[RESOLVED] playing the game on screensaver

[wobbly]

is there a way to play the game that is showing in the screensaver ?

sometimes i see a game come-up that i would like to play, is there away to start the game ?

[simbamame]

is there a way to play the game that is showing in the screensaver ?

sometimes i see a game come-up that i would like to play, is there away to start the game ?

1 too have seen this, i belive if you have the pops up displayed or bezel working i believe it will give the name of the game, but 1 too would love to see a feature where maybe a play now icon could be put there, i recon its a valid request.

[Tom Speirs]

Press 5.

[bkenobi]

As I recall, this can't be remapped for gamepad use, can it? I use a GP-Wiz and if I use it natively (without XPadder), I don't think there is any way to do this. Correct?

[hansolo77]

Tom is right. If it's a MAME game, just press whatever you use to add a coin. If it's an emulator, I think you just need to hit whatever you have mapped to 'start', thus taking over the game.

[wobbly]

nice

thanks

[simbamame]

Awesome, a feature I never new existed in GameEx.

Thanks.

[Adultery]

Only side effect of this is the screensaver overlay stays there until you exit... Not like theres a way around that (ie not Tom's fault) Otherwise its cool.

[celly]

Holy freakin crap! I also didn't know you could do that. I only show my MAME favorites in the screensaver.

[Adultery]

I didn't know people didn't know. Lol!

Sorry!

Maybe its come up in the past but I totally thought this was documented somewhere.

[hansolo77]

I've known about it for a long time too. Thought all the 'regulars' knew about it. Huh.

[simbamame]

I've known about it for a long time too. Thought all the 'regulars' knew about it. Huh.

My theory ( and its only my opinion, lol ) is that because GameEx has so MANY great features we simply forget about some of the smaller ones?

[Adultery]

Atta boy Simba!

[fRequEnCy]

There's posts dating back all the way to 2008 about this. So it's been around for a long time. I would have to do some serious detective work to find out what version it was introduced. But it's a common question that could be found using search and am surprised that it was unknown.

As far as where it is documented, probably the best place would be Default Controls section on GameEx's website.

Here is the exact part I'm referring to.

Default Controls

Don't exit Attract mode

3, 5 or 6

3, 5 or 6

Button 6

Credit 1 or Credit 2