Drakendoder

i'm kind of a sketchup-wiz for my work as an illustrator. If some person would like to see an unorthodox designed cabinet realised, i think it would be fun for me to take on the challenge. But please link or forward me plenty of artwork/photographs of the cabinet to work out the design with. And have patience of course, i'll be doing it in my free time, so i'll keep a gentle pace

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you are a gentleman and a scholar frequency this works handsomely and i'm plenty satisfied with the results, thanks a lot!

*BUMP* i found this thread through google, and by now i have the magstick plus installed in my x-arcade (if interested i'll upload a picture) things that are mandatory: the plates that are delivered to mount the sticks don't fit(holes don't overlap). I had a metalweldingthingy-shop (dunno english word) make 2 new ones for me based on a sketch that was drawn by a simple measurement of the available room for the plate and the original holes. This cost me about $25 but it works like a charm. No other modifications are necessary about the stick however: i like the throw, yet i hated the microswitches used in the magstick. Too much power is needed to throw the stick around, and the click-sound never grew on me. i stumbled on this (no spam intended) thread on another forum and i used the info to adapt the original x-arcade-microswitches to the magstick. This already is 100 times better, and in combination with the short throw i'm actually getting close to the joystick i wanted. Best microswitches would be somewhere in between though, not too light not too hard, perhaps something for the future. The balltops have proven for me to be a waste of money. Even the XL-version that supposedly are developed for bottommounted panels seem to be way too short for my taste. That sucks, because they look beautiful. But in the end for me functionality prevails so i went back to the standard option. This works well. The 4-way to 8-way feature is of course nice about the stick, although it isn't what i hoped it to be. Its much better than the alternative for sure, but i can imagine a cross-like profile in the end works 50 times better. Because of the short throw the direction-inputs are pretty close together and it takes a bit more practice to hit the directions you want 100%. The short throw increases the responsetime immensely when set against the x-arcade original sticks. If you like shoot-em-ups like i do, you know how vital this is. All in all, they are an improvement. Based on the price however (about 5-6 times the cost (incl. shipping) for 2 x-arcade sticks) i would seriously suggest to look around for all of your options and consumerreviews. I can't imagine there aren't better options out there. I don't have the experience to tell for sure though. of course you can ask any question you may have that i didn't answer already

tx frequency, this is helping me in the right direction, just not quite there yet with the tag , at least some communication between gameex and vlc is established, only oddly game-ex seems to give the filename in parts ?!?!? So VLC opens with an errorlog (in dutch, so i won't c/p it) that seems to translate that it receives the filename in parts?? log goes something like (for the example i'll use c:\video\movies\sample.avi) error: can't find 'vide', unable to open error: can't find 'o\movi', unable to open error: can't find 'es\sam', unable to open error: can't find 'ple.avi', unable to open wt(heck)??? any suggestions? if anyone has another external mediaprogram that he or she does know is fully and seamlessly functional with game-ex, i'm all ears as well of course thanks in advance,

looks good draco, you keep your concept straight and simple and seem to be sticking to it. This often works out best

i don't know wether it bothers you, or you may have intended for a reason unknown to me, but looking at the daphne-screen on the right i see a white outline on the dragon that personally would bug me. This often is the result of using something like the magic wand-tool in photoshop and deleting the surroundings. For future reference, if you would invert the selection and shrink it (somehow works a bit better than not invert and expand) by 1 pixel (sometimes 2), invert and then delete, it will leave you with a clean cut and rids you of the border. Getting rid of borders like that in general tend to blend different pictures better into one new one. Hope this helps,

Hi Tom, thanks for helping out, i did what you asked, and updated from 11.07 to 11.08. In the setup wizard i changed the key, and this worked, so thats one down....buttt one to go. The video-issue isn't resolved. I tried implementing Videolan (VLC) into the configmenu, because it supports command lines, but so far no luck. The thing i tried is (path)/vlc.exe "[path]/[file]" --fullscreen, but vlc opens and says its unable to find [path]/[file]. I know, it was a bit of longshot lol I'm looking further into it, because like i said i don't mind switching to VLC, but i wonder how GameEx communicates with VLC as to what file needs to be opened. Any thoughts? regards

Hi all, first the good news: gameex proves to be bug-free now on my system now!! no crashes no nothing, just awesome. With the catalyst suite having improved on their profilemanager with an update as well, i feel finally nothing short of the much desired 'seamless' experience thanks for everyone working on the product the bad news (but i hope its small) -all of a sudden pressing 'L' on my tankstick (wich is the 2p fire-button), i am immediately returned to a new game-ex menu called 'in game' with the the options to 'resume game', 'exit game', 'add to favorites' and 'record video'(maybey 1 more i forgot). Together with a brief description about the game. I figured i would just disable it in the gameex-config, or change its inputkey, but somehow i'm unable to find it. The closest thing i found was a feature called 'in game key' under the input section wich read '76'. But clearing this number nor changing it to 00 solved the issue, so i guess this isn't what i'm looking for? any assistance is appreciated -second problem seems to be with displaying video (avi). This used to be fullscreen, and now it is still buttt...not completely. It leaves a little desktop (about 1/6th) in bare sight on the right revealing my desktop gadgets. Any idea what i could do? I have no problem switching to another videoplayer (VLC preferably) if that solves the problem, but do these integrate as well like the built-in player (auto-fullscreen; no buttons or bars etc)? thanks in advance for those chiming in , regards,

hi all, i revamped my previous skin with an entirely new look and feel (to the point almost nothing is the same lol). I tried to give a bit of a modern hommage to the colourful capcom -nineties with all of its comic-like artwork.....yet remain practical in the needed space for optimal readability. Yes, it's boxart and vid-preview free(although i left some room for it just in case), so probably this doesn't appeal to the large crowd that embraces this feature in front-ends. I like that too, but its either all or nothing for me, so i try to protect myself for endless nights of searches in order to "get 'em all"..something i know i'm able to lol Anyway, this works for me and i hope you like it! you can watch in better quality by clicking , if you do comments are of course much appreciated, thanks in advance for those

the silence is deafening, just close the thread and bury it already

allright, this is a bit ackward In light of what you said i tried finding out what 'loaders' were used during the startup of the process, but couldn't find any in the Taskmanager processes list. So i figured my best bet would be launching AutoHotkey WindowSpy to see if anything popped up there, and sure enough i was amazed at how many exes were loaded in a brief second during the intros. Exactly at the point where normally GameEx Music starts to play again. I couldn't find those exe-files in the directory anywhere, so i tried googling them......they were all Trojans, Malwares etc. I updated my free AVG as soon as possible (it had been disabled for 3 weeks, right before i 'got' Trine, and had been a bit lazy at fixing it) and sure enough red flags were flying all over the place. The ackward part of course is that you don't get these Trojans, Malwares and such if you have a legal copy, only when obtained on the darker sides of the web. So i guess i'm rightfully punished, but for the record i would like to state i'm no enemy of the PCgaming-Industry as i have bought just about over 50 games, most of them with the sole purpose of rewarding its developers. I do like to try before i buy though, so i'm guilty for that as charged Altitude, the other game, i in fact did buy legally but obviously there seem some problems with steam loading up as well probably confusing Steam. I also have StreetFighter IV through steam(also legally), but there i have it all working inside a AHK-script wich probably makes it all 1 process in the eyes of GameEx. Okay now i gotta run, i hear sirens roaring up into the streets... BB is everywhere

no "cmd", GameEx is the only task listed when i've quit the game, and i am not returning to game-Ex but am left at my desktop with AmbienceMusic from GameEx menu playing on my speakers i'm not sure what you meant, but i deleted the link for a Windows-Game that worked fine, and made a new .lnk for the list. Again, the game worked fine. Mind you, every game still works great except the two(Altitude, Trine) i mentioned. No, when i press 'Play this Game' the music stops, and the game starts up. About 4-5 seconds in-game when you still get the introscreens from developers and so on, the music from Game-Ex starts playing again, and in fact doesn't stop anymore. It keeps playing when i exit the game, although i'm not returning to the GameEx menu and taskmanager tells me it's running fine. i'm really clueless about this one. I checked all parameters from the .lnk-files but couldn't find any differences between the games that have and do not have this problem thanks for the help so far guys,

just for completion purposes, i ran game-ex under 'normal' conditions where i can't get back into game-ex with Alt-tab like in the previous post, the log is identical except for resolution, and this is the last part... 19:05:05.5 11-3-2010: Running: cmd.exe /c E: E:\PC Games\Trine\trine.exe 19:06:47.9 11-3-2010: Exiting GameEx! 19:06:48.0 11-3-2010: Saving Settings <-- last line in the log Exiting game-ex was done through TaskManager, where i had to shut it down. When i've exit the game, and am looking at my desktop while i'm unable to return to game-ex, the music is still playing though, and Taskmanager says it's working fine. When i rightclick in the taskmanager, to manually maximise game-ex, i get a black hiding-os screen but am not able to return to the menu-screen, nor does game-ex respond to my ESC-key that would normally exit the program instantly