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I am a registered paying member with everything setup the way i want, custom menu, theme, with one exception can't figure out. Interface mode is set to normal. Changing this mode removes most of my custom stuff. I would like to remove the top menu displayed in mame games that show things like "by category" "by developer", etc.... basically don't want the user (aka friends) from getting into those menus by going left or right.... only want them to go up or down, or back button.... realize i could adjust joystick settings so left and right don't work or do something else... but would rather just not have those top menus all together. Going into those menus can get folks lost if they don't know what they are doing. Trying to idiot proof my setup. is this possible? thanks.

okay well guess i should go ahead and outline my problem because based on additional testing i'm even more confused. Here's the situation in detail. I changed the button mapping inside Track & Field then rexported the layout image using the batch export tool, the new png image appeared to show the new mapping correctly. However, when i did the same for Asteroids, it does not. By default Asteroids in Mame uses the joystick to rotate left and right. I changed this to buttons and also moved the fire, thrust, and shield to the player 2 buttons to simulate how the actual game is. The new layout image shows the joystick is still used to rotate and the fire, thrust, and shield is on the wrong buttons. I've tried to play around with the controls.xml file but can't seem to figure out what i'm doing wrong.

Without getting too far into my problem i'll keep this simple for now with the hopes of figuring out the bigger issue. After editing the controls.xml file, as example putting the number 1 at the end of the value section for a particular game, ... <label name="P1_JOYSTICK_LEFT" value="Rotate Left1"/> then saving said file then re-exporting a layout image, the value still shows "Rotate Left".... as though the change made in the xml has no affect. Any ideas? Thanks.

I know how to find settings and i know what you're talking about,... that is not the issue. I have that setting set to "NO". I'm walking away from this for a few days but when i come back i will send the ini files. btw... reddog, you can try googling "temporarily disable and not use a database for the emulator" and "gameex" and you will find immediately what i'm referring to. Google is your friend :-) Thank you.

okay... so guess the problem is i do not see this function anywhere now for some reason after a complete uninstall, reinstall, and updated my list. after searching i found a comment about "temporarily disable and not use a database for the emulator" in order for this to appear. Upon further searching for how to do this i've come up empty. So next question i is what do i need to do to "temp disable and not use a database for the emulator"... whatever this means? thanks again.

okay, admit easy to misunderstand each other. Let me ask another way.... there was a selection i've seen in the past which allowed you to automatically create video snaps for all roms you have, it would warn you this might take 2 days, etc. Does this feature still exist or was this featured removed at one point. If it still exists where is it at? "hide create snaps" is off but don't think this has anything to do with making "video" snaps.

i think both of you think i'm describing a pick "inside gameex"... that's not what i'm saying. I said " inside the start menu" within gameex which has nothing to do with the wizard. In other words, in the program folders inside GameEx, inside the "Utilities" folder, there was a pick which read something to the affect of "create video snaps"... then you would be warned this would take a couple days, do you want to proceed, etc, etc. thanks.

I've seen inside the start menu within gameex a pick for "creating video snaps" but after an uninstall re-install of latest and greatest i do not see this pick anymore. Can someone fill me in on what the deal is with this missing function? thanks.

appears i solved my own problem by purchasing "the key".... once registry keys were applied problems disappeared. I realize this is not intended behavior but fyi to Tom. tthurman, never said anything about an "S" drive... must have me confused with someone else, looks like your post was removed.

Getting a windows error at 49% during updating list. see attached, also attaching gameex logs and configs. after hitting ok on this error then continues on to verify data (55%) and just hangs for infinity. Please help.... stuck. GameEx.ini log.txt

having the same issue as describe here except in my case i'm using 12.54 and mame64 0.175. Probably will just pay for the gameex upgrade to avoid this and potentially other issues i'm guessing. Life is too short. :-)

just tried to pay for the 1 year pass but got an email from paypal saying "your automatic payment did not go through". says to contact Spesoft to pay what your owe. I've never in my life had payment be rejected and have rarely used paypal to do anything but receive payments not pay out.... for what it's worth. edit.... also btw what's the deal with "amount to be paid each time" business? appears you are trying to setup an auto pay every year? What am i missing? Sorry,... just reading verbatim what's on the paypal message. thanks.

I was a paid user from a few years ago. Last version i have that i can "register" with is 12.54. I only use GameEx for MAME and Daphne. Don't know if it's worth mentioning buy just recently went from Mame .133 to the latest version of mame. Has there been anything done which stands out as justifying making a new purchase so i can "register" with the latest version of GameEX by way of either performance or features and if going from MAME .133 to the latest has any bearing? I realize i could go through all the release notes but am hoping someone can give me the cliff notes version of what might make me want to pay again to go latest knowing i just use this for Mame and Daphne. I've got the latest version of GameEX running but at first glance haven't found anything that stands out but i could be missing something. Thank you.

okay, so first off, no there is nothing in the launch on startup or exit, so regarding why there is reference to media center in the logs is still a mystery. secondly, i hope everyone can forgive me after i tell you what the black screen issue was all about. I was using Logmein to remotely control this new mame machine and it was only until i got home that i realized the issue was the graphics was more than the logmein driver could handle (I guess), either way when i got home no black screen and gameex was waiting for me to play.... sorry. one more thing, so do i mark this thread as "solved" and if so how do i do that,.... sorry as well.... been several years.

i disabled media center in the setup and have no desire to use media center. I did see that in the logs and thought it was odd given i disabled this function. More to that, i find myself disabling just about everything since the only function i want is for mame and daphne.

neither, it was a clean install. No upgrade.

see attached. Also worth noting mame runs fine by itself. Thanks. GameEx.ini

just installed latest and greatest gameex. configured it using setup wizard. upon launch get a black screen. log below...

ah... okay, well upon first review it appears that the majority of the games have nothing going on so to speak in the bg while the game is not running... therefore IMO the bg videos are a better approach visually. Thanks Tom.

not understanding what you're saying... could you please rephrase? I will also restate my question another way.... Using the new directb2 feature, is the backglass intended to appear as a static image while browsing games or should it appear same as if you are playing the game with lights flashing, digits displayed, etc?.

I realize directb2s is NOT static when playing a game.... are you saying while browsing pinballx with the setting on, the backglass will show the same as if you were playing the game?

thanks for the reply. didn't see that option the frist couple times i browsed after updating. upon further review i like the old way (i.e. .flv video) insead... the directb2s bg is just a still image, and the grills are all on by default which isn't good for a real cab with real dmd.... i'm sure there is a way to turn that off but unless there is a way to make the directb2s bg in the interace a non-still image i don't see the benefit.

I've updated from 1.99 to 2.02 because i read it now supports using the directb2s backglass instead of the video (normally .flv) files in the interface. I see no options for telling pinballx that i want to do this. Further I read somewhere that there is no option but rather will "just work".... so i removed some of my video files to see if it would start reading the directb2s files but did not. what am i missing? thanks.

What am i missing here? I installed the latest version but see no settings for using direct2bs bg in the interface. Still using my bg video files instead.

You my friend are a fregin' jeneaous! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! All i had to do was click the little box that says "override default layout box"... whatever the h* that means and all is good on the other 2 versions. Oddly, that option had changed descriptions from 915, obviously has something to do with the pausing. You da man! Oh and yes, also have the Virtuapin plunger kit version 2 (think that's the latest that works).... had the version 1 multiple times and never got this far.