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FWIW I couldn't find an easy way to convert bin/cue to cdi.

When I use the "Exit" button in the theme I'm using, or the "Exit GameEx" option in the menus, I still see "GameEx.exe" running my processes once it has quit. This does not happen if I quit with ALT+F4. Is this an issue with a plugin not exiting perhaps? I have the LCD plugin and the Ultrastik plugin.

It's working now Thank you very much!

I don't have a gameex>plugins>ultrastick (or similar) folder, so I assume I have the paths right (all relates files in the plugin folder itself). I'll try messing around with it further today.

I'm pretty sure I had it working at one point - I ran into the trackball-game-changes-joystick-buttons issue fixed with this revision (and a third party patch). UltraMap does see both, and I can write maps to the sticks with it. I have the latest firmware (the one that allows shift functionality) on both my sticks.

The plugin does not seem to be affecting my UltraStiks in any way. I'm running XP, tried both 1.0 (the version which came with GameEx) and 1.3, and neither will change my UltraStiks, though I have a batch file for Geometry Wars which calls ultramap.exe manually, and that works fine. The plugin has a check in PluginManager.exe, and if I use UltraMap to set the sticks to 2 way, I never get anything else in MAME games. Is there some setting I need to change to point it to my UltraStiks? Or a log file I can read?

I managed to the MAME keys lighting up, but I'm still having issues with the plugin configuration program. I'll load it up, hit the Profile Editor tab, click Dreamcast, click Ikaruga, make some changes (changing Always Active to False for a few buttons), click Save, click Exit, then go back in and my changes were never saved. In some cases I've reverted to editing ini files, but this is far from desirable Edit: This time it worked? Maybe it's related to me remote desktopping it (seems to save changes OK) vs editing via the machine itself. Regardless, can anyone explain the difference between "State" and "Always active"?

I have my buttons wired in to the U360's directly. They show up as joystick buttons 1-7 (I'm not using #8). Works pretty well, except sometimes joystick support isn't as good as keyboard support in some programs. This is great to know, thanks.

I love how clean this theme looks. My favourite so far. Is there any way to have the joystick buttons work to select "Home"? Additionally, any way to have "Exit" actually be "Sleep"?

Wow, this is absolutely awesome. Thanks so much for your work.

I now see all my MAME games when I select "MAME" on the plugin event configuration page, but I still have no change. Just whatever I set up my GameEx controls to be.

You can now search, as well, if you're registered.

Wow, this plugin is awesome. Took a little thinking to figure it out (I should have just read this thread) but it's very easy past the initial learning stage. Unfortunately, I seem to be getting no lights for MAME games. I set up profiles for my other emulators, so they work fine, but nothing for MAME. Do I need special ini files anywhere? Edit: Actually, when in MAME I just get whatever lights I've set up for the "GameEx" profile. Edit: Oh, and since the latest version of GameEx (released yesterday) I seem to get the "Welcome to GameEx" speech when I start gameex, even though I've turned that off (even if I change the text it doesn't help.)

To actually implement this, you'd need to go DEEP into MAME's code, on a per-game basis. I have little knowledge of this but I would guess it'd be very difficult.

Wow, that works perfectly. Thank you so much. You guys are all a great help. A++!

I messed around with AHK initially, and had issues. It won't natively detect two joystick buttons (e.g. "joy1 & joy2::{Esc}") so you had to use weird workarounds, which had issues with GameEx and my emulators (probably because they were doing hooks into low level code for button presses which would ruin the workarounds). Edit: See thread http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic29755.html

Holy crap, that is so perfect. Exactly what I'm looking for I think. Am I able to specify buttons from joystick1 *and* joystick2? In a perfect world I would have: MapGamePadExit=True Joy1Button7=True Joy2Button7=True Possible?

I'm using the "External Applications" section of GameEx for a few extra PC games I'm interested in (Geometry Wars, woo!), but I'm not sure how to go about putting information about these games in the ini file. Come to think of it, Geometry Wars needs analog for joy1 and mouse for joy2. Is this possible with this plugin?

Does anyone know the theme he is using? I love the transition effect.

Alright, I'm back to MAME for arcade and MESS for consoles. This should do fine, thanks.

Is that the "map keys" option on page 2 of an emulator? Is there a way I can customize the desired keypresses? Essentially I want to quit when the user presses BOTH joy1button7 AND joy2button7. How would I configure this in GameEx?

MESS essentially includes MAME though, right? I thought it'd be nice only have one place to configure keys. Plus the real reason I wanted it is that MAME lets me assign whatever keys (joystick buttons, mouse buttons, combinations of buttons) to whatever function, which would let me assign exit to joy1b7+joy2b7, for example. I haven't found another emulator that'd let me do that. I am only updating the game list for MAME, but it's returning empty. It does seem odd that it hangs at 65% for so long (several minutes)

Rather than trying to consolidate a bunch of different emulators, I'm trying to use MESS for all of them. I now have SNES and Genesis working fine, but after regenerating my games list, GameEx now lists no games for MAME. I've set my ROM directory fine - does GameEx have issues with MESS for MAME? Edit: GameEx seems to hang for AGES on "Processing Verify.dat (65%)" Maybe this has something to do with it?

You could implement this similarly to "favourites".