DJoneK

I mount on daemon tools and run xebra with the following commandline XEBRA.exe -SPTI M: -RUN2 -FULL M: being the virtual drive. No need to manually select a slus file. At least I haven't had any issues so far. I do use Xebra instead of Arbex. So if they behave differently, I couldn't help.

Yes, I also have a 2nd theme I did and I made both image1 and image2 as 640x480 boxes and the same thing happens. It's as if the image2 is coded to stretch while keeping the aspect ratio, and image1 is coded to stretch to fill screen.

Sorry. Forgot to mention I'm using my own theme. It's a simple 1360x768 theme. I didn't try one of the newer fancier themes because even though GameEx seemed to download them, it wouldn't switch theme. I did try one of the old default ones and it had the 2 image boxes and the same thing happened. I'm also attaching my theme.ini just in case. Theme.ini GameEx.ini

It seems GameEx has trouble keeping up the correct aspect ratio of a video snap while inside the "Image box" of a theme, but seems it has no trouble at all when displaying videos in the "Image2 box" of a theme. I have both 16:9 and 4:3 videos in my PC emulator section, and while they all show as 4:3 (widescreen ones are squished) when browsing the PC game list, they display just fine in the "image2 box" while browsing the emulator list. The box where videos show for just a few seconds randomly. So it seems that the "Image2" box has some aspect ratio code that keeps the correct aspect ratio on stuff (not just snaps, but videos too) and the main snap window (Image) does not. Just thought I would point this out. Would really like to have videos keep the correct aspect ratio while browsing game lists. BTW, I just noticed this on the latest version 12.82. I have no idea if this happens on previous versions as well. Never took notice of that.

Recently updated to 12.79 and misteriously the arcade ambience mp3 sounds stopped playing. After digging around in the setup wizard, everything appeared ok. I decided to take a peek at the gameex.ini located in Gamex/CONFIG/ and it shows the following: AmbienceFile=L:\-DATA-\-MP3-\4 Non Blondes\4 Non Blondes - What's Up.mp3 AmbianceFile=C:\ProgramData\arcade.mp3 Apparently it got overwritten with that and even when I point it to my correct path (a folder) in the setup wizard, it's not overwriting/removing that. Now, the only way I got mine to work again was by removing those 2 lines and leaving the path for "AmbienceFolder" which was correct. Just thought I would share.

I had a similar problem a few versions ago and removing the -nonewui fixed it for me. I just use the following now. mess.exe coleco -cart "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]" -joy -now Tested the above with .144 and worked for me. Didnt' try any others though.

All these workarounds sound so tedious. I always wished GameEx had a way to set up multiple emulators under a single "entry". Instead of showing just "Play this Game", it would show "Play this Game on X", X being the emulator set up. That way you would only have "System Lists" with multiple emulators if preferred, instead of the current formula of "Emulators List". Roms could be all kept neatly in a single folder, and no need to group or do any other workarounds. Doesn't seem like a hard thing to implement, but I'm not a coder so I dunno. Still hoping it will be implemented someday.

I think he has a misunderstanding. Those 3d boxes he has in png, are probably ones that show the box from a 3d perspective. It's still a flat image, so it cant be rotated. It's not like those pngs are in a format where you can slap them on top of a 3d model, and they'll show up in 3d (AFAIK anyway). So yea. Just a misunderstanding. And to answer clearly, no.

I ran into a similar problem recently, and removing "-nonewui" seemed to cure my issue. I know you tried clearing all options except rom, but try the command below. mess.exe system -cart "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]" -joy -now

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I'm getting a crash. I'm on Vista 32bit, Intel C2D 2.13, 4gb ram, NVidia 450gts 1gb EDIT: It seems it has to do with the batch files I run before and after GameEx runs, to swap primary displays, so GameEx shows on the HDTV. I tried removing those 2 lines and it loaded up fine on my main monitor. EDIT2: Just tried some more stuff. I removed the "Run before" and "Run after" lines on the Setup Wizard. Then proceded to manually swap primary displays on windows display properties. GameEx loaded fine. Then I proceded to manually run the .bat files to swap primary displays before launching GameEx, and GameEx also loaded fine. So I really think it's got something to do with the "Run before" and "Run after" lines for some wicked reason. EDIT3: Switched to Windowed mode, and GameEx loaded fine even when using the .bat files to swap primary displays on the "Run Before" and Run After" lines on the Setup Wizard. EDIT4: Just tried to use GameEx's "Run on Secondary Display" option without using the .bat files, and even though I didn't get the "Stopped Responding" message, it did hang in the GameEx loading screen, and exited after a while. Log was exactly like the one I pasted above. LAST EDIT: Rebooted and problem persisted. Last thing I tried was loading GameEx with the .bat files in place, it crashed. When it crashes, it doesn't run the "Run after" .bat file so my HDTV is kept as primary. I tried running GameEx again without swaping it back and it loaded fine even with the "Run Before" batch file in place. Hopefully all the above info is enough to find what is troubling my very beautiful GameEx setup. TRULY LAST EDIT: I think I just found a workaround. It just seems as if GameEx is loading up so fast, that the display is not ready after swapping. I added a delay on the batch file after swapping primary display, and so far, it seems to be working great.

I keep my CD stuff compressed because I rarely play any of them. I know it takes a while to decompress if I ever want to play one, but It's so rare, that I'd rather save the HDD space. At the same time, they are all neatly in GameEx, and ready to play whenever I want. For this, I created a batch file. It will extract the cd contents into a temporary folder on my main drive, mount it on Daemon Tools Lite, run the emulator, then once the emulator exits, it will unmount from daemon tools lite, delete the temporary files and folders and back to GameEx it goes. So the HDD with the stored compressed images is just read (It's a USB drive). Very important. The .cue file inside the compressed archive must have exactly the same name as the archive itself for this to work. Also, this method is for *.7z archives. For .zip or .rar archives, replace {set "file=%file:~1,-4%"} with {set "file=%file:~1,-5%"} This is my example batch file for Fusion: (You'd need to change some paths, since these are mine. ) (NOTE: I don't use Daemon Tools with Fusion)

I got the same controller, but I haven't messed around with that game. I was recently trying to get driving games to respond correctly to the analog stick, but that didnt work out too well either. I need to spend some more time tweaking settings to see what works and what doesn't.

Yep, fixed here too.

I always try to keep the original aspect ratio. For everything, not just games. When stretched.. everything looks... fat, lol. Plus, the nostalgia factor is not that good when you play stuff stretched, when originally you played them as they were meant to be.

Well.. can't be a 64bit problem cuz as I said above, I'm running Vista 32bit. And yea.. it happens before even loading GameEx, since I have a tool that runs before GameEx to swap primary/secondary displays, and the warnings pop up before that.

It all loads fine after pressing Enter on all of them, and everything works just as it should. Just a minor annoyance whenever you start GameEx.

Vista 32bit

I just updated to 11.98 and whenever I start GameEx, it pops-up a ton of windows pop-up warnings displaying some font names. I need to press and hold the enter key so they all go away quickly, if not, it's clickety, clickety hell. I'm guessing it's a known bug and it's being figured out? Since I haven't seen mention of 11.98 here in the forums yet. Excellent job to all involved in such a wonderful piece of software.

nullDC_Win32_Release-NoTrace.exe -config ImageReader:DefaultImage="[RomPath]\[RomFile]" I think you also need to set the emulator to auto-run the image nulldc.cfg Emulator.AutoStart=1

One little thing I would like, is to have separate video paths and snap paths for emulators. That way my card can display snaps for games. Currently I only have videos so whenever I run a game, the gamercard never shows any pics. Would also be good if we could prioritize the order which artwork is displayed on GameEx. Currently I think it's like "snaps/videos>titles>boxes>others". I personally like to have videos and boxes when browsing, so to do that, I have to discard titles completely, but I'd like to also have them there. Unless we can prioritize what is shown when browsing, I can't do that. Other than that, always love some new features/updates, so thanks! I think GameEx may be on to something with this whole gamercard thing and GameEx live PS: Isn't it time for a new default modern theme for gameex? EDIT: Also, I'd like a Tag change from "Keno" to "DJoneK" which is the nick I use pretty much everywhere. Keno is my 90s nick

Currently downloading the latest GameEx installer. Speed is jerking around between 100kb/s and 150kb/s out of a max speed of 2mb/s. I'm in Florida. Did a speedtest right after that.

+1. Not only is it much easier to work with, but the ability to tinker with it while in GameEx and quickly test it out. Bravo.

The Emulators Group is an ok workaround, but it basically would require the user to manually filter out which games we'd like to use with X emulator. So if emulators are updated and stuff gets fixed/broken, you'd basically have to keep moving the games around so they all work to your preference. By just having one entry for a system and be able to set up multiple emulators for it, you'd just have a single list of games but with the added option to select which of your configured emulators to play it on. I know it would probably require a big reworking of the setup wizard and gameex as a whole, especially since there seems to be a lot of pre-configured stuff already, but if you really think about it, it even makes more sense to be built that way. Instead of having a lot of configs for multiple emulators, you could potentially have just 1 for each system and already preconfigured for all known emulators. Would be just a matter of selecting "Enable/Disable" and adjusting the paths/options accordingly. Anyway, just thought I'd shoot it out here just in case the author is ever bored, lol.

I'd like to see more than 1 emulator option for each system. Say something similar to Daphne where you Enable/Disable Emulators. For Example. I currently have 3 different PSX emulators set up, all pointing at the same games. Reason being compatibility/speed of course. Xebra being the favorite, followed by ePSXe, then pSX. So instead of having 3 separate emulator entries for these 3 emulators, just have 1 Playstation emulator include all 3 Emulators, so when you go to the game info page on GameEx, instead of just saying "Play Game" it would say something like "Play Game on Xebra", "Play Game on ePSXe", "Play Game on pSX", then the usual stuff. It would probably need a bit of reworking on the setup wizard and whatnot but I don't really know how hard it can be. I would do them like this: Emulator 1: Enabled (Always enabled, duh) Emulator 1 Name: <here you'd type the name of the emulator so it shows up neatly in GameEx when running> Emulator 1 Launch Before: Emulator 1 Also Launch: Emulator 1 Command Line: Emulator 1 Launch After: Emulator 2: <Enabled/Disabled> etc etc.. I think at least 3 options would be sweet. Although I bet someone will then request the addition of more later on. So ideally, there would be only 1 entry per system/console/handheld.