Sliver X

The way I handle things on my setup is that, with very few exceptions, emulators all point to a single script (Emulators.bat) that handles most of the logic for running things. I currently base it off file extension: The script will examine the extension passed to it as a command line argument, and based on what it sees will jump to a particular subroutine and execute the game. This lead to having to give some things odd extensions (.ps2 for Playstation 2 games, etc) but it works pretty well. You could do something like use WMIC or string manipulation to see what directory the ROM is in (Assuming you use a structured ROM directory schema for that) and it would be better, I suppose. You could put all three game types in the same directory and point the "Emulator" associated with the list to a batch script like this: TurboPCECD.bat ::Set file extension as a variable. SET EXTENSION=%~x1 ::Check File Extension and decide what to do. IF %EXTENSION% == .cue GOTO PCECD IF %EXTENSION% == .pce GOTO PCE IF %EXTENSION% == .t16 GOTO TG16 EXIT :PCECD START "..." /D "D:\EMULATORS\MAME64" /WAIT mame64.exe pcecd %1 EXIT :PCE START "..." /D "D:\EMULATORS\MAME64" /WAIT mame64.exe pce %1 EXIT :TG16 START "..." /D "D:\EMULATORS\MAME64" /WAIT mame64.exe tg16 %1 EXIT You'd have to give TG-16 games a unique extension, but yeah. This should at least give you an idea of what can be done this way?

Done.

I've worked on GameEX themes for years for the HTPCs I build. I have a few I'm not ashamed of to share at this point. The themes are pretty generalized, so if you have custom setups per emulator/etc it may not be ideal for you. They have "avi" (Really h.264 encoded MP4s) and static png backgrounds for everything so can be ran animated or not. I typically have a big gray bar across the bottom with a legend of what I've mapped my gamepads to but that seemed redundant for distributing them: This leaves a bit of space at the bottom that I should probably utilize better. It's designed for 1920x1080 but scales down to 1280x720 rather well. I'm assuming any higher 16:9 ratio resolution would also be fine? There are a bunch of high quality logos for most console and handheld systems as well as some generic icons I built for the theme (Like the gamepad one shown in the example screenshots). There may be some older, lower quality ones lurking in there as well that can be deleted/ignored. Attached are the themes. Through the magic of solid compression they decompress much larger (Dark Earth is 195MB and Organic Blue is 293MB) 2137282330_DarkEarth.7z 679228794_OrganicBlue.7z

I've done a lot to this. hardware and software-wise, and now consider it complete: Case: Coolermaster Elite 130 CPU: Intel Core i5 9600K MB: ASRock H310M-ITX/ac motherboard GPU: eVGA GeForce RTX 2070 Super RAM: 32GB Corsair DDR4-2667 PSU: eVGA 600W Bronze NVME: 256GB Silicon Power SATA SSD: 2x1TB Sandisk (RAID 0) HDD: 4TB WD Blue 7200RPM (64MB cache) Optical: LG BD-RW/DVD+RW/CD+RW NET: Intel Gb NIC, Intel 802.11ac WiFi/Bluetooth 4.2 Input: 4x Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Display: 42" 1080p non-HDR TV @ 60Hz via HDMI OS: Windows 10 LTSC 2019 GameEX 12.44 A video of its GameEX setup running.

I'm curious if there's a way to change the font size for the scrolling media playback text (Such as when playing a song)? I've never been able to find a way to alter this either in the theme INI or any other place in GameEX's configs. While this used to not be that big of a problem the DPI scaling Windows 10 does by default makes it extremely hard to read.

Case: Silverstone ML07 CPU: Intel Core i3 9100F (overclocked to 4GHz base) MB: ASRock H310M-ITX/ac motherboard GPU: eVGA GeForce GTX 1650 Super RAM: 16GB Corsair DDR4-2400 PSU: Silverstone 350W Bronze (SFX form-factor) NVME: 256GB Silicon Power SATA SSD: 1TB Sandisk HDD: 4TB WD Blue 7200RPM (64MB cache) Optical: TEAC DVD+RW slim (Slotload) NET: Intel Gb NIC, Intel 802.11ac WiFi/Bluetooth 4.2 Input: 4x Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Display: 42" 1080p non-HDR TV @ 60Hz via HDMI OS: Windows 10 LTSC 2019 GameEx 16.43 42 emulated platforms, >130 Windows/DOS Games Management: Kodi as file manager/SFTP login to machine The OS has been stripped down severely using a utility called NTLite, removing over 150 components. The total install size is 4.75GB (7GB without NTFS compressing the drive) with barely anything running in the background. I made the theme from a looping video file I found online and making a PNG overlay (The control legend at the bottom, etc) that I then encoded over it with ffmpeg. I've been using GameEx since 2009, I think, across 5 different media PC designs I've done. I've built setups with things like Kodi, MaLa, Wah!Cade, etc, but I keep coming back to it.

I finally replaced my aged Core i3 2120 HTPC with something more modern. I went with a Sega theme for it. The boot screen (The moon Oberon orbiting Uranus in a scene like the US Sega CD BIOS) The mITX case it resides in. Here's a Youtube video of my GameEx setup running on it. I didn't bother recording sound since I figured it would just immediately get hit with a copyright claim.

Ah, thank you; I guess that's what I get for manually editing the INI. Sorry to have you look for something that was my fault. Thanks again.

Currently I have 11,156 games, 2,301 of which are MAME. I've even set disablemame=true in GameEx.ini and it's only loading games from Emulator_32 (Sorry, I goofed and typed Emulator_35 in my original post). Attached is a zip with the requested files: The log was taken after three runs at Random Game. gameex_data.zip

I recently updated to v16.43 (From version 15.x) and noticed selecting Random Game only executes MAME games and one other emulator's (EMULATOR_35 [Out of 48] in my case). Nothing in the log is giving me any ideas as to why this may be happening. Is anyone else having this issue?

Thanks. I may do that soon or buy/borrow a decent camera so the BIOS and OS parts can be seen. The OSK uses VolGrey.png as the background for letters. I simply made that image a 1x1 translucent file to make it invisible. Since I don't use GameEX's volume indicator anymore the fact that doing this also affects it was a moot point for me.

I made a really terrible quality video of it in use here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEJkaMsYpUk

You can put really powerful CPUs into most ITX machines but GPUs are another matter. Most ITX cases only support single slot cards, which the GeForce 1030 is about the fastest one of those available currently. I'm not sure if that would be sufficient to run PS3/360 emulators. Another matter is having a PSU with enough power to feed a fast GPU. Most ITX power supplies aren't very strong on either wattage or +!2V amperage, and to get one that is would probably be fairly expensive since it's kind of a niche market for something like that and I'm sure not many are made. To answer your other question, WiFi is handled via a batch script, an AutoIT program I wrote to invoke the Network Manager applet via a keystroke, Touch-It Virtual Keyboard and AntiMicro to emulate mouse movement with right analog and the shoulders/triggers for Left Click/Right Click. Select on the DS3 toggles the network list, Start toggles the keyboard and the PS button exits back to GameEX Web browsing is handled via a similar setup, using Palemoon Portable. The URL bar autohides, L/R triggers Page Up/Page Down, the Dpad is arrow keys, X is Enter and O is Backspace. The filemanager is my previous Kodi install whittled down to bare minimum and hacked in several ugly ways to make it act only as a file manager. A bonus is that when browsing drives it can play movies and music itself for previewing purposes.