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Too many changes to list here. http://www.xpadder.com/download.html

Changes in this release: Added Korean, Bosnian, Serbian and Icelandic translations Added some missing translations to Linux build Debugger DMA capture buffer now autoresizes Fixed streaming music in Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius Fixed bug when setting sound frequency in Windows Implemented volume and mute in Linux Fixed "missing body parts" bug in Deception 3 Fixed bug that caused XA audio in Deception 3 to not stop correctly Fixed random crash in Road Rash: Jailbreak Fixed debugger crash when emulator is reading from CD Fixed hang opening CD images in Linux Per-user settings for Linux (.ini file is now stored in ~/.pSX) Removed SSE instructions used during init (should fix crash on AMD CPUs) Fixed GTK warnings when clicking window close button in Linux http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/

Talking about light guns, here are some reviews: http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/lightgun1.html http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/actlabs-04122006-01.html http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/LCDTOPGUN-08202006-01.html I think I'd go for the LCD Topgun from Play-Asia.

It's been a while since a new version of pSX was released. http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/ Changes from v1.11 Fixed crash on startup with -f command line option Fixed SPU bug that caused FF8 FMV audio to stop sometimes Fixed bug that prevented some keys being mapped to controllers Fixed bug where window size/position was reset when using fast forward Added support for Alcohol 120% MDF/MDS images Fake subcode in track gaps (required for TombRaider1) Fixed Syphon Filter boot hang Fixed infinite loop in Tekken3 and Deception3 Changed 384 mode to 364 which seems to be correct (based on TombRaider) Fixed aspect ratio correction for 5:4

Is there any possibility of this being changed? This is a console-only setup and I'd like to be able to use the screensaver . I tried setting Disable Mame to No in the Enable/Disable Features section, then I set each of the Show XYZ Games to No in the Advanced Mame Settings. It didn't make any difference. How much would I have to setup the Mame stuff to get the screensaver to work? Thanks

I've tried all four settings for Attract Audio Mode and it doesn't make any difference. I don't know what else to try. Does anyone have the screensaver working with videos only? It seems like this mode of operation is supported since the Game to Video Ratio has the Just play videos option. Perhaps the screensaver is detecting some type of input and is exiting as soon as it starts. Is there any way that the reason for exiting the screensaver could be written to the log file? So if the space bar is pressed, it would write something like "Screensaver exited due to keyboard input: space". I have mouse and gamepad input disabled and keyboard set to DirectInput.

I'm still having trouble with this problem. Could it be because I don't have Mame setup?

The screensaver is not starting for me. It never starts automatically and when I select the Start Screensaver option the screen blanks very briefly then redraws the main menu. I do not have MAME configured or installed. Here are my screensaver settings: Attract Audio Mode: Pause playlist audio and run MAME with audio Attract Mode Timer: 4 minutes New Game Every: 10 minutes Play Videos Too: Yes Game to Video Ratio: Just play videos Videos Path: D:\Games\Emulation\Commercials Only Favorites: No Play Exit Sound: No Also Other Emulators: No Mute Emulators: No The videos are the EmuMovies commercial pack in avi format. I've attached my log file - I selected the Start Screensaver option several times during this run of GameEx. log.txt

I recently switched over to using Xpadder for all controls and things are working better than ever. Emulators exit more quickly, controls are easier to configure and more flexible, I even have mouse control in PC games now. I think Xpadder is a perfect compliment to GameEx.

Thanks for trying. I did a complete uninstall/reinstall/reconfigure of GameEx from scratch. This cleaned up a few files left over from previous versions that aren't used anymore, but the crashing problem still remains. At least we now know that it is unlikely that the problem is caused by a corrupt GameEx file. Here's something interesting that I discovered. I usually have the zSnes exit key set to 'Q' in the zSnes settings. I then use an advanced emulator config that sends the 'q' key when a button combination on the gamepad is pressed: Enabled=True MapBack=False MapEscape=False KeysToSendOnExit=q EmuWaitForKeys=True Process1= Process2= Process3= Process4= JoymappingEnabled=FALSE Left=37 up=38 Right=39 Down=40 Button1=17 Button2=18 Button3=32 Button4=53 Button5=54 Button6=49 Button7= Button8= Button9= Button10= MapGamePadExit=true Left= Down= Right= Up= Button1= Button2= Button3= Button4= Button5= Button6= Button7= Button8= Button9=True Button10=True I changed the exit key in zSnes to 'W'. Now when I press the button combo on the gamepad to exit zSnes, GameEx still crashes but zSnes also continues to run. So it doesn't seem to be the process of exiting the emulator and returning to GameEx that causes it to crash. It looks more like the process that intercepts button presses from the gamepad or the process that sends the exit key to the emulator that causes GameEx to crash. Why it only crashes when zSnes is running, I don't know. I have two USB gamepads attached to my GameEx box: a PS2 controller connected through a USB adapter, and a Nyko Airflo USB gamepad. Pressing the exit button combo on either of these gamepads causes GameEx to crash. Maybe this will give you some other ideas on what the problem could be.

I made a backup of the PlayVideoDLL.dll and replaced it with this new copy. Unfortunately, I still have the same problem. There must be some slight difference between exiting zSnes directly and having GameEx intercept a button combo that sends a keystroke to zSnes that makes it quit that's causing GameEx to crash in the one case.

The log, my config file, and my zSnes advanced config are attached. Here's what happened as best as I can remember it: Everything has been working great for months. Last night I performed an automatic update of GameEx. At around the same time, I installed the latest Windows updates (I think there were three of them). Before I restarted the computer, I tested out the various emulators to verify that they were still working. I tested Nestopia first and it worked fine. Next I tested zSnes. While I was playing the first SNES game the Windows update "restart your computer" reminder popped up and partially stole the focus from zSnes. The mouse pointer was visible in the center of the screen, but I could still play the game. I tried to Alt-Tab so that I could hide the restart reminder again. I then pressed Y or ESC or something. zSnes disappeared and GameEx crashed at some point during all of this. When I tried to start GameEx again, the screen was rotated 90 degrees clockwise and it crashed during the loading screen before the menus came up. I went into the configuration and changed the display rotation back to none. GameEx now started fine. Exiting zSnes via the controller button combination caused it to crash though. So I tried doing a full reinstall of GameEx by downloading the installer and installing it manually. The reinstall made no difference to the crashing. I then looked through all of the settings to see if I could find anything that looked wrong - I couldn't see any problems. I renamed the SNES Snap directory so that the video previews couldn't be found in case it was a video codec problem. This didn't make any difference. I also tried a different theme (the Default - Default one I think) which also didn't make any difference. I discovered that pressing 'q' on the actual keyboard exited zSnes without it causing GameEx to crash. I also found that none of the other emulators caused GameEx to crash when I used the gamepad button combination to exit. Thanks for looking into this. Let me know if I can help. log.txt GameEx.ini.txt Zsnes.ini.txt

GameEx crashes every time when I exit zSnes. The error message is "GameEx has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost." I have GameEx configured so that pressing two buttons on the gamepad simultaneously will send the 'q' key to zSnes causing it to exit. GameEx crashes right after zSnes exits. Pressing the 'q' key on the keyboard makes zSnes exit without a problem - nothing crashes. When GameEx crashes, there is no crash info written to the log file. The last entry is: Sending q to emulator. No other emulators crash when exiting in exactly the same manner. I just updated GameEx. The previous version that I was running was a couple of months old and didn't exhibit this problem. I've tried removing the video snaps and changing to a different theme. Are there any cache files which could be corrupt that need deleting? Hopefully someone has some ideas Thanks

Autohotkey is great for any kind of keyboard, mouse, and joystick remapping (among other things). It's a compilable scripting tool, so while it is much more powerful/flexible than the other solutions, it's also a bit more complicated. It's not too bad once you get the hang of it.

If the LEDs in those light bars are IR LEDs, then you won't see them at all, even when they're on. It's just the CCD panels in digital cameras that are sensitive to infrared light. If you take a picture with a digital camera of a TV remote while holding down a button, you will also see the IR led on the front lit up.