spiffo

So just been doing some upgrades to GameEX 16.44 (64bit install) and LedBlinky 7.1.0 and when I first started up GameEx LEDBlinky wasn't working. So I referred to my notes and they said fire up the Setup Wizard, go to Setup Plugins and Tick the LedBlinky v7 Box. Except that seems to have disappeared and I just have the LedBlinky v6.2 option. So I ticked that instead and LedBlinky started working again, even though I'm running v 7.1.0, so just curious as to what happened there and why it changed, and is that everyone else is doing? GameEx.ini log.txt

Mmmm, when that happens to me it's usually because something is wrong in the Emulator itself, nothing to do with GameEX. Try closing GameEx down and running sf2 in MAME, if it works then it is something to do with Game Ex, if it doesn't then fix MAME first!

Thanks RedDog, Yep I've tried different times and nothing seems to work. I've given up, BSNES won't launch Full Screen, Snes9x won't recognise my second joystick :-( ZSNES seems to work fine for me :-)

I'm trying to get BSNES to run in Fullscreen, you don't seem to be able launch it Fullscreen from the command line? I thought Send Keys might be the answer as you can force it into Fullscreen after it is loaded by pressing F11 So I've gone into the Advanced Emulator Setup and set: Wait Before Keys 4000 Keys to Send {F11} But it's not working, has anyone solved this or can anyone spot something wrong with my Send Keys syntax?

Ian, I personally use an Analogue Joystick for those games but I've just had a little play with the controls. Taking Daytona USA as an example: Load the Daytona USA ROM Hit Escape to come out of Fullscreen Select Game - Configure Controls Un-Tick the boxes next to Steering, Accelerate and Brake (otherwise it expects Analogue Input) Up, Down, Left and Right now work, I can hold down the Up Arrow to keep accelerating and use the Left and Right Arrows to steer! Hope that helps, spiffo.

Yep, that's fixed it! Thanks for your help, Tom.

OK, I seem to be able to setup anything in the LED Input Map Tab without a crash. If I try and start configuring stuff in the Profile Editor Tab, pretty soon the Setup Wizard will crash. Looking through the PluginLCD Log (attached) I see an ERROR popping up: 02/10/2017 21:06:03: ERROR @ ThreadException (Program) 02/10/2017 21:06:03: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\GameEx\PLUGINS\PluginLCD\Profiles\GameEx.ini'. I don't seem to even have a Profiles Folder there, so certainly no GameEx.ini in that location. PluginLCD.log

Mmmmm, Game Ex Online disabled in the Setup Wizard, also killed all Game Ex processes in Task Manager. Still doing it :-( I was using LEDBlinky at first, but disabled that and wanted to try PluginLCD instead, could there be a conflict?

OK, so I'm running Game Ex v14.93 and just installed LCD/LED Plugin v2.90 When I try to Configure the Plugin from the Setup Wizard - Setup Plugins, at a random point usually when I click on a Tab or change a setting I get a Windows 10 Error message saying 'SetupWizard has Stopped Working' and Windows closes the Setup Wizard. Can anyone shed some light on this? Which logs would you like? Thanks, spiffo.

No I don't, should I?

OK, so I'm back with a new problem that's had me stumped for the last few days. I'm trying to use CPWizard, and it works absolutely fine if I run MAME on it's own, press L and the menu comes up, exit and go back into MAME, sweet! If I try the same thing with Game Ex Arcade though weird display things happen. The first time I just get the Game Ex Loading Screen for a few seconds then a black screen, I think the CPWizard Menu is there as I can still exit back to MAME but I just can't see anything. The Second time I Press L, I see the CPWizard Menu for about a second then it disappears to a Black Screen, and again I think it is there as I can still exit it out back to MAME. I've tried all the display options in the Game Ex Wizard and all the different display options I can find in CPWizard but all I can do is make the problem worse. I've even tried updating Video Card Drivers but that didn't help. I've got a AMD Radeon HD5450, so I'm wondering if it's an AMD Driver issue? GameEx.ini log.txt CPWizard.ini CPWizard.log

OK, now I feel a bit stupid. In the Setup Wizard screenshot above, you'll notice a line that says 'Show Vert/Horiz - Auto Based on Display' That line is filtering out all games that are Vertical Shooters / Scrollers because of my normal horizontal display, no wonder Space Invaders and Centipede didn't show up, DOH! I still can't get the Update List to not verify the ROMs, if you check the log it always includes -verifysets, but when I checked the verify.dat file that gets stored in users\'username'\appdata\local\temp and found the missing games in there and listed as GOOD I knew it couldn't be a verification problem. Well anyway, I've learnt loads, thank you very much to everyone who has helped, much appreciated. spiffo.

Currently using Mame 0.186 The ROMS have been audited with RomCenter, I used the MAME exe as a source, as you can see from the screeenshot, it tells me they are all good.

OK, yep I've installed v14.91 of Arcade. I've matched my MAME.ini ROM path to the same as the one in the Setup Wizard, run the update list and still the same problem. As one example, Space Invaders (invaders.zip) does not show up in the All Games List, it runs fine from within MAME and if I do a search inside Game Ex it shows up and I can launch it and play it. But it just will not show up in the All Games List! Current files attached: mame.ini from the mame folder GameEx.ini log.txt after an Update List mame.ini GameEx.ini log.txt

In the Setup Wizard under Advanced MAME Settings, I don't have the Verify ROMS Option, see attached screenshot. Could it be that the Arcade Edition just doesn't have the ability to switch that off? Or is it not that simple?

OK, thanks for your help on this, looks like you've spotted the culprit. Next stupid question is, where is that command line being generated from and how do I remove the -verifysets? Thanks, spiffo.

Verify ROMs doesn't show up as an option in the Advanced MAME Settings of the WIzard? But looking through the GameEx.ini file it has been set to False. GameEx.ini log.txt

I think catver.ini needs to be matched to the MAME Version as well ? So I've changed catver.ini, mameinfo.dat and history.dat to the MAME 0.186 versions. I've installed the MAME 0.186 version and Romcenter reports all my roms are good. I do an 'Update List' in Game Ex Arcade and basically nothing has changed, there are just about half a dozen that will not show up in the 'All Games' List. So I've added them to the 'Don't Filter These ROMS' section and re-run the 'Update List' but they still don't turn up in the 'All Games' List. If I search for them, they are there, but they don't show up in any lists! I've also tried a custom list, they won't show up in there either! I'm at a total loss, it all looks extremely similar to Asfaleia's Problem from this thread:

Yep that pretty much confirms what I had gathered. So as far as Game Ex goes, I have changed the following files: mameinfo.dat history.dat These are in the GameEx Arcade Edition\DATA\ Folder Are there any more that need to be changed? Thanks, spiffo

Ok, so I've got my MAME into a right state. After some problems getting certain games to show up in the All Games category it seems as if the old adage is true and 'Install the version of MAME that matches your ROM Set' is the way to go. My question is if I downgrade my MAME to 0.183 so that it matches my ROM set what do I need to do in Game Ex Arcade in order that it will list and verify the ROMS correctly? Do I need to find a Mame info.dat file that matches 0.183 and replace the one in the Game Ex folder for instance? I'm a little lost, thanks, spiffo.

The Left and Right triggers on the 360 Controller can't work as Accelerator and Brake in the Driving games unless you add -input-system=xinput to the command line, and make some changes to the key assignments in the supermodel.ini file. It's all discussed on the supermodel forums, anyway we are getting way off topic??? Thanks for everyone's input, I've learnt a lot but I'll just stick with them as add on Emulators it gives me a lot more flexibility and I'll just have to configure all the artwork manually. Thanks, spiffo.

Yep, I can see that you still use the respective Emulators, m2emulator for Model 2 and supermodel for Model 3. Unless I'm missing something though, if you don't install them as seperate Emulators you miss out on a lot of customisation options and in particular, access to custom Command Line arguments, which is vital for getting proper XBOX 360 Controller support working in supermodel for instance.

OK, I'll give that a go. If that's the way it's done fair enough, although that isn't obvious because their seperate setup sections only appear if you run the Setup Wizard in 'Advanced' Mode. If you run it in 'Basic' Mode they do not appear and that's what I was doing so I didn't realise. Also It confused me because the last time I tried to use MAME for running Model2/3 ROMs it did not work. That may have been about three years ago mind, come to think of it. Thanks fo your help anyhow.

OK, attached are the Sega Model 3 Database that was automatically dowloaded when I added the Emulator and my Sega Model 2 Database in which I've copied the structure of the Model 3 one. When I fire up the Front End only artwork for the Model 3 is downloaded from EmuMovies, the Model 2 is just ignored. Can anyone shed some light on: 1 Why there isn't an official Model 2 Database? 2 What is wrong with mine so it doesn't work? Thanks for your help, spiffo [Arcade] Sega Model 2.db3 [Arcade] Sega Model 3.db3 GameEx.ini

Draco, files attached. Many Thanks, spiffo. GameEx.ini log.txt