Brian Hoffman

Tempest, When you compile you can choose no upx option. This may/may not solve the issue with false positives.

Great work fellas. BH

Wow, I cant wait to try it out. Thanks to everyone for all your hard work and dedication. BH

I put my ZINC stuff in my mame folder.

Did you try getting the Zinc files from here http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=5091&st=0&p=34965entry34965 I know it talks about setting it up seperatley using bat files, but it may solve your crashing issue.

I realize spending 10 hours setting things up is not everyone cup of tea. I couldn't even begin to count the hours I have put in or watched others put in that are regulars here. Both Game-ex and Hyperspin are front-ends, but serve very different purposes in different ways. I am not going to go into great detail why things are the way they are in each FE. I don't think people are jumping ship as you say, GameEx is a staple in the emulation community. Brian Hoffman

You need to filter your list to show only available roms.

I just responded to your other post on this topic, please refrain from having the same posts in different areas as it is hard to manage and you will find yourself not getting the required information. http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=8365&view=findpost&p=61401 Welcome to Gameex, Im sure we can get this figured out.

ESC will close the emulator, actually it will close the process Gameex launches, this means it can be an emulator or notepad. In some instances emulators will capture the ESC key and make it go in and out of windowed mode or bring up a menu. The advanced configuration is there to make esc send a different keystroke in addition to its original function. This mostly will fix any stubborn emulator. Is there a reason you need esc to do something other than what it is doing? As far as your update list goes, Define hanging, did you wait 5minutes or 45minutes, Gameex can and will take a while to generate a list. It runs mames listxml, then it verify against your roms and makes a list based on your filters. What are your system specs? We have yet to see a full log, in this thread. Also, I understand you got the newest mame, great! But what about your roms? it can be that you have an incorrect set for your version. There are quite a lot of variables and we need more info.

You have to compile mame yourself from the source to allow directinput rather than raw input. There is a thread here regarding that.

because it calls mame. Im pretty sure.

1. download the Mame source code from Mamedev.org 2. Download the MameCompilier by Ben Baker (Headkaze) 3. Download the Diff file from Byoac>software> Hiscope Diff thread. (for your version of mame 133) 4. Run The mame compilier, point it to where you downloaded the source (extract it from the zip) 5. Point to the Diff file you downloaded> Click patch 6. Click compile 7. Wait, When done copy the mame.exe to its own folder 8. Make a folder called "HI" without quotes and put it in your mame directory. 9. Put the Hiscore,.dat in your mame directory. 10. Put your "roms" folder in the same directory. 11. Have fun.

Just to add I have a Atom motherboard, pico psu etc... Gameex works fine. Have you tried choosing a diffrent theme?

Go to your gameex directory and find the RUNITGAME.bat. Right click it anc choose edit. Highlight all the text and right click and choose Copy. Open a command prompt and right click and choose paste. Press Enter and see what it does.

Change the file extention to REG, then doubleclick it. It should prompt you to add the information into your registry. If not open Regedit and import the reg file.

It should work fine with Gameex, drop the EXE in your mame folder and change your Gameex configuration to call this application rather than mame.

Perhaps, I just have no way of knowing if ou are a reg'ed user or not. Plan B should still work.

All you need to do is either a) let the autoupdate do its thing. Download the setup file from the site and run it. Is there any other things going on here, did you install gameex then move it to another volume?

Not really, sorry. Tom has hardcoded some things into Gameex. Id be more than happy to help you out with your exit combo though. What keys would you like to send ESC.

Well, that really isn't a problem, per say. Do this. Run Daphneloader, go to configure the game, there is a tick box to show the command. Copy the command and post it here, or disect it yourself. This is how daphne loader is calling the game (correctly) You will see diffrent game options in the command line. Skip framse blank and sometimes some numbers. These can go into the gameoption field in Gameex. Then Gameex will use the same command when it launches the game. I hope this makes since. Brian Hoffman

You can try changing "DaphneOptions=vldp -fullscreen -x 640 -y 480 -nohwaccel" To the same resolution as you are running your desktop at. Or remove the -nohwaccel

Its really kind of a windows issue. If you launch a program from a directory other than its working directory it will expect to see its assetts in the same folder. Mame has built in solutions for this by allowing you to specify a rom directory that is not in the same folder mame is installed in. I think you want to run this c:\program files\coinfx\coinfx.exe c:\emulators\mame\mame.exe sf2 This really will not work in gameex as it uses the working path to build the command line. If you look at the contents of RUNITGAME.bat you will see how gameex brings up a command that will change your directory to the working directory then call the application. Most wrappers are inserted in the working directory. I have ideas to make it work but they are not elegant solutions. Then again I am not Tom and he may have a bit more to say on the subject. Brian Hoffman

Actually, keys 2 and 4 when pressed at the same time send the ESC key. These are commonly referred to as "shifted keys" and ESC in Gameex is the default exit key. What you want to do is remap your Xarcade, there is a switch on the back and a program button, I believe you can connet a Ps2 keyboard to it and reprogram the keys, as far as the shifted key, im not sure. This is really an Xracde thing. Most people use an IPAC or other "programmable" keyboard encoder, cheaper retail solutions are not as fancy. Hope that helps shed some light on your issues. Other solutions could be a AHK script to remap your keystrokes.

Wow, this is evolving quite nicely. Good job!

It has to do with exiting the emulator, Gameex kills the process, the emulator does not exit properly and the save files are not made. Just because you are in-game and choose save and it tells you ok you have to remember that it may not be writing to the sram file real time, This is why when you use the emulator outside Gameex all is well. You are also closing the emulator properly. A good start would be to see what keys exit the emulator, then go into advanced configuration and map ESC to that key combination. This should resolve these issues.