What would theme background name be for MAME CustomFolder lists?

[ehuonder]

I've been gone for a long time... I'm glad to see GameEx still going strong! My GameEx 14.36 and WInXP cabinet ran great this whole time!!! But, I had a HD crash, so now I'm rebuilding, and I thought that I'd grab the latest GameEx! In rebuilding, I'm also trying to upgrade my theme along the way...

I use the MAME CustomFolders feature that GameEx supports to create custom MAME game lists. This works great functionally, but I'm trying to control the background in the theme, and that's where my problem is. FYI. I'm also using CustomMenus, so that may add to the problem. I'm hoping that it's just that I need to understand the naming conventions that are in place now, as I've noticed some differences in the output of the Theme Editor... If my INI files in my Mame/CustomFolder containing my lists are: "1- Select MAME Games.ini", "2- Configured MAME Games.ini", and "3- Beta MAME Games.ini", what would the background filenames be or does GameEx not support this level of backgrounds?

Also, do CustomMenus have the ability to indicate a background for a submenu? or does GameEx just use bak.png?

In my run, the

Root Menu = Media/Startbak.png

Sub Menus = Media/Startbak.png

Mame Emulator top level (CustomMenu Item=0,Mame Games,0,_Arcade__MAME) = MameAllbak.png or Mamebak.png (I can't tell as they are the same for me).

Selecting one of my 3 CustomFolder INI's = Media/bak.png

This is the one that I'm hoping that I can control somehow with GameEx's built in naming conventions.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Tom Speirs]

Ill try and get back to you with a better answer. I need to take a look to remember. I think you may be out of luck though and they run under MAME.

However if your rebuilding why not mix it up and give Evolution or Arcade Edition a try?

[ehuonder]

Thanks for looking into it Tom. My rebuild is still on an old XP machine with no internet access, so I expected that Evolution would not run well if at all on it. I didn't think about the Arcade Edition simply because I don't know much about it. I was quite pleasantly surprised that the current version of GameEx still runs on XP! I'll have to look into Evolution and Arcade Edition and see what they offer!  I'm glad you and the community are still here developing these tools! It looks like I'll have to figure out how I can build a pinball machine now as well!