Draco1962

If you were so inclined to learn how, you could probably build what you are suggesting as a web page or series of web pages locally hosted on your own machine. Having built a few in the distant past, once you get the hang of it it isn't that difficult, especially with the abundance of free or inexpensive web authoring tools.

Thanks Tom! Stuff happens and no harm caused! Again, the updates are great!

I believe his has a standard PCI slot and not PCI Express per the pdf link I posted previously. That may be a limiting factor to card availability since he will be dealing with an older card design. Not to say it would impossible, but if running on an arcade monitor will probably need to be able to run it at 15khz to display properly as most arcade monitors run at that speed.

Hard to say as I don't have an arcade monitor. You may want to post as much information as you can about what you have. There are others here that do run cabs with arcade monitors that may be able to help further.

On reviewing information regarding your system that I found here, I would say that you should be able to run all OK. I assume you are running Windows XP Home or Professional on this microtower with SATA HDD support.I would not recommend using onboard video. Would recommend looking for a PCI graphics adapter with no less than 512MB of RAM with 1MB being preferable.

Here are the minimum requirements for running GameEx and other support docs. Pentium 3 800Mhz CPU (or equivalent) DirectX(DirectDraw) Compatible Video card, capable of 16 bit colour at 640X480. [Your video card does not normally need to be too special unless using videos or DVD, although older motherboard onboard video is not recommended] DirectSound Compatible Sound Card. 256MB Ram Windows 2000 (SP4), XP (SP2), MCE, Vista, Windows 7 250MB Free hard drive space Microsoft .net framework 2 service pack 1 Microsoft Direct X 9.0 Windows Media Player 9 or above If you are planning to run just MAME along with video snaps, marquees, etc. you would probably be OK at 250MB but that will not leave you much room for anything else. With the price of HDDs being very reasonable, a 1TB drive to store all ROMS, snaps, etc would probably be sufficient and allow you to use the 120MB just for your MAME executables and Windows.

Premature there, Krake! Still looping the update!

Build Your Own Arcade Controls (BYOAC) site is pretty much the defacto place to start with a plethora of different plans and advice. I use MAMEUI64 as I am running on Windows 7 x64 version. There are those that prefer MAMEUIFX or other derivatives of the MAMEUI builds. As adultery noted, knowing what kind of graphics card you will be using plus your OS will be more helpful in lending guidance and advice.

It appears that it did install the 12.11 features/fixes for me. Just keeps showing the update prompt.

I confirmed this is occurring for me as well. Disabled auto-updates via Setup Wizard>Enable Features in the mean time.

Internet over HMDI allows internet enabled devices (Blu-Ray Disk players, TVs, etc.) to connect to the internet via the HDMI interface through the HTPC or supporting device. It is relatively new. I imaging that it would be comparable to gigabit speeds which would make streaming of videos a lot smoother than standard.

Just in case someone should ask, Select in the screen view to toggle fit to screen is the same as ENTER on the keyboard.

That is awesome! My Galaxy GT430 has HDMI sound support (no internet but not a biggie right now) with one HDMI, VGA, and one DVI output.

Pretty sweet! Love the dual DVI outputs. Does the HDMI support sound or internet-over HDMI?

Enhancement Request - Display - Would like to see more options for displaying Dates within Themes. Currently it will only display the Month and Day (September 10 for example). Examples of aditional formatting options would be as follows: mm/dd/yyyy - 09/10/2011 mm/dd/yy - 09/10/11 mm/dd - 09/10 yyyy/mm/dd - 2011/09/11 yy/mm/dd - 11/09/10 This is just a sampling of the various date formats used as there are quite a few depending on country/region. This would be extremely helpful in theme design as the spelled-out month takes up considerable space in comparison to a numeric date. I think being able to set this via Display Features in the Setup Wizard would allow for greater flexibility in changing the dates to fit within country or cultural standards.

12.11 Release resolves this minor bug and is now resolved! Thanks for the quick fix, Tom!

Then that will change this from [bUG] to [RESOLVED]! Thanks, Tom! I corrected the filename and it works as it should!

Thanks much, Tom! This resolves quite a few user issues, not to mention the additional database!

I like both. I just wish that there were no backwards compatibility issues with tables prior to VP9. Also, could be a little easier to setup IMO. Future Pinball is a bit easier to setup and play "out of the box." As for the physics, while FP may not be quite as accurate, it still seems pretty real when compared to many of the PC Pinball type games.

A new Golden Age logo....

Thanks, Tom! I was beating my head trying to figure out why that issue was occurring.

Just in case anyone missed the Google Doodle birthday tribute to Queen's Freddie Mercury from this past Tuesday. He would have been 65 if his life hadn't been cut terribly short due to HIV-related bronchopneumonia. He had probably one of Rock & Roll's purest voices. We miss ya, Freddie!

Tom - I have uncovered another display element that needs to be allowed to display on top when foreground top-most is enabled. Currently, the controls show below the foreground. Image attached:

Have you verified that the paths are setup correctly within MAMEUIFX? Also, keep in mind that this is a derivative of the official MAME build and we cannot guarantee that there will be 100% compatible with GameEx. Is there any specific reason for using MAMEUIFX rather than one of the official MAME builds? It might be worthwhile to install one of the offical builds that is compatible with your ROM versions and see if you generate the same errors that you are getting using MAMEUIFX.