Brian Hoffman

In the MAME config in the OTHER CONTROLS SECTION, Choose UI CANCEL and reassign the key to a joypad button. This will close mame via your button I recommend during the reassignment to press multiple keys at the same time that way you dont accidently colse your game in the middle of playing on accident. Have fun Brian Hoffman

To play NEOGEO games you need the NEOGEO bios first of all. Also many diffrent roms require several other roms to run. example you cannot play ultimate mortal kombat 3 with out having mortal kombat 3. I recommed you find a rom burner pay the 25 dollars for the DVD sets and have everything you need. It does take some time to learn how to configure but its worth it..dont get discourged. have fun Brian Hoffman

I've never used that setup exactly however it sounds like a screen resoulution issue.. Have you tried tweaking the setting in the ARCADEVGA portion config in Gameex?

under the emulator configuration advanced config. cut and paste this config in your config file. this config will perform an ALT+F4 once a specific key sequence is pressed simutansly. I use this config on all my emulators I realize ESC is used in other emus as a function. ALT+F4 will close most anything. # This is an advanced emulator configuration file. It does things such as allow keyboard only emulators to be operated by a gamepad, wait for additional processes to exit and map keys. If this file is used it overrides the MAPKeys setting for the emulator. [GENERAL] # Enabled. Use this. Enabled=True #Make MCE Back button and X-ARCADE Escape and SlikStik Escape to close emulator process MapBack=True #Make Escape key close emulator process MapEscape=False #When exiting an emulator via the above mappings, you can specify keys in the send keys format to send instead of having GameEx close the process to cleanly exit the emulator. Such as the Q Key or ALT F4 which is %{F4} KeysToSendOnExit=%{F4} #Wait for keys to be processed by the emulator EmuWaitForKeys=False #Additional processes to wait to exit or close on exit. Dont include the .exe. Leave blank not to use. Process1= Process2= Process3= Process4= [JOYMAPPING] # For mapping a GamePad to keys # Specify a virtual key code to send when the specific joystick control is pressed. Look at vkcodes.htm for codes. JoymappingEnabled=FALSE Left=37 up=38 Right=39 Down=40 Button1=17 Button2=18 Button3=32 Button4=53 Button5=54 Button6=49 Button7= Button8= Button9= Button10= [GAMEPADEXIT] #MAP Gamepad controls to exit and make controls exit process MapGamePadExit=true #Flag the controls that exit a game by placing True next to each control. To not use the control as part of the combination use a 0 Left=0 Down=0 Right=0 Up=0 Button1=0 Button2=0 Button3=0 Button4=0 Button5=True Button6=True Button7=0 Button8=0 Button9=True Button10=True

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goto mameworld.net for all your resources I use mame32 use the -joy switch in the command line options to enable joystick. once mame is launched press the TAB key from here you will be able to assign controls globaly or for a specific game. Use the enter key once a control is highlighted and it will wait for your input to reassign the key. I also would recommend setting the UI CANCEL to a specific key combination this will allow you to exit mame via your game pad example: L1+R1+SELECT+START will exit MAME In responce to your first question. Did you perform an update list? Dont take this the wronway you did mention your a noob. GOOD LUCK THERE IS ALOT TO LEARN Brian Hoffman

http://home.cogeco.ca/~icorrupt/nomousy1.5.zip This software will hide your cursor. Note:this seems to work best when used in TWEAKS/PERFORMANCE launch on startup dont wat c:\nomousy.exe /hide ---HIDES CUROSR--- launch on exit dont wait c:\nomousy.exe ---unhidescursor---- Have Fun Brian Hoffman

are you using the -joy switch in the mame command line options?

I rebooted now I get this error. Gamex still works fine in my primary accout used to configure gameex the first time.. Strange 01:49:23.1 7/9/2006: GameEx: Version 6.42: Starting Log 01:49:23.1 7/9/2006: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 01:49:23.1 7/9/2006: Operating System Name: Windows XP 01:49:23.1 7/9/2006: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600 01:49:23.1 7/9/2006: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed 01:49:23.1 7/9/2006: .net Framework 1.0 Installed 01:49:23.1 7/9/2006: .net Framework 1.1 Installed 01:49:23.1 7/9/2006: Checking Registration 01:49:23.1 7/9/2006: Running Randomize() 01:49:23.1 7/9/2006: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 01:49:23.1 7/9/2006: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 01:49:23.3 7/9/2006: Running Misc startup tasks 01:49:23.3 7/9/2006: Setting Menu types 01:49:23.3 7/9/2006: Opening Configuration File 01:49:23.3 7/9/2006: Getting Configuration Values 01:49:23.3 7/9/2006: Using Theme: Default - Future Retro 01:49:23.3 7/9/2006: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Future Retro 01:49:23.3 7/9/2006: Launching HideOS.exe 01:49:24.3 7/9/2006: Hiding Taskbar 01:49:24.3 7/9/2006: Is Media Center running? 01:49:24.3 7/9/2006: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values 01:49:24.3 7/9/2006: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 01:49:24.3 7/9/2006: Media Center Mode 0 01:49:24.3 7/9/2006: Text/Language: English 01:49:24.3 7/9/2006: Applying Language/Text 01:49:24.4 7/9/2006: Snap Delay set to: 1 01:49:24.4 7/9/2006: Get other settings 01:49:24.4 7/9/2006: Desktop set to Hide ICONS and set Background to Black 01:49:24.4 7/9/2006: Backing up Registry Wallpaper Settings 01:49:24.4 7/9/2006: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 01:49:24.4 7/9/2006: Start work for Form 01:49:24.4 7/9/2006: Getting Original Screen Size 01:49:24.4 7/9/2006: Loading ICON 01:49:24.4 7/9/2006: Initializing Component 01:49:24.5 7/9/2006: Initialising Bass Audio Library 01:49:24.7 7/9/2006: Loading default loading screen 01:49:24.7 7/9/2006: Version 2 Theme being used. Loading. 01:49:24.7 7/9/2006: Loading Button Data 01:49:24.7 7/9/2006: Loading Font Data 01:49:24.7 7/9/2006: Loading Layout Data 01:49:24.7 7/9/2006: Loading Taskbar Data 01:49:24.7 7/9/2006: Using 2D Animations 01:49:24.7 7/9/2006: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS 01:49:24.7 7/9/2006: Using Title Font: Alien League 01:49:24.7 7/9/2006: Starting GameExtender on: 127.0.0.1:8383 01:49:24.8 7/9/2006: Starting GameExtender Publisher 01:49:24.8 7/9/2006: Initialising DirectDraw 01:49:24.9 7/9/2006: Creating DirectDraw Device 01:49:24.9 7/9/2006: Setting Resolution to 1024x768 32 bit color 01:49:24.9 7/9/2006: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces 01:49:24.9 7/9/2006: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode 01:49:24.9 7/9/2006: Error: 5 - Error in the application.

After some investigating It doesnt seem to have anything to do with instant sheller I thought it might have not loaded a required service but I went and loaded explorer and tried to launch gameex and still no luck. A little history on what Ive been doing. I have Gamex working in a administrative account and it works great. Then I created another account to only run Gameex. I used instant sheller and had it only mody a single account so that when this user logs in it will only run gameex. After this I logged back in to my administrator account and made the new accout a limited user. I logged off admin and logged into the other account and got the error I posted in the prevoius post. I then went into gameex config unter tweaks and added EHSHELL process to the launch on startup. now I recieve a diffrent error. Keep in mind gamex works fine in the original account just not in the new account. It just hangs here. sorry for the long story. here is the log 01:06:31.7 7/9/2006: GameEx: Version 6.42: Starting Log 01:06:31.8 7/9/2006: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 01:06:31.8 7/9/2006: Operating System Name: Windows XP 01:06:31.8 7/9/2006: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600 01:06:31.8 7/9/2006: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed 01:06:31.8 7/9/2006: .net Framework 1.0 Installed 01:06:31.8 7/9/2006: .net Framework 1.1 Installed 01:06:31.8 7/9/2006: Checking Registration 01:06:31.9 7/9/2006: Running Randomize() 01:06:31.9 7/9/2006: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 01:06:31.9 7/9/2006: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 01:06:32.5 7/9/2006: Running Misc startup tasks 01:06:32.5 7/9/2006: Setting Menu types 01:06:32.5 7/9/2006: Opening Configuration File 01:06:32.5 7/9/2006: Getting Configuration Values 01:06:32.5 7/9/2006: Using Theme: Default - Future Retro 01:06:32.5 7/9/2006: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Future Retro 01:06:32.6 7/9/2006: Launching HideOS.exe 01:06:33.8 7/9/2006: Hiding Taskbar 01:06:34.5 7/9/2006: Is Media Center running? 01:06:34.5 7/9/2006: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values 01:06:34.5 7/9/2006: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 01:06:34.5 7/9/2006: Media Center Mode 0 01:06:34.6 7/9/2006: Text/Language: English 01:06:34.6 7/9/2006: Applying Language/Text 01:06:34.7 7/9/2006: Snap Delay set to: 1 01:06:34.7 7/9/2006: Get other settings 01:06:34.7 7/9/2006: Desktop set to Hide ICONS and set Background to Black 01:06:34.7 7/9/2006: Backing up Registry Wallpaper Settings 01:06:34.7 7/9/2006: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 01:06:34.7 7/9/2006: Start work for Form 01:06:34.7 7/9/2006: Getting Original Screen Size 01:06:34.7 7/9/2006: Loading ICON 01:06:34.8 7/9/2006: Initializing Component 01:06:35.2 7/9/2006: Initialising Bass Audio Library 01:06:35.8 7/9/2006: Loading default loading screen 01:06:35.8 7/9/2006: Version 2 Theme being used. Loading. 01:06:35.8 7/9/2006: Loading Button Data 01:06:35.9 7/9/2006: Loading Font Data 01:06:35.9 7/9/2006: Loading Layout Data 01:06:35.9 7/9/2006: Loading Taskbar Data 01:06:36.0 7/9/2006: Using 2D Animations 01:06:36.0 7/9/2006: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS 01:06:36.0 7/9/2006: Using Title Font: Alien League 01:06:36.0 7/9/2006: Starting GameExtender on: 127.0.0.1:8383 01:06:36.0 7/9/2006: Starting GameExtender Publisher 01:06:36.0 7/9/2006: Initialising DirectDraw 01:06:36.4 7/9/2006: Creating DirectDraw Device 01:06:36.4 7/9/2006: Setting Resolution to 1024x768 32 bit color 01:06:36.4 7/9/2006: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces 01:06:36.4 7/9/2006: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode 01:06:36.4 7/9/2006: Creating Back Buffer 01:06:36.5 7/9/2006: Loading graphic surfaces 01:06:36.6 7/9/2006: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs 01:06:36.7 7/9/2006: Creating Surface Volume 01:06:36.8 7/9/2006: Creating Surfaces Arrows 01:06:36.9 7/9/2006: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text 01:06:36.9 7/9/2006: Creating Surfaces Toolbar 01:06:37.1 7/9/2006: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds 01:06:39.2 7/9/2006: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls 01:06:39.3 7/9/2006: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo 01:06:39.4 7/9/2006: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit 01:06:39.6 7/9/2006: Creating Surfaces Snaps 01:06:39.6 7/9/2006: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars 01:06:40.3 7/9/2006: Creating Fonts 01:06:40.3 7/9/2006: Creating Menu Font 01:06:40.6 7/9/2006: Creating Game Font 01:06:40.8 7/9/2006: Creating Game Font Standard Size 01:06:42.5 7/9/2006: Creating Font Black 01:06:42.8 7/9/2006: Creating Font Black Small 01:06:43.0 7/9/2006: Creating Game Font Faded 01:06:43.0 7/9/2006: Creating Title Font 01:06:44.5 7/9/2006: Creating Control Panel Font 01:06:45.8 7/9/2006: Fonts Created Succesfully 01:06:45.8 7/9/2006: Initialising Windows Media Player Component 01:06:46.1 7/9/2006: MAME Path is: g:\Arcade 01:06:46.1 7/9/2006: MAME EXE file is: mame32.exe 01:06:46.2 7/9/2006: ROM Path is: g:\Arcade\roms 01:06:46.2 7/9/2006: Catver.ini is located at: g:\Arcade\catveren\Catver.ini 01:06:46.2 7/9/2006: controls.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\data\controls.ini 01:06:46.2 7/9/2006: History.dat is located at: G:\Arcade\history.dat 01:06:46.2 7/9/2006: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini 01:06:46.2 7/9/2006: MAMEinfo.Dat Not Found 01:06:46.2 7/9/2006: Loading Controls.ini map file 01:06:46.2 7/9/2006: Loading Custom Emulators 01:06:46.2 7/9/2006: Loading Emulator 1: Nintendo 64 Games 01:06:46.3 7/9/2006: Loading OfflineList Dat File for emulator: 1 01:06:46.3 7/9/2006: Cannot Find Offline List Dat File 01:06:46.3 7/9/2006: Loading Emulator 2: Nintendo SNES games 01:06:46.3 7/9/2006: Loading OfflineList Dat File for emulator: 2 01:06:46.3 7/9/2006: Cannot Find Offline List Dat File 01:06:47.2 7/9/2006: Snap Path is: g:\Arcade\snap 01:06:47.2 7/9/2006: AVI Snap Path is: G:\Arcade\video 01:06:47.2 7/9/2006: Flyer Path is: g:\Arcade\flyers 01:06:47.2 7/9/2006: Cabinet Path is: g:\arcade\cabinets 01:06:47.2 7/9/2006: Title Path is: g:\arcade\titles 01:06:47.2 7/9/2006: Panel Path: Not Found 01:06:47.2 7/9/2006: Icon Path is: g:\arcade\icons 01:06:47.2 7/9/2006: Marquee Path is: g:\arcade\marquees 01:06:47.2 7/9/2006: MAME CMD options: -debug -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy 01:06:47.2 7/9/2006: Attempting to load game list 01:06:48.4 7/9/2006: Running: mame32.exe -help 01:06:48.6 7/9/2006: Running: g: g:\Arcade\mame32.exe -help > g:\Arcade\help.txt 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: Now Outputing mame32.exe - Help 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: --BEGIN-- 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: M.A.M.E. v0.105 (Apr 4 2006) - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: Copyright © 1997-2005 by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME Team 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: MAME is an emulator: it reproduces, more or less faithfully, the behaviour of 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: several arcade machines. But hardware is useless without software, so an image 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: of the ROMs which run on that hardware is required. Such ROMs, like any other 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: commercial software, are copyrighted material and it is therefore illegal to 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: use them if you don't own the original arcade machine. Needless to say, ROMs 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: are not distributed together with MAME. Distribution of MAME together with ROM 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: images is a violation of copyright law and should be promptly reported to the 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: authors so that appropriate legal action can be taken. 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: Usage: MAME gamename [options] 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: MAME -showusage for a brief list of options 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: MAME -showconfig for a list of configuration options 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: MAME -createconfig to create a mame.ini 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: For usage instructions, please consult the file windows.txt 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: --END-- 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: Loading last used Game List 01:06:49.6 7/9/2006: Loading Start Page 01:06:49.7 7/9/2006: Setting Music Volume 01:06:49.7 7/9/2006: Creating DirectSound Device 01:06:49.8 7/9/2006: Trying: Primary Sound Driver 01:06:49.8 7/9/2006: Loading Sound Files 01:06:50.3 7/9/2006: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 01:06:50.3 7/9/2006: Creating ICONS 01:06:50.3 7/9/2006: Recreating ICONS 01:06:53.9 7/9/2006: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support 01:06:54.2 7/9/2006: Using Device USB Joystick 01:06:54.2 7/9/2006: Playing Startup Video 01:07:00.6 7/9/2006: Playing intro sound file 01:07:00.6 7/9/2006: Initializing MCE Remote 01:07:00.6 7/9/2006: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx! 01:07:00.6 7/9/2006: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame 01:07:20.4 7/9/2006: Exiting GameEx! 01:07:20.4 7/9/2006: Saving Settings 01:07:27.4 7/9/2006: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit

Hello every body I'am having an issue. I have two cabs and one is running xp pro and the other is using media center. I am using instant sheller and it works great! on the XP pro (non media center) boots up and works as it should. using media center gamex tries to load and errors out saying media center is not running so gameex will not launch. Since media center isnt requred why does it error out? any help would be appreciated.. If I figure it out in the meantime I will post the solution. Thanks Brian Hoffman

I have 3 ghz and it takes 4 to 8 sec.. it depends which emu im using and how memory intensive it is i guess.

You can configure Windows XP to automate the logon process if your computer is not part of a domain. 1. Click Start, click Run, and type "control userpasswords2". (without quotes) 2. Clear the Users must enter a username and password to use this computer check box. 3. Click Apply. 4. Enter the user name and password you wish to automatically log on with, and then click OK. 5. Click OK again and you're all done.

do the games run perfectly in mame. ex no emulation errors, video is correct? your filter could be set to not show imperfect games or maybe the genre? I might have these games as well I will check in my config. It seems I have the same issue. The games appear in all games listing but it does not seem to belong to any catergory. maybe tom can come up with a feature that would allow custom catergorys and the ability to add roms witin the catergory. similar to the way we can exclude or include roms? just a thought.

Have you updated gamelist after you choose to exclude a rom from the filter?

its called Instant sheller and it availablr here under the extras section I believe. http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/download/instantsheller.zip also be sure you are completly done configuring gamex before use.

This isnt easy most cocktail games natively support screen flipping but mame has to emulate it. I have played many cocktail game where I recieve a message stating that screen flipping in cocktail mode not supported. I know my nvida card lets me rotate my desktop through software maybe a hotkey or macro can be created to flip the screen at the press of a button like the 2nd player start or somthin.

you can use DOS or change you shell. Tom has created a program that will hide your OS completley its very usefull I suggest you check into it as I believe you want the feel of a gaming machine without having to load windows interface and launch an executable.

does mame play the game correctly outside gameex without the sound issues? If it doesnt you may need to upgrade your processor or use an older version of mame as the new versions are very CPU hungry or try a version that isnt created by the mame team mame32 plus and a few other have code written for AMD and pentium processors that take advantage of the diffrent architectures. good luck Brian Hoffman

I use the gens emulator and find it usefull to use the joypad mapping that comes with gameex use perform an ALT+F4 with a key combination. I use an PSX to USB converter and when I press a multiple keys this works with 99% of my EMUs

Most new PC's support Keyboard poweron. set this in your bios I use an Xarcade but most controlpanels go through PS2. once this is enable all you should have to do is wiggle your joystick to poweron and use Gameex to power off. Good luck Brian Hoffman