sWampy

I was hoping maybe there was a windows call that only changed local desktop color that could be used instead of the global one, and he could only set the font for that screen instead of system wide. I like having one shared account.

Don't know if there is anything you can do about this, but I added my cabinet to my domain the other day, and noticed that when gameex changes the background to black, hides the desktop icons, and changes the font, these get pushed to every other machine I'm logged into. I set them back a few minutes later they get pushed right back. I went into policy manager and tried to turn off roaming profiles everywhere I could find them, but for the life of me I can't get the profiles from getting pushed out.

Ahh, I have only run the setup wizard once, no wonder I didn't find it. ;-)

When I was having this problem before, someone suggested I run a gameex config check tool, but I never found the tool.

I would think the mame directory would work, but I usually set mine to blank. I had the pcb one cause mine to not show games when it was set to a path that didn't exist.

When this happens to me, it's always been on of the secondary paths that wasn't right, something like the link to pcb files pointing to a directory that doesn't exist.

Seems to me the plywood/mdf is one of the cheaper things in the project. Good plywood is $50 a sheet, and you can spend hundreds quickly on keyboard controllers, buttons, monitors all of which will need upgrading down the line, but hopefully your cabinet won't. I'd rather stick a used xbox one with a hacked gamepad and a 19" tv from a garage sale rather than skimping on the wood. You can easily swap the guts out for better guts later a piece at a time, you build a bad foundation, you are stuck with a bad foundation.

I got one of the go2live things at target for $5 after xmas, I hooked it up and played a few of their games online. It kept shutting off during play, wasn't accurate, and only seemed to work while in a web browser. Maybe there is a mouse driver for it I missed.

I load the bluetooth drivers, load that BlueSoleil crap, load glovepie, load script, click run, blue screen of death. Wish like hell I could get it to work right.

I didn't know if Tom realized that some paths give you good messages like c:\mame\roms not found, while others display a much less meaning full error message that can leave you scratching your head. I didn't realize there was a tool to validate paths. ;-)

Birch plywood is a million times better than mdf. I would figure you would need to use a 32" or larger monitor moved back some for 4 player driving games to be much fun.

I was having the same kind of problem, turned out to be some of the mame paths that didn't exist. The config utility defaults some directories to something like emulators\mame32\pcb. All seems to go fine the first time you run gameex, but the next time you run it, no mame roms show up, and you see the error message mame roms not found.

Is it possible to add your own custom buttons? I would like a more touch screen theme if possible. like putting up a mini keyboard on the bottom, I can't seem to get it to let me add custom objects/buttons.

I have a 2 player setup with 6 buttons per player, plus a 4 way with 2 buttons, plus a spinner with 2 buttons. Is there a cheaper way to have all these buttons light up in the correct color for each game than 2 $45 LED-WIZs? I think it would be really cool, but the wife isn't going to like be spending another $200 on the control panel.

I have almost every thing on a gig-e nas mapped to G: and some reason, gamex keeps dropping the connection and not finding the drive. Anyone have what could be causing this, if i uninstall gameex and reinstall it, it comes back, otherwise I can't see mame games. It will work for a day or 2, then it starts this crap again. G:\mame>net use New connections will be remembered. Status Local Remote Network ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OK G: \\NAS-10-07-78\media Microsoft Windows Network The command completed successfully. 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: GameEx: Version 9.79: Starting Log 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: Operating System Name: Windows Vista 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: Operating System Version: 6.0.6001 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: Vista Aero NOT running 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: Initializing Vista volume control 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: .net Framework 2.0 Installed 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: AMD Opteron Processor 250, 4094MB 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: 2.39Ghz - 2 Cores or CPU's 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: Running Randomize() 22:00:45.4 1/3/2009: Loading PlugIns 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Running Misc startup tasks 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Setting Menu types 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Opening Configuration File 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Getting Configuration Values 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Using Theme: Default - Media Center 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Media Center 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Using Images from theme: Default - Media Center V1\MEDIA\ 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Launching HideOS.exe 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: GameEx will check for media insertion (may affect performance) 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Hiding Taskbar 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Is Media Center running? 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Media Center Mode 2 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Snap Delay set to: 2 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Get other settings 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Desktop set to Hide ICONS and set Background to Black 22:00:45.5 1/3/2009: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 22:00:45.6 1/3/2009: Start work for Form 22:00:45.6 1/3/2009: Getting Original Screen Size 22:00:45.6 1/3/2009: Opening Database Connection 22:00:45.6 1/3/2009: Initializing Component 22:00:45.7 1/3/2009: Retrieving resolution setting 22:00:45.7 1/3/2009: Initialising Windows Media Player Component 22:00:45.7 1/3/2009: MAME Path is: G:\mame 22:00:45.7 1/3/2009: Cannot Find MAME Path: MAME Disabled 22:00:45.7 1/3/2009: Loading Controls.ini map file 22:00:45.7 1/3/2009: Using Version 3 Themes Animations 22:00:45.7 1/3/2009: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS 22:00:45.7 1/3/2009: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS 22:00:45.7 1/3/2009: Initialising DirectDraw 22:00:45.8 1/3/2009: Applying GameEx is Loading Image 22:00:45.8 1/3/2009: Creating DirectDraw Device 22:00:45.8 1/3/2009: Using Device: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 22:00:46.5 1/3/2009: 2028mb video memory available 22:00:46.5 1/3/2009: Setting Resolution to 1280x1024 32 bit color 22:00:46.5 1/3/2009: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces 22:00:46.5 1/3/2009: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode 22:00:46.6 1/3/2009: Creating Back Buffer 22:00:46.6 1/3/2009: Loading graphic Surfaces 22:00:46.6 1/3/2009: Display is running at: 1280x1024 32bit color, 60hz 22:00:46.7 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces Flags 22:00:46.7 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs 22:00:46.7 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces Volume 22:00:46.7 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces Arrows 22:00:46.7 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text 22:00:46.7 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces Toolbar 22:00:46.7 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds 22:00:46.8 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls 22:00:46.8 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo 22:00:46.8 1/3/2009: Creating Surface Unselected 22:00:46.8 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit 22:00:46.8 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces Snaps 22:00:46.8 1/3/2009: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars 22:00:46.9 1/3/2009: Creating Fonts 22:00:46.9 1/3/2009: Creating Game Font 22:00:47.1 1/3/2009: Creating Game Font Faded 22:00:47.1 1/3/2009: Creating Title Font 22:00:47.2 1/3/2009: Restoring Title Font From Cache 22:00:47.4 1/3/2009: Creating Font Black 22:00:47.5 1/3/2009: Creating Font Black Small 22:00:47.7 1/3/2009: Fonts Created Succesfully 22:00:47.7 1/3/2009: 1978mb video memory left available 22:00:47.7 1/3/2009: Creating instance of global keyboard hook 22:00:47.8 1/3/2009: Loading Custom Emulators 22:00:47.9 1/3/2009: Text/Language: English 22:00:47.9 1/3/2009: Applying Language/Text 22:00:48.0 1/3/2009: Initialising Bass Audio Library 22:00:48.0 1/3/2009: MAME CMD options: -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo -mouse 22:00:48.0 1/3/2009: Loading last used Game List 22:00:48.1 1/3/2009: Setting Music Volume 22:00:48.1 1/3/2009: Creating DirectSound Device 22:00:48.1 1/3/2009: Trying: Primary Sound Driver 22:00:48.1 1/3/2009: Loading Sound Files 22:00:48.1 1/3/2009: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 22:00:48.1 1/3/2009: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support 22:00:48.2 1/3/2009: Unable to create a joystick device 22:00:48.3 1/3/2009: Initializing MCE Remote 22:00:48.3 1/3/2009: Playing intro sound file 22:00:48.3 1/3/2009: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx! 22:00:48.3 1/3/2009: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame 22:00:48.8 1/3/2009: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully 22:00:59.0 1/3/2009: Exiting GameEx! 22:00:59.0 1/3/2009: Saving Settings 22:01:00.3 1/3/2009: Disposing Plugins 22:01:00.3 1/3/2009: Closing database connection 22:01:00.3 1/3/2009: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit 22:01:00.3 1/3/2009: Media Center was not open when starting GameEx, so not launching