Matheus Moreira

Some years ago, i used a front-end called AdvanceMENU, and it had a very nice feature that listed only parent ROMs, but once a parent rom is selected, I could do two things: I can press a key and launch the parent game (like gameex is today) or I can press another key, and it brings me a pop-up Clone Selection menu, so I can select and play a specific clone or hack of game, but keep the main gamelist clean. I would love to see this feature on gameex, because most games we want to simple play the parent or most compatible rom, but other times we want to play a specific version of game, either because of a specific particularity of a version or because we want to play a hack. As an example, sometimes I want to play Cabal, the original version, but sometimes I want to play the bootleg version, because the bootleg has a feature that allows me to roll, and the parent rom don't have this feature. Another example are the many street fighter 2 hacks. Most times I just want to play the classic version, but sometimes (most when we drink friends, heh) we want to play a hacked version, with character selection, custom commands, etc. So, I hope I made my point. If this can be implemented, will be realy great! Thanks! I love this program, and this is the only feature I miss on it.

@vsilvalopes, Thanks for the tips, I will try in the weekend and see what i can do. My interest in using eventghost to control the emulator is not for playing, but for send the Close Emulator command (ESC or ALT+F4), send the Save Game and Load Game commands and the Reset Command. I want to do this with my remote, but I will play the games with my joystick!

@TSpeirs, Thanks for the tip, i will try and then i post the results here! @vsilvalopes, Thank you very much for the reply! Did you make any special configuration to zsnes or mame to work? I made one configuration for each emulator in eventghost, so the button press on the remote will send the keys each emulator is waiting for, but it didn't work. zsnes, mame and mess simply don't recognize the keys sended by eventghost. When I press the same keys on a real keyboard, all works as expected. To tell you an example, I configured eventghost to send the F9 key when i push the power button on my remote. Then I launched mame and tried to map the F9 key to the RESET emulator. On mame configuration, i pressed enter and mame start to wait for a key to pressed, so it can map to the desired function. No matter how many times i press the key on the remote, the mame don't recognize the F9 sendkeys that eventghost triggered. Any ideas? Thank you so much!

Hi guys! I'm using usbuirt and eventghost to control my HTPC. My HTPC has team mediaportal, GameEx and some emulators installed, so I can play all my old games and watch my movies just using my remote and my gamepad. Eventghost is configured to listen the infrared commands received by usbuirt and then send a combination of keys for each command. The sendkeys sent by eventghost is working very nice with mediaportal and some emulators, like kega and nestopia, but it don't work with GameEx and some emulators, like zsnes, mess or mame. These programs don't recognize the sendkeys that eventghost raised, but recognize when i press the real key on the keyboard. I suspect that GameEx (and mame, mess, etc) make direct access to hardware, or use directx to capture inputs or something like that. My question is: Anyone knows why this happens? Is there any workaround or anything that I can do to make it work? Any plans to add usbuirt support to GameEx? Because of this problem, unfortunately I cannot use GameEx at my HTPC, because I only have my remote to control the computer. Maybe GameEx can add support to usbuirt and also help to add usbuirt support to these emulators! I appreciate any help or tip! Thanks!