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May i also add that once you have the Wii Group setup, then you can use that group to create a Custom Menu for it if you eventually want custom menus.

Thanks, but i'm actually not too shabby with the GIMP, it's not that i can't, more that i can't be bothered Granted i've yet to show you guys anything - i've actually had a theme almost ready to go for a couple weeks now - i just can't stomach doing the 20-ish remaining logo's - sick of the sight of them. Maybe one day soon hehe That's the last one?! Dam that is a Box O Ugly! makes our SNES look relatively beautiful. Still, it's what is on the inside that counts - that's what they say right? On topic - can't wait to see this as a complete set, i already have a dozen theme ideas that'll match em quite nicely

Hi there, to clarify, you have one entry for Serious Sam in GameEx and this launches the editor instead of the game itself? And you can't uninstall the editor within Steam without removing the game aswell? And to be sure you actually own (purchased) Serious Sam and didn't install it on a "Free Weekend" or similar promotion? I can't personally troubleshoot this for you but the dev's may have an idea, i just want to make things clear and therefore get a quicker response for you You'll be asked to provide your GameEx.ini and log as outlined in this post. It will get you where you want to be much quicker

looking sharp! i like em logo's are a PITA - they've halted many a theme for me lol so it's good to see a talented sadist's work like this

Thanks for all the nice comments - and the Likes! There was undoubtedly a gap, so i filled it After m1rock's post it dawned on me that after being at this for a while, you forget just how overwhelming GE can be to newbies, even the simpler things which inevitably become "something else to master sometime later" and i bet a lot never get round to it. Which is a shame as i personally feel Custom Menu's are frikkin awesome! So if this guide urges a few people to give it a shot then it's all good

I made one just for you check it here

Custom Menus: The Basics In light of this thread i decided to make a simple tutorial on using the custom menus in gameex. Once you have a grasp on it you will soon realize just how versatile (and simple) custom menus are. And you will be able organize gameex menus anyway you see fit! Sound good? Then read on... PLEASE NOTE: You must have your emulators and apps setup in GameEx before you attempt configuring custom menus - the reason being if you did this before hand you wouldn't have anything to customize! There are two things you need to know the difference between: "Menus" and "Items". It may help to think of a "Menu" as a folder, and "Items" as files. So, you can put a Menu in a Menu (folder inside a folder) you can put an Item inside a Menu (file into folder) but you can't put a Menu inside an Item (folder into a file!). It may seem confusing at first but essentially all you are doing is arranging files (Items) into folders (Menus) An example would be helpful right now i reckon so here we go! I've decided, for the sake of this guide to arrange my main GameEx menu into 4 categories: Arcade, Console, PC and Handheld - with the relevant emulators in each category. Let's see how we achieve this: Open the Custom Menu app (Start>Programs>GameEx>Configuration>Custom Menus). Check the box "Enable Custom Menus": NOTE: For this guide i deleted all existing entries but you may, and probably will have entries already here when you first launch the app. You may use the "Delete Item/Menu" button to remove all entries if you wish - and don't worry about messing up, just uncheck "Enable Custom Menus" to revert GameEx back to default Menus On to creating our first Menu (which is basically a folder, right? ) First highlight "Start" in the lefthand tree-list, this is our top-level or "Main" menu. Then click the "New Menu" button: Now we have a new basic Menu or folder which needs some editing. The "Item/Menu Name" entry, which is how your menu will appear in the list and "Item/Menu Properties> Title" which is what will be displayed as the Title text, the big text at the top of most themes. So we change these: And repeat for the other 3 categories: So now we have 4 empty Menus to organize our emulators (Items) into. The obvious one to put under the "ARCADE" Menu would be MAME! So we highlight the "ARCADE" Menu in the lefthand tree-list and this time click on "New Item". MAME has it's own entry in the "Item Type" dropdown list so that's what we select, also editing the Name and Title as we did with the menus, only now you may want to choose a logo from the dropdown list, in this case "mame": Now, for the rest of the items we do the same but instead of "MAME" we choose "Emulator" in the "Item Type" dropdown and then the desired emu from the Properties section, in this case Neo-Geo: Rinse and repeat, editing Menu Name's and selecting logo's as you go: That is essentially it! Just create Menus (folders) and put Items into them. You really can organize GameEx in any way you want using custom menus and i'll bet you'll get great satisfaction in using them! I hope that was easy enough to understand and will help some of you on the road to "pimpin yo GameEx". Have fun and here's a vid of the example Custom Menu in action: http://youtu.be/zfgMgMj7u7s

Cheers guys, the parts i remember were awesome (it's the morning after here) and i woke up fully clothed and covered in burger sauce - any night that ends in burger sauce is a goodun and that isn't a euphemism, i actually mean burger sauce! ^^

Hi there, I can run PS2 @ 2xnative res (1024x1024) with full 60fps on all games i've tried, same with dolphin gamecube. Only tried 2 games on the Wii side - Monster Hunter Tri which yoyo's between 45-60fps and Mario Kart which is always constant 60fps SPECS: 2nd gen i3 @ 3.4ghz 4gig DDR3 @ 1333 Radeon HD5750 1gig GDDR5 EDIT - XP SP3 <-yeah, that old dog! GC games that run full 60fps (that i've tested): Wind Waker Mario Kart Mario Sunshine Pikmin Killer 7 Skies Legends Luigi's Mansion PS2 games that run full 60fps: FFX FFX-2 Devil May Cry Jak & Daxter I'm sure most other games will be fine too, it's just this is a fairly new rig and haven't gotten round to testing everything. Bottom line is though, fast memory and a semi decent GPU should do it - and you get more for your money if you go ATI /my2c

HA! wasn't even aware of this! dam you go away for a few months... ok i got some bats to get rid of ^^

I wanted the same thing a while back and there is a way to process kill but can't remember exactly what the tools are called, search for "XP pro tools" or something similar, there is a process kill .exe in the pack that you launch using another bat. Sorry i can't be of more help right now as i'm on linux. btw i don't mean TweakUI but i believe the tools i'm referring to are made by the same guys. The way i did it in the end, as advised by Draco i think it was, is to create a blank profile in xpadder, and launch that using a .bat on exit. The blank profile will simply pass all input through as if xpadder isn't loaded I wasn't aware of this until i asked on here too, but trust me it really works

As requested There are a lot more that i've tried but tbh i have literally hundreds of fonts and these 3 i remembered, but they all (the dodgy ones) give the same result. Some however are really bad like "counter strike" (in 1st post) and others only mess up one letter for instance "bitsumishi" only messes the "V" and "digitek" only the "M". Strange huh. As mentioned i've tried numerous sizes, bold, italic etc but same results regardless. Thanks for taking a look!

Hey guys, I've spent hours finding cool fonts for my theme (which is almost done ) but every font i like doesn't render correctly i've tried different styles & sizes but it doesn't sort it. Not sure what else i can do. I've tried all fonts in question in various editors and they are fine, the font viewer also displays them correctly but when in gameex i get strange artifacts. Is this a known problem? Am i gonna have to settle for a font which i'm not particularly keen on? I must stress this is not happening on all fonts - out of around a hundred i tried, only a few are doing this - and it seems to always be the ones i really like! lol Screenshot attached of a particularly troublesome font (PS this is not my theme! i just altered the start page so it's easy to see what i'm ranting about ^^) EDIT: i should probably note that it is a V4 theme, latest GameEx.

+1 to all Xpadder recommendations - Adultory is right - it's one of them "gems" you find and if you try it, you'll most likely never unload it I have it boot on start-up with a mouse and general navigation keys (Alt+F4, Alt+Tab etc) profile ,so if you have your rig plugged into your HDTV like i do you can check your mails, surf the interwebs and launch stuff right from your sofa using a pad - ahhhh bliss If you have a 360 pad i find setting the right analogue stick click to "control set 2" - makes it very easy to keep pressed while accessing your macro's/combo's or whatever you decide to put on "set 2"

I'm not an expert on this type of thing but something i noticed: This can slow things down a bit and also maybe changing this may help: As i said i'm no guru at this stuff but might be worth checking out till someone can give better advice Also what may help: Are these your own mp4's or from emumovies? If they are your own, posting your encode settings might reveal something.

That one most definately made it into my "just for keeps" drawer - thanks Dam they are awesome -thanks for share!

Hey null, i probably should do my homework before i post, what can i say - i live on the edge will your proggy support disc swap in nullDC? is there a better emu for DC? I'll be honest i've not run any DC emu's for around 2 years. I guess i'm asking which emu's your app works with best? Judging by the comments of the big guns i'll bet it works with all! But still, do you have any recommendations? On personal experience? I'd love to hear your 2c

Sweet! I'll def test this out when i get Dreamcast and Gamecube back up and running. Does Dolphin support disc swapping? haven't used it for a while and it definately did not when i last looked - would love to finish Killer 7 at long last

Hi KRC, I just recently (4 weeks ago) built a budget rig with £400 and you can get some nice grunt if you take your time and find the right hadrware. I second Tom's Scan.co.uk but I'd also highly recommend Novatech.co.uk - i've been with them for years and have had zero problems with them! And believe me i've bought a LOT of kit off them If you want to be able to play modern games it's perfectly doable on that budget! Although obviously you'll most likely have to use the medium settings in most games but i'm guessing graphics aren't a big deal for you, otherwise that £350 would be going on a GPU alone ^^ I can run most games on medium settings or higher with a constant 60fps =) You can check my channel for some 1080p footage (software captured!) to see how it performs if you like - i was pleasantly surprised myself at what a budget rig can do! May i also advise that, and many overlook this, if you plan on making this a rolling upgrade (ie constantly upgrading over time) that you invest in a decent case - you will thank yourself in the long run =) -EDIT- ninja'd by null! ^^ i second his statement that intel are the way to go currently, and for what it's worth a quad-core probably won't be very useful at this present time.

Oh you're my newest subscriber! thanks! You know i only started the channel to try and convince a few mates to install Japanese PSO2 (as you can see it's only 3 months old) but it seems i'm gathering a following - slowly but surely hehe

Thanks guys but all i did was press record Thank YOU all for your contributions to GE and obviously major respect to Tom for GameEx and the continuing frequent updates and new features! I only stated the obvious and feel free, any of you to use the vid as you see fit - i don't even ask for credit as like i said - i only pressed record.

Ok first off i want to thank all involved in making this happen, Steam integration is literally (and i mean that in the literal sense, not the non-literal sense that seems to be the craze with youngsters at the moment ie "my face literally fell off and then i died, literally") the only reason i wasn't running GE as shell, so this was a MASSIVE deal for me. It also means that all the ppl whom i've tried to persuade to try gameex now have no excuse! It was the one thing that persistently came up. In light of this (frikkin awesome!) feature i couldn't help but put a demo on my channel for my mates to see hehehe. Now i don't get millions of visitors but i get few and thought i'd share it here even though y'all are fully aware of GE's progressive epicness I'll put the vid description here as i know a lot of you won't visit my channel but i'd be very gratefull if you did: "GameEx is a fully featured emulator frontend/game launcher/HTPC/media center software developed by Spesoft and is the first to feature Steam integration! Thanks to the amazing team at Spesoft you can now launch your Steam games using nothing but a gamepad or arcade stick!. There is a free version with no time limits or shareware nonsense so if you are retro gamer who uses multiple emulators, a modern gamer who is into Steam, building your very own "MAME Cab" or simply looking for a good all-round HTPC software that will launch all your games using nothing but pads/sticks then go grab yourself a copy!: http://www.gameex.com/ Video features the brilliant "The Darkness" theme by RageOn - download it here: http://www.gameex.co...oad/Themes.aspx Before anyone asks - NO, i do not work for Spesoft, i am simply a regular who uses GameEx and in my opinion think it is the most outstanding piece of software i've ever encountered, and so i'm just sharing the love =P" The vid: [media=]

Have you tried removing the "background" path from the emulator config? This happens to me also when i set the background path in MAME, in all views apart from the horizontal scroll view like you showed. I simply removed (emptied) the background path and now the theme background shows. Maybe irrelevant to emulators as i've not set any recently but worth a try, maybe.

Sussed it! Since building my new rig i hadn't yet re-installed my codecs, so no flv support. So i went ahead and installed them now everything works fine How on earth this affected the banners not displaying correctly i do not know Mafia II was an AVI and the eXceed series only had snaps, no vid so that would explain why they showed. Still stumped as to why the banners weren't showing when they were clearly present, maybe one of you guru's can explain that one Will mark resolved. Thanks for your time as always guys

Thanks Stu, but something weird is going on here!! I did what you suggested and it worked - apart from HL2-EP2 was still missing (not sure what's up with that!) - all artwork started to appear and metro had one entry. However i then quit gameex to start fraps and take another screenshot after which all the artwork that appeared just seconds before was gone again, showing only for the exact same 5 games as mentioned before! The strange thing is all the artwork is there! check screenies: