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Fixed with vers. 6.05! Works perfectly now. Thank goodness I'm on DSL. Otherwise I couldn't keep pace with the new releases

You're right Tom! For the moment I'm about to test GameEx extensively whether it fits my needs and whishes, but be sure when I decide to put GameEx as my frontend of choice for my Cabinet (which is under heavy construction for the moment) I certainly will donate a few bucks to honour the laborious work of a private one man show that has created something really cool.

Hi Tom, it's me again . With the new version 6.02 it fixed an issue for me that when running a slideshow with alpha blending turned on the pictures didn't properly fade away but where somehow shiny in the background. So after a few pics you ended up with a nice collage. As I said this is fixed now and runs OK. Anyway when alpha blending is turned of I (still) encounter the following: Let's say the first pic is in landscape mode and fills the monitor completly. If i.e. the second pic is in portrait it is shown over the first one which means at the left and right side you still have the rest of the first pic visible. Is it meant like that or could this be a bug? I would expect that the monitor is blanked with a black background before loading the next picture?! I checked that on three different systems I'm testing GameEx on so it doesn't appear to be a system related graphics issue...

Uaaah. That was far beyond my imagination. Works great now, thanks again. Any comment on the double downloads from amazon?

Hi Tom, many thanks for implementing the folder.jpg feature. Long awaited . Anyway I can't get it to work. Whatever I do, I always get a downloaded version. The details: - I created (just for test purposes) a cover art for Nirvana - Nevermind - named the file nirvana - nevermind.jpg The name is identical to the foldername where the album is stored - put the folder.jpg in the album folder and additionally in the /media/albums folder still I don't get "my" picture to display, but the amazon one . Where do I go wrong??? Another small issue is that usually I get two downloaded (amazon) pics per album in my /media/albums folder For the above emtioned album it is: Nirvana_Nevermind.jpg and nirvana_Nevermind (Nirvana).jpg Not a very big deal but having a few hundret of albums in mind it could become a pure waste of memory... Any suggestions? Many thanks, Nullus

Hi all, for the moment I'm struggling with a weird noob problem. I started over to feed my jukebox in GameEx with my CD collection. Therefore I'm ripping my CDs to mp3 by using EAC with the famous lame encoder. Of course ID 3 tags are included. When I now start over to choose from my albums in GameEx I always get an output like this: 3 Sunshine 3 Moonlight 3 Stars in heaven In other words: I always get the toal amount of tracks per album displayed but not the correct track number (like 1,2,3). The thing is that the correct track number is in the ID3 tag so I'm wondering whether I do something wrong or whether GameEx has a feature I do not understand . Oh yes, configuration is set to shuffle playlists: no jukebox mode: file audio tags Any help appreciated, nullus

Ich tue's auch nie wieder....

Hi, I've updated Cupid's german translation to Version 5.98 and fixed some minor spelling issues (and probalby brought in some others ). Hope Cupid doens't mind nullus

Yeah! Great guy you are! Can't wait until next release and hereby I volunteer as a beta tester of this new feature

Hi, as gameex tries(!) to grab the music album covers from amazon.com I found out that these jpgs are stored in the /media/albums folder (Ok, not too difficult to figure out but anyway ). For different reasons I'm not too happy with this amazon solution as it is not very reliable and precise. Concerning this I already added a feature request (but it's more a feature suggestion) HERE. Now that I know where the jpgs are stored it was an easy task to replace the poor and/or wrong album pictures from amazon with better ones by simply replacing them with "my" jpg-files with an identical file name. . So far so good... Now I'm wondering whether it is possible not only to replace existing jpgs but to manually add jpg-files to this folder for all my albums amazon doesn't know... . My first trials doing this were not successful as gameex didn't recognize these jpgs. My questions now: - is it generally possible - do I have to follow a dedicated file name (i.e. based on ID3 tags), which ID3 version is recognized by gameex - is there any editable "index- or ini-file" where I will have to assign the jpg's to the album of choice (couldn't find anything on the first glance) Great if this would somehow be possible and even greater if someone could tell me how to do this...

I'd like to bring in something, that has been somehow already discussed before, however I couldn't find a definite answer for. I've read that the cover arts for the music albums are downloaded from amazon.com which is in my eyes for different reasons far away from being perfect. 1. You need to be online (which is not too likely for many people with a Mame-Cabinet ) 2. Amazon is not very precise in its choice ("special versions" of an album are usually not recognized as such) 3. If you're a step away from the mainstream of rock and pop it's hopeless... 4. the quality of the pics is not the best Isn't it possible to include a feature that the jukebox uses locally stored pics of the covers? I think most of the people (like me) store their music in subfolders sorted by album. Why not simply include a jpg (or png) to this folder that is used? If present it is used, if not there could still be the fallback to download it from amazon. The creamtop of course would be to have the frontside and/or backside pics to be displayed I'm not a programmer (apart from "Hello word" in different languages ), but to me it looks like an easily task to implement. It should be basically the same as it is alreay used for the mame screenshots, marquees and so on... . Greets, nullus

Hi Tom, thanks for your quick reply! Problem solved! As the language setting didn't seem to be part of the cookie I went through the settings for html applications. The solution was to change the php variable in this URL: 10foot.cbuenger.com/mceWeather/index.php?start=1〈=2 to 10foot.cbuenger.com/mceWeather/index.php?start=1〈=1 It made my language settings permanent. I know, not really GameEx business but maybe someone is interested in that... . I think I am a bit too stupid to follow... . What IS shift1 and shift2?? Initially I thought it would be left and right shift buttons but that's obviously not the point. Could you bring some light to a rookie? No way. Why should I buy an IPAC? I'm on low to zero budget for my little project and I figured out that my old keyboard (controller) does a perfect job! I have up to 16 independent simultaneous keystrokes available without any problems of blocking, ghosting, delaying, etc. As I'm familiar with a little bit of soldering there really is no reason for me to spend money on a dedicated controller which would do exactly teh same. Anyway, I found a way to circumvent that problem by simply assigning the ESC sequence to a button not used for Gameplay (I.e. "Player One" button). As I'm basically free of choice in MAME I can map the originial ESC command to Shift + ESC which works without any problems. The crazy thing now is that I solved the problems and I really love the outstanding functionality of GameEx , but obviously the program brings my PC down to the knees. Although I turned off any "special effects" and went down with colour depth and resolution GameEx doesn't "run like silk" in any way. Seems that it is really too ressource intensive and simply to much for my 1GHz, 256 MB HP-Vectra PC :( . I'll give it another try tonight with some tweaking and I hope that I'll find a satisfying solution now that I got used to the idea of building a home theater center instead of a pure MAME cabinet with the help of GameEx... .

Hi there, seeking out for the ideal frontend for my little mame cab I came across GameEx a few days ago and I must say that I'm nearly convinced . As far as I can judge: Very good job, Tom! One thing that remains to be clarified is the remapping of keys in GameEx. The FAQ tells me to go for the custominput file in conjunction with the scancode file. Of course "enable custom input" has to be activated. This works out fine but having the custominput file in mind, there are by far not all keystrokes mentioned GameEx uses. I.e. how would I map the control for "volume up" (which is "ALT + Cursor up" by default) to "shift + v" or something else? BTW I don't get the function of "Shift1_Paging" and "Shift2_Volume". It might have something to do with my problem... Another key I would like to remap is the "ESC" key. How could you do this using the custominput file as it is not outlined there? The reason I'm asking for is that I use the "Keyboard hack" way to control my Mame Cabinet. Due to blocking and ghosting phenomens I'm limited to use certain keys whilst others can't be used without running into trouble. A second thing I'm struggling with is that GameEx does not keep all settings in mind for the weather. Interestingly he remembers the city I chose, but next time I start GameEx, the language (which was set to "german" as I'm located in germany and furthermore I am german ) switches back to "english". I'm pretty sure that I don't have restrictions in my "cookie" settings and what makes mw wonder is that obviously he remembers the city but not the language... Any help appreciated as I'd like to give GameEx a serious chance to be my frontend no. 1