drurywoodson

Here's the log file. log.txt

Yes, but I have to work late tonight, so it might be a day or two. I actually like the look of Game Launcher mode. It's simple and the game graphics fill the screen. It seems like it might be nice for use on my cabinet that's only using a low-res (640x480) TV.

I did a scratch install tonight and took all the default settings and navigation worked. By reenabling the options I was using one at a time I found the culprit. If you go into GameEx Config and select "Display Settings" and enable "Game Launcher Mode" then you won't be able to navigate backwards. Is that a bug?

Bump. To demonstrate my faith that you are going to solve this, I just registered. I've been attempting to install the other front ends, and Mala and MameWah aren't going to look good without way more work than they are worth. Maximus just doesn't do everything I need (but I love their Open GL transitions!). Hyperspin is way cute, but I don't really like the wheel and it doesn't do as much as GameEx (although I do hope you add support for displaying their game themes!). So GameEx it is. Now if I could just figure out how to navigate backwards!! I've been exploring the forums, and I see that there are plugins for changing the exit key and for the Ultrastik, so I'm sure either one exists for the GPWiz or can be made to exist without too much hassle.

All too typical for me. Hmmm... I sure would like to get it fixed. Custom input was definitely off. I turned it on and changed scancodes in the .ini file in an attempt to get around the problem. And unfortunately, it didn't seem to override anything. I just got through turning it back off and turning all the stuff like alpha select off as well. Still broke. I guess it was my confusion on the game info. I was thinking there was some way to display the information from the history.dat or mameinfo.dat files? I would like to map the exit GAME-EX key to something besides ESC (like ALT-F4 perhaps?). It would be nice if it was something in between too easy and impossible. Also, this is low on my priority list, but pressing L to bring up the control panel wizard sometimes (but not always) corrupts the screen making it unreadable. Pressing ESC to take the CP wizard back down restores the screen. Higher on my priority list -- before we invest any more time in this, please tell me there is a way to configure my controls in a game specific manner before launching a game in Mame? I will be using the Groovy Game Gear 49 way programmable joysticks, and would like to add LED-wiz support at some point. If it helps, I could email you any of my configuration files that you would like to see. Also, I double checked and I did the actual download at 1:00 AM PST on Thursday Jan 22.

I'm pretty sure I want to use GameEx for the cabinet I'm building, but after my first install and reading through the docs I am extremely frustrated with the interface. I'm hoping that when I get past the initial learning curve I will be happy. Anyway my problems are these: 1) I can't navigate backwards. The docs say the default key for this is "SPACE" or "BACKSPACE", but on my system, these seem to be the equivalent of pressing enter. Once I select a game the only way I can get to another game is to hit HOME and navigate down through the menus again. 2) Hit ESC once and you exit the game. Hit ESC twice and you exit GameEx. VERY VERY frustrating, especially since I haven't registered yet and it takes forever to get back into it. (If we can solve my navigation problems I will happily register). 3) Can't get game information. The docs say hit ALT-1 for game info. GameEx responds to the ALT key and takes me somewhere in the game lists before I can ever hit 1. 4) I even tried creating a custom keymap. The problem with that is that despite enabling it in the configuration editor, the keys respond exactly the same with the custom keymap as without. The other problem is that the custom keymap only lists about 10 or so functions, and doesn't give any clue as to how to map things like game information. I'm thinking it shouldn't be this hard to get started. I'm running GameEx (yesterday's download) on Windows XP with a keyboard (no joysticks yet).