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Hopefully my last question. But I am still unable to fiugre out where I need to go to tell it to launch the full GameEx version from Windows Media Center as opposed to just launching the Lite version. Any ideas?

Nevermind, I have discovered my problem. I am launching it from the Windows media Center snap-in. When I originally set this up, I set it up to launch GameEx Lite. Apparently that option is not available in GameEx Lite. Is there a place where I can change it so that the full version of Game Ex Launches from the Media Center plug-in?

Hmm...... i must be missing something then. I have the Snap Path set for all of my Emulators. I have checked the advanced Settings option and "Hide Create Snaps" is set to "no." I'm using the default views and settings for everyting except the snap path location which is on the same Hard drive and partition that my ROMS are located. The only options I have across the top when I go into the list of games for each Emulator are: - By Name - By Category - By Manufacturer - By Year - Biography - Change View - Back - Home - Exit And I have double and triple checked. The Reg key worked to "Register" the program. I don't get the initial splash screen, and wizard it tells me that I'm now a registered user, or whatever it calls it. Any other ideas? And thanks again for all the help.

Where is this option? I can't find it? I've scoured this website with every FAQ and forum, but no luck. Sorry for asking such a trivial question.

There's a line in the differences between the free version and the paid version that says: ?? How does that work? [face_confused]

I'm relativly familiar with setting up emulators. I had a 250 Gig hard drive filled with nothing but Emulators from every console I had growing up, and Mame. I had it set up on my Media center PC but never used any fully integrated front-ends like GameEx, so it was a pain to get into games straight from my Media Server's interface. Now with Media Center Plug-In for Game Ex, I figured I'd hop in head first. I've never tried prettying anything up though with things like box-art and screen captures for the games. I've done it for my Media Server using the Media Browser plug-in for MCE, (which is amazing BTW,) but 95% of it is automated. The only real modifications that had to be done were some file re-naming so the files could be linked to an online movie database and the appropriate images and info downloaded for each title. Even being familiar with emulation and media servers, jumping into this is a bit overwhelming. Just to give an idea of my current set-up and where I'm coming from with my configuration...... I'm running Windows 7 MCE on my PC, connected to my TV. I have Xpadder running with each button on the controllers mapped to specific keys on the keyboard. this is done so I can control my media center from my 360 controller without my mouse/keyboard. I'm using 4 Xbox360 controllers connected up via the wireless USB "dongle," from MS. I have all of the games running properly except my NES emulator (ROCK) isn't launching games, so I'm going to start investigating that next week. Afterwards I will likely spend the next month getting screen-grabs for each of my games LOL. How exactly do the images get linked to their respective games? Is it based on naming? Do I just name the images the same as the game they are representing? I have the folder structure set up, and know where to put each, I'm just wondering if the naming is how it knows what to display.

Thank you very much. I suppose I have a lot to learn.

I'm sure I'm missing something here, and have completely overlooked this, so I apologize in advance, but Is there a way to automatically have GameEx pull Title screens, box art, snaps, etc in both MAME and Emulated games? I'm wanting to use GameEx for MAME, all old Nintendo systems, and all old Sega systems. If I have to manually find, download, and allocate 6+ images for each of my games, it'll take forever. I've used the links for the snaps and whatnot from the main page here, but I can't even find many of what I need, like SNES screens. So is there an automate process where it can pull from an online database similar to how many media servers do now? If not, what's the most efficient way of doing this? Also, I thought the Game Extender feature was to allow you to play from multiple PC's on the network. When I launch it from a remote PC, or access the local website, all I see are statistics of games I've recently played. Is there more to it that I've once again, completely overlooked? Thanks in advance, and sorry for these noobish questions.