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Hello! I figured out something interesting last night and thought I would share this bit of information. I'm sure that some of you already know how to do this, but for the one's who find themselves in a "pickle", I hope this will help any. I was having an issue with the Demul emulator, specifically NAOMI regarding the regions bios. Since I live in the United States, I wanted each game that I had to be the US version, rather than Jap or Export. If I set it to Auto, all of the games would be the Jap versions. By deselecting "Auto" and selecting the US bios in NAOMI, this gave me the US version for most games, except one - "House of the Dead 2", which used it's own region bios. This created a problem when trying to launch the game via GameEx, as well as through Demul - If I set the bios to the US version and ran the game House of the Dead 2, there would be an error that the system board was not able to run the game. (Alternately, running all other games through the House of the Dead 2 bios would cause the same error). If you are having this issue, or you would like to customize each game's settings (video resolution, key mappings, bio regions, etc) this tutorial is for you! :-) First things first, you will have to have a little "know how" on creating batch files and would also have to have a little patience because this can be time consuming, depending on how many games you have for the emulator. For the tutorial, I will be using basic, simple paths (e.g. "C:\Demul"), but these paths will represent the paths for your emulators. For this tutorial, and as an example, we will just be having GameEx change the regions bios during the launch of a game through Demul. We will also assume that you have the emulator working correctly outside of GameEx, as well as having having GameEx configured to launching the game. Lets get started :-) 1.) Create a sub-folder inside the root of your emulator's path, and name it whatever you want. (e.g. "C:\Demul\regions and settings" 2.) Create another sub-folder inside the sub-folder you had just created and name it whatever you want. You will want to create additional sub-folders, one each per setting file. (e.g. C:\Demul\regions and settings\USA Bios ... C:\Demul\regions and settings\HOTD2 ...etc) 3.) Open the emulator, Demul for example, and make any changes you want in the settings. Close out the emulator and copy the *.ini file of the emulator (e.g. Demul.ini) and place the copy of the *.ini file inside the very last sub-folder(s) you created accordingly. (e.g. - the ini file for House of the Dead 2 bios inside of C:\Demul\regions and settings\HOTD2). Repeat this step for every changes you would like to make. 4). Create a batch file with the following command line: (again, we will be using a basic path for example, but customize the paths to reflect where your emulator is located) @echo off xcopy /Y "C:\Demul\regions and settings\HOTD2\Demul.ini" "C:\Demul\Demul.ini Exit 5.) Create additional batch files, one "template" per "setting group" or a game's settings. Have the first path in the batch files reflect where the *.ini file of the different settings is located at, and the second path to the emulator's root folder. 6.) Place each batch file inside the emulator's root folder, and name each batch file the exact same name as your rom accordingly. (e.g. the batch file for changing the region bios for House of the Dead 2 will be named hotd2.bat and placed inside of C:\Demul) 7.) Open GameEx Setup Wizard, and goto the Advanced Emulator Settings for the particular emulator (e.g. Demul). In the "Launch Before" field, type the following in (and again, the paths I type here are only examples, use the paths that reflect the location of the newly created batch files inside the root folder of your emulator): Start "" "C:\Demul\[ROM].bat" Make sure you keep "[ROM]" the way it is. In a nutshell, what this process does is - GameEx, before launching the game, will launch the batch file, which will copy and automatically replace the existing *.ini file inside the root folder of the emulator with the one located inside the proper sub-folder. When the game launches, the *.ini file inside the root folder of the emulator has already been overwritten, and the settings have already been changed. There is one "con" to doing this - If you decide to do this, this is an "ALL OR NOTHING" type of process - this means that you will have to create a batch file for every rom that you have for that emulator. If you have hundreds of roms for that emulator, this can be timely (unless you make copies of the batch files, which still can be time consuming considering that they would still have to be renamed to the proper rom name) I hope this helps, and if you have any questions about this, please feel free to comment, or send me a pm. LC

After spending a while setting up about 15 emulators, all configured to retroarch except 1, which was setup up with another emulator. All was working perfectly. Until today. i click on the console, select game, it goes to boot up into the game except all i get is a black screen. I tried all of them inluding the non retroarch one. the only way i can get a emulators to work is i press, select a random game, and they all seem to work via this. Any ideas would be appreciated.

GameEx Emulator Wiki http://gameex.info/wiki/index.php/Category:Emulators See above for a growing list of Emulator guides. Includes things like Command Line parameters, hotkeys and plugin details. Be great if y'all could add to it. Every time I set up a new system/emulator, I just put any research outcomes into the relevant wiki page. If you're going to start a new emulator, use the "Template: Emulator" as a standard. You can just edit the page and copy and paste the markup into the new emulator page. The format's recently changed, with Dolphin, Cemu and Citra showing the most recent format.

Hi to All, i would like to have an universal frontend... and over severals tries with different frontend... I'm concentrating in two frontend and studing them. Pinballx it would my preference for Graphics, Pinball Tables managing etc. Over Pinball tables, like many of you I love '80 videogames... so i like to add Mame and other old platform. So i would like to share with you the possibility to add other platform with your impression. I m waiting your contribution... thanks in advance. (sorry for my poor english )

Hello, I have a rom that isn't working. It says i'm missing this file name sfiii_usa.29f400.u2. I searched for the file but I could only find this file name instead sfiii3_usa.29f400.u2. I placed the file that I found into the roms folder but it still said sfiii_usa.29f400.u2 was missing. So I just changed the name of the file I found to match the file name I needed, then the rom seems to load until it says that there is a graphics error and then the screen goes black and makes some beeping noises. Is sfiii3_usa.29f400.u2 the correct file? or do I need to keep searching? I don't want to have to change the MAME that i'm using because it works for another rom that I use. I just need to get mame to recognize the file sfiii3_usa.29f400.u2 I attached the ini and log files. GameEx.ini log.txt

Hello, I am new to GameEx and am having trouble with a couple issues. 1. I want to remove all the extra MAME games and categories that show up when I run the program so that I only find the ROMs I chose 2. I want to use other emulators that I downloaded from websites and somehow plug them into GameEx so that they run the ROMs rather than use the emulators provided by GameEx. I was told by someone that I need to point GameEx to the correct path in the Setup Wizard, but can someone explain that in more detail? I know where to open the Setup Wizard but where inside it do I go and what options to I enter. 3. Also when I try to run a ROM using [Arcade] Arcade MAME the game seems to load to %100 but then it blacks out and takes me back to the Play This Game menu. What am I doing wrong? Please help me with these 3 issues.

Hello, I have an emulator that I'm using and the ROM files are actually ISO files. I tried using several different command lines but none of them worked. I know that i'm supposed to use one of these Command=WINDVD.exe [VIRTUALDRIVE]:\ or Command=unz.exe[-VIRTUALDRIVE-] but i'm not sure which one so I tried both. Here is an example of what tried Dolphin.exe [VIRTUALDRIVE]:\ and then I tried Dolphin.exe[-VIRTUALDRIVE-] When I use the emulator outside of GameEx it works. So what am I doing wrong?

Hello! Please excuse my ignorance, but I have tried for the past couple of weeks to figure this out by reading the forums and I cannot figure this out. I have installed gameex, and several emulators, and I have roms for most of them (not all yet), but the only emulator I can get to work is N64. The roms are in compressed rar format, which shouldn't be a problem for the emulator to play, right? I can't get MAME or Mess to even open, it says it has to be configured or something. And yes, I have already checked all of the basic things, like making sure the paths are correct. I can open the roms with most of the emulators outside of gameex, but not by using it. Also, the snes emulator I downloaded through the emulator downloader doesn't work even outside of gameex... One other question. I have downloaded emumovies download service utility, but everytime I try to log in, it says, "login failed", even though I can log into the website without any problems!! I am about to go crazy. Thanks for your help. I have attached my log verify file here.

Hi all. Have latest GameEx 14.49 and Setup Wizard 2.72. I'm trying to download a batch of emulators, but the setup wizard tends to get "stuck" when downloading a lot of them - for example, see the screenshot attached. Gets stuck on "downloaded (file size) of 0 (file size)." Is there any way to fix this? Jared

GEmvoy View File This plugin does various stuff. It's main aim is to make running multiple emulators for each system as easy as possible. You can setup all your emulators in GEmvoy first - running and testing them from there before dovetailing with GameEx. You can also choose which Emulator to launch a game with from GameEx itself. Lots of additional stuff. Best way to find out what it does - download it and have a tinker - it's very low impact on GameEx; your game and asset files + your existing setup, so you can't break anything. Features: Quickly launch zipped gamefile sets without having to wait for them to unzip. Have different system emulators mapped against one GameEx 'emulator.' Be able to choose which emulator boots a game from the Game Details page in GameEx. Simple approach to mounting gamefiles Test emulator/games setups before running through GameEx - boot games in "Fullboot" or "Setup boot" modes. Can work with multi-format gamefile sets for one emulator (e.g. Playstation sets with mixtures of .cue, .mds etc.) Save emulator settings on per-game basis, allowing for different graphics, sound and controller setups for each game. Launch support apps before, alongside or after a game boot on a per-system, emulator or game basis. Full tokenised game/system/emu details allowing insertion of these into any command lines. Make your own emulator settings scripts, swapping out files, folders and registry entries between game boots. Key-remaps on per emulator or game basis (experimental) Timelapse picture capture via webcam during games. Continuous, timed or burst mode. GameEx tweaks allowing: Choose which sounds to use for the GameEx menu Choose to use random sounds for the above Relocate the message window from the bottom right User prompting throughout any unzips showing progress. Submitter stigzler Submitted 03/23/2016 Category Plugins

Hi guys, I have configured Nes, Snes, Nintendo64, Game Boy and SEGA MS and Genesis emulators and they show up in the "Emulators" tab of Gameex. Is it possible to create for example the field Nintendo and Sega and add the emulators under it? (So for example having in Emulators only Sega and Nintendo and if you click on those fields all the other emulators show up.) Please let me know, Many thanks!

Evening. As part of another project, I needed a GUI ini/cfg editor in which you could use standard windows type controls (dropdowns, colour pickers etc) to set key values. Not many out there, so had to make one. This allows you to view and edit ini/cfg files more easily than using notepad etc. It also allows you to construct schema/template files for inis. Full command line support - so people developing their own apps can integrate it. Dunno if it may prove useful to anyone. On the advice of the wise, bit the bullet and plunged into Visual Basic. My first forray, so likely some runtime bugs. Just post any bugs on the codeplex site and I shall endeavor to correct... Some screenies: To get a feel for the basic utilization, just drag and drop any emulator ini's or cfg's onto the IniRedit.exe. You can download it here: https://iniredit.codeplex.com/

Hi all, I have a little problem with the description on the bottom when you're on the list of games emulator. The problem is that if you delete a game by pressing the DEL key, the description of the next game does not match with their description, if not with the previous game. This builds up, and if you delete eg 5 sets and continuous browsing the list, the description of each game is of the game 5 position before. Is there any way to update GameEx emulators list of games? Thank you very much. GameEx.ini log.txt

Wondering which console and handheld games play well on a cab or using an arcade stick? Want to know what type of arcade controls can be used with each game? Want to browse or contribute setup notes for games? This is a small project I've set up to try and collate peoples' experience with setting up console games on arcade cabs. Users can contribute games onto this 'database' and share with others their ratings for ease-of-setup and a game's suitability for a cab. I found myself in the position of finishing (ish!?) my cab, but then found I wasn't sure which were the best games to put onto it. Peoples' recommendations were dotted all over forums, so thought I'd invite the marvelous cab + arcade building community to contribute to this centralized repository. Features: Star ratings for various featuresSort games by various columnsFilter results by platform, game type, type of cab controls etc.Links to more detailed setup notes such as plugin settings for the game etc....Screenshot: I'll be contributing as I go along, finding games that play well on my cab. Would be great if others could add their recommendations too. Click this link here to go to the page: https://sites.google.com/site/alienarcade74/top-console-to-cab-games Click this link to go direct to the contribution form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hIFwO3gF3ekK-heudoEAZhq5Q_bCOgxEh0aJ3qMIlj8/viewform?entry.2133690561=magomame&entry.1202225771&entry.362976823&entry.1053481385&entry.774449246&entry.2013513245&entry.283837065 I'll also be posting in this initial post the Top 10 Games for cabs as the database changes. Hope you guys can help out!!! Oh and feedback welcome!!! Top 10 Games for Arcade Cabinets To follow when got 10 games on the list!!

So I've ran into something strange. I just upgraded my desktop and it seems to have made things worse lol. The pc upgrades include a new power supply, new video card, and a memory upgrade from 512 to 2gig. I'll list some of the symptoms below: 1. During boot, the boot audio plays but, video is delayed by 5-10seconds 2. When selecting a game in mame or other emulators, the game will launch just fine but, the voice "launching game" is delayed until way after the game has already started. It also delays LED blinky the same way. I've also noticed Kega Fusion shutting down GameEx when exiting the emulator. Separate issue though. I'll post up mu log files in a few minutes.