GameEx 7.71 and LED Plugin 1.90

[HooPZ]

I am running registered GameEx. I updated HK's LED plugin from 1.87 to 1.90. When the system boots, I receive the following error.

Once I hit "OK", the error comes back up 4 more times. After the last one, GameEx loads normally and the functionality appears normal.

I don't mind using 1.87 but I wanted to report what was happening for review. I am pretty sure that there were no other changes to my system other than that change to 1.90. The plugin is great! I am, though, using the Groovy Game Gear Novagem's with the LED-Wiz, not the Electric Ice buttons. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.

Here is my log:

19:15:41.8 3/15/2007: GameEx: Version 7.71: Starting Log

19:15:41.8 3/15/2007: Operating System Platform: Win32NT

19:15:41.8 3/15/2007: Operating System Name: Windows XP

19:15:41.8 3/15/2007: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600

19:15:41.8 3/15/2007: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed

19:15:41.8 3/15/2007: .net Framework 1.1 Installed

19:15:41.8 3/15/2007: .net Framework 2.0 Installed

19:15:41.9 3/15/2007: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 1.70GHz

19:15:41.9 3/15/2007: 1.69Ghz

19:15:42.0 3/15/2007: Running Randomize()

19:15:42.1 3/15/2007: Loading PlugIns

19:15:42.1 3/15/2007: Loaded Plugin:"LCD/LED Plugin" Version 1.90 By Ben Baker

19:24:26.0 3/15/2007: PlugIn: "LCD/LED Plugin" Initialized OK

19:24:26.0 3/15/2007: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup

19:24:26.0 3/15/2007: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Running Misc startup tasks

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Setting Menu types

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Opening Configuration File

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Getting Configuration Values

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Using Theme: Default - Tron

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Tron

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Launching HideOS.exe

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Hiding Taskbar

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Is Media Center running?

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode

19:24:26.1 3/15/2007: Media Center Mode 2

19:24:26.2 3/15/2007: Snap Delay set to: 1

19:24:26.2 3/15/2007: Get other settings

19:24:26.3 3/15/2007: SlikStik support enabled

19:24:26.3 3/15/2007: Using DirectInput for keyboard input

19:24:26.3 3/15/2007: Start work for Form

19:24:26.3 3/15/2007: Getting Original Screen Size

19:24:27.4 3/15/2007: Initializing Component

19:24:28.1 3/15/2007: Initialising Windows Media Player Component

19:24:28.2 3/15/2007: MAME Path is: c:\mame

19:24:28.3 3/15/2007: MAME EXE file is: mame.exe

19:24:28.3 3/15/2007: ROM Paths are: C:\Mame\roms;C:\Mame\roms

19:24:28.3 3/15/2007: Catver.ini is located at: C:\Mame\catver.ini

19:24:28.3 3/15/2007: controls.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\data\controls.ini

19:24:28.3 3/15/2007: History.dat is located at: C:\Mame\history.dat

19:24:28.3 3/15/2007: nplayers.ini Not Found

19:24:28.3 3/15/2007: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat

19:24:28.4 3/15/2007: Loading Controls.ini map file

19:24:28.4 3/15/2007: Snap Path is: c:\Mame\snap

19:24:28.4 3/15/2007: AVI Snap Path: Not Found

19:24:28.4 3/15/2007: Flyer Path is: c:\Mame\flyers

19:24:28.4 3/15/2007: Cabinet Path is: C:\Mame\cabinets

19:24:28.4 3/15/2007: Title Path is: C:\Mame\titles

19:24:28.4 3/15/2007: Panel Path: Not Found

19:24:28.4 3/15/2007: Manual Path: Not Found

19:24:28.4 3/15/2007: Icon Path is: C:\Mame\icons

19:24:28.4 3/15/2007: Marquee Path is: c:\Mame\marquees

19:24:28.5 3/15/2007: Loading Custom Emulators

19:24:28.5 3/15/2007: Loading Emulator 1: Nintendo 64 Games

19:24:28.5 3/15/2007: Loading Emulator 2: Nintendo SNES games

19:24:28.7 3/15/2007: Using 2D Animations

19:24:28.7 3/15/2007: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS

19:24:28.7 3/15/2007: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS

19:24:28.7 3/15/2007: Initialising DirectDraw

19:24:28.8 3/15/2007: Applying GameEx is Loading Image

19:24:29.0 3/15/2007: Creating DirectDraw Device

19:24:29.0 3/15/2007: Using Device: Primary Display Driver

19:24:29.3 3/15/2007: Setting Resolution to 640x480 32 bit color

19:24:29.3 3/15/2007: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces

19:24:29.3 3/15/2007: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode

19:24:29.4 3/15/2007: Creating Back Buffer

19:24:29.7 3/15/2007: Loading graphic Surfaces

19:24:30.0 3/15/2007: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs

19:24:30.2 3/15/2007: Creating Surfaces Volume

19:24:30.2 3/15/2007: Creating Surfaces Arrows

19:24:30.3 3/15/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text

19:24:30.3 3/15/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar

19:24:30.3 3/15/2007: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds

19:24:32.4 3/15/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls

19:24:32.5 3/15/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo

19:24:32.5 3/15/2007: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit

19:24:32.5 3/15/2007: Creating Surfaces Snaps

19:24:32.5 3/15/2007: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars

19:24:32.7 3/15/2007: Creating Fonts

19:24:32.7 3/15/2007: Creating Menu Font

19:24:32.8 3/15/2007: Restoring Menu Font From Cache

19:24:33.5 3/15/2007: Creating Game Font

19:24:34.3 3/15/2007: Creating Font Black

19:24:34.6 3/15/2007: Creating Font Black Small

19:24:34.8 3/15/2007: Creating Game Font Faded

19:24:36.0 3/15/2007: Creating Title Font

19:24:36.1 3/15/2007: Restoring Title Font From Cache

19:24:36.9 3/15/2007: Fonts Created Succesfully

19:24:36.9 3/15/2007: Starting GameExtender Publisher

19:24:37.0 3/15/2007: Text/Language: English

19:24:37.0 3/15/2007: Applying Language/Text

19:24:37.0 3/15/2007: Initialising Bass Audio Library

19:24:37.3 3/15/2007: MAME CMD options: -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy

19:24:37.3 3/15/2007: Attempting to load game list

19:24:37.7 3/15/2007: Loading last used Game List

19:24:37.7 3/15/2007: Setting Music Volume

19:24:37.7 3/15/2007: Loading music

19:24:39.2 3/15/2007: Creating DirectSound Device

19:24:39.2 3/15/2007: Trying: Primary Sound Driver

19:24:39.2 3/15/2007: Loading Sound Files

19:24:39.5 3/15/2007: DirectSound Device Created Successfully

19:24:39.5 3/15/2007: Creating ICONS

19:24:39.5 3/15/2007: Restoring Cached ICONS from File

19:24:43.9 3/15/2007: Gamepad/Joystick disabled

19:24:43.9 3/15/2007: Initialising DirectInput for Keyboard support

19:24:44.3 3/15/2007: Playing intro sound file

19:24:44.3 3/15/2007: Initializing MCE Remote

19:24:44.4 3/15/2007: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx!

19:24:44.4 3/15/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame

19:24:45.4 3/15/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully

19:25:25.6 3/15/2007: Exiting GameEx!

19:25:25.6 3/15/2007: Saving Settings

19:25:27.5 3/15/2007: Disposing Plugins

19:25:27.5 3/15/2007: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit

Thanks for any help!

HooPZ

[headkaze]

This error is related to the reading of Mame's cfg files which is a recently added feature. It could be caused by a variety of things..

- The version of Mame. Since I have added support for the latest version of Mame, older versions of Mame may have a different xml structure for their cfg files.

- You have key mappings in your cfg files that I have not taken into consideration. My plugin can only handle simple key mappings, as I havn't had the opportunity to test more complicated mappings (Eg. multiple key mappings).

- If your not using custom key mappings in Mame, I suggest you delete all the files in <MAMEFOLDER>\cfg. That may solve the issue.

Provide me with more info and I may be able to fix the bug. Otherwise I can always add an option to turn off support for custom key mappings.

[HooPZ]

- If your not using custom key mappings in Mame, I suggest you delete all the files in <MAMEFOLDER>\cfg. That may solve the issue.

I didn't think I had many/any custom key mappings but I looked in my config folder and there were quite a few there. I moved that folder out, restarted, and everything was fine. I certainly appreciate your help and the plugin is awesome!

Does this mean, though, that I can't use any customer configs? I'll modify a couple of "minor" things and see if/when it gives me the error again.

Thanks Headkaze!

[headkaze]

Like I said it could be the version of Mame your using or multiple key mappings I'm not sure. But this plugin should work if you map buttons to something else in Mame. The last feature I added was for this so there hasn't been much testing for it. It works for me that's about all I know