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The blue selector bar is more subtle but I also liked the red one. Maybe I'm just weird that way. As for creating my own theme - I haven't got one creative bone in my body. Mine would look like a DOS prompt!

This is fabulous. I'm still in awe of Opportunity and what that has accomplished and now there's a new toy in town.

My interest in this one hasn't waned at all. I'm looking forward to it as much now as when I first saw it. Nice work.

That's pretty nice! How does it actually feel to play a cabinet with controls that low though? I'm curious.

I'm all for anything Intellivision! These look great.

I've been following this one with interest. Once I get the pc back to the 42" tv I think this will look great and it seems to fit the bill for a beautiful and lean theme. Nice work!

Oops... it's not a 701 it's a 710. It's a very good keyboard. I haven't tested the range as yet because I only need it to work in the 8 feet between my couch and the TV. Touchpad is nice and has the dual-finger scroll function. It suffers from most small form keyboards suffer from - smaller keys. When I'm on a roll typing I tend to hit the wrong keys. It's definitely not an everyday keyboard but works well for when I need it. I also have the Logitech K400 wireless keyboard and that works great in my cabinet. The problem I had with the K400 is the case was too tight and every time I used keys on the left half of the board it would trigger the HOME key and open a browser. I took the screw completely out of the top left corner and it works fine now as well. I would honestly recommend either though the Logitech has a much smaller dongle where the Perixx is a full-size dongle.

Good suggestions! Your expertise with GameEx and the theme editor has helped me before so I'll go through and give these a shot as well. Thank you.

Well this is one of the big ones - mapping Global Exit. This is the first time I've seen the response above so if it is a Windows issue and not the GameEx front end then I'll just work around it.

This was mentioned in another thread but I'd like to bring it to Tom's attention as a potential bug. I have a Microsoft XBox 360 controller running on Windows XP SP3. The controller works great in the system. It maps the buttons as 1-10 in the Control Panel. GameEx reads the controller as 0-9. It is one-off what the system reads. I also have this issue with my Playstation USB adapter. The buttons are mapped in XP fine but GameEx sees them as a value one less than the system. I have done the custominput.ini manually and through the setup wizard with the same results. Whether I manually set the values to what Windows sees or use the setup wizard it does not fix the issue. XBOX 360 controller is a Wired USB controller with latest driver from Microsoft. Control Panel sees: A = 1 B = 2 X = 3 Y = 4 L = 5 R = 6 BACK = 7 START = 8 LEFT STICK = 9 RIGHT STICK = 10 Setup Wizard sees: A = 0 B = 1 X = 2 Y = 3 L = 4 R = 5 BACK = 6 START = 7 LEFT STICK = 8 RIGHT STICK = 9 I haven't tested this on Windows 7 yet but I will in a few minutes. EDIT: Windows 7 x64 does the exact same thing.

I promise I am not trying to sound like a smartass so please take it the right way. I do computers and builds for a living so I get that ideally I'd want even a 64MB card if I could. Problem is this is a mini ATX and most cards won't work with the meager power supplied. Even adding a Slimline DVD drive to the system sometimes made it unstable and not boot(hence deleting it from the setup). Unfortunately it's not an option. To answer the rest it is an onboard video. Changing the Video setting in the BIOS to a FIXED setting rather than a DVMT keeps the system from telling me when I need 32MB and when I need 128MB of video - I just make it give me 128MB at all times. That still leaves me 1.99GB of system RAM. It's working rather well with some themes but the more graphically intense ones like your Space Invaders theme make it chug a bit. It seems the more the theme can do(in this case how great it is) the more my computer wants to take a break. I found that "Default - ArcadeVGA Lo-Res" seems to be my best bet so far as this one allows GameEx to seem to transition faster. It's just not pretty. Anyone working on an NES theme by chance that is spartan like the above theme?

I'm running a very lean Windows XP setup. On boot completion at idle there are 28 processes running(29 with Task Manager), CPU usage fluctuates between 0% - 3% and the Commit Charge is 345M/3930M. The graphics card is an Intel® 82945G Express Chipset with DVMT BIOS mode set to Fixed with 128MB assigned to it(max allowed). Is that what you were looking for?

I figured this fit in better in the Projects area but I hope someone will move it if it needs to be elsewhere. I am completely stuck on Draco's Space Invaders theme for my Arcade Cabinet. I love it ... it's awesome ... it STAYS. (Sorry not gushing on purpose. It is just that good in my opinion.) Now I have just (re)finished a 1.3GHz dual-core that's in an NES case. It runs ok. It's no speed demon and the Space Invader theme seems way to intensive for it. Basically I'm just curious if there's a good stripped-down front-end that would work well. I admit I haven't tried many as yet. It doesn't have to be graphic-intensive at all really. I just want functionality and maybe 1 screen shot. Any recommendations? Anyone doing a new theme like this?

Just finished updating and doing a better case for it. I kept the same motherboard, removed the DVD drive(can always use external if I need to), upgraded the HDD to 500GB/7200 RPM, added a wireless card, added 2 small fans to the upper case(not pictured) and changed the front port. * I mounted the motherboard higher for better airflow by stacking 4 motherboard brass standoffs into a "tower". I put three sets together to get the height and stability right (couldn't fit a 4th set due to the power button). * I ripped apart an HP tower and got the panel from the front panel on the tower. The headphone and mic jacks work as well as the USB ports. * The wireless card is a Tenda 54G card that I took the slot cover off of. The antenna fits inside the case right along the side. The whole system works better and LOOKS much better. Here's the new specs: Intel Atom 1.3 GHz N330 dual-core ITX motherboard. 2GB DDR2 PC2-6400 RAM running in single channel mode (only 1 DIMM slot onboard). 32GB SSD SATA Primary HDD running Windows XP. 500GB 7200 RPM 2.5" SATA HDD for all the data. Wireless keyboard(when needed) is a Perixx 710 wireless keyboard w/ touchpad. GameEx Front End. All controlled by an XBOX 360 USB game pad.

Actually that is incorrect Alpha. The screenshot attached is what you get if you run mame.exe by clicking on it. I don't know if it always did that or if that is a recent modification but you can use the command line mame.exe to load. It's a very rudimentary interface but it works.

I'll have to give this a shot Wednesday when I'm off. Thank you.

Didn't realizeMednafen handled Virtual Boy. Nice. I'll have to go fix that tomorrow.

I think this is the answer. As I mentioned above and Bigby has also verified Windows 7 and GameEx SEEM to be "one off" from each other in terms of button assignment. Been using Joy2Key just to have a Global Exit on my NES case. It's no big deal really to run it that way just couldn't figure out why I need to.

http://tinyurl.com/879uprk You have to download the games individually but took me 10 minutes to do the entire 99 game library. Just downloaded this to my iPad and iPhone. *note* I had at least one International user on Atari Age state it may not be free outside the US - the app tried to charge him. I can only say I am in the US and it worked fine for me. Can't hurt to try though.

... and there it is! Thank you so much for getting me over the hump. Seems like I get close on a lot of these things and hit a wall. Here's my fully functional command line and my run before/after code: Thank you to Bigby and nullPointer for the help. This community is excellent.

Draco - thanks for splitting it off. I haven't posted much here so wasn't sure about the etiquette on the boards. OK... I feel like I am almost home. Thanks again to everyone so far. The two lines that Bigby gave me - modified for DTAgent.exe - mounts and unmounts perfectly. I'm hitting what I think is one last snag. I run this command line: and I get the following error: I'm thinking I am missing a switch that's not right.

I realize this is a resolved topic but it's the same problem so I didn't want to start a new thread. I'd like GameEx to mount and unmount the images like you have working nullPointer but I can't seem to wrap my head around something here... I have ePSXe working outside of GameEx. * I have DTPro installed and set to mount SCSI virtual drives. * I mounted Tekken 2 which is three bin files and a cue file. It mounts to the E:\ drive. [Yes I own Tekken 2 as well as a bunch of other games for the PS1 - 57 at last count. Just want them to work on my emulator station.] * ePSXe runs it like a charm when selecting RUN CDROM. I tried to get ePSXe working inside of GameEx and I thought I had it working copying the command line above however it only works for games that have 1 bin and 1 cue... not multiple bins. Hot Shots Golf plays great whether I use the bin\cue or mount it. Tekken 2 will only work mounted. How does one get GameEx to mount the image before it runs? 7zip is set to YES in the picture but it doesn't work with a YES or NO. Here's what I have:

Glad this is still here. I couldn't get ePSXe to run to save my life though it ran fine outside GameEx. I installed DaemonTools Lite but it didn't help. I said "heck with it" and copied the command line from his ini and pasted it into mine. Didn't know about all those switches but worked like a charm.

Well I am happy to report that the issue I had was between the keyboard and the chair... I have Outlook go and get my Yahoo mail so it's all on my system. I went back and re-read the email to make sure I didn't miss anything. After my fourth time reading it the email mentions running an ATTACHED file. Since Outlook didn't download an attachment for me I read that as being the REGISTRATION key file so I just expected the links in the email to work. Outlook didn't download the attachment. I just went and got the original email on the server - good thing I don't have it delete the emails - and I downloaded the key. It works fine. Very sorry for the confusion. I knew it was something stupid I was missing.

I've already done that last night. I usually go a step further and manually verify the internet files are empty as they sometimes don't go away. I also ran Microsoft Security Essentials(A/V) and MalwareBytes full scans last night also. All clean.