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It's a V4 theme so it should work.

It is. I use it for BlueBox myself. You need to go into the theme editor and lay it out (I put it under the game list myself, you can shorten the length of the game list and put the RSS box under it). Then you save your theme. You can also put the weather on it using the same placement method. I put thaxt above BlueBox's version number and it looks great. All this is easy to do in the theme editor. To add your text and/or RSS feed you just select the 2nd tab in Theme Editor (it's either options or tools, I can't remember offhand),select scroller, select the page you want from the list on the right, and paste what you want in the box to the left. Make sure you save the text after each page. If you want to post the theme.ini on the main board I can do the cosmetics for you pretty easy.

Ha! Awesome work Freq! I was just using a senkeys command to press "enter". Thanks for the share!

@Drac: Exactly right. Ha! I didn't notice that when I tested.

OK mesk, do me a solid and delete (or move rather) your startbak.bmp and put this one in its place: Let me know if it works for you or not.

I do like this idea, but I have no idea what would need to go into this. It would be a cool little addition.

Mesk: Can you upload the bmp and the theme.ini for me? .:EDIT:. 15:09:48.6 6/30/2011: Applying GameEx is Loading Image 15:09:48.6 6/30/2011: ERROR when loading Image. Probably does not exist. This theme does not employ a GameExIsLoading.png?

Yes, there was a bug in the updater in 11.82 I think. You need to manually apply it from gamee.com as Drac suggested. @Tom: I was wondering if maybe my new startup lag issue was related in any way to this fix?

+1 for Bliss. Nostalgia doesn't handle the GROM games well either. Bliss runs everything I throw at it.

I noticed that too.

To save you a step, it's not. I'm out of ideas here.

I'm on XP SP3 though... I do use video thumbs actually. So for now, it seems we both have networked drives and video thumbs in common, so it's time to start looking at these two things. I'm around for the rest of the day and I will be doing some extensive testing. I have some ideas on where to start looking, so hang on a bit. I'll keep you posted. :UPDATE: Well I looked at a lot of stuff, watched processes, disabled and enabled stuff, and found nothing. I'm starting to think this is related somehow to .net framework 4, it's the only real update that's happened as best I can recall. My last option is to try and uninstall that and see what happens.

@Drac: I do use external drives but indexing is off on both and never had a problem with "spin down" before. @Rodney: Here's the thing: I also use an ATI card, but mine's a Sapphire 4650. Wonder if that's a problem all the sudden? That would suck balls if it were, never had any reason not to love ATI cards. My lappy uses an nVidia card so I'm gonna test the same install on that and see if it also has this problem. Looking for similarities in both our machines, do you use mapped network drives or shared network folders at all? I'm just grabbing at straws now. Oh and let me save you another step. I also use Avast and disabled it (I already had an exception added for the GameEx folder). No change there unfortunately. I'm running out of things to look at here. I will be digging through system logs tomorrow, and I'll try out this Process Logger app Ben told me about. I may have some more questions for you though, so stick around. We'll nail this thing, I promise.

Headkaze suggested I do the same, but I won't have time until tomorrow or Thursday. I will get back to you on that. And for the record, reinstalling the codec pack did not work either. @Drac: just wanted to mention that if you look at the time from "testing main loop succeeded" and "exiting gameex" it's almost exactly 58 seconds. It's a good minute before you can select anything and this is nearly identical on my rig. It can't be coincidence... @Rodney: Do you use any kind of A/V software? If so what is it? Also what kind of video card do you use? It may just be coincidence but this only just started happening to me when the comlib for playing hi-def snaps came into the mix.

Exactly. But if companies decided to hire hackers due to use of brute force hacking, think of how fubared consoles would be.

Unfortunately it's not just Sony. There are tons of greedy corporate types out there. You guys hear that Geohot got a job over at Facebook? So much for companies reluctance to hire haxorz!

That's what xpadder is for my friend. These will fit in rather nicely with the retro collection I already have going. :-)

Oh my lord! Is that Binary Land I see there? Huge props Sokurah! Can't wait to get these set up on my rig! And welcome to our forums by the way!

No Drac, my theme doesn't support pop up descriptions. I'm gonna try and reinstall the Shark007 Codec Pack and see if that makes a difference.

If it's anything to you I'm having the same issue with a 60-second pause after my intro logo goes by but before the menu loads the list of options up. I've noticed nothing new or unusual in the log and haven't made any changes at all to my machine. It's only started since 10.82 update. If anyone can tell me an easy way to do a video capture (free) I'll upload a video of this happening. Hmm, I noticed you're also using GameExtender (as am I), wonder if the delay is related to that? Can you try and disable GameExtender and run it again and see if that helps?

Thanks Tom!

This needs to be done in MAMEmap, but you need to specify which non-mame emu you require for the games you intend to run.

Yup it was III here.

This emu shouldn't need "show desktop=true".

@MRE: If you go into zsnes.cfg you can turn off the GUI. It's about 3/4 down the page. Just remember you'll have to turn it on again if you need to make any changes since it won't run by clicking the icon after this change.