Draco1962

Do you have a Future Pinball image in your LOGO directory for your theme? Does the name of the file match the name in the Logo section of the emulator?

I would have to disagree with you, Ranzo, about XP 64-bit, primarily due to the sorry response from manufacturers to provide suitable drivers. Software that took advantage of 64-bit capabilities were also sorely lacking. Any of the OSs can be scaled back regarding overhead or "bloatware" and run great. For balance of ease of use, stability, and making the best use of memory and architecture, I believe that 7 is the best in show, with XP 32-bit a close 2nd due to its longevity and wide-spread support.

Sorry about that, reading is fundemental, eh? Not sure as I don't use them but my guess would be that you would have to use the advanced configuration to utilize on of the Custom Art paths to point to the folder containing your 3D console folders for each emulator.

Yep! GameEx will match the 3D Cab folder name with the game name and, will default to the cab over marquees in the standard view.

Tom - I am bumping this as I am running into some problems. It appears that GameEx is not handling the rendering for pure black and near black consistantly. I have been working on this new theme and thought I was in the home stretch when I discovered that some screens the near black that I had had used successfully on others with 30-40% opacity is now being treated the same as pure black and 100% opaque. Is it possible to update GameEx to allow for turning off color keying in the theme.ini as Ben has suggested? Or can you tell me if it is possible for me to manually edit the theme.ini file manually to acheive the desired results? Thanks!

Hmm, not sure of the question, but will take a stab at the answer. I left mine in their folders (extracted them in my setup to C:\GameEx\Media\Xfiles\ and set the path accordingly in Advanced Configuration). Will probably move them to the Assets\Mame\ path eventually as I will start moving everything to my 1.5 TB secondary to free up room on my root drive.

You may want to look at the Custom Menus application that was part of your initial GameEx installation. Between that and enabling/disabling features through the Advanced Configuration app you can customize GameEx to your liking.

I guess with all that beer, typing or using the Search feature might be problematic

The external MAME Screensaver does have the means to filter by ROM name - just have to go into the screensaver options. I'd be curious to see if I can "port over" my list via copy&paste from my excluded ROMS within GameEx - will tell ya if that is possible.

Refer to my previous post. It is the hi-score file that enables hi-scores keeping for some games as well as removes the nag screens. I think if you go ahead and compile 0.141 with the hi_score.txt file noted, you will be in good shape.

You'd probably be fine with either XP or 7. I find Windows 7 64-bit to be faster and better at memory management than XP. So long as you turn of the Aero eye candy you would be fine on that system. The main thing I would be concerned with going the 7 route is the video dirvers for that card. Make sure that drivers exist for it (32-bit and 64-bit) before going through the trouble to install 7.

I wouldn't be worried about it. AGP is usually fine so long as the aperture settings in BIOS settings meet the manufacturers recommendations. I think Tom needs to know if you are running any backgournd, vids, does this happen in windowed mode?

0.141 is the latest - no diffs for that build yet. .diff files are interim updates to the current build. You can use that source code and also download the hi_141.txt to enable hi scores and remove nag screens. You will just skip Step 5 instructions for Headkaze's compiler for obtaining and placing the .diff files.

Very nice indeed! I feel humbled. I look forward to "kicking the tires" on it when released - good work!

To tag on what bkenobi just said, you can simplify the compiling proce by using Headkaze's Mame Compiler. This GUI does all the command line stuff for you, you just have to obtain the MAME source and .diff files and move a few folders. If you follow the instructions to the letter and in the correct order, you can compile the most recent version of MAME or MAMEUI (GUI version) that allows for Hi Score support and removes the ever-unpopular "nag" screens. Compiling my own version of MAMEUI64 and updating my ROM sets with CLRMAME Pro helped streamline my collection quite a bit and I soon found I had a few ROMs that did not work before working perfectly now. If you run into trouble along the way, just ask and one or more of us will be there to help (just as they have been there for me on my many "first times and not getting it right." Be prepared to provide error messages, etc. when reporting any problems.

Since you are using onboard graphics, I would say Windows 7 Home 32 or 64-bit with Aero features disabled to get the best bang. I enable Aero on my system since it is my main desktop PC for the time being. But I am also running Win 7 64-bit with 8 GB Ram and an nVidia 512MB graphics adapter.

I had posted a similar response to GoesTheBunnies a while back. You may need to look at your Bios for your video aperture settings. It may take a little " googling" to find how this should be set depending on your AGP video card and the amount of VRAM you have on it, but you may need to adjust the video aperture in Bios to make sure that you are not opening up too much for the data pipe to handle at once.

What browser/version? I have had to work an some issues for my work clients with IE 8 due to old plug-ins/add-ons. When they reinstalled IE 8 compatible versions these resolved. Keep in mind that IE has more integration with Windows Explorer from XP forward but especially in Win Vista/7.

Brokeh was one of my first themes for GameEx. I would not use that a good example of someone knowing what they are doing ! I have moved on worlds away from that theme, yet have a long way to go yet...

Are you running InstantSheller and is GameEX set to Hide OS?

Well, Kid, welcome you to the GameEx forums! I think you hit on why we have the types of users that keep coming back. Sure, there are frontends that will give you all the pretty eye candy you'll ever want. But is the genuine support and interest there to get you through the tough spots? Besides, I can create my own eye candy! I am currently working on my 5th or 6th theme now. I have begun to master GIMP (an open source image editing software similar to Photo Shop) because this program allows me to do so and is constantly imporved upon and continues to challenge me to do more with it. I have yet to master all it has to offer. I have a long way to go before I get all of the emus I have loaded up and running. I will have plenty of hiccups along the way. And I know that I can count on the friends I have made along the way here to help me get there.

Not that I am a prude, but I think ti is time to move this thread to the social club forum for OT conversations.... Wubble - some of what I have seen on GameEx Live.. lets just say that there are just some things you cannot unsee no matter how hard you try.

The internal screen saver is enabled under the advanced config. If GameEx is open, then it will default to that. If GameEx is not running, then whatever your WIndows screensaver will apply.

Can you provide a copy of your log file, please? Preferably right afer the crash. Thanks!