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Try deleting or moving your MAME.ini. maybe a setting got jumbled up in there somehow?

Love that second project!

Absolutely.

It's almost that easy... You can just open the theme.ini in the theme editor and resize the box. It's super easy. Yes themes share the logo resources (the theme folder first then it looks to Default - Default if nothing is there). As far as layout and theme info, nope it shouldn't... Maybe pop your gameex log in there and we can have a look see.

It may be that it's not picking up on your custom layouts (if the screen you were on was using them I mean). Not sure though. Once in a while if I'm on an emu it drops back to the emubak.png instead of the custom emubak.png I have assigned for that emulator. This usually happens to me when I exit a game... Not always but sometimes. Just a thought if you were gonna try and duplicate the issue. I use any button really. Backspace, select, mouse clicks if I use the trackball. Any button should exit attract mode AFAIK.

If you click on any mages in the download screen they all link to image 1. Changing the URL shows them all. Example: I click on my theme preview images and all three are linked to image 1: http://www.gameex.net/themes/image1/MegaMAME%202.2.jpg Changing image1 to image2 or image3 displays that image properly. So 2 and 3 need to be fixed. Image 1: http://www.gameex.net/themes/image1/MegaMAME%202.2.jpg Image 2: http://www.gameex.net/themes/image2/MegaMAME%202.2.jpg Image 3: http://www.gameex.net/themes/image3/MegaMAME%202.2.jpg It's probably a bug in your page script. Not a big deal, just thought you'd like to know.

Hmm, another issue I don't have. When I exit attract mode it goes back to whatever screen it was on prior to that.

Maybe I just got lucky on this one as I haven't had this problem on either of my themes I finished this year.

For issue #2 : does this also happen with the default theme or just mine? For issue #1: Sorry but I was worried about this type of thing. You can easily change the size or position of the weather and rescale lists and snaps in the theme editor if you want. You'll probably want to run the baks and foregrounds through an image resizer first though. Perhaps I'll do a 1024x768 version as well.

Savages and haters everywhere! Lol!

Thanks for the update Tom!

Glad you like it. I worked hard for you! And btw, my whole existence is a tribute to SMB! If you've been wondering... the selector bar sound is a jump from smb3, intro music is from starting a game in smb2, selecting a game is from entering a level in smb3, the item select sound is a coin in smb1, and exit attract mode is the game over music in smb2. I thought the SNES version sounds were a little more modern than I wanted them to be. I always rip and remaster my sounds with Sound Forge. I love me some Mario. Lol!

It was probably my fault. I put the link up before I finished uploading it. Did this solve the issue where you don't see the whole game name? That's how it was designed initially. I forgot that the foreground setting pushes that stuff down a level when I released it. Lol!

That's the stock line after closing. Unfortunately I can't duplicate this. Can you try downloading it again? You didn't have any issues extracting it right? Try closing GameEx and deleting the theme folder and re-extracting it.

Updated to Version 2.2, grab it from the first post. I'll have to PM Tom and have him delete the one on GameEx's download page, so please wait if that's where you plan to grab it from.

Version 2.2 on the way shortly with fixes to weather, time and date, about info 1 and 2, and popup descriptions. Can't believe I didn't notice these weren't showing when I put this out. I'm about half way done and hope to have it out tomorrow. Sorry about my inexperience with foreground_topmost and thanks for your patience!

So you got an all in one then?

I was waiting for your video. I had a thought. On my touchpad config for my driver there's a setting for precision. can you try fiddling with that and see if that works for you? Enhanced pointer precision I think it is. It would be under your mouse properties.

I actually used LED cooling fans under the speaker grates and it not only looks fabulous but it provides a nice breeze for the marathon game sessions (not to mention diverting some heat). I use cold cathode lighting (UV) around the monitor and I also was skeptical at first. It does look nice though.

OK, so the problem was this one basically? Obviously swapping X and Y coordinates being the notable difference? It's actually a known issue. You can only move the menu bar up and down. We were hoping for a fix also. Hopefully Tom can do something about it. On a side note, I understand you're trying to keep your theme under wraps (for the contest no doubt). Your theme.ini would have been helpful for Draco as he knows this exact issue well and recently reported it, and it wouldn't have given away any of your 'trade secrets' so to speak. Tjat aside we could have pinpointed the bug for you in about 2 seconds. Let me tell you that I really only wanted to help you and encourage you, not steal or duplicate any of your ideas. Hell, I theme for fun. I can't even enter any of my work in the contest. It's cool. I been here a long time friend. Seen many come and go. I'm merely suggesting that if you're not gonna take anyone's advice or suggestions (especially for work arounds), you might as well just PM the people you will take advice from. No offense, man. I just want to help and it seems almost like you just want to rant. GameEx means more to me than just a front end and I only want others to enjoy it as much as I do without getting hung up on cosmetic and minor stuff along the way. Most people are satisfied with a work around... If that's not what you want, cool. If it is, then just take all things into consideration before you focus on what it can't do as opposed to what it can. Sorry if this post came off crass. Didn't intentionally write it that way.

Lol! My fault. Did you try disabling that feature for testing? I'll step out and leave it to Tom.

I gotta tell ya, I really like the front panel illumination! That looks really sick! Is that cold cathode lighting? Very cool! My keychain is a Yoshi. Haha!

Never played with a 3DO, but I do remember the commercials!

You didn't answer my question about the foreground topmost setting in the GUI. Is it set? Does it say foreground_topmost=true in the theme.ini? It sounds to me like its a layer issue. But it may be a bug too. Just please satisfy my curiosity.

Xpadder does this way better anyways, and offers a lot functionality wise. It's only $10 with lifetime updates. Not to knock on GameEx's ability to map keys .... I just really think its a master in the field of key mapping.