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The entire remote works with MCE and gameex, except in gameex, the select or ok button will not work...any help would be great

THAT SUCKS!!! This means I have to return my J-PAC cause it won't change it's keystrokes Thanx Nullus

So then there is no way to change the ESC button huh?

I figured out the controls button. Thanx Nullus But the screensaver and esc buttons are still wrong Do I chenge the ESC button in custom inputs? If I have to do this, what is the line I add to the .ini For the screensaver I am running Mame 32Plus as my main mame. Should I change that to regular old Mame.exe and my advancedmame to mame32plus? I'm not using advanced mame. I read in an early post by Tom that the ESC is the one button in gameex that can't be changed. Has this been addressed?

Also is there a way to change the key that displays the controls. I want to use that key for a different mame command.

Is there a way to play a game currently being displayed in the screensaver. I know Tom's MAME Screensaver does this. Is there anyay to do this in gameex? And how can I change the key for the ESC button.. I want to use a different key to force close emulators and come back to gameex. And for some reason my MCE remote works except for the OK button... Any ideas? Caleb

Ok. I got it working. I have a newly refrebished WG K7100 Arcade monitor. I am using an Athlon 64, 1 gig ram, Nvidia GeForce 6600 AGP. I am also using an Ultimarc J-PAC. I am using powerstrip to force the video card to display at 15Hz. Here's what ya do. Boot the computer with an external monitor. I have a small veiwsonic flat panel. Install Powerstrip and reboot. Load up powerstrip and it should detect your video card. Ok, right click on the tray icon. Choose display and then custom. In the next menu select Advanced Timing. Then click on Custom Resolution. I use either 640X480 NTSC or 640X480 Arcade. Arcade works better for some monitors, but NTSC works better in mine. Anyway, Try to load the resolution. Powerstrip will test it and then if it's accepted, you can then switch to it. Now you monitor should say "OUT OF RANGE". Quickly unplug the monitor and plug in your J-PAC. You should see an image on the arcade monitor and you can click to accept the resolution in Powerstrip. Press ok and then ok again to get back to the main display menu. Save the resolution. Usually I save it as display defaults because..well on an arcade monitor it is default. Close powerstrip and reset Windows. Unplug the arcade monitor and plug in the external one. This is to test powerstrip. When Windows comes up, load powerstrip. It should switch resoutions. Plug in the J-PAC and then you should see a proper image on your arcade screen. Close powerstrip and open up the Powerstrip.ini in the powerstrip folder. Make sure you see your resolution listed under custom resolutions. Add two lines to the GLOBAL list. Add.. NoSafetyChecks=1 RunAsService=1 These two lines make it so even if you don't shut down windows correctly, your custom resolution will load -on start-up. If you don't have this line, then you will not be able to see a proper screen till after a dialog box and with no screen you can't see the box to click on it. Instead of the dialog box poping up, this flag just loads the resolution. Runasservice loads powerstrip even before you log on with the XP login screen. This way if you have multiple users, you can still see the login screen and powerstrip is loaded before anything else once you log in. I had lots of trouble getting powerstrip to work correctly until I put in those two flags. Now its all working great. OH!! PS. Is there a way to play a game currently being displayed in the screensaver. I know Tom's MAME Screensaver does this. Is there anyay to do this in gameex? And how can I change the key for the ESC button.. I want to use a different key to force close emulators and come back to gameex. And for some reason my MCE remote works except for the OK button... Any ideas? Caleb

What I did to try to keep costs down was to use the existing arcade monitor that came with my cab. I bought a JPAC Jamma connector from Ultimarc and hooked the buttons and joysticks to that. Then I pluged the Jpac into my Keyboard jack and my monitor out jack. You need to use Powerstrip to get your monitor card to run at 15 mhz. Here's the process: I have two cards in my machine; one is onboard 32 megs nvidia, the other is an nvidia 6600 agp. I plugged the agp card into the jpac and a standard LCD into the onboard so I could configure the system. When the machine boots up, you'll see a messed up image on the arcade monitor, usually double printed. When Windows loads and powerstrip is loaded, configure it to run the agp card at 640X480 NTSC or 640X480 ARCADE. Try both, make a few changes to get the picture perfect and then save the config. Now whenever windows loads you have a picture on both monitors. I made a VGA connector on the back of the cab that is always pluged into the onboard video. This way if I have to make changes and the arcade monitor can't display I don't have to rip the cab apart.

Bought the cab with a newly referbished 25 inch wells-gardner...I HAVE to go authentic...cause I'm outta dough...and it looks soo good with dragonball Z 2. I eventually want to put in a 25 inch 4:3 hdtv or flatpanel, but right now I want to see if I can morph an HTPC, which are in every main room, into a cab like this for games and as an HPTC center for an already small and crowded bar room. I got a jack comming out the back of the cab for a second screen, so I can always just use that if it looks bad... And Thanx Tom and Emph for your help as well

Emph, I know what I must do to get the HTPC running on an arcade monitor. My question was about quality of video play back. Does a video that is recorded to the PC in an .avi format look good or does the low res of the monitor make watching tv or a film an act of futility on the arcade monitor. I am waiting on my j-pac to hook the machine up. I want to know if I should run a seperate monitor or tv to watch tv thru my tv tuner or to watch movies. I'm kinda looking for an all in one cabinet since the room its going into is low on space. Before I get to involved with the whole powerstrip thing, I want to know if it's even worth it. The cabinet came with a newly referbished 25 inch wells-gardner monitor and because the entire thing; game, cab, monitor and new control panel cost 175, I want to utilize what I already have.

Hi, I have been reading and reading and reading about how to get my arcade monitor to run with a windows xp machine without an arcadevga card. It's doable but requires alot of user created resolutions. My question is can a normal low res arcade monitor, like my Wells-Gardner K7100 from a converted Moonwalker, be used to run MCE and Gameex? I can't find anyone using MCE or Gameex on a real arcade monitor.. Does the resolution, being so low, make watching movies or videos an act of futility? Here's my plan. I want to move an existing MCE/GameEx machine from the bedroom because of none-use. I AM going to mount a MAME machine in my cab, but I don't want to replace this nice newly repaired 25 inch Wells-Gardner tube. Right now its converted to run Dragonball Z and it looks so freakin good....But how will watching dragonball z episodes from gameex look? Can anyone that is running a real arcade monitor with MCE or GameEx post some pictures of how the screens look? and also how it looks or not..when trying to watch a video or .avi file... Thanx for your help Caleb

no..The paths are all correct. They just both won't load. They kick me back to gameex. I think it's something to do with the splash screen the game loads first

I am having a difficult time with warcraft III and Republic commando. Thery both will not load from gameex. I thought at first it was an issue with the splash screen that shows up when you launch the EXE, but the expansion for warcraft III works and it does the same thing. Its strange that the expansion works but the original game will not. It goes to a blank screen and then reloads gameex. I turned off the hide desktop and icons in the tweaks config and made sure the show desktop was on under the config, but it still happens. any ideas? Can I disable the splash screens? I tried it with the normal exe and a game fix so I don't need to use the cd. Both did not work. I re-installed both from the original discs and tried it to no avail. They both work flawlessly out of gameex, but that doesn't help me. even without the expansion loaded warcraft STILL won't load, yet the expansion does. I dunno... Any guesses?