jmelvin

DA 4-player Eladius in 2011 was way more than $3K. $45 for a GameEx license with all the same games shipped with my original cab... would indeed be peanuts. I was thinking 10x that. Given this, I'm going to spend a few hours backing up, reinstalling Windows 10, and installing a fresh GameEx license with games. Hopefully I can get a bit more value out of the hardware and the display driver crasher is somehow resolved with the fresh install. Otherwise, it's time for a new PC. Thanks for your guidance on this.

Tom, thanks for chiming in. You are right, I bought the DA cab in Sept of 2011. By starting from scratch, do you mean hardware (PC) or software (GameEx and emulators)? If software, I had assumed my purchase from DA included software keys/licensing, etc. If I removed all GameEx and emulator artifacts and reinstalled everything, would I re-incur the keys/licensing costs? In this case, are any of the existing keys reusable? Sorry, I don't quite yet understand the GameEx software config and how emulators and other parts are setup and accessed. (Pointers welcome) If hardware, eventually all PCs needs to be updated. This particular PC has the Intel G45/35 Express Chip set. Running any Norton 360 UI will instantly crash Windows 10 with an invalid parameter specified somewhere in the driver. The driver support window is well past us, so I'm considering an upgrade to avoid the occasional BSOD. Given the high-end specs of the DA Eladius cab, do you have any recommendations on replacement PCs or a pointer to where I can start looking? BTW, new hardware would obviate a new software install of GameEX as well.

I installed Mame 0.22 to an alternate directory and held off on copying it into c:\Program Files\GameEx. As an experiment, I launched the existing GameEx which updated itself. Then I launched GameEx and chose to update the Mame gamelist. Took 30 minutes or so. The Namco games, e.g Ms. Pac-Man, does show up in the list. However, when selected it does not launch (just blank screen for 3 secs) and control is returned to GameEx. I'm not sure how to diagnose this. Pointers to docs would be most helpful. I suspect a quick failure trying to run an old Mame version 0.130 with a new GameEx set of Mame games. I could test drive the new MAME version. Do I just copy in the MAME install directory and replace the existing one in c:\Program Files\GameEx?

Thanks for the info. In my GameEx setup, I see references to Mame32. On mamedev.org, I see an installer for mame 0.22 that is 64-bit for WIndows 10. Will the installer also provide a Mame32.exe? Or, do I perhaps need to change the Mame32.exe to Mame64.exe in my config... after I install. Lastly, do the NAMCO games use MAME?

c:\MAME\mame.exe reports a version of 0.130.

Thanks so much for replying so quickly and offering to help. Attached are the requested files... Log.txt: c:\Program Files\GameEx\log.txt GameEx.ini: (several months ago I tried to effect repairs, c:\gx may have been an archive saved before Win upgrade) c:\Program Files\GameEx\GameEx.ini c:\Program Files\GameEx\CONFIG\GameEx.ini c:\Program Files\GameEx\CONFIG\Copy of GameEx.ini c:\Program Files\GameEx\CONFIG\Copy (2) of GameEx.ini c:\gx\GameEx.ini I should note, I found Ms. PacMan and other games under c:\gx. log.txt GameEx.ini GameEx.ini Copy of GameEx.ini Copy (2) of GameEx.ini GameEx.ini

I have a 4-player Dream Authentics Eladius home arcade. It is about 6-7 years old and has a well configured PC (for the time). It was running Windows 7 and ran GameEx quite well with access to 10,000+ games. I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Now I can only see a very small subset of games. For example, I can no longer see Ms. Pac-Man or Millipede or Defender and a great many other popular games. However, if I search the hard drive, I do see some artifacts with the name Pac-Man. This leads me to believe the games are still there, but GameEx is looking elsewhere. Question: How can I configure GameEx to rediscover these lost games? Happy to share file lists or screen shots if that would help.

Yes. It's an Eladius running on Win7 quad core and the latest GameEx. If I select 'Arcade Games' from the top-level menu, I get stuck for 30-60secs. However, if I select 'Arcade Games Setup', I can navigate around the Namco Gallery using the console controllers.

After selecting a Namco game, e.g Galaga, I'm redirected to the Namco Gallery. From there I'm unable to use any controls or keyboard input to get to the game. Eventually, a timeout is reached and I'm automatically redirected to the game I had selected originally. So, I'm in a holding pattern in the Namco Gallery for a fixed period of time until my game loads. Question: Is there a way to disable the Namco Gallery and get straight to the selected game? If not, how can I set the appropriate keys/controls for the Namco Gallery so I can manually navigate to the game? Thanks!