Heinekenator

Hello. I purchased a GameEx key almost three years ago, and have since upgraded to Windows 7 (reformat/reinstall). I have two questions. 1. The last version of GameEx I had installed was about 2 years ago. I had installed it to my emulation external drive, so when I reformatted my main drive, all of my GameEx configurations and themes were intact. If I were to download the latest version of GameEx and install it in that same location on the external drive, would it work? And, if so, would there be a lot of reconfiguring required to get it to function as it originally did? 2. Will my registration key from back in early 2008 still work for the latest version? Thanks in advance. -Greg

To complete my hijack (my apologies)... Thanks Tom. That was exactly the problem. In my Mame rom folder, I replaced the Strider 2 rom with the version built with the Zinc DATfile, and it worked perfectly. -Greg

Hello. My command line is as follows: messpp.exe vectrex -cart

Perhaps I am misunderstanding... but in case I am not, I think this can be accomplished using the "Advanced Config" option under each emulator in the GameEx Advanced Configuration. I control GameEx using gamepad, and I wanted every emulator to exit when I pressed the "SELECT" and "START" buttons simultaneously. In the "Gamex\CONFIG\EMULATORS" directory, there are a number of custom mapping files in there. I duplicated one of them, gave it a custom name, and then in the [GAMEPADEXIT] section I did the following: [GAMEPADEXIT] #MAP Gamepad controls to exit and make controls exit process MapGamePadExit=True #Flag the controls that exit a game by placing True next to each control. To not use the control as part of the combination use a 0 Left= Down= Right= Up= Button1= Button2= Button3= Button4= Button5= Button6= Button7= Button8= Button9=True Button10=True Button11= Button12= Buttons 9 and 10 on my pad correspond to the SELECT and START buttons on my pad (which I determined from the "Game Controllers" control panel in WinXP). So, essentially, when both of those buttons are pressed, it will exit the emulator. The only other thing to do is to go into each emulator in the GameEx Advanced Configuration, find the option labelled "Advanced Config" and select the new custom config file that you had just created. Again, my apologies if this isn't exactly relevant to your question. -Greg

Hello. I'm not sure if it's a related problem, but I'm also having issues with some Zinc games. The one that comes to mind is Strider 2. I have the complete MAME .127 romset, and I've also built a complete Zinc romset using the 1.1 dat in CLRMamePro which resides in the "roms" directory inside the zinc directory. Most other Zinc games work fine from GameEx, but when I try to run Strider 2, it just dumps me back to the GameEx screen (ie, doesn't even run it in MAME from GameEx). I've confirmed that the ROM is fine by running it in Zinc via the commandline. Any ideas? -Greg

Hello. I just updated to 9.53 (registered version) from a previous version (not sure the number, but was from a month or two ago at the most). I'm using a custom v2 theme that I created (will upload pics if anyone is interested), and I'm using the EMUMovies videos. In the previous version, the videos were all displayed at the same size. After the update, it seems that some of the videos are the correct size, but others are much larger. When I created the theme, I did find it odd that for the snap/video window, I had had to make the actual object in Theme Editor much larger than it needed to be in order for the videos to display at the proper size. Was this something that was addressed in a recent GameEx update? What would cause the videos to display at different sizes? Thanks in advance. -Greg

I run everything (MAME, other emulators, preview videos, etc.) off a USB 2.0 drive and I haven't seen any problems. But, I don't have any emulators running that use ISO or are CD/DVD based. The biggest are probably the MAME CHD games or the Daphe laserdiscs, but again, no problems with either of those. -h