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Download the following video file to help you with changing the backgrounds. Ive created several video tutorials in helping with Theme Editor and GameEx in general. Visit http://hfc-essentials.net/gameex/ for my video files as well as other useful information. I believe my video files are located under game extras and extras & tools. http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=...E_Video_Bck.zip

Thx headkaze. I didn't bother to read the ver. history. I stopped reading when I got to that part. I figured it out. Thanks again.

Ok I think joy2key is exactly what I need. Can I load configuration files via. command line?

Are you installing the drivers that come with your mouse? Maybe that could be the problem?

Maybe I've confused you. I want to take my joystick and use it as a keyboard.(The same as you?) I think Headkaze also mentioned joy2key. I think I will start with that. Thanks. Thanks, I think I will try joy2key.

I'm in the process of trying to map joystick inputs to keyboard commands. Has anyone done this. I've looked at two different types of software that allow this. http://atzitznet.no-ip.org/Joy2Mouse3/index.html http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/RemapJoystick.htm I'm lost. I might just need to sit down and really study this. I think the autohotkey might be the better of the two. Has anyone done this? With or without the two of these.

Its all about the Wii!!!!!

http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/Shell.htm

Thanks!

-[no]window Run MAME in either a window or full screen. The default is OFF (-nowindow). -[no]hwstretch / -[no]hws MAME uses the hardware stretching abilities of modern graphic cards to scale the game image to the requested resolution. Depending on the quality of your graphic card and its drivers, this may be a fractional, antialiased scaling (nice) or an integer, blocky scaling (not so nice). In any case, you can disable this stretching altogether and let MAME do the scaling in software, which is probably slower, though. The default is ON (-hwstretch). Note: Vector games may actually look better with "-nohws". -cleanstretch [option] / -cs [option] Stretch the image to integer ratios only. This may leave a black border around the image in fullscreen mode. The options are: none disable. This will cause artifacts when using scanlines. auto let the blitter decide. The d3d module will select the best option. full always stretch to integer ratios both horizontally and vertically. horizontal always stretch to integer ratios horizontally. vertical always stretch to integer ratios vertically. The default is AUTO (-cleanstretch auto). This option requires -ddraw or -direct3d. -resolution wxh[xd] / -r wxh[xd] Specifies an exact resolution to run in. In full screen mode, MAME will try to use the specific resolution you request. The width (w) and height (h) are required; the color depth (d) is optional. If omitted or set to 0, MAME will determine the mode auomatically. For example, -resolution 640x480 will force 640x480 resolution, but MAME is free to choose the color depth. Similarly, -resolution 0x0x32 will force 32-bit color depth, but allows MAME to choose the resolution. The string "auto" is also supported, and is equivalent to 0x0x0. In window mode, this resolution is used as a maximum size for the window. The default is auto (-resolution auto). This option requires -ddraw for full screen resolution switching.

As the topic says. What window/windows are effected? Is this only supported in windowed mode?

I'm not exactly sure what you want. Create a shortcut to gameex. Then put that in the startup folder?

You can only modify ver 2 themes with Theme Editor. Look for "Default - Custom V2 Default 640x288". Themes with V2 are supported with theme editor. Yes its possible to use an avi as a background.

What version of mame are you using?

Filename: GE_Custom_Bck How to enable custom backgrounds for use with themes http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=c5e...47cc0d759b72414 **I don't actually use custom backgrounds, so can anyone please comment on this release? Is it correct? Did I forget something?**

Roll back your drivers. I believe Sept or Oct drivers work fine. The new ones cause problems.

Well I have it working. I had already tried the method you have here. It still didn't work. I decided to try Daemon tools and all is working. Maybe its my version of Alcohol 120%?

How is the delay option supposed to work? I did manage to get it to load once. Only by clicking the shortcut over and over again. Is Chankast supposed to wait "x" amount of seconds before opening or loading the image with the delay command?

Yes to all your questions. I'm going to try a different game. Can it be because of the file ext that is being used? I noticed the GameEx ini file for this wrapper doesn't list *.mds as a valid rom filter.

Ok I'm trying to get this to work again. Still having problems. First I'm trying to get this wrapper to launch a game outside gameex. No luck. The wrapper will mount the image but none of the options for chankast are selected and the game doesn't start. This is my shortcut command "C:\Program Files\Emu\ChankastAlpha025\ChankastAlpha025\chankast_launch.exe" C:\Program Files\Emu\ChankastAlpha025\ChankastAlpha025\Games\Games\mvc2.mds This is my ini. # Chankast Launch v1.6 -- By HeadKaze [General] # Name of Chankast executable (must be in same dir as chankast_launch.exe) ChankastExe=Chankast_alpha_25.exe # Set default drive letter Drive=G: # Video Mode (640x480|800x600|1024x768|1280x1024|1600x1200) # 1600x1200 only works with ChankEx Screen=1024x768 # Full Screen Mode Fullscreen=True # Force Full Screen Mode (for version < 25) # Can be used with the -screen switch to force a resolution #Forcefull=True # Which program to mount the ISO with (DaemonTools|Alcohol120) MountTool=Alcohol120 # Delay in seconds to wait after mounting ISO Delay=5 # Unmount ISO when finished Unmount=True # Define ascii key for exit (27 == ESC key) Exit=27 # Set region of DC flash file (jap|usa|euro) #Region=usa # Process priority (Normal|AboveNormal) #Priority=Normal # Show stats such as FPS ShowStats=True [DaemonTools] Exe=C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools\daemon.exe Device=0 [Alcohol120] Exe=C:\Program Files\Alcohol Soft\Alcohol 120\AxCmd.exe Drive=G: [GamePadExit] MapGamePadExit=False Up=False Right=False Down=False Left=False Button1=False Button2=False Button3=False Button4=False Button5=False Button6=False Button7=False Button8=False Button9=True Button10=True #Settings for ChankEx [ChankEx] # Limit FPS (Off|30|60) LimitFPS=Off [Soul Calibur] CPU=120 ZWrite=False ZWriteAlpha=False CapcomHack=False CableType=NTSC SCalbrPlyrSelectHack=False SCalbr2DFix=True [Ikaruga] CPU=120 IkarugaLevel2Fix=True [Sega GT] CapcomHack=True SegaGTLoading=True [MVC2] CPU=73 ZWrite=True ZWriteAlpha=True CapcomHack=True CableType=NTSC Again it mounts the image. Just no options are selected and the game doesn't start.

Why yes it is in the docs page. Had to look twice to find it. I even have the commands printed out. I use it as a cheat sheet. Any way to incorporate this into GameEx? I guess I could create snaphots and view them as pictures. Would rather have them as an option on the start page. /runs away in the corner in shame. =(

I don't know how to break this to you.... But GE will grow on you. =) Its tough to put it down.

Sorta off topic. But can the same be applied to exiting mame games? I had my son and his cousin playing on my cabinet tonight. One is 5 and the other 7. Both of them was smashing the 1st and 2nd player start button. This of course exits the game. Maybe something kid friendly?

Wow I never knew this. Faq material!

Ok I have a problem. I had this working fine on my old HDD. All I did was move everything over to the new HDD. After recently trying to play 2players. Virtua Tennis no longer works for the 2nd player. I can launch the bat files outside of gameex and play virtua tennis fine. Only when launching inside GameEx is when 2nd player will not work. What am I missing?