Draco1962

I guess there is just no pleasing you, is there? No soup for you - 1 year! Next!

OK, added a 4th selection just for you - every vote counts!

Good wishes and wisdom are never late! Thanks!

Yeah, I confirmed mouse enabled and numlock on. One thing I haven't tried is pluggin it into the USB ports on the back of the PC (the instructions said that it only works with those as opposed to the front- not sure why but will give that a shot next.

SWEET! Thanks Tom!

I will admit that one of my weaknesses is setting up controllers for emus. Supposedly, the X-Arcade Tankstick is set to run "out of the box" with MAME but this is not the case for me. I may need someone to help me in troubleshooting the issue. I tested both online and with the Java Mode 1 test apps and the sticks and buttons all register correctly, but I have no stick and just a few buttons that work within MAME proper. I have setup & tested with several different controller cfg files for the X-Arcade as well as having made the recommended mods to CORE INPUT OPTIONS in mame.ini. I am at work now but any assistance tonight or during the week will be much appreciated. Maybe someone that has the Tankstick installed can share their controller cfg file with me.

Again - copies of your theme.ini after you make the changes will be needed for testing.

Happy b-day, Brah! Hope you have a great day!

I had to look at the video again, Tom, to see that it can pull from the snaps, videos, and apparently the marquees. Will a Custom Art path be added as a selectable default? Will this feature also be available for the emulators as well?

Did it crash just before the log file you posted? Usually, if the crash is within GameEx, then there should be some sort of error appearing in the log file.

Please select one option from the available 4.

I think it all depends on what you are wanting to do - tell us! To be honest, I think that there are more people in the middle that are using GameEx for emulator front end and HTPC functionality.

I looked at your log.txt file and it does not appear to be a complete file nor does it appear to be a log file immediately following the crash you are reporting. A clean or incomplete log file gives us little to work with.

@Tom or Ben - Would one of you mind addressing whether or not this is plausible and what, if any, impacts there might be on performance with GameEx? This topic has been brought up several times before in relation to individual PC game, system ROMs and the like. I am not a programmer or a DB admin, but I feel that there is a perception that GameEx is an arcade frontend only and it is oft forgotten that it is also a standalone HTPC solution and that such a change would be a performance killer IMHO.

Duke - Was this issue ever resolved?

I would recommend that you zip your theme.ini file(s) along with some of your custom screen images and upload them here so we can take a closer look. To be honest, I have not played much with custom module layouts so will probably need to enlist the help of some of the "big guns" (Tom and Headkaze) to assist.

Thanks, Ben!

He is correct. I checked mine for FPB, VP and VPM and all three have no entries.

I noticed in the gameex.ini the following: UseVMR9=True EnableExternalPlayer=False Use VMR9=False Not sure if this is a bug but it would seem that the second instance of vmr9 would cancel out the first. try removing the one that =s false, save the change, and see if that helps. If so, then we definitely have found a bug.

close of spoiler entry Your gameex.ini will be helpful and a copy of log.txt immediately following one of the described crashes as well?

This is a little early for some of us and a already here for a few. Merry Christmas to my friends here in the GameEx forums. My wish for each of you is not that you get what you want, but what you truly need. The wants will take care of themselves!

Can you post a copy of your gameex.ini, please? This may help to narrow-down if it is a bug or an option conflict.

Correct. GameEx looks for videos first (.avi, .mp4. etc.) then looks for the presence of snaps. There are many more snaps for the various ROMs than videos. While the EmuMovies Download Utility is a great software for automating the acquisition of missing videos and snaps, I much prefer using the FTP for manually downloading what I need. This may be a preferable route for you as well as you can remove the "blank" video and provide the snap to show until a video is available or you have time to create your own. This will also help you manage, albeit manually, without the Download Utility replacing the missing video that you had just removed.

Happy Birthday! Almost forgot with all the holiday nonsense to wish a great one, pal! Hope you had a great day!

Only two ways to get rid of those videos - get rid of the ROM that it represents and/or create a video or snap image to replace the "a video does not exist" video. Generally, I leave them there as it is better than nothing in the space and a reminder that I need to, at some time, create my own and contribute back to the community.