Kustom Kid

MP4 support. Nice!

Congratulations!

Nice. I'll have to check out the launcher app as well. I didn't even know it existed.

I don't think you can run any other programs though Boxee. On my HTPC setup I had everything launched through Windows Media Center. You could use Media Center Studio to parse the strips down to only launch Boxee and GameEx if you'd like. You wouldn't be using Boxee as your front end, but everything else you want to do is possible.

Oh man, I forgot about this, too. I wasn't able to figure anything out. It's either super simple or super complicated. Good luck, jbsoum. And do let us know if you get it worked out please.

At least they can take some abuse. I blew through 4 N64 controllers before I found a 3rd party one that was easily repairable. Turns out Killer Instinct Gold brought the rage out in people.

Microcenter has replacement battery compartments for $2 I believe. I just snagged a refurb Xbox360 a few weeks ago and noticed my rechargeable batteries are a snug fit as well. Rayovacs not Energizer, but still fairly snug.

Draco, I don't think the transfer utility works for Win7 to Win7. Only Vista to Win7.

This article should be enough to get you started. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Installing-and-reinstalling-Windows-7 You can backup your files and settings and "reinstall" the 64bit version. Personally I would backup your GameEx settings and any other emulator and other important program settings and separately as well just in case.

This site has an excellent community. I was amazed at first when I first started posting here as well. Hopefully it continues to grow and stay strong. One of my other favorite forums, TheGreenButton.com was more or less killed by Microsoft the other day. Not quite as friendly as here sometimes, but always helpful and with a strong community.

Netflix worked for me last night. I had to cancel out of logging in to PSN twice before it fully brought up the UI, but it did work without issue otherwise.

OK, so I finally got around to making a video of my updated system. Now running Windows 7. Still going with the Brokeh theme. I'm also using a SSD for some noticeable menu and application transition speediness. GameEx has only gotten better since I last posted a video, and this a yet another reason why I love it!

I agree with Tom. There is a boatload of content on that site and i would imagine it's a nightmare to keep up with. A few months ago some things got misplaced or routed to incorrectly and it was fixed within a day. Generally Circo sends out a PM to everyone explaining what happened. This is probably the same thing.

It wasn't that expensive, adultery. About $200 for each mobo, proc, and RAM. I did splurge and get a 64GB SSD for the HTPC, but still $500 for everything isn't that bad at all. I still haven't gotten my emulators all setup correctly yet, but Blitz will defiantly be played. I used to play that at the arcade on my lunch break back in the day.

Draco hit the nail on the head. For me, it made more sense to upgrade the whole shebang. I got a good 5 years out of my system, but it was starting to get a little too slow for me. Especially since I was using it as my primary cable box in addition to emulation. Personally, I feel if I'm going to spend the money I might as well upgrade now and not have to worry about it 1 or 2 years down the road. Here are the parts I got. I linked to Newegg since they have better descriptions and user reviews. Main HTPC/GameEx rig motherboard Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H Desktop/Secondary HTPC motherboard MSI 880G-E45 Processor for both AMD Phenom II X2 560 Black RAM for both Crucial 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333 I was able to unlock all 4 cores on the desktop machine processor and overclock it to 3.8 GHz stable on air. For the main HTPC I'm actually going to undervolt the processor as much as I can as it's running almost all day long. I want it as low voltage as possible to keep the heat and energy consumption down.

I just bought 2 new motherboard and processor combos, plus 4GB (2x2GB) of RAM for each for $400 out the door, and $30 back in mail in rebates from MicroCenter. You could probably get a case, dedicated video card, power supply, and a hard drive for another hundred. So, for about $300 you'd have a new, current generation computer. If you can put your copy of Win7 on it that would save you another $110. Heck, you could harvest the hard drive from your current PC if you wanted to, and the motherboards I bought both have decent onboard graphics so that should save you another few bucks. I'm pretty sure Dolphin (GameCube and Wii emulator), and Model 2 can utilize multiple cores. As for the 64bit 32bit thing, the only difference I notice is that Windows is able to address all 4GB of RAM in the 64 bit version. There seems to be little perceived difference, to me at least, between the two given the applications I am using.

Hardware/Software failures are always a good excuse to do some housekeeping on your files. I just upgraded my HTPC big time after some stability issues, and now I'm plugging away at cleaning up the pile of mess spread across a few hard drives after a few years of heavy use. It so hard to delete stuff when 3TB drives are floating around $125 though.

Windows Media Center is the only thing that allows me to integrate everything I want on my HTPC easily. I just saw that there is a registry hack fix for it, but i hate having to fix stuff like that. I'm surprised there aren't more WMC/GameEx users. I could fire up the PS3 or Wii for Netflix, but I would rather just have one box to do as much as possible.

IE9 breaks Netflix in Media Center. I disabled auto updates until that gets fixed. Microsoft seems to care less and less about Media Center. Its a bummer.

Oh noes! An Nvidia/ATI battle has ensued. I've fried boards from both companies and have had cards that lasted forever from both companies. That being said I've used ATI exclusively since AMD bought them. I'm a huge AMD fanboy.

Personally I have a passively cooled ATI 5450. I would pay the extra few dollars for the DDR3 version. I think I ended up paying $55 for my card Gigabyte 512MB DDR3 HD5450.

You've been a busy bee lately. It's all greatly appreciated. Thank you, Tom.

Thanks for the promo codes, headkaze. I took JEYL6EF3RPKA. I'll post a review when I get a chance to really sit down and play. I got to play a few minutes tonight and it was pretty enjoyable. My screen protector is jacked, so I need to pick up a new one. Exactly where the movement control on the left side is my protector is warped. It made controlling the character somewhat difficult. Also, in order to redeem from your phone you need to go to "Featured" then scroll down to redeem, then enter the code. It took me about 5 minutes to find it.

All I could think of was Zangief when they showed the video on the local news the other day.

From what I've found it doesn't appear to be malicious.. I've gotten some weird false positives from AVG myself. If you turn off heuristic scanning it should fix the problem, but it may leave you open to other problems.