[NEWS] GameEx 12.71

[Tom Speirs]

• MP3, OGG, and AIF audio files are now supported for theme sound files.
• The database engine has been moved from MS Access to SQLite. There are new emulator databases available in the new format and game data and movie databases will be upgraded to SQLite on first run of this version. Access .mdb files are still backwards compatible for game databases.
• Automatic download of artwork and videos via emumovies. If GameEx can login it will automatically download. Snaps, Titles, Marquees, Cabinets, Boxes and Carts along with MP4 videos. For free EmuMovies users screenshots will be downloaded and EmuMovies has generously allowed snaps to only count towards a quarter of the daily usage limit.
• For registered users experimental support for running on Linux and Mac under Wine. In addition an experimental Mac OS X package is available on the download page. It is experimental and features have been removed. GameEx and the install package will detect if running under wine and act accordingly. Wine - Mono is required and it will also run under the official .net framework 2 SP 1. It is hoped eventually a native version will be released running under MONO only.
• Audio tag reading has beem improved.

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[Draco1962]

Absolutely awesome! Thanks Tom!

[Tom Speirs]

PS. The Mac package runs out of the box. There are no prior requirements. Just unzip and launch. It has Wine and Wine-Mono built in.

[ulihox]

Amazing!! Thanks for adding initial support on Linux.

[T. Goodchild]

I've used a lot of renamers for romsets and artwork, but is there a simple tool to match the database name from GameEx's mdb files to my roms and rename them? There are currently about 3 or so naming conventions in use and if any one of them matches it would be nice for it to apply to a rom.

[nullPointer]

Wow! Thanks Tom! Thanks EmuMovies! A lot going on under the hood with this one. I'm looking forward to checking out the new SQLite database(s).

[KRC]

Thanks Sir !

[AlphaUMi]

Impressive! Thanks to Tom and Circo!

[gamepimp]

Thx Tom!

[fRequEnCy]

Thanks Tom! Also thanks Circo!

[celly]

Another amazing update with slick features. Thanks Tom and Circo!

[hansolo77]

Wow huge update, changing databases, background support for downloading emumovies; whats next? Thanks Tom!

[Circo]

I guess I should also mention that the snap packs now support jap games

[AlphaUMi]

I guess I should also mention that the snap packs now support jap games

Good work Circo!

[hansolo77]

I guess I should also mention that the snap packs now support jap games

Cool, I know a few people that have been asking for that!