A few years ago, I build an Arcade machine. Inside is a Windows 10 build 20H2, it’s configured with 2 joysticks and 2x12 buttons. I choose Gameex Arcade Edition as frontend. Now, during corona lockdown, I felt it was time for a bit of tiding up. So, I started all over.
GameEx Arcade Edition 16.74. MAME 0.229b 64b bit. Nothing else.
Everything worked – I thought. I can play every game and the controls seems to work as they should.
When I hit the Joystick Exit buttons as defined in “Global Exit” there is a problem.
First of all, they seem to react much slower than in my previous installation. But the real problem is that it does NOT shut down the MAME game I was playing.
Global Exit does return me to Gameex Arcade, and I can start a new game. But the one I started with, is still running in the background. When I exit Gameex Arcade I find to programs running. One black cmd-windows with the text: “Active code page: 65001”, and secondly the MAME game itself. When I kill the cmd-windows the MAME game disappears. If I kill the MAME game, the cmd-windows disappears.
So, I guess I’ve made some kind of faulty setup. Any idea on how to make a correct Global Exit that kills the MAME game.
Included log of latest attempt to play and exit asteroid. Afterwards I stopped asteroid as described.
BUR, Denmark
log.txt GameEx.ini