evilpenguin

I played around a little more last night and while a lot of them looked weird, 1600x1200 @ normal font size works great and that's good enough for me

Thanks, I'll try that when i get home

Figured i'd bump this while i'm here in case Tom didn't see it the first time. I even tried the new widescreen theme,Default - My Games for MCE - Widescreen, which runs at 1024x567 and it looks the same.

Last night I set up a fresh copy of GameEX and downloaded zsnes using the setup wizard and pressing ESC won't close zsnes like it does for my other emulators. Before anyone asks, I'm sure mapkeys is set exactly like it is set for all of my other emulators and they all work properly. Strangely, I also tried to map zsnes keys to my remote control (freeze,unfreeze,pause,quit) via keyboard emulation and those won't work either; zsnes must be doing something wonky with keyboard input.

This is with the lastest version of GameEX. I've tried different various different UI and Theme settings and they all look about the same. Any thoughts?

Ok, here we go... 1) Download and unzip the emulator movie frontend from this forum topic http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3474 2) Download the movie_renamers.zip and unzip the contents into the same folder as the emulator movie frontend. 3) Setup your emuMovFront config.ini file with the paths to your ROM directories and the paths to the renamer batch files. [config] dirs=C:\fceu_roms;C:\vba_roms fcm=C:\EmuMovFront_0.4\fceu.bat vbm=C:\EmuMovFront_0.4\vba.bat 4)Finally, head over to NES Videos and download a bunch of .fcm and .vbm files, open them with emuMovFront.exe, and let the batch files do their magic. The first time you try and open a movie file, emuMovFront.exe will tell you that it can't find the movie and ask you to scan your rom folders. After it scans your rom folders it might tell you again that it couldn't find a matching ROM but don't worry about that, just try opening the movie file again and it should work. Enjoy! P.S. - Download the modified FCEU emulator from the same forum topic that you downloaded the emuMovFront program and the modified vba emulator is from the link below... http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2050 movie_renamers.zip

Ahh, i've got a good idea now. All I need to do is use the CLI program that automatically picks and launches the correct roms and instead of pointing it to an emulator point it to a batch file that will copy the movie file to the rom directory with the rom's name. That way all you have to do when you download a movie is double click it and it will copy itself. I'll crank something out tommorow during lunch.

The other option is that there is a CLI program on the Nes Videos Forums that you can launch the emulator video files though and it will automatically pick out the correct ROM based off of the ROM's internal hash. The only catch on this is that GameEX would be launching this CLI frontend program instead of the emulator directly so GameEX would need to know to wait until the actual emulator exits. The problem I was running into with this was that the CLI frontend program closes immediately after the emulator launches so it makes GameEX think that the emulator has closed and it trys to take back control. I'm not sure if GameEX can handle this gracefully right now.

I heard from the webmaster and he doesn't approve so I can't post the renamed files. I can understand where he's coming from though as renaming the files and distributing them independent of the Nes Video's website pretty much removes any awknowledgement of the creator's hardwork. I'll see if I can't put together a database file containing all of the websites information for each video that would gives the creators of the video the proper recognition, and see if he approves it then.

That makes sense since the configuration file doesn't save a full path. I'll try using a shortcut and see if that works.

I went though all the NES rom videos and changed the names to the GoodTools names that most people use. If I get the Nes Videos webmaster's permission i'll post a nice zip of all of them so no one else will have to waste their time.

I setup GameEX to launch a program on exit and it doesn't appear to be doing it. Just to be sure it wasn't my program, I changed the program to launch on exit to somthing standard like IE and tried it again, but nothing happenend. I checked the log file and it says... 15:12:05.9 3/16/2006: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit 15:12:05.9 3/16/2006: Launching and not waiting: IEXPLORE.EXE

For those of you that don't know, you can find insanely cool videos of people beating old video games crazy fast over at Bisqwit's Nes Video's. One of the coolest things about the site is the ability to download a small binary file that you can load along with the game's rom that will play back the movies though your emulator. Up until recently, loading these emulator video files was far to complicated to script for GameEX (trust me, I tried ), but recently some of the emulators have been modified to launch videos directly from the command line. This in turn allows you to launch them directly from GameEX. The only two that currently work are FCEUltra for NES and Visual Boy Advance for GBX and you need to download the modified version from the Nes Video forums. The command line calls are fceu.exe -playmovie "[rompath]\[romfile]" "[rompath]\[rom].nes" and vba.exe -rom "[rompath] \[rom].gba" -play "[rompath] \[romfile]" 1 For this to work you need to rename the emulator video files with the exact same name as the associated roms and place them in the same directory. Once you've done this all you need to do is setup a new emulator config for the video files that would be setup almost exactly like the actual emulator's config except that you use the video's file extension and the above command line calls. I highly recommend this for showing off to your friends P.S. - Now that this works, I think it would be great to setup the attract mode to exclusivly launch these videos as they are far more fun to watch than MAME intros

Oh well, it was worth a shot. It's not like it's that hard as it is, with all the roms on the same drive letter on all PC's, I was just hoping I could even be a few steps lazier Thanks for the tips.

I was just curious if there would be any problems installing GameEX on a shared network drive and using it on multiple machines. Are there any machine specific configuration or install settings that would prevent this from working?