showing in your example? this is a pretty cool idea having a lcd display for the marquee and other images!

I'm pretty sure that Tom Speirs, the developer of Gameex read our topic. But I guess for now there is no answer to why this is happening or how it can be fixed. so thats probably why we didnt get an answer yet! It would be good to know if gamepad controller input for gameex is working for other members (for longer than lets say a period of 2 hours without pushing a button) By now we are three people with the problem. If gamepad input for other member works we could compare log files with them!

please post your gameex log so we can see how you set up epsxe. i remember having the same issue while setting up epsxe. i cant recall how i fixed it though. maybe if i compare it to my log we can figure out what the problem is...

you can also try to edit the gameex.ini file yourself, but for me the external configuration tool that frequency mentioned always worked and i usually use this tool instead of the internal configuration menu.. I'm pretty sure this error occurs because you have a ! in your file structure

same here, it happens at random times. sometimes already after 10 min... i cant test if keyboard input is still working after that because this gameex setup i have at another place. but if i remember it correctly it didnt take keyboard inputs after it occured.

me too!