Phantom

Hi, I'm following along with your videos. I'm working on Tutorial 3 to set up multiple screens. When I get to the ADD IMAGE part, it adds the same image in your videos (a screen shot of an old game with THE BATHROOM) If I "touch" the photo the plugin crashes. I can't change the image or anything. I tried to look to see if the image was in one of the folders but it isn't. Is it looking for a file that you may have had on your system? if so can I fool it some how to load a different pic?

Ya the icons always show up with Marquee Masher and disappear once "touched" I just found it weird they show up even if MM isn't enabled. I'll survive with the way it runs. I don't have the energy now to set up InfoZ right now and Marquee Masher is great and does what I Need. If the GameEx Process not closing gets fixed some day then great, if not I'm ok with the extra step of exiting it. Thanks for all the great work guys. Really Appreciate it all

Hi, This should probably be posted in the Marquee Masher thread but I'm posting here for the continuity I guess... I tried a few other plugins and the GameEx process closes fine. I'll try a few more. I also removed all plugins and started with a fresh install of Marquee Masher with no systems and it still does the same thing. I noticed as I was enabling Plugins that the Marquee Masher icon was showing up in the notification area of the task bar as if it were loaded but it wasn't enabled. It shows up for every plugin I used.... are there some wires crossed somewhere?

Hey Tom, I already had quotes on the on the path if that's what you're talking about but maybe when I moved things outside of E:\Program Files to just E:\ that fixed the quotes being needed because of the spaces I removed from folder names? ORIGINAL SCRIPT run, taskkill /F /IM Keyboard2XinputGui.exe Sleep, 1000 ; sleep 1 second run, "E:\Program Files\YEPKIT LDA\ykushcmd\ykushcmd.exe" -u a NEW SCRIPT run taskkill /im Keyboard2XinputGui.exe /f Sleep, 1000 ; sleep 1 second run, "E:\YEPKIT\ykushcmd\ykushcmd.exe" -u a

You nailed it Draco! I moved everything to the root of E:\ and it works. So strange that the script at Launch BEFORE works but AFTER was having an issue. Thanks for all your patience and help as usual. Now on to the other issue!!! 🥳

Sorry now I don't know which thread to post this in so I'll use the first one I started... I installed the INFOZ plugin and started to set it up but I noticed that just with this plugin enabled (Marquee Masher is disabled) The GameEx process stays open after exiting. So Could it be that GameEx isn't closing its plugins? Is it an actual plugin problem? (Sorry Stigzler 🤪) log.txt

Hi, I'm just getting back to solving issues on my cab and I'm back at this one. I haven't tried Powershell just yet (don't really know where to start with it because I never use it) but I noticed something while looking over my situation... When I VERIFY my setup I have no errors except this ; Verifying Emulator 34: PAW Patrol The Movie Adventure City Calls... Launch After: "E:\Program Files\Scripts\XBOXControllersOFF.LNK" does not exist. Verifying Emulator 35: [HandHeld] Game And Watch... Verifying Emulator 36: [HandHeld] Sony PSP Minis... Verifying Emulator 37: [Console] Sony Playstation... Verifying Emulator 38: [Console] Sega CD... Verifying Emulator 39: [HandHeld] Neo-Geo Pocket Color... Verifying Emulator 40: [HandHeld] Sony Playstation Portable... Verifying Emulator 41: [Console] SG-1000... Verifying Emulator 42: RoBlox... Verifying Emulator 43: Mighty Pups Save Adventure Bay... Launch After: "E:\Program Files\Scripts\XBOXControllersOFF.LNK" does not exist. Verifying Emulator 45: PJ MASKS HEROES OF THE NIGHT... Launch After: "E:\Program Files\Scripts\XBOXControllersOFF.LNK" does not exist. Verifying Emulator 46: PAW PATROL: Grand Prix... Verifying Emulator 47: My Friend Peppa Pig... Launch After: "E:\Program Files\Scripts\XBOXControllersOFF.LNK" does not exist. Verifying Emulator 48: Race With Ryan... Launch After: "E:\Program Files\Scripts\XBOXControllersOFF.LNK" does not exist. Verifying Emulator 49: Ryans Rescue Squad... Verifying Emulator Groups... Verifying HTML Applications... For some reason no matter if I use a Shortcut, an EXE, or BAT, GameEx says they don't exist. They 100% Exist but theres something about them that GameEx doesn't like loading...

Ok I’ll check it out. Thanks

Hi, I’ve had a problem for quite a while and only now realized it’s Marquee Masher that seems to be the issue. When I exit GameEx, it doesn’t close completely. I have to go into the task manager and kill the process. I just discovered that when I disable Marquee Masher this problem doesn’t exist. Any idea what could be the cause? thanks EDIT: I’ve been trying to enable Logging and/or Debug in Marquee Masher and when I do, the plug-in doesn’t start. Not sure if it has something to do with my other problem 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hi Tom, so I tried disabling Background Artwork downloading but the issue persisted. I don’t use GameEx online. I then decided to turn off the Marquee Masher plug-in and THAT seems to be the issue. I’ve exited GameEX a few times with Marquee Masher disabled and the process closes fine. So I guess this is a Marquee Masher issue. Any Thoughts? Thanks

Same thing. The process stays no matter how I start it

Yes I do have it starting with windows.

Hi, Booted up my system and did the latest GameEx update and the issue of the process not closing is still there. Not sure if it was fixed in that update but I still have to kill it in Task Manager.

Hi, Ya I've tried it with and without Admin credentials and it still does it. I'm going to have to put my issues on hold because I have to go away for awhile. Thanks for your help Draco. I'll boot up again soon.

Yes I am. It was never an issue for all the years I've been running it, just not sure when it started happening or if an update did it

I know this was addressed in a previous update but it wasn’t fixed for me after updating. when I exit GameEx the process stays running until I kill it in the task manager. This has been happening for months but I just got used to killing it manually.

No I haven’t tried Powershell. Haven’t really ever used it especially making a script for it. But I’ll look into it. I tried batch files instead and they don’t run either. I’d love to know what criteria GameEc “looks for” in Launch Before & Launch after. I’ll try some more tomorrow.

Ok so I tested LAUNCH BEFORE and LAUNCH AFTER with different EXE's and it works so there is something with the EXE I create with Auto Hot Keys that GameEX doesn't like. Theres really nothing fancy in them, they just load or kill another program. Any ideas? XBOXControllersOFF.ahk XBOXControllersON.ahk

Ya I tried that too, it changes pid numbers. so you don’t think it’s gameex that not calling on the file at the end?

I have Taskkill working but only running as Administrator. I use a program that creates an Elevated shortcut but gameex doesn't run it. Actually in the log no matter what GameEx doesn't run the program in the LAUNCH AFTER line. Shouldn't it at least show it trying to run it even if the script is no good? XBOXControllersOFF.txt GameEx.ini log.txt

Hi, Thanks for getting back to me Draco. I've attached the files but in doing so I think I see the problem. The "script" I have is to close the app i use to emulate Xbox controllers (Keyboard2Xinput) and then it turns on a special USB hub with all my other controller to return the cab to "Normal" I think the issue is that to exit Keyboard2Xinput youre supposed to to press * (asterixis) so I was using SENDINPUT and that works outside GAMEEX but once GAMEEX is running the * doesn't work. I'm messing around with TASKKILL but thats not killing the process.... Any Ideas? GameEx.ini XBOXControllersOFF.ahk

Hi, I have a few games installed that require me to disable or enable different controllers. I wrote some scripts and they work fine but I can get the LAUNCH AFTER script to run when I exit or kill the game. The LAUNCH ALSO script runs fine though. I try by Exiting the game via its menu and also with the Escape key that kills the game. I've attached my log and config for 1 game that uses it. Thanks log - Copy.txt

Seems to be working now. Thanks Tom! As usual you provide the best service out there.

Oh really? Ok then that may be one of my scripts that I use to swap controllers doing it. But Its worked before (not sure at what version I'll have to try older ones this weekend) But any idea why GameEx crashes completely when it happens? And do you see if its always happening at a specific Emulator? Thanks for you time Tom

Hi Guys, I updated to 18.15 and my attract mode would start and soon after GameEx would crash back to the desktop. I updated to 18.17 (18.16 was a separate issue) and its still doing it. I've attached a few log files to see if there is something in common (I can decipher some stuff in the log but a lot is over my head) Hope it helps. Thanks in advance log - Copy - Copy.txt log - Copy (2).txt log - Copy.txt log.txt