MNMax21

I like the fact that the computer is showing a picture that looks almost identical to the picture that he was taking. Has anyone ever measured a pinball cabinet? Could you fit a 32" LCD or LED sideways in the guts of one. That would be ideal.

Yeah, that's a pretty sick tile. I like the tiles that come in those 12"x12" pieces like that too. It's funny, but I never really thought about tile on a cab. That might actually look really cool. You would have to find bigger t-molding or come up with a different plan for the edges. I think you could probably do something really cool though. Have a mix of tiles to and make a design with some glass and then the metal above. You could probably get some sort of MAME logo going too. Maybe if I ever build a pinball MAME machine, I'll go that route. She's definitely got some hips to her Dazzle. That's why I had to make the control panel detachable. It wouldn't have fit through doorways at my home if not. She's a bit big boned, but you gotta love her. I had to get that 32" LCD TV in there somehow.

Pretty sweet looking. I can't wait to try it out. It's nice to have so many people on here willing to put in hard work and release cool themes.

I see you either sand blasted your coin door or sanded off the paint. I've been debating doing that, because the used coin door I bought is peeling in a few spots. I'm worried it was lead based paint. That may be my next project. It still looks fine, just peeling a little in one corner. Touched it up with some oil based paint.

I found a really good resource. It was a book called 'Project Arcade.' It had a great deal of good information and links to different things. http://www.amazon.com/Project-Arcade-Build-Machine-ExtremeTech/dp/0764556169

I had to build mine as a 4 player, because I loved games like TMNT and NBA JAM. I then quickly realized that if I built a 4 player, I would have to make the control panel (pushbuttons area, etc) detachable or it wouldn't fit in the door ways of my house. I have a few old pictures of my cabinet. Pictures are in the linked thread below. http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/12034-my-cab-is-done-photos-attached-now-i-need-good-references-for-using-wiimotes/ Keep in mind my title! I said I was finished! Not the case! I have done a few things since this post. Mainly, I put a nice layer of acrylic over my control panel. That sucked, because I had already wired everything. But it really looks better. I also changed the P1 and P2 joysticks to a brand from Ultimarc that switches between 4way and 8 way. That was something I never thought about until Pacman would get stuck in corners using my 8 way's.

This whole thread makes me laugh. All I can think about is how my lurking on this forum just creates more work for myself. I think the main thing I would say is to never make an arcade cabinet if you are somewhat of a perfectionist. There seems to always be something out there that is better than what you currently have. I turn on the thing expecting to play a game and I see some game name that doesn't make sense to me. I then start out on the long journey of forum lurking to find an answer. After being unable to locate the answer (mainly due to laziness most likely) I either post a message topic or message someone who I know is more versed on the topic than I am. Thank god for that and the ability to pick peoples brains on here (thanks to all who have helped me through my pain!!). Oh, then I get to posting the thing. 50% of the time I then read it because I have an unhealthy attitude towards my own grammar.. and then come to realize I already know the answer and feel like a dummy. Don't even get me started on the cabinet. I think it's great right now..... But, wouldn't it be awesome to have a spinner from Ultimarc... oooohhh even better, what about a steering wheel for pole position... oh, if I get a steering wheel I should probably get the pedal... because how authentic is it to brake and accelerate with a button... Then I go to Ultimarc and realize the things I want are like $200 plus shipping and I go back to using my joystick and cursing. OH WAIT!!! What's this?!?! Ultimarc makes a spinner with a wheel attachment? How cool is that. Thanks for passing Go, but do not collect your money as now your wife is pissy because you bought something more for your hobby... Damn. It truly does never end! However, if I had to do it all over again I would do it in a heartbeat. Nothing beats having your friends over that used to play all those arcades with you at the mall and pizza joints and seeing their faces as you start up that game you laid so many quarters down at one time. I remember rolls of quarters... rolls people! Just don't tell my wife..

Haha, it looks like I answered my question by which picture showed up above. We shall see!

Thanks for all the help. I finally got it! I am not totally sure what the heck I was doing. I ended up needing to go to BB code and then just putting the URL for the image in that way. I still haven't quite figured out the proper input when using the 'Image' icon. I put in the URL and it stalled. Do I need to put in brackets or img= or is that automatically included. Here is the link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102663888/GAMEEX/MNMax21banner.jpg Would I then put in: img=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102663888/GAMEEX/MNMax21banner.jpg or: The other link that was in here first was actually a shrunken link from dropbox. If you are on dropbox.com and you click the copy public link, there was also an option to shorten link. That's why that one was odd looking. Either way, I got it to work, but did a work around.

Ok, well maybe my problem is that I don't have Dropbox on my drive. I was just using the web version of Dropbox.

Anyone have any ideas on why the thing just stalls out every time I try to link my public folder URL picture in the profile? Haha, the link is in my signature, but not the pic. Here is the link. Maybe others can try and see if they can add the URL. Maybe it's my explorer settings or something.... https://db.tt/iIaPzl3c

Thanks! I do have a dropbox and google drive. I just have always used it for a secondary backup to stuff. I didn't realize you could use the URL. I'll take a look and get something public.

I always see the people that post in the forum have both a gamer tag and many have an additional tag with their name or something else. I saw the posts and figured out how to get the gamer tag going. I am just having trouble locating an area for uploading an image into my profile for the signature part. Do I need to have a URL for the image or is there probably something very easy I am missing? Could I just attach it to a post somewhere and then link it that way?

I want to start setting up commodore 64 and intellivision on my cabinet. I think I should be able to get it working just fine, my problem has always been the compatibility with those systems when taking into account the fact you'd be playing them on a 4 player pushbutton style cabinet control panel, not a computer or the intellivision dial deal. The control mapping always seems daunting and I just shy away from it. I am wondering if anyone can direct me to a control file or link for either system that would assist in the control mapping process to have it accurately play the game by way of an arcade control panel. If that is out there. I think I will use WinVice for commodore and Nostalgia for Intellivision.

Not sure on startup, but there is a way to add a video to the MAME start area. You just place replace the MAME icon logo path with the video file path. I believe it's MPG. I'm away from my computer, so I can't get you to the path location.

I like this. My laptop is a MAC, but my cabinet has a windows based PC. It'll be nice to sit at the couch with my MAC, watching some sports while I work on the functionality of my cabinet. Will this be similar to logging on to your desktop remotely (like splash in App Store) or just logging into your gameex files? I ask this, because my emulator files are in a separate file path.

I am having issues with duplicate games in my most played list. It appears to be two roms, different versions. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction in regards to clearing the files. I am hoping it's just a list file somewhere in gameex. If it's a command lime in the gameex command file, could you post the command line (enabling a quick control F). Thanks Edit: I ended up going through my game file and reorganizing the entire thing. That fixed the issue, as it appears the most played had gone to a few clones.

No worries. I only get high scores once in a blue moon, so I only need the plug in occasionally. Haha I'll survive with it on and off when needed.

Did anyone figure out a solution for the resolution in Gameex's MAME games while using the plugin? Mine also takes away the games bezel artwork on the sides. When I select cabinet artwork, the sides stay black. I could care less about the dip switch area as I'm barely in there. However, I use a 32" LCD TV as a monitor and now the large left and right sides are just permanently black in the vertical hi score games. It's weird though, I can see a bit of the artwork still on the game screen itself, just not the sides. Either way I can just turn the plugin off and back on when I need to take the snaps. I was just wondering if there was a way to keep the plugin on and if the cabinet artwork issue I am having would be linked to the MAME menu resolution or if I'm just screwing something else up.

It worked!! I was running marioo in mame not mario. Would you mind if I PM you with a different question?

I really think it might just be a problem with a rom. I was reading the other thread on snapper and it looks like you built in a way for it to only to take snaps of the included roms for the competition. I was first using the emulator I created to show high score included games, which was not working. I read above that you said you can only operate the snap while in the MAME portion of GameEx, not while you are in a different emulator. Is that true, even though you are using MAME.exe for the run file in the emulator? I also realized that my high score while playing Mario in the emulator that was created was like 79500. Then when I went into MAME on GameEx and played Mario in an attempt to take a snapshot there. I realized that the high score was now listing on the top as something in the 69000 range.. Which leads me to believe I must have two separately working romset files for Mario in my rom file. I really never thought to try a different game in the competition to see if the snap would work there. Partly because I am biased to mario, but mostly because my technogical testing ingenuity is not stellar! I will try some more troubleshooting on my end and get back to you. I apologize, as I think I just needed to look further into your original posting on the plugin.

I am not sure why it shows up that way when I run the verify at the end of the wizard. I have it written this way in the .ini file ( "C:\HiScoreUpdater\HiScoreUpdater.exe" -type 0 -mappath "C:\GameEx\Map Files\HiScore Competition.map") and it mirrors that in the wizard. However, when I run the verify it shows up with the two quotes bookmarking the whole thing and says it does not exist. Yet it does the update at startup, as I cas see the window populate and disappear. The file is also updated in the Map Files folder each time I run gameex. I tried to take a snapshot in from the MAME section of gameex on Mario and it did not work. Then I realized the high score on the top was different in MAME then it was in my high score competition emulator. That leads me to believe I have two working roms for mario or something. I will pick a different game and take a snapshot tonight when I get home. I didn't have a chance to get deeper into this morning before leaving for work. I also noticed that in the instructions, it says RunOnStartup=....., but I have been putting the line in LaunchOnStartup=... Am I putting the line in the worng location. I could not locate a RunOnStartup. I just figured the text had been changed. UPDATE: I have yet to try the -mfile switch! I just saw that it was different when I was reading the post again. I will try that and update. Thanks!

Well, it's saying I am not allowed to post the file. So I'll type contents. (From snapper file) 1/21/2014 10:09:21 PM : Hi-Score Snapper (Version:1.0.2) 1/21/2014 10:09:21 PM : 13.21 INITIALIZED OK!: GameEx 1/21/2014 10:09:21 PM : INIT PLUGIN: Initialization completed! 1/21/2014 10:09:21 PM : MAME version: 0.143u9 1/21/2014 10:09:21 PM : MAME check complete! 1/21/2014 10:09:21 PM : Getting game list... 1/21/2014 10:09:21 PM : Fetching games list from DracLabs... 1/21/2014 10:09:21 PM : HiScore list download complete! 1/21/2014 10:09:21 PM : Saving XML... 1/21/2014 10:10:56 PM : Hasta la vista... Baby. I enjoy the end line, it was a nice touch. I tried multiple times to take a snapshot from Mario in the High Score Competition Emulator with no success(Shift+home). I do have an error occurring in the MAME wizard under Tweaks that I noticed. It says the following: Verifying Tweaks / Performance... Launch On Startup: ""C:\HiScoreUpdater\HiScoreUpdater.exe." -type 0 -mappath "C:\GameEx\Map Files\HiScore Competition.map"" does not exist. Finished! The program does launch and the file does exist. It is also updating it in the file too, as I can see the dates and times change for the map file. It also has a little key lock on it. The only thing I can think of is the type or path are off, which I do not have a great deal of experience in. Here is the file path in the plug in for snapper: C:\GameEx\PLUGINS\HiScore Snapper I posted a couple of other files. Thanks in advance if you can help my error. haha log.txt GameEx.ini

Yes, I remember it listing .143 on the bottom, which is correct. I'll see if I can get a log file to you. Is it the gameex log file or a different log file. Sorry for the 30 questions, I appreciate your help.