Draco1962

Don't be deterred because a few had some issues. As it turned out, it wasn't always the codecs. Shark007 is one of the most comprehensive and complete that I have found, regularly updated , and compatibility with XP and versions for both 32-bit/64-bit flavors of Vista and 7,

I still have the Tankstick on my wish list after several years... sigh.

To tag on the comment about piracy. Having been an owner of an Atari 800 XL as its parent company transitioned through several hands before the demise of support in the US, I have seen the arguments for and against it. For it because the system was no longer supported and titles no longer available in the public domain. Against it because of laws protecting intellectual property, copyright, etc. I can see Brian's point about buying from GameStop, etc. Only GameStop benefits from the sale of a used game. It can be argued that, with a game trade-in, perhaps, that the trade-in is a "loss leader" to get you to buy something else new. Sure they discount the retail price by the amount of the trade, but they still make a profit if you see something that ya gotta have and they only have it new. There's a good chance you may buy it. I was reading an online article by one of the programmers for some titles released through Steam. The discussion was surrounding the very subject of software piracy. Their views were pretty simple. "Why do we need DRM if our product is good?" Sins of a Solar Empire was one of their best selling games and they made so much more in profit for writing a good program than many that have their's heavily bogged with DRM schemes of one sort or another.

Thanks, Stu! Found that I had a few paths set incorrectly after a recent hard disk move!

Glad to be of help and it helped me as well! Thanks, Tempest!

Reminds me of an Offspring song... "Gotta keep 'em separated..." "

I think consistency with how emu movies updates defaults would be best.. my 2 cents.

Will that be for just Version 1 & 3 themes or will Version 4 get some more goodies (this and the ratings/description feature) in the next release? Betcha can't tell I am excited about it! The option to turn of color key in Version 4 is AWESOME btw! I didn't have to redo my logo files (well, for the theme I have been working on, I have been redoing them from scratch and must say I like the results I am getting this go! Here are a few...

Have you considered setting it up so you can access it via Remote Desktop? This would allow you to remote into the machine and perform whatever maintenance you need form another system. Likely you would not even have to bring GameEx down to do so as you won't actually be in the same session as the main user (GameEx in this instance).

As far as I know for Mame, although if other Mame derivitives (MESS, etc.) support them then possibly for them as well.

Circo - Thanks! Just what I was looking for! Headkaze - I had checked there first (saved the link to my Favorites when you first clued us in a few months back) and found what I needed for Atari ST but not the earlier consoles unfortunately. Appreciate the quick feedback from all! Thanks!!!

You could always just map to two sets of controls - that would give you more key options, just not 4 player (but, there again, some of the titles may be available for other systems you are emulating for 4 player without so many keys to be mapped). Gauntlet Legends had ports to Playstation and N64, for example. Not certain that the same could be said for Soul Caliber since it was orignally a Namco System 12 Arcade hardware port to the Dreamcast.

These icons reside in wherever you have the mame icons stored for your MAME installation. They are not theme-dependent and will load automatically.

Those are the kind of the size and quality I am looking for, but I am looking for the official console logos. Thanks!

I have been all over the Googleverse and I am failing miserably at finding clean official Atari 2600, 5200, and 7800 vector logos (or any others of decent shape). THose I have found are fuzzy and messy and/or much too small. I need at least 256 pixels wide or preferably 512 and png format also preferred but will take whatever you may have to share. I've even checked some of the more or less commercial sites to no avail. Any help to obtain will be much appreciated!

Glad you found a resolution and took care of that overheating problem before it could cause any collateral damage!

fReq - Do we have clear guidelines for troubleshooting with the debug tools (those within GameEx and those outside such as Event Viewer)? I usually ask if it is working outside of GameEx as there are some emus that will work outside but not within because they need a loader to work. In other cases, the user is expecting it all to work "out of the box" because they have the ROMs, have the programs installed, but have not setup the paths, etc. within the emu, much less within GameEx. Hence why we also have to ask for log files and copies of the gameex.ini files to see the real picture from the GameEx-side.

I have no doubts! Thanks, Tom!

I like it too, will be nice to see it available for V4 themes! Rather than color-key it for black, would be nice if it was an enabled/disabled, editable field in Theme Editor that could be moved and placed within the theme at the choice of the user (same as the scroller bars and weather icons) -or- as a replacement for the description text when viewing game information within the List field.

Using Theme Editor, you would have to start a new theme, select the theme you wish to convert and name theme something other than the one you selected, select the version an click OK, then Save the new theme you created. You would then need to select that newly converted theme for use.

Thanks Tom - will it be available for V4 themes eventually?

Thanks for sharing that clip! It does look good on your system and I am glad I was able to keep as close to the origin as possible as there did not seem to be much of a discernable transition from Media Center to GameEx.

I have yet to explore GameBase64, but need to ask if you have it running yet outside of GameEx.

I noticed some differences between the files you provided and likely this is a result of you trying to diagnose your problems with the crashes. In the first you were running BlueEx 800 x 600 theme, then Default-Default in the second. While I see no problem there, I did notice that in the first your "Display is running at: 1024x768 32bit color, 75hz" while in the second "Display is running at: 1024x768 32bit color, 85hz". Are you tinkering with your video adapter settings as well? Keep in mind that it is easier for us to help diagnose the issue if you keep the settings consistant with where you encountered the problem and make changes only as suggested to themes, screen res, etc. Much easier to shoot a stationary target!

Make sure you have the latest nVidia drivers installed for your car. Also, you may want to try with Aero off and see if you have any better luck with it. My guess is that there is something not right with the screen res settingws in the emulator - might want to go over those as well.