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I appologise if this is a duplicate topic, but I can't seem to find the thread on how to create a separate configuration for an individual game. I remember reading it before, but do you think I can find it when I need it ? Of course not. My GameEx system is running great and now I'm just tweaking the games that are not quite right. I am using an ArcadeVGA 5000 video card with an arcade monitor so I have gamex configuration to not stretch my games because I want to keep the native resolution. On World class bowling, the game is too small and that one I would like to stretch. How do I make only that game stretch ? I don't see any individual game configuration files, just games.ini file. I remember something about making a "gamename".ini file but I can't remember the details. Thanks

I will check out the Custom Menu's. Thanks. Just a note / question. When I went into gamex.ini and set : [Emulator_1] Enabled=FalseThe emulator option was removed from the menu as I wished, but all the games disappeared under the MAME menu.I updated list and they came back. All is well now, but any idea why they disappeared? Thanks

Awesome ! worked like a charm. My only frustration is that I must have tried that at least 5 times. The only thing I had to change in my settings was the 'Only Existing Roms = Yes' Plus, twice it froze on me when creating 'verify.dat' ( I think that was the file ). While I have this thread open, now that my MAME list is complete, I assume I can change my settings so Emulated Games is not displayed in the menus ( for less options for the kids ). Thanks for your quick and awesome help.

Hi all, My Mame system I built 5 years ago died a horrible death ( converted Ultimate arcade2 machine). Harddrive died so now im rebuilding with new PC from scratch and I forget everything I learned in the past. My system is up and running ( thanks to tylenol and caffine ), but when I go under the main menu item MAME and go to all games it only shows 13. I tried update list but it didn't work. I have about 140. I finally found them when I go under EMULATED GAMES ( since i enabled Mame as an emulator in setup ) and [arcade] Arcade ( Mame ), all my games show up. How do I get all my rom games to show up under the main MAME menu item ? I wanted a cleaner easier look since I only use Gameex for mame arcade games ( and its easier for the kids ). I had this set up correctly on my old system, but I can't seem to get it now. I have checked through set options and gameex.inn, but I must be missing something. Thanks, Eytan

Yes you are right, both directions work. I don't know why it wasn't working last night. For some reason it is not working consistently. I find if I am spinning the trackball down it will scroll down the games but it stops scrolling after a while. I then have to switch to spinning sideways to continue. The same thing happens for up. It is very nice of you to offer to modify the script for me, but now that I have played with it, I find that since the custom keyboard has to be set to False, my custom prograamed buttons don't work now. I have the player one button#2 programmed as a 'back' button so I don't have to go to the top menu bar which is a cumbersome for my system. I guess in my case the script application causes more trouble than benefit. Really cool application though. thanks to everyone for your help. Cheers

Yes that did the trick The only strange thing is that going side to side with the trackball goes up and down in the GameEx menus and game list ?? But the directions are all correct for windows env. and game play ?? Works great other than that. Thanks Tempest.

OK I tried it while editing the GameEx.ini file and it worked great. Then I tried it in GameEx and it didn't work. The odd time I got it to simulate an up arrow and a side arrow, but basically a fluke ( works 1% of the time ). Could it be because I am running GameEx in arcade mode ? I have a arcade cabinet with an arcade monitor. I turned off slickstick and keyboard direct input as per bkenobi's and tempent's suggestions but this didn't help.

I would also like to have this option. I loaded and ran the mousekey.exe program and it loads and is shown in the taskbar ( running programs ). It unfortunately doesn't seem to do anything. I ran it and then ran gameex, but it had no effect. I then tried in windows environment while looking in a directory. pressing arrow keys moved from file to file, but moving the mouse ( or trackball ) did nothing. Should it not work in windows environment ? Am I missing something ?

Right you are. I found it. I had missed it in the ini file. Thanks again.

Sorry, I made a mistake, the only item I can't remove is "Gamex Homepage" Also, I suppose the top menu ( games by year, manufacturer, etc. ) are theme related ?

I am running windowsXP with an arcade cabinet ( no keyboard or mouse ) and I have the same problem, I just didn't get there yet. I used bkenobi's code line as an external application and it worked like a charm. Thanks bkenobi I just ran the configuration from Gameex and set up external applications. I have the default applications 1,2 & 3 disabled, but put bkenobie's line in for ext. application 4. I called it Hibernate for obvious reasons. Now in my list on Gamex it shows up as Hibernate. Did you browse to your directory for system32 ? You can't put bkenobi's line in with the %windir% this is just a reference for where you but your directory path. If your file system restores from hybernate, this should be your fix.

Yes that worked. Although I found the setup programs would not take out everything I needed, but going into gameex.ini and setting everything to false did the trick. The only option I couldn't get rid of was : Update Gameex ( not the update list ) Thanks,

I am running an arcade monitor in my cabinet and it runs at 640x288 so real estate is very valuable. On the main screen for gameex i want to keep favorites, all mame, standby and others but I would like to remove weather,music, radio and other options that I don't use. This way all selections will show up on a screen. I am not sure if I can do this or if I have to make a whole new theme ( I hope not ). I checked out the topic on themes people have made but they are all high res. It would also be nice to take out Titles by year, and a few others on the horizontal menu. I am using the default low res theme. Another question i have is regarding disabling certain gameex options. If I set exit to false and no update list and those type of options so my friends and kids can't screw things up, how would I get into those options when I want to make changes ? I leave Gameex run all the time and I put it in standby when not in use ( it shuts down all my fans etc ).

OK, I finally got the bitch to work ! You were absolutely correct. AdvanceMAME was doing everything and as a result all our efforts were useless. Once I figured out ( thanks to you guys ) that advanceMAME was in charge I found that it uses mainly only one config file rather than a series of ini files like MAME. The file that is used is advmame.rc in the advmame directory under emulators. Once I read the docs in the advmame doc folder if found the syntax needed. what I found were all the multitude of inputs were set to auto as can bee seen by the first line below. I changed the auto for the trackball as below and low an behold my trackball works ALL THE TIME no matter if I have my mouse plugged in or not. Section frm advmame.rc : input_map[p1_stickz] auto input_map[p1_trackballx] mouse[0,x] mouse[1,x] input_map[p1_trackbally] mouse[0,y] mouse[1,y] I decided for the time being to stay with Advancemame because right now eveyrthing is running perfectly. The down side is that since it is so old, the help I can get from forums will be limited because no one uses it anymore. Oh well, I'll deal with that later. For now I am happy. Thanks for everyones help !! p.s. this may not be the right place to ask, but I wanted to register / dotate my Gamex. When I pressed 1 on the nag screen it brought me to Paypal but the fields were all blank. Can someone point me in the right direction to register, or what to put in the fields ? Thx.