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Absolutely fantastic mace! Thanks for sharing the details of your build. Hey I moved this thread into the Gamer Rigs section our dedicated area in the forums for discussion of cabinet builds. Thanks again!

There might be a better way of doing this, but going off the cuff I think you could leverage the Wait Before Keys setting found on the Advanced Emulator Setup screen in the Setup Wizard. Initially I would try it without keys specified under Keys to Send, but the Wait setting may not take effect if you haven't defined the keys to send. If that's the case, I'd just select an arbitrary key to send to the emulator; something meaningless and with out effect.

I would agree with this. Likewise I'm pretty surprised by the OP's comments that the GOG version isn't cooperating on newer Windows operating systems. I've honestly had very few issues with GOG games, outside of a few resolution settings and whatnot. The GOG page for this game reports that it works on everything from XP thru Win10. It might be worthwhile to put out some feelers in the GOG forum for the game to see whether there are any additional hoops that need to be jumped through. GOG has a pretty great support community, particularly for weird game related issues like this.

A deserving fate for all griefers ... "I find your lack of faith disturbing"

Happy belated birthday, tthurman! I hope it was a great one!

This is highly impressive Stigz! Great job man!

Possibly driver related but hard to say. Being that we're dealing with a third party application to generate scan lines and a third party application to switch resolutions, there are a lot of moving parts here. I'm going to throw you a curve ball. Rather than faffing about trying to make this current solution work, have you looked into using MAME's inbuilt support for HLSL (or alternately OpenGL) shaders? I would say that this approach is much more in keeping with the "MAME vision" of how to properly apply shaders, filters and whatnot. It's just a thought, but it is the first approach that I would try. (Although fair warning, you would probably want to update to the most recent version of MAME)

Is the issue that you're using the resolution changing application for MAME, but it doesn't do anything when you activate the hotkey while running MAME through GameEx? Edit: Also possibly related - If I recall correctly, you are using an IPAC (or similar keyboard encoder), correct?

Just for the sake of clarification, we're talking about this correct? Does it work for MAME when operating outside of GameEx? Have you toyed around with using inbuilt -switchres command parameters within MAME itself?

Sounds like you got the name of the behemoth: "The Big Daddy" - like it! Pictured - Han's new server: Now you just need to name one of your smaller satellite systems Little Sister.

NonMAME is a pretty decent reference, and I've also found some informative entries in this Emulation General Wiki. The EmuTalk.net forums aren't too bad either. FantasyAnime has some of the most informative tutorials that I'm aware of. I'm sure there are a bunch of others that I'm forgetting, and they're all blocked by network filter at my current location (apologies in advance if I've supplied any broken links! )

Halleleujah! Glad to hear it man. This was really starting to turn into quite the mystery. Good detective work on your part. Just out of curiosity, is it possible to provide the version number of the problematic driver vs. the working one? (Don't do anything that might imbalance your system, I was just curious)

You should be able to alter this in the Setup Wizard. Check the News Feeds screen. How's that working for out for you?

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Hi Greenaway This isn't an uncommon issue with Windows & installations, and the recommended solution is typically to install the Shark007 codec pack which can be found on the PinballX homepage. In most cases this resolves the issue.

Two questions. Have you tried reverting to the default theme? Is Afterdark a theme that comes with a packaged with a particular font? (And if so, have you installed that font?)

Sorry for the delay disco74. I've looked at your settings a few times, and I honestly can't see anything wrong with them. The only aspect I can think of is that either GameEx is pointed at the wrong directory (either due to a spelling error, or configuration issue), or the directory is correct something external is preventing GameEx from accessing it. In the case of the former it should be pretty easy to suss out. Simply copy and paste your rom path from the Setup Wizard into Windows Explorer. Try that and see what happens. If it's a permissions issue you may need to check the properties of the directory to see whether it has been set with elevated security or something.

I'm telling you this part is going to screw you up even if everything is working as it should (not that it seems to be): This is going to force your game list to include the entire known list of MAME games (while still taking your other filters into account of course). It's the equivalent of looking at the "All Games" list within MameUI. Even if you continue to experience issues I would fix this setting because it will cause you continued problems once everything is working as it should. Then when you change this setting, rebuild your list again. If it works, that's great. If it doesn't work, still just leave that setting alone (i.e set as True)

So long as you're rebuilding your list each time you change anything, that's the only thing I can see wrong with your settings (without seeing an up to date GameEx.ini) Good luck.

Yes the distinction here is that your media files need to match the ROM names (i.e. the file names) rather than your game names (i.e. the names that appear in GameEx - these come from your map file).

I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm going to guess that this is your issue: That setting corresponds to this one:

I know it sounds weird but it can solve a lot of issues. Check this recent thread for one example.

It seems like a few people have been having this issue lately. For GameEx installations running on Windows 7, we recommend installing the Shark Codec pack to enable MP4 video playback in GameEx (regardless of whether the videos play in other media players). The recommended version is available for download from the PinballX home page.