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Draco it is at 18.75 now. Tom, thanks for the MAME setting option. Never had to do that before but I figured it out. I managed to sort out the Marquee Masher settings just now also. Again, I appreciate any and all help that you gentlemen offer. ***** I have it all squared away now. Everything seems to be working great and the correct way*****

I installed the latest update to GameEx Arcade. It did change some of the look I had but that's fine. Still having issues with the Marquee/screen setup. I've always ran this with 2 monitors, one being the marquee. When I am in the menus scrolling through the games everything is working as it should. As soon as I launch a game the marquee goes away and the game launches in the secondary/marquee monitor. When I exit the game it goes back to normal again. Sorry if I seemed snippy in earlier comment, I appreciate the help. Sometimes things just make absolutely no sense to me at all. GameEx-3.ini log-2.txt

Nope. Same HDMI cable as the old one.

I just don't get it. Everything was working perfect. Has been for years. I unplugged main monitor and replaced it. Now the game opens on second monitor. Maybe I'll get around to doing all that this weekend. My days of tinkering and troubleshooting are dwindling. Thanks

I've had GameEX Arcade and Marquee Masher set up and working great for a few years now. I just had to replace my main monitor. All I did was unplug old monitor and plug new one in. Now when I launch GameEX The Marquee doesn't show on top screen. Sometimes it shows up on main screen. Then when I am able to launch a game the game play screen comes up on the marquee monitor. Or it just shows Marquees on main screen. I am using Marquee Masher. Any idea what I should look for? It's been a few years since I last tinkered with this. I never changed any settings at all and it has worked perfect for a few years up until the monitor swap. Also if I was to update to a newer version of GameEX Arcade will I have to redo all my settings? I really don't want to have to go through that again. Any ideas or help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike log.txt GameEx.ini

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Just wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction. I am using GameEx Arcade with MAME and an Xarcade tankstick. For some reason my save state(create and load) are assigned to the bottom 2 buttons of the 2nd players controls. Where should I be looking to find out how to change them from those buttons to something else that won't interfere with the game play. Thanks

Setting up new computer in my arcade cabinet. (Old one died) I am having trouble figuring out Marquee Masher. I have GameEX and GameEX Arcade installed but pretty much run Arcade all the time. I run dual monitors and have an ultrawide monitor I built into top of cabinet. I'm too the point where I have it displaying a default image but for the life of me cannot figure out how to get it to show game marquees. I had this all running great before but it's been a while so I'm clueless. How do I point it to a certain folder or where do I put that folder so it will see the marquee images? Any help is greatly appreciated. THank you.

So is or has anybody successfully run marquee masher and used Aimtrack light guns? If so could somebody point me in the right direction as far as configuring it. When I have dual monitors enabled it messes with the light guns.

Not completely the way I would like it but if I change the marquee folder path to an empty one it shows game flyers. They take up more screen space and the Game description/rating that pops up kinda gets lost in front of it. At least if it's showing the marquee image it doesn't always do this. That video marquee really added a big Wow to my cabinet. Between the marquee, the logo floating in the background, the logo on the wheel and the video snap I just don't feel the need of the other image showing up. I'll tinker with it here and there and see if I can get it to just show up blank. It's all running so good I don't want to go in and mess anything up. Maybe I should take some time to actually play a few games.

Marquee location is assigned in Marquee Masher. I created a blank folder and pointed the marquee path to the empty folder and it looks like it just finds out it's blank and moved onto displaying flyers. I don't want to change that at all because for now I like when you pick a game you can view all the info/images. Maybe at some point I would change that but for now...... Thanks for the reply. Didn't realize you answered until just now.

After being suggested by Draco1962 I decided to go with GameEX AE. Loving it. Looks great, runs great. Less work than original GameEX. I've also did a custom install of an Ultra Wide monitor as a marquee on my cabinet. I'm running the marquee masher software and loving that also. Hardest thing about that is coming up with marquee designs for ones that I can't find. I have one thing I would like to change and wondering if it is possible. If it is, could somebody point me in the right direction. On the main wheel screen and the individual game screen right under the video window it shows the marquee or sometimes it's the flyer from the game. If possible I Would like to not have that display at all. Sometimes the image is big enough where the game info text that shows is over the top of it, making it difficult to read. I attached a picture. Thanks for any help/input.

OK so I have been running GameEX Arcade edition and also using the marquee masher plugin. Loving it. Friends are blown away by it. Everything is working great but now I am wondering if there is a way for just on a game like Super Punch-Out I could get the 2nd screen to display the info screen(score,Stats) from the game. When I go into mame settings menu it lets you pick a whole bunch of different video settings but all of it is just on the main screen. Also would like to try and figure out how to get it to also work with the bezels I've been setting up for all my games. I know....one step at a time. If I can figure it out it would be cool, if not it's not really a big deal, I kinda always sucked at the game anyway. ;-) Any help, tips, directions are always appreciated. Thanks

So I notice that a bunch of the times, when exiting out of a game and then backing out of mame list, I also lose my controls. I have to alt tab to get them back. IS there anywhere that discusses this or shows how to fix that. Again, really dig this plugin but could use some help with it. Thanks

OK so I got it working. The only thing is now when loading or exiting a game the grayed out no banner shows up on the main screen. Any input on how to fix that. Loving this plugin. Too bad those actual marquee size monitors are so damn expensive.

I did try the AE edition and still seemed to be having the same issue. For now I just removed the 4 player (2 player versions) of the games giving me the issue so I could continue to get games added and setup. I will revisit them again but didn't want to spend too much time on it.

OK I just found out about this plugin. Is there anywhere that gives you a step by step on getting it working? I have no clue where to begin. Any help would be great. Thanks

OK I removed the 4 player versions of Simpsons and Gauntlet from the filtered list and it's the same thing. 4 player versions show the logos, 2 player versions do not. Stuff like this is the kind of stuff that drives me crazy. It doesn't make sense to me. I do have 2 more recent rom sets but I haven't touched them yet. Was thinking after I do some more work to this setup I would try out the arcade version of GameEx. I've stuck with this set because it's always worked for me. If we figure it out we figure it out. It just depends on how good I get the rest of the games looking, might have to remove ones with no logos. Oh one last question, any idea why I randomly get the nag screen to register? I paid for the lifetime membership a while ago.

Yeah those are the 4 player versions. The two I have with the logo issue are 2 player versions of those games. If I don't exclude them I end up with 4p and 2p versions in list. The 4p versions do show the logos but I'm trying to eliminate 4 player versions for my cabinet. Some games you can select players in the mame settings but those 2 don't have that option. And I think it was on the Simpsons that you can only pick player by what joystick. Not sure if logo ever worked for them because I had so many games before. Heading to work for a few but I'll try that later. Thanks again.

The ROM names are simpsons.zip and simpsons2p.zip and gauntlet.zip and gauntlet2p.zip And I've attached pics of both games logos that are available in the logo folder. It's from the MAME media pack from GameEX.

Haha OK I won't do anything drastic at this point. log.txt GameEx.ini

I might check that out soon. I just fell into a bezel black hole for the last 8 hours or so. Got stuff figured out as far as adding and creating them. Only thing still bugging me as far as the reason for this post is so far I have 2 games that will not show the logo in the game selection screen/game info screen. Simpsons and Gauntlet (both the 2 player versions) . If I can't figure it out I might just have to remove them. Really trying to clean this up and make it look pretty.

Just wanted to let you know. I did a clean install, 32bit. Everything seems to be working great. After losing my mind for a few days I think it all might have stemmed from W10 pushing another stupid update. I appreciate you guys taking the time and apologize if this post got a little scattered/pointless. I do my best to try and find answers but sometimes ya just gotta ask. All these years troubleshooting PC stuff it's amazing I still have a full head of hair. Thanks again.

I tried that last night. But before I did all the games started working. No idea how or why. Now it just seems to be running really slow, taking forever between menu selections some times even sitting in between selections, almost locked up. And now it also keeps asking me to donate/register it too. I have a lifetime membership. I have all my MAME in a separate folder so I'm just wondering if I should just uninstall it completely and reinstall it. Yeah I Wasn't sure about the 32/64 bit when I started redoing the machine. I have recording studio and I'm used to all my software for that going over to 64 bit. I really have no issue reinstalling the only pain in the ass part about that is configuring my X-Arcade Tank-Stick. Makes me wish I had another spare computer because I don't mind tinkering but I also don't like showing off my non working arcade cabinet. ;-)