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New score - 183,300 I somehow managed to get hit by the very last glowing ring in the Maoi stage but could recover and reach the second volcano stage. For me, that's the hardest stage, even more so than the enemy base at the end of the game.

Here's my first entry to get things going - 121,000 - Maoi stage

Yay, Gradius! This is gonna be fun! @Cynicaster's right, by the way. The arcade classic Gradius goes by the name of "Nemesis" outside of Japan so that's probably why there's no TG entry. I'm sure there's one for Nemesis. So what should we play? While I'm fine with all things Gradius and I don't want to invalidate @hansolo77's score, I'd prefer the real thing. What do you think?

Exactly. Sadly, that's also true vice versa. On bad days it feels like you're playing a video game for the first time. But I guess that's part of the reward! Congrats on joining the 300k club MO. That's really impressive!

Almost there... Tested again with override off. The snapper doesn't take a screenshot of Bionic Commando as expected and does take one in Donkey Kong. When starting Bionic Commando a second time after DK it _does_ take a snap. So it's probably some re-initialization issue? Still all good with model 2 games. (I could't test Zinc since I'm not running it.) I attached the log of this test. Snapper.log

Nice, @Adultery, really really nice. So I tested dkong as a Hi Score Comp game, bionicc as a non-Hi Score Comp game and hotd as a Model 2 game. I tested all three games with and without the Force Snap Override option. I have an Internet connection on my laptop. I got screen shots with both Mame games and House of the Dead did indeed start. So the main mission's accomplished. Yay!!! I have a question on Bionic Commando though: I expected it _not_ to take a screenshot with the Force Snap Override option disabled, but it did. Did you remove this option - I noticed it not being in the text overlay on the screenshot? Or is it something I missed? Anyway, thank you so much for the very quick and thorough upgrade!! And now for the PSB mode... *Personal Score Boost

How can I enable debug logging?

Hmmm... tried dkong for a starter. Unfortunately where 1.0.6 worked flawlessly I can't get 1.0.7 to work. No shutter sound. I use the exact same cofiguration as with 1.0.6. I have attached two logs, one with override enabled and one with the default configuration. Snapper override.log Snapper default.log Settings.xml

Performance? Does it increase my scores now? I am off to work now but will report back later. Thanks for the quick update @Adultery!

In case you didn't see the other thread, I noticed an incompatibility of the Hi Score Snapper plugin with integrated model 2 support. Apparently the Snapper adds some command line parameters which prevent the model 2 emulator from launching games. Since I'm using the Hi Score Snapper a lot, I'd really appreciate this to be fixed. Thanks a lot!

... and that was it. I deactivated the Hi-Score Snapper and everything goes smoothly! Thanks a lot Tom. I really appreciate it! This topic can be closed. (PS: So if there would be an update to the Hi-Score Snapper plugin that`d really be great since I'm using this plugin a lot *hint hint* :-)) smario

Thanks Draco, but... in gameex.ini I can only find the entries UseModel2=True Model2PATH=C:\Emulators\Model2 which are also modifiable in the Setup wizard. I can't find an entry for the command line (?). Am I missing something?

Hi guys, I can't get Sega model 2 emulation to work. When using integrated model 2 support, GameEx launches the emulator (newest emulator version 1.1a) but won't start the specified rom. When checking runitgame.bat I noticed the command line being emulator_multicpu.exe hotd -nocheat -video ddraw This command line is not working outside of GameEx either. When modifying the command line to emulator_multicpu.exe hotd everything works as expected. I checked with different roms in different locations so I'm pretty sure that this is not a rom path or roms issue. I'd appreciate if anybody could give me a push in the right direction on why this isn't working for me. Probably something on my end since I didn't see threads on this. Or, alternatively, is there a way to modify the command line that GameEx generates? Thanks a lot! GameEx.ini log.txt EMULATOR.INI

Had the day off and took the time to rebuilt my GameEx setup. After a lot more testing I could actually nail the problem. As strange as it may sound, if there's a special character in "Title Text" in any emulator the above Daphne behavior occurs. I tried a colon ":", not sure if this applies for other characters. I have not the slightest clue why this is the case but could replicate it reliably. Anyway, everything's working now and I have a new clean GameEx setup This one is RESOLVED. @tthurman Thanks for your help!

Update After more testing I found a clean GameEx install to be working perfectly with the exact same Daphne setup. So, unless someone here can point me in the right direction I'm going to rebuild my (5-year-old) GameEx setup. Probably a good idea anyway to clean up every now and then. Thanks anyway!

Hi guys, I recently added Daphne to my setup. I'm using the built in GameEx function and have trouble launching Daphne games. Outside of GameEx, everything is working fine. I'm having no trouble whatsoever launching Daphne games per command line. When (inside of GameEx) opening the "Laserdisc Games" menu, the games list is populated as expected. However, when opening a game's detail page (let's say for Astron Belt) GameEx shows a completely empty page like in screenshot 1 below. Cursor movement on this page is not possible. When exiting this page and immediately opening Astron Belt again, it shows the right page like in screenshot 2 below. When opening the game, GameEx goes black and that's it. The game is not called, runitgame.bat is completely empty and daphne.exe is never called (as seen in the Task Manager). GameEx appears to be still running, I can close GameEx directly with the Esc key. I'm using Custom Menus but disabled them for trouble shooting. Behavior is the same with or without Custom Menus. I reinstalled GameEx. I tried another theme (Default - Default). Any ideas on this are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! smario GameEx.ini log.txt

... to be precise that was a total of 11 barrel stages (probably wishful thinking on my part )

Time to bump the DK thread with my new score of 180,300 points (level 6-6). This one really went well. I conquered a total of 16 barrel stages without losing a single life. No lives lost on elevator stages as well. I noticed, though, that rivet stages, as easy as they may seem at the beginning of the game are a real challenge later on. And let's not talk abount the conveyor stages - they are still a mystery to me. Sometimes you get that free pass to the top right while on other times all ways are blocked by the firefoxes. I have yet to figure out a strategy for those... 3rd spot, right behind the DK pros

I don't have any experience with WolfMame, but I'm using the record parameter on standard Mame. Simply add -record "[ROM].inp" in the MAME Options entry in the Advance MAME Settings section of the Setup Wizard. Does this help for WolfMAME?

Finally I managed to complete the game! I’ve been playing this one for months, R-Type is now most played game on my cab. In my last run everything came together, even the pesky stage 5 boss didn’t kill me this time and I got a whopping 120K bonus for beating the stage 7 boss alone. I’m therefore proud to annouce my new score of 618,000 points. Being one of probably only 3 gamers in the world without in-depth R-Type experience, I found it rewarding to dig into the game. To learn and constantly refine the pixel-perfect flight path and split-second timing needed to succeed really made me appreciate the accomplishment R-Type is. A truly great game!

Yeah, that did the trick. The plugin now opens via the plugin manager! (but not via the Setup Wizard/Repository Manager - although the error message is gone, it briefy shows the gui but then kind of vanishes...). Never mind - I have enough to give it a try and will report back when I have done a little tinkering. Thanks a lot stigzler!

Still no luck... Here's the (manually converted) error message:

Still no luck... I tried CustomLists 1.0.1 with the Plugin Manager. Exactly the same behavior. I'm wondering if it is something on my end, like missing libraries or such. Are there any prerequisites for running the plugin?

@stigzler Firstly, thanks a lot for providing this much needed feature! I'm eager to give it a spin, however when opening the plugin in the setup wizard it crashes. Any ideas? I've attached the Windows error message (it's German, you should get the point though - if not I'd happily translate) and the Data.xml from the PLUGINS\CustomLists folder. Win10 error message: Thanks a lot for looking into this! smario Data.xml

My wrist hurts.... here's my first score: 347,500 This game is demanding, to say the least. But it's so very good, only surpassed by Raiden 2 (which is one of my all time faves). I recommend the following: Stay with the blue gun; its stopping power more than makes up for its limited lateral range. Also, against common recommendation, I use the M missiles in the first stage to get rid of the bosses quickly Stay in the lower half of the screen and always move; NEVER (that's with a big exclamation mark) try to go for the weapons, instead let them come to you. If you miss them, you miss them. I don't know how many deaths I died reaching for the extras It's NOT cool to die with four bombs; use them! Right before the second river there's a tree on the far right which you can shoot; out comes a flying ... thingy which gives back all your weapons the first time you die