NEWS: GameEx 6.31

[Tom Speirs]

11th June, 2006 - GameEx 6.31

New feature - ability to export all favorites, most played, and external applications to windows media.

The games run straight from MCE but using the GameEx engine to avoid audio and video conflicts, and allowing return to MCE when the green button is pressed and ability to exit with the remote.

Registered version feature.

[amos_82]

You Lucky People!

It took me two days to add all my favourites, man was it a headache! Thanks to Tom you can do it in 2 seconds! I was feeling so smug about my setup til now

On a sidenote; I've got a couple of quick tips for people from what i learnt along the way:

You can control MCE with your gamepad, so you dont have to keep on picking up the remote. Just use 'joytokey' to scroll, select etc. Also you can map the green mce button to either one button on your gamepad, or a combination. (the green button is: Windows Key+ALT+ENTER on the keyboard) so you can exit roms easily.

There's a full list of MCE Keyboard shortcuts here

You can download joytokey here: jtk379en.zip (Free software 307 kb)

Ive attachted my joytokey profile (for a ps2 pad) to give an example of how to copy the way the remote moves around mce.

MCE_Navi.txt (it needs to be renamed from .txt to .cfg) (I couldnt upload a cfg file)

The other tip is more of a warning, i heard of one guy who added all of his mame games to mce (1000's) it really slowed the loading time. So only add the ones you like

Thanks again Tom...great stuff!

[hansolo77]

Hey Tom, minor request.. perhaps I should put it in the request thread...

Is it possible to maybe have the "Export to MCE" function open another page and ask what you want to export? When I ran it and went back to MCE, I had to delete a lot of stuff from "More Programs" that I didn't really want. I think just a simple checkbox feature with options like "Export ALL, Export Most Played, Export Favorites" etc would suffice. Maybe further down the line you could have the option for each individual game to export to MCE.. kinda like you have the "Add to Favorites" option.

[Dirkifiz]

newbie-question :

I have the registered & actual version of GameEx, but the Favorite Mame Games do not

show up in the "more Programs" list of my xpMCE 2005 .

What could be wrong or do I have to initiate this favorites games export to MCE somewhere manually ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Greetings from Karlsruhe/Germany

Dirk

[Tom Speirs]

.....or do I have to initiate this favorites games export to MCE somewhere manually ?

Yes, Under "More games and programs" > "Export To MCE"

[Dirkifiz]

Thanks,

I have found this menu item "Export to MCE" now, but unfortunately nothing happens when I press it.

I have restarted the MCE but no new entries in "more programs"

In GameEx there are shown 2 Mame games in the favorites.

any ideas ?

Thanks !

Greets

Dirk

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks,

I have found this menu item "Export to MCE" now, but unfortunately nothing happens when I press it.

I have restarted the MCE but no new entries in "more programs"

In GameEx there are shown 2 Mame games in the favorites.

any ideas ?

Thanks !

Greets

Dirk

Might be because your using non english windows. Look in Start > Programs > Accesseries > Media Center and copy these to where they should be on a german install.

[Dirkifiz]

Might be because your using non english windows. Look in Start > Programs > Accesseries > Media Center and copy these to where they should be on a german install.

Thanks !!

That was the reason.

In German xpMCE 2005 the path for the links is as follows :

c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Startmenü\Programme\Zubehör\Media Center\Media Center-Programme\

Thanks again, without that useful hint from you it probably would have taken me much more time to find out !

Greetings

dirk