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Usually if Tom doesn post a changelog, it's most likely a bug fix.

Start...GameEx... Configuration? MAME 015¿?

Point me at some reading?

Add Fun House, Adams Family, Tommy, Getaway II, and Street Fighter to that list! I'm fine with my cab serving up pinball. If I had the extra scratch I would definitely build one!

Damn that looks sharp! Excellent work!

Ahh OK, I got ya. Just thought I'd offer. That still stands for themers and coders though... I'll even make you your own subdomain if you want to host a release site for your projects. I have unlimited disk space and bandwidth, and my projects just aren't very big (my family business pays for the server so it's not like I'm out anything). Just puttin' it out there.

1.1.1 is available for download via the update feature. but it was a minor release (a couple silly bug fixes). Here's a sneak peek at 1.1.2: I added new features to the Shout.Box: As you can see, you can now select Rolling Stone Music News and Yahoo! Music to show in the Shout.Box, as well as Billboard's Hot 100, Digital 40, and Radio 40: Clicking on the Shout.Box while on a news feed opens a window with the story, a drop box with all available headlines, an image of the story, and a button to go to the story in my self contained browser window (I added FavIcons for each site for the browser window and even did a RegEx pattern search pull out the img src). I realize that these features aren't really needed for what this does, but I needed to do some script for RSS anyway (for another project) and this adds a little extra something IMHO. I'm gonna move on to a scrobbling music player, but I'll put out 1.1.2 first. So... what do ya think? Am I lacking a feature you'd like to see? LMK!

/side note: I'm always happy to offer up public FTP space. I have plenty and know my way around FTP.

Happy birthday! Have a bottle of the most exspensive and erotic of liquors on Draco!

Nice one! Great work on that thedevilbunny!

Lookin' good Chazz!

You're right on the money Tempest. I didn't even consider that. If it doesn't pan out though, I'll still happily "grunt out" the MDB entries.

That in itself is awesome! Nice update Tom! Great use of PFC!!! Assuming you are indeed using PFC, it has to be a TTF font right? And where should I put it (assuming the Media folder)? Naming requirements apply? Not to sell the other additions short mind you, thanks Tom & Ben!!!

Well, it shouldn't. It should default to the Default - Default folder (that's a lot of defaults! LOL!). I think it's a GameEx bug, TBH... Can't remember seeing a theme without one ever so it's no wonder it slipped by unnoticed for so long.

Back at her eh? Let me know when you're ready for me to set you up a URL/download for it!

Hence why the lack of a crash on your rig, your situation never even calls up emubak.png.

Do you have any emus that don't have a custom bak for them? The other thought I had was sometimes it just flakes and loses the emulator's page image on my cab randomly, so this may also be the case. But again, it's only my 2c and I might be wrong.

Ahh... I see what's happening here... It almost looks like the emubak.png is not loading properly and Tom's System.Drawing.Image.FromFile() can't find the image (like the embak is returning -1 in the array)... Or something... Not my code obviously, just a guess judging by this: 10:45:17.6 3/06/2012: C:\GameEx\themes\Retro Arcade HD\MEDIA\emubak.bmp 10:45:17.6 3/06/2012: at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement) Hang on GoTheBunnies, let's try something. .:EDIT:. Scratch that... It actually makes sense. Okay, so Krak's theme doesn't have a default emubak.png. The question I have is why is GameEx looking for emubak.bmp if it doesn't exist in the theme folder or the Default - Default folder? That would certainly explain the array error... Maybe the BMP is the last image it looks for before it's *supposed* to revert to the default location? Which it doesn't seem to be doing? Because it would find emubak.png in there? @ GoTheBunnies: Pop this in Krak's theme's MEDIA folder and see if it doesn't remove the error. Then I'll gaive Krak the heads up that he doesn't have a default emubak and he can add one in for emus that don't have a background. And if Tom's reading this, he'll see that the code isn't looking for a default emubak and correct it (if my assumption is correct).

Cool. Thanks.

Its the XML I'm after so i can sweep the XML and add the MESS file name into the existing MDBs GameEx uses. The dat would be more for converting file names. The idea is to not mess with names at all, just to tell GameEx that lnrlndr.zip = Lunar Lander. I hope that makes sense, I suck at explaining things.

It would help a lot if someone could point me to the softlists so I could get rolling on the XML parser module.

The issue is that you're still using the old way and not everyone will be familiar with that before long. We should never force anyone to use a different way if a popular emulator changes their approach. Not saying there's an issue with rom distribution but if they are packed that way we should conform to that standard and make it easier for end users if we are able.

^^which is what Freq and I would like to do. We need to know how Tom parses the DB columns (by column name or number), and then we'll knock up a utility that adds the info to the existing DB. Won't take long, just need some intel from the "big guy" first.

Yeah:

Updated to 1.0.2 (although it's been online via auto-update for a month now... I just noticed I didn't have it updated here!)