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From way under the factory scores... LOL! INITIALS: DNK SCORE: 7200 MAME: 0.148 Compiled

No the banner only occupies a small section on the bottom. I run GameExtender behind that. You can set a background for your CP, but if you wanted to hook in a specific image in full screen behind the Game Info stuff, GameExtender is native and it's the way to go no doubt. The title screen snaps behind the banners in the video are being run by GameExtender... This is more made to add to what Tom already has as opposed to replacing it.

I'm thinking of writing a plugin to show some stuff on a third monitor. I use an arcade cab, not a pincab, so my question is for the pincab users: I envision a custom project I might be starting up using a small LCD for a little extra bling (so it would be a 3rd monitor in full screen mode on my setup). I want to mount it above my main monitor and show some stuff on it (pictures maybe, instruction card, who knows). Something like this looks affordable and just perfect for what I want to do: I want to eventually integrate it into GameEx, but I thought it might be more useful with a pincab (it will also give me an excuse to get PinballX up and running and possibly lead to future developments for it). That being said... Does anyone have any suggestions I should consider before I start working on it? Might be a while as I need to scrape up the money for the monitor, but it will definitely get done. Don't be shy!

Here's an easily beatable start! INITIALS: DNK SCORE: 347450 MAME: 0.148 Compiled

Unless there's a mod out there I'm unaware of, nope you can't do that. It's a hard-coded size AFAIK.

Thanks for the props my friend! That's just the theme I used for that moment. You can customize the theme however you like, but it was created to match your GameEx (or in my case, the cab's) theme. The theme doesn't change based on the game unfortunately, but the skinning engine is customizable to the pretty much last degree with the exception of a few small icons. That's a great request. I actually have code in there for a zeroTimer to leave the temporary banners up if you set the timer to zero via the configuration. I see for whatever reason I never hooked that in though... Probably just spaced it. I can add an option to launch the CP on the game's start-up while I customize the timer to srt your own value, no problem. I'm kind of embarrassed I didn't think of that myself. Oh well. I'll add these options in a future release. I try to keep my users happy if the request is reasonable, so if you have any other suggestions I'd like to hear them. The reason I only use the title and snap is because of the plugin system (these are the only ones Tom gives me paths for). Not a big deal though, I have a pretty serious back-end that can snag the actual GameEx INI's config based on the emulator number, shouldn't be a huge deal to hook in that feature. I need to decide more on how to give that customization to the user in a manner that doesn't get too complicated. Maybe I'll do an entry in the settings to override the snap and title path manually... I really don't know how to approach this and keep it tight if you know what I mean. I'll think about it more though.I'm kind of worried about the size of the LCD more than the fact you want to add one. That banner's gonna look pretty scrunched depending on the resolution of the monitor you wanna use... If you do decide to go for it (and I hope you do, my monitor in the CP of my cabinet is the main reason I made this plugin and I absolutely love how it looks), I'll do what I can (within reason) to accommodate your setup... If you could do it I would love to see a video of it in action just for my personal jollies. Thanks again, I am looking into Krakerman's bug report today and I'll see about some of the 'to-do' list here.

Can you post your settings.xml and the GameInfo.log file? I'll have a look.

Did you try changing the threes to twos in the general column? There may be a bug in monitor specific settings. At least so I can see the result, please try that as the default. Thanks.

The problem is that the GameEx plugin interface doesn't pass events for external apps afaik. I'll log the function but it didn't last time I checked. I can't reproduce the problem as reported with the tooltip crash... It may be a language character that's throwing an exception. I'll add a catch block to the tooltip block to stop it though.

Yikes... That looks like a tooltip problem... Do you have a coppy of your plugin log from GameEx > Plugins > Xpadder I can look at?

Sorry, I'm spuratic during school terms. Summer term is the worst too! I voted finally. Voted, and looking forward to playing these. I don't hardly play my cab, never really did... I built it for others to enjoy. Nice to have a reason to play MYSELF for a change.

That's appropriate admin behavior! Lol! Kidding, of course.

I can probably add this functionality in, but I'm back in school so I won't be around as much, or have a lot of free time to work on feature requests atm.

Anything I can do to help you guys make a run at it (or streamline it), I'm down. I would really love to see Tom add it in like High Score support that exists currently (although it's a seemingly dead project).

Glad you got it working.

I can't even get past the first boss! Lol!

So it's almost done... If we were really gonna pitch the database integration to Tom, I thought it would be nice to have a Database Manager to make edits and adds a lot easier. Not only does this add the ability to change up things quickly and easily, it edits the version right off the server and has upload options so you don't need an FTP software installed (just enter your login credentials and press the upload button). I figure hansolo77 and GimmeClassics will approve of the lighter workload. Stay tuned for the release!

Thanks Freq! I personally work all day.

Updated the HS table and the database. Hope I didn't step on anyone's toes doing that, but I was updating the db and thought it would be helpful.

51,025! Now that was a solid game!

This may be an unfortunate side effect of a single monitor. There is indeed a key combo to show and hide the footer, and I will hook up the high score viewer in a similar fashion. If you're not running your emulator in a window this won't push the banner over top of it, it only sets itself as topmost when it initially launches the viewer. In a two monitor setup this is not an issue unless your emu our game runs full screen on both screens. It's generally not nice to brute force the topmost setting if you don't have to.

If you open the configuration for zsnes there's an option to disable the GUI (front-end mode I think it is). I'm not sure about SNES9x though.

Let's get this started! MAME: 0.148 Compiled INITIALS: DAD SCORE: 35,000

If youre using a single monitor setup you need to change the 2's to 1's in the config screen there.

Can you snap me a pic of your plugin config screen and/or shoot me a copy of your GameInfo Settings.xml?