NEWS: GameEx 6.36 Released

[Tom Speirs]

20th June, 2006 - GameEx 6.36

Much faster avi video creation for create snaps.

Should resolve any choppiness or frame skipping on modern systems.

You may see choppiness when the game is running, but this is after the capture has been copmpleted.

[hansolo77]

I've noticed in the last 2 or so builds the new video snaps creation tool. I've not yet tried it, but thats not the reason for this post. I wanted to request that a possible future build have the ability to MOVE the create snaps option BACK to where it used to be on the menu with the game buttons. My screen is getting so cluttered and full of all these menus, and options, and categories, etc, that my snapshot is pretty much gone. Whats the point in having a screenshot if you can't see it? This may not be important for people who are using high resolution monitors and such, but for those of us who are using a TV with 60hz refresh rates, the screen is too crowded. I'll attach a screenshot tomorrow when I wake up to show my point. Basically, the screenshot is about 10% of the screen, which is not my idea of a good use of space.

I'm using the Default-Default theme with the Trebuchet MS font set at BIGGEST. The resolution is 800x600. If I go to 640x480, all I get are clipped buttons, which is totally rediculous. Thanks!

[Tom Speirs]

I've noticed in the last 2 or so builds the new video snaps creation tool. I've not yet tried it, but thats not the reason for this post. I wanted to request that a possible future build have the ability to MOVE the create snaps option BACK to where it used to be on the menu with the game buttons. My screen is getting so cluttered and full of all these menus, and options, and categories, etc, that my snapshot is pretty much gone. Whats the point in having a screenshot if you can't see it? This may not be important for people who are using high resolution monitors and such, but for those of us who are using a TV with 60hz refresh rates, the screen is too crowded. I'll attach a screenshot tomorrow when I wake up to show my point. Basically, the screenshot is about 10% of the screen, which is not my idea of a good use of space.

I'm using the Default-Default theme with the Trebuchet MS font set at BIGGEST. The resolution is 800x600. If I go to 640x480, all I get are clipped buttons, which is totally rediculous. Thanks!

All you need to do is enable the Hide Creates Snaps option in the configuration. I am well aware of the issue.

[Ricci]

Silly question..but is the snap creation in the config area?? I can't seem to see it?!?

[hansolo77]

OK here's those screen shots I promised....

This one is just the menu for the emulator. With all the categories available, it makes the screen way to cluttered.

This one is once I enter the game. Why does it have all the categories still listed here? I think it would look much better without the categories being listed here. It would let the snaps been much larger.

Thanks for the acknowledgment. I figured you already knew, I just wanted to throw out my 2 cents.. ya know.

[[edit]]

Maybe just lowering the font size of the categories would help. They're larger than the other menu on the right...

[night]

the font size looks way to big imho even your roms cant have long names or they will go out over the edges and not be shown....

just my oppion tho and i have never tryed that resolution so afcouse i dont know if thats normal ..

[hansolo77]

Yeah, if I try going a little smaller, it becomes too pixelated and hard to read.

BUG? Whenever I load GameEx now, the attract/screensaver is running. If I hit a key on the remote, etc, it then loads up the GameEx intro and sound, then goes to the start menu.

[[EDIT]]

I think I found where it's messed up.. I could be wrong though. I looked in the /config/gameex.ini file and found a section called "# Specifiy a video to play at astartup" and it was setup to "Startupvideo=D:\!GAMES\_MAME\videos" which is where I have all my video snapshots. I guess when I was configuring everything, I didn't read the bubble info about what that option was for. It works! Basically it played a random video before the loading up GameEx, just like it's supposed to! Hehe. I cleared it out via the configuration program so it's not doing it anymore. Nevermind about the bug!

[Tom Speirs]

OK here's those screen shots I promised....

This one is just the menu for the emulator. With all the categories available, it makes the screen way to cluttered.

This one is once I enter the game. Why does it have all the categories still listed here? I think it would look much better without the categories being listed here. It would let the snaps been much larger.

Thanks for the acknowledgment. I figured you already knew, I just wanted to throw out my 2 cents.. ya know.

[[edit]]

Maybe just lowering the font size of the categories would help. They're larger than the other menu on the right...

Yeah, just turn on "Hide Create Snaps", I even put it into the FAQ Yesterday.