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To be honest, ParaJVE works better for Vectrex than MESS. The overlays are a pain and MESS doesn't run all the games or as well. If you're using MESS for 5200 and Intellivision, you may want to look at Kat5200 and Bliss instead. Kat is the best emulator for 5200 ROMs IMHO, and Bliss runs far more games as well as emulating the GROM.BIN (voice files). If you want my advice that is. You're probably right about MESS, I don't update it much since they don't update any emulators I use it for that often.

You sure it doesn't use that switch? Is there a "Windows" style menu at the top of the game screen when you run it without that switch?

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It shouldn't... I'll say though as long as your command lines are correct you shouldn't need to set these paths up in MESS first. GameEx will handle the unzipping for emulators that don't use this feature.

Cool! Thanks Tom!

Unfortunately it does not.

Public Service Announcement? LOL! Happy birthday man!

Excellent!

Cool! I'll set it up tomorrow and meet you in chat.

For the first, there's a section on the homepage specifically for themes now. Those themes are defaults for first time installs. I think it's under the Download pull-down on top of the page. For the 2nd, I can't help with that right now because I'm at work. If you can hang in there I'll help you tomorrow (unless someone wants to take this one).

D'oh! *LOL*

Ok Han, one thing at a time. 1) GameEx's database system has changed a lot. It will now show ROM names by the DB, not the file name. Most artwork will show fine using the 'best match' scenario, so you should be just fine there. If not there are a couple options: Tempest has a renamer tool that works well (I think it's called SkinnyMatch). If you're an EmuMovies member, there's a new tool that allows you to not only download all the artwork, but it also renames it all to match your file names. It's well worth the subscription to EmuMovies if you can afford it. 2) The MAME front-end you're thinking of is MAME32, although even of you configure the paths you'll still have to redo them within GameEx, so I wouldn't bother with that straight away. What most of us are doing now is using Headkaze's MAME Compiler 64 to compile our own MAME builds. The benefit to doing it this way is it removes the nag screens MAME usually displays and adds Hi-Score support which allows GameEx to display your scores on the game select screen. 3) This is a tough question to answer. We all have different opinions on this, so maybe ask on a per-emu basis. 4) Agree with Drac, all his themes are great. My fave is Space Invaders ATM. I won't plug my own BlueBox Mod theme either, cuz that's not how I roll. Except when drinking Heiney-kens! Hope that helps a little!

OFFICIAL ENTRY THREAD Please post your theme entries here. This thread can also be used to discuss current entries. I will be closing the pinned topic to keep it clean. Rules, prizes, and other information are located here. Thanks everyone! EXAMPLE ENTRY POST: Theme Title: _______________________________ Theme Type: _______________________________ Theme Version: _______________________________ Theme Resolution: _______________________________ [snap1] [snap2] [snap3] -or- [YouTube Video] Theme Description: ______________________________ Theme Features: ______________________________ Date Submitted: _______________________________ Download URL: _______________________________ (No RapidShare Links Please!!!) Download Size: _______________________________ Additional Notes: _______________________________

Consider your arm twisted mesk! LOL

/side note: I put all the PSD files you need to create new emu backgrounds in the BlueBox Mod theme zip, in case you hadn't found them already. I always include PSDs so end users can do their own thing.

Isn't that what GameEx uses in custominput.ini as default for these?

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Well at least we're a family, even if we're dysfunctional! Haha!

*LOL* That's what I thought, since that's exactly what I did. 1) Open gameex.ini in a text editor 2) EDIT tab, select FIND AND REPLACE 3) Find: C:\Emulators 4) Replace: D:\Emulators 5) Click OK. As mentioned I did the same with my emu inis to make sure I didn't change any save data paths inadvertently. Is this not the same?

Ahh yes it was Emulator.NoConsole=1 that he needs to fix for the game to launch right away. Excellent work as usual Freq! Now mesk just needs to do it!

It's nulldc.cfg you're looking for.

If you made the change in nulldc.cfg it should skip the dialog box and load the game without confirmation. I will try and load a DC game, it may be that something different may be happening under Windows 7. A temporary workaround would be to use GameEx's sendkeys option to send "{ENTER}" to automate pressing the OK button.

I think what he was saying is it uses one loader for launching everything (the loader hooks the keys and passes the checksum), but we also need to launch iRotate to make the games work correctly. That's where AHK would come in. Then we'd link our shortcuts to the exe based on what procedure is needed to run the game in question (as I understand it some games need the screen rotated and some don't, so some will need the ahk exe and others will load directly from the launcher). The only thing missing from this theory is the wrappers HK links to, which may or may not remove the need for AHK. I really need to play around with these and see what happens to know for sure, but that's the way I understoood it.