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You're right, but I'd argue that having the requirement to use buttons to rotate the display each time actually makes life harder for the player than it needs to be. Might be easy enough for the person who built the cab, but try telling a 10yo that some games have to manually rotated whilst others dont. I'd rather spend the extra time at set up to make things more seamless for the player.

Ok, so that answers my question about changing each game individually (how did you identify all the Vertical games by the way - Romlister?). But that takes me back to my original question - will CFG Magician take away the need to change them individually (ie will it change them all at once?).

Thanks for all the replies guys, but I'm still totally confused. Ok, I get the bit about leaving GameEx set to horizontal, and letting MAME deal with flipping the vertical games. What I don't get is how exactly I do that. Bkenobi - would you mind being a little more specific in what you mean above? And if the above works, do I still need to change each individual (vertical) game file? Thanks (and apologies for the newbie questions!)

Ok, have been doing some reading on this (all day actually) in an effort to answer my own question! From what I've read, it seems that CFG Magician may be the answer to my problems? If I run CFG Magician to automatically flip all of the Vertical (Cocktail) games, am I right in saying that when I start the game it will flip to Vertical, and then when it's Player 2's turn, it will flip 180 degrees? So, to clarify what I'm looking for - players will sit at the 3rd side of the cab, select a game, and if it's a 2-player vertical game the screen will automatically flip and players move to the controls at the end of the cab?? (please be correct - it's doing my head in!).

Hi all, Have spent the last week or so configuring GameEx, setting up emulators etc. Being new to this it's been a pretty painful experience, but I'm slowly getting there, and learning a lot along the way. For the config I've obviously just been using a PC and viewing everything on a normal vertical screen. But as it's my intention to use GameEx in a 3-sided Cocktail Cab, I suddenly came to the realisation that GameEx may not support this!! I can see in the Config whether to set it to Vertical or Horizontal - but not both. Obviously in a 3-sided cocktail some games will play vertically on the '3rd side' which has a 2-player, 6 button layout, whilst others will play horizontally where the 2 players face each other with a 3 button layout. Can I set this up in GameEx??

Thanks - so I take it from what you're saying is that I can't change the names that are displayed, without getting into Custom Menus. In the Advanced MAME Configuration I can filter etc, but not change names as such. Thanks for the Enable/Disable Features tip.

Hi all, Have set up GameEx now, and have my basic MAME games running nicely. A couple of questions re the menus - where does GameEx read the name of the game from? Can I change the name? For exmaple, my Space Invaders displays as 'Space Invaders/Space Invaders'. Doesn't need to say it twice right....so where do I change it? Also can someone tell me where the option is to 'dumb down' the menu choices - for example, I don't want users to be able to go into the Configuration option. I'm sure I saw it somewhere when I was setting up - just can't remember where. Thanks

Problem solved - I downloaded some different codecs from Shark007, and all good now - thanks

bump - anybody please?

Hi all - new to this, so please bear with me. Have been setting up GameEx for the first time, and apart from having some problems with some of the emulators (a problem for another day), I've at least got MAME up and running and I can play the games ok. The issue I have is that when I scroll through the list of games, I don't see any of the snap files or videos, so there's nothing to indicate what the game looks like. When I click on a game, however, I can see the Marquee, Flyer, Cabinet etc (providing of course the file exists). I think I've mapped everything ok, and there's no problems when I run the Verify process. So where in the config have I missed the option to display this? I've also just realised that all of my video files are in 'Flash Video' format and not .avi - is that an issue? Is there anything I can do to make this format work in GameEx? Thanks

That did the trick - thanks for your help.

Thanks Brian - I'll give that a crack tonight and will let you know how I go.

Hi all, New subscriber to GameEx, and trying to install for the first time on a PC I've just purchased (so don't know a great deal about what software is or isn't installed). Copied the GameEx install files over from an external hard drive, but when I try to run the SetUp Wizard I get an error '.NET Framework Initialization Error' .....'Unable to find a version of the runtime to run this application'. With no idea what that meant, I installed .NET Framework 4 Client Profile SetUp thinking that would solve the problem. It didn't - what do I need to do? (and please be specific with solutions - my computer knowledge is average at best...) Thanks