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/me whistles I'll just go ahead and leave this here... Made it to Level 11... Wow the outer space bar is super hard!

OK. One thing at a time. LOL! 1st) There is a n INI file you would use instead of the MAP file, located here for MAME Favorites. You will need to update your MAME list as new games are added however. I made a tool to download the new INI or MAP file when you fire up GameEx, which is located here, along with instructions on how to automate this process. 2nd) For this utility to work, you must be running MAME in GameEx's native MAME mode. Setting up MAME as another emulator won't work. This code is specifically written to only take snaps in that way. 3rd) You need to compile MAME yourself to use internal mode, and you need to specifically enable Direct Input for that feature to work. Otherwise you're not gonna be able to send key strokes to MAME. I use Headkaze's MAME Compiler 64 for this, and you have to tick the ENABLE DIRECT INPUT checkbox under the BUILD tab. If you don't want to compile MAME yourself, you're limited to using the primary DirectDraw method, and none of the MAME Internal Snap Options will work for you. In a nutshell, this plugin is deeply integrated with GameEx's internal MAME mode, so it will not support MAME as an external emulator, and I have no plans to make it do so. Oh, and the DirectDraw tick box not being enabled when you load the interface is probably a bug. I can fix that for the next revision. If you check it, it works though as the setting is being saved, I just forgot to load ot when the window opens up.

FTR: I have always had problems with stutter on MK4, and it'ssuper annoying. Let me know if you ever figure out why... I've tried adjusting latency, running on 64-bit MAME on an 8 GB system, and a few other things and just never had any luck. It's a shame too, that game is awesome, and the stutter annoys me to no end. Mind you the game is still playable... but it loses something when it stutters like that.

You posted his picture! Lol! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell_(video_game_player) http://www.mtv.com/news/1560691/ex-donkey-kong-champ-finally-speaks-after-getting-bruised-by-new-doc/

Billy Mitchell makes me want to puke in my mouth and choke on it. PS: Although I do know of brown sauce (we are what the swanky food network people call 'foodies'), I thought you were just a huge fan of HP computers. Lol!

I've been playing with the API to get achievements more or less, or was playing with Game Info integration. I've been following the guidelines here to do that. I don't know how Tom works his magic... I get the app ID from the plugin system when a Steam game is launched. Whether or not that's useful or even usable for Tom is more of a question for him. We're getting way off topic here, sorry to hijack your thread. O:-) Tom has been notified and will address this, I'm sure.

That's the thing about it... I'm sure he knows what to do already. I'm not sure why he would do it that way if he were... I just always use the URL. Last.FM has channged the API IP on more than one occasion, so I just started using URLs instead. I'm sure Drac will let him know there's an issue though.

I use the URL instead of the IP in a side project and I have no issues parsing the XML. But I suppose Tom might be addressing the API by IP address... Not for sure though.

Can you also have a look and see if you are able to create a steamdata.ini file in GameEx>Config? If one already exists there, delete it first. Just to rule out any file permission issues.

Yup me too. Fine piece of freeware that.

It was probably the patch to IE and .NET that was causing this, sure to that huge vulnerability (Constantine Fox). I didn't even think about that, but I'm wiling to bet it was tied in somehow considering I use some net code to get the db from the server.

Unless you use custom emu layouts, yes it is unfortunately.

@RIP-Felix: If I'm not mistaken you can get the best of both if you open the theme youre using in Theme Editor and drag that menu bar off the viewable surface of the screen. Then you get descriptions and no menu bar.

Amen to that. He's probably the hardest working PR member of the team.

Noice! My wife goes back to work tonight, looks like I have work to do.

Dammit... Lol! I'll get it back, don't worry.

Your suggestion is right on imho, and the snap tool will only work in integrated mame mode, so he woulda still need to use internal mame anyway. So it wasn't a loss.

@Dazzle: I am able to log in with your credentials... I also did an update using your User Name. Can you see the XML if you go to it online? http://gameinfo.hfc-essentials.com/hiscore/HiScore.xml

@Han: Yeah, since that score is a float (a number with a decimal) for that game, you just needed to add the 138.0 to the end of it. I fixed that and uploaded the new spread. @Dazzle: I'll test right now, hold on a sec..

Ewww. LOL!

Also, does anyone else have this issue? If the PW is wrong you would get an error when trying to upload that tells you the PW is incorrect. I was able to connect and update just now though, so IDK.

Honestly I don't understand why this is happening, I am able to connect. Maybe we can change your password and see if that helps. PM me your UserName and Password and I'll see if I can get it to connect from here.

You can also check the box that says GLOBAL SNAP MODE under Misc Options in the snapper to force it to enable for all games. It only works in integrated MAME though, so if you have it set up as another emulator it won't work. For my money, the best method is to use the MAME favorites file to give the HiScore games their own sub menu in the integrated MAME section of GameEx as Dazzle suggested. The only other thing I would add to his instruction is that I built a tool that updates that file automatically so you don't have to update the favorites file manually at all. I'm not sure off hand where the link is. Unfortunately that means it's not going to work for you currently, but I can maybe figure something out. I just honestly think it's better to use the framework GameEx has in place for MAME, but to each their own.

/me still haz rager! Looks nice! Heh heh!