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I know that instant sheller can't currently change win7 boot screen but I was wondering if it might now be possible to add support. I saw a utility here http://www.coderforlife.com/projects/win7boot/#HowtoUse that allows for it.

Thanks for the info bkenobi. Scurvy, the default gamepad shift button for accelerated scrolling is button 1 on your gamepad.

I guess I'm stuck with either rewiring the buttons or setting up Xpadder like bkenobi did. Bkenobi, do you disable Xpadder when you play games or do you have it running at all times?

Yes, I was referring to paging. If the input is strictly joypad, or strictly keypad, it works fine. But with the setup I have, I am mixing the two. Joypad input for the joystick and keyboard input for the buttons. I know I could wire up the buttons to the ultrastik but I would like to avoid the extra work if I can. Thanks.

I recently swapped out my 8 way joys for ultrastiks and now the accelerated scrolling feature of gameex no longer works. The buttons are still wired up to the ipac. Would it be possible to add the ability to use the shift_paging button for the keyboard with the joystick?

It doesn't have to be alternating games. Just any 2 player game, whether alternating or simultaneous, and the joystick doesn't light up. 4 player and 3 player games light up fine, alternating or not. Tempest, that sounds like a real nice utility. I have been looking for something just like that.

Hi HK, I was wondering if you saw my previous post?

I think I found a minor bug. If a game is a 2 player game and it uses a joystick, the joystick led won't light. But if it is a 4 player game and it uses a joystick, the joystick led will light.

I actually compared some screenshots of the biggest font size setting to the smallest and I stand corrected. There is a difference but it is very slight. The largest setting is still very small and hard to see on my arcade monitor. The text is no where near as big as it is when in horizontal mode with the same text size setting.

No matter what I set the font size to in the config, it is always the same size when using the frontend rotated(vertical).

Nevermind, nothing to see here. Move along.

As far as I know, gameex is currently limited to a resolution of 640x480 or 800x600 in vertical mode and I was wondering if it could be expanded to include 1024x768? Reason being is that I have an ega monitor in my cab and I have it set up to run at a resolution of 1024x768i which currently won't work with gameex in vertical mode.

There is something like this out there offered by weavefuture. I don't know a whole lot about it but I believe they have hardware and software solutions with the whole intention of turning your pc into a commercial money maker.

You have to make sure the ip for the gameextender and the gameextender viewer matchviewer_settings.bmp

It works fine for me now. The problem I had was that gameextender viewer didn't start automatically when you started gameex. I had the launch the viewer manually before firing up gameex. That's not a problem now since there is an option the load the viewer when gameex starts.

I am a little intimidated by AHK, I think mainly because I haven't had a chance to study how to use it. Thanks for the links.

My gameex box and my desktop pc are networked together. I was wondering if it would be possible to set up my desktop pc to run gameextender as the screensaver?

I just wanted to say thanks to Tom and Headkaze for all their hard work. I updated to 9.54 and I am impressed. Awhile back I was having an issue with Karaoke and it works flawlessly now, irotate rotation software didn't used to play nice with the frontend but now works perfectly, and not to mention the options that keep getting added and HK's fantastic LEDwiz plugin. Oh and the option to launch and close the gameextender with the frontend is a handy feature. Great work!!!

Thanks guys, I had done all those things except for "Next go into Profiles and then GameEx->Default and turn on P1_JOYSTICK/P2_JOYSTICK." I'll give it a go this evening. He's all yours Tempest.

HK, I didn't know if you seen this post or not.

Hi Headkaze, I recently added some lighted joys to my control panel. I have them hooked up and configured in the plugin. They light up when animations are run but they don't light for the games that they should. I looked at the profile editor for mame and browsed thru some of the games and I noticed that the joys are always set to false. I know I could go thru there manually but I was wondering if there was an easier way. Thanks

With the alternating 2 player games, you usually can't use the 2 player controls to control player 2. But alot of the 2 player alternating games have a cocktail mode, when cocktail mode is active then 2 sets of controls are utilized. It would be nice if mame had a setting to allow player 2 controls to be utilized but then I guess it wouldn't be authentic to the original.

I tried rotating gameex that way but it caused issues. For one, the top half of the title text was cut off. I didn't mess around with trying to run mame and other emulators this way but I also worried that it would cause performance to suffer.

I use gameex in a vertical set up and I had a couple of emulators that do not have native vertical support that I was going to use with Irotate. Outside of gameex they work fine with Irotate but when I try to set up Irotate to launch before the emulator it crashes gameex and the gameex error log references a directx error. I changed the hide desktop setting for the particular emulators but it didn't make a difference. It's not a huge deal but I was wondering if there was any workaround for this? Thanks

That did the trick. Thanks Tom.