New to GameEx, couple of questions

[Cratermass]

Hi guys

I've been setting up GameEx on my cab after evaluating a bunch of front ends... GameEx clearly met all my requirements, and Tom received my contribution today. I didn't want to ask for support until I send the money

Ok, so I have MAME setup and all runs ok. Two questions:

1. I generated the MAME videos (used the option from the GameEX start menu), but a whole bunch are missing, most notably those starting with numbers, eg 1941 and 1943. I have tried updating the gamelist and rerunning the video generator. Is there a step that I missed? The games do work so something seems to filter them out.....

2. When I'm in the weather module, GameEx seems to cut in after a while and start a random game. I was flicking around the screens inside the weather module, but GameEx perhaps thought it was idle?

These are very minor issues I'm having - the overall front end was so easy to setup. Thanks Tom!

Mike.

[Tom Speirs]

Hi guys

I've been setting up GameEx on my cab after evaluating a bunch of front ends... GameEx clearly met all my requirements, and Tom received my contribution today.  I didn't want to ask for support until I send the money

Ok, so I have MAME setup and all runs ok.  Two questions:

1. I generated the MAME videos (used the option from the GameEX start menu), but a whole bunch are missing, most notably those starting with numbers, eg 1941 and 1943.  I have tried updating the gamelist and rerunning the video generator. Is there a step that I missed?  The games do work so something seems to filter them out.....

2. When I'm in the weather module, GameEx seems to cut in after a while and start a random game.  I was flicking around the screens inside the weather module, but GameEx perhaps thought it was idle? 

These are very minor issues I'm having - the overall front end was so easy to setup. Thanks Tom!

Mike.

Hi Mike, welcome.

These two items are really sort of bugs that I need to address in a future release.

I looked it into 1, and I think what is happening is this:

Your 1941 and 1943 games I think are clones in MAME. ie not the originally manufactured game which is probably Japanese.

When creating Videos GameEx only creates videos for games it finds that are not clones. If you dont have the original game in the made gamelist it wont create the videos which would be used by the clones too.

If you have the original games, you can probably fix this by removing all the filtering options under "Advanced MAME settings", such as games that are japanese, Update the list again, and resume creating videos.

Hope this helps.