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Ok, but all my displays use a square pixels resolution, even the CRT. 1440x1080 is a 4:3 square pixels resolution. If you can not try the movies, it will help Tom for sure . I dont know what is too difficult to test here. Just choose the provided movies as a background and observe what happens. Nothing special here and there are plenty of 1920p themes or 4:3 themes out there to test it with. And like i said, it only happens with this option. Even if my display would be different, then it would apply to every option and not just only this one. Apologies, if i have misunderstood something.

The issue is this option: I have attached two movies, so you can test for yourself. One is 1920p, the other 1440p. Just for the case, that 1920p would magically work, i doubt it. If you can still see the orange border, then I am wrong. If not, i am right . Easy as that. All movies use square pixels. Yes, 1440p is 4:3, but thats what my theme (first) will be anyway. It is intended for CRT-cab users. The resolution is to high, but it will be scaled down and keep some of the quality. Plus, i have a modeline for CRT users, that can use 800x600 interlaced, which will give way better results then ordinary low-res resolutions like 320x240p. Border Test_1920p.mp4 Border Test_1440p.mp4

Hello Draco and Tom, yes, this is still a issue. I will make it short. The following option/function doesn NOT scale properly: Whatever movie you choose here as a background, will not be properly displayed. It will be slightly larger and blurred due to scaling. The same movie background choosen with the "Image" option, will be displayed correctly: I am sorry that i did not upload anything yet, but i had no free time to continue with the theme, maybe tommorow i can upload something. Hope the pictures help.

So I looked at the FTP here at GameEx and i really found "platform" videos, but in case of MAME and Arcade games, there is just only one video here: http://ftpbrowse.gameex.com/-GameEx-/- Emulator Artwork & Videos -/MAME/platform_video/ I dont know, if it is working inside of GameEx, but that would be a example of what I am looking for. This kind of videosnap, but just for the MAME categories like Lightgun, Vector, Trackball, 4 player etc. Also I still dont know, if this is possible to do and moreover how the "naming convention" of those videosnaps would be. I mean for that to work, GameEx would need to search for these videos first and if not found, showing a random videosnap that fits the selected subgenre (this is already the normal case). A proper answer here, would help me a lot .

FEATURE REQUEST: Support of icons based on game type. The icons that exist for MAME games are pretty much useless IMHO. Most of the time, they dont reflect the character or genre of the game and there are ten-thousands of them. Because they are "bound" to the game list, they will look extremely bad on low-res themes and even with hi-res themes, they barely represent something, because they are just to small, if they are "bound" to the game list / font. PLEASE seperate icons from the game list / font and add a extra icon field in the theme-editor for them. So that theme-creators can choose a icon-size (16x16, 32x32 etc.) and where to place them. GameEx can read category lists and therefore it would be way more useful, to show icons that are category based. This way, you would only use a handful of icons, based on game type / genre. It would be also a huge benefit for low-res themes. It would be a lot easier for a user to "read" the game list. Basically Tom did that already for the MAME (genre) selection menue (Lightgun, Trackball, Spinner etc.). Here we have the option to use logos that will do that. However, we dont have that in the game-list. It would be great, if we could see a racing car or wheel icon for a driving game or see a gun / crosshair for lighting gun games etc. That would be a great addition to icons that would make a lot more sense.

FEATURE REQUEST: Support of (Multi) coloured Fonts. Examples: https://www.fontspace.com/search?q=color font https://www.myfonts.com/de/search?query=chromatic&page=1&toggle[has_free]=true Browsers, Photoshop, Font-Editors... they all do support colored fonts (sometimes called chromatic fonts). If GameEx would support them too, theme-creators could use different colors for different things like menue bar, titles etc. This would also solve all this problems and would eliminate extra coding to achieve that:

Yes, i did setup the image field properly. All videos use the same size (1440x1080 4:3 aspect) and GameEx is running at this resolution (see video). Mind you, that the error/bug comes from the background video, where i have no options at all, except telling GameEx, use this video as background for the choosen section. It is the background video, that is oversized and has then bad quality. If i use the same video for the image-field, it looks better and is properly scaled.

Yeah, lets wait and see what Tom will say. I think he will understand the video and if not, i will share the theme, no problem. The bug is not related to my theme. You can repeat the same with any theme, you just need to setup one videofile that is used as background and has the same size/resolution as your theme and use the same video in image-field 1, which is also setup the same size (x=0, y=0, width and height= theme resolution). So basically you have 2 video-layers. Image-field 1 has higher priority and overlays the background, but whenever Image-field 1 is "filled" with a new video and GameEx needs to load the new video, you will see the background video until the new video is loaded, which then overlays the background again. So in the above posted video, whenever you read "update" in the marquee (but without the update icon), you are actually witnessing the background video for the MAME genre menue. Anything else shown in the marquee, are Image-field 1 videos that are loaded. Depending where you are scrolling in the list, a different video is loaded into Image-field 1. In my example, this are fullsized videos for "update game list" and "MAME all games". Thats why i have switched between the two categories all the time. I hope its easier to understand now.

Hello GameEx Staff , The following video will show you the bug. Please pay attention to the corners and the big update title in the marquee. GameEx_Arcade_All Arcade Games_60_60_ 2024-11-06 15-19-59.mp4 I am sorry for the big video, but it is needed to better visually see the bug. So what is happening here: We are in the MAME-Categories-submenu. A video was picked (via Theme-editor and the video-option menu) as background for the MAME-Categories-submenu shown here. The picked video contains all theme elements (arcade cab, menue, bars etc. BUT on a black background). If you now choose a category, then a video is shown that is related to this genre. This video uses image-field 1 from the theme editor and is set to full screen resolution. This video also contains all theme elements, but this time it has a genre related background included. So if you scroll through the list, the entire screen will change and adapt to the choosen genre. So far so good, but if you switch from one genre to another, then there is a time gap, that is filled with the video that we have chosen as the background for the MAME-Categories-submenu and here you will see that this background-video is slightly overscaled, probably just by only 1%, but it is noticeable. It is bigger then the image-field 1 video, which should not be the case. This is also bad for the image-quality of the video, as it is not shown in its native resolution. This results in a slightly blurred video, losing its sharpness and including artefacts. You can notice the degrading in carefully observing the area around the joysticks in the video. Summarize: There is something wrong in the theme-editor video-option menu and it has to do with scaling. Any video you choose here, will be displayed as a full size background, slightly overscaled and not in his native resolution. Any video that you set for the image-field in the theme editor, is properly displayed. If you set the image-field 1 properties to the native resolution of the video, then it is shown as this. Any questions? Feel free to ask . GameEx ini and log files attached. log.txt GameEx.ini

I am sorry for the bad description. The only reason why I mentioned the logos and marquee is because someone could mention those to solve the problem, but I want to know if we have control over the (in my example the game screen of the arcade cab) image field that GameEx uses to show a random videosnap of the selected MAME genre.

Hi Draco 🙂, I am currently not on my setup, but you can watch the 2nd video from my last post: https://forums.gameex.com/forums/topic/30223-resolved-two-possible-bugs-found-with-gameex-1875/?do=findComment&comment=218914 Just imagine that instead of the game names in the list on the left side, the MAME subcategories would be there. Every subcategory has a own logo-file that would appear in the marquee of the arcade cab. And for every subcategory, GameEx picks randomly a videosnap that fits into this category and is shown as the gamescreen on the arcade cab. The question is now, if we can create a videosnap for these subcategories. For example if lightgun is selected, showing a video containing only lightgun games.

Hello guys 🙂, Tom is right, I am looking for Category/Submenu. If it is possible to have videosnaps for the sub-categories, then how would I need to name them, so that GameEx can identify them? Keep in mind, that I already use all Logo-media provided for the sub-categories. I want to use the „image“ field that GameEx uses to show the random videosnaps. This way I could create my own videos for subcategories, assuming I know the naming for the videos.

At default GameEx randomly picks videos from existing videosnaps that fits into the MAME categories like Lightgun, Multiplayer, Trackball etc. I am curious if any category videos exists 😁 Any help appreciated 🙂

Both bugs seems to be gone with GameEx 18.81. Now i can only ask kindly, if you can make the sorting of the menue different. In that way that after name/title, the year appears. 1. Name / Title 2. Year 3. Category / Genre 4. Publisher 5. Developer Since Publisher and Developer give the same result, i would leave one of them blank, but this results also in cutting off the "year" option. It would be really nice if the sorting would be as shown above 😇☺️

Thank you very much for the fix .