Karaoke Problems

[ninjatech]

Hello fellow GameEX Users! This is my first post here. AWESOME program. I registered it within a few hours of messing with the demo. Can't wait to get my cabinet up and running with GameEX.

Onto my problem:

I installed "Karaoke for DirectX" and I am able to run cdg files in Windows Media Player. However when I try to launch a playlist from GameEX karaoke fails to run (or, on rare occasions, flickers on for a second then disappears). This results in GameEX coming back on screen back where I started.

Anyone have a similar issue or any idea how to fix this? This is a brand new rig with an ArcadeVGA PCI-E card. I assume it's some sort of codec issue. I do have Xvid installed for my game AVI previews.

Thanks!

[Tom Speirs]

Hi, I think this is a bug in GameEx. Ill get a fixed version out shortly.

[ninjatech]

Hi, I think this is a bug in GameEx. Ill get a fixed version out shortly.

Tom,

Thanks for getting back to me. I have downloaded the latest version but I am still having the same problem. I realize you probably have a large to-do list for development, so I am just curious if this fix was already applied or if you are holding off for a later update.

Thanks,

Chris

[Tom Speirs]

Tom,

Thanks for getting back to me. I have downloaded the latest version but I am still having the same problem. I realize you probably have a large to-do list for development, so I am just curious if this fix was already applied or if you are holding off for a later update.

Thanks,

Chris

Can you post your log please. I did fix an issue with Karoake which meant it did not work at all, so this might be something else.

[ninjatech]

Can you post your log please. I did fix an issue with Karoake which meant it did not work at all, so this might be something else.

Here is the log (Below). Once I click a song the screen turns black, then I see a titlebar flash for a second (sometimes it flashes twice). It looks like a screen trying to resize. Then it goes black again and GameEX comes back up like nothing happened. ONE time out of many tries I saw the lyrics come on screen for a split second. Also, the CDG videos run fine in windows media player. Thanks!

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: GameEx: Version 8.07: Starting Log

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Operating System Platform: Win32NT

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Operating System Name: Windows XP

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: .net Framework 1.1 Installed

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: .net Framework 2.0 Installed

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 4000+

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: 2.41Ghz

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Running Randomize()

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Loading PlugIns

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Running Misc startup tasks

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Setting Menu types

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Opening Configuration File

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Getting Configuration Values

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Using Theme: Default - Women We Love To Play

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Women We Love To Play

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Launching HideOS.exe

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Hiding Taskbar

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Is Media Center running?

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Media Center Mode 0

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Snap Delay set to: 6

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Get other settings

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Using DirectInput for keyboard input

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Start work for Form

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Getting Original Screen Size

22:28:56.7 4/24/2007: Initializing Component

22:28:56.8 4/24/2007: Creating Radio Station Genres

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: Succesfully created station genres

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: MAME Path is: F:\Emulators\Mame32

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: MAME EXE file is: Mame32.exe

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: ROM Paths are: F:\Roms\MAME;F:\Roms\MAME CHDs

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: Catver.ini is located at: F:\Front Ends\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: controls.ini is located at: F:\Front Ends\GameEx\data\controls.ini

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: History.dat is located at: F:\Front Ends\GameEx\DATA\history.dat

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: nplayers.ini is located at: F:\Front Ends\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: F:\Front Ends\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: Loading Controls.ini map file

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: Snap Path is: F:\Extras\snap

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: AVI Snap Path is: F:\Videos\MAME

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: Flyer Path is: F:\Extras\flyers

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: Cabinet Path is: F:\Extras\cabinets

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: Title Path is: F:\Extras\titles

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: Panel Path is: F:\Extras\cpanel

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: Manual Path: Not Found

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: Icon Path: Not Found

22:28:57.0 4/24/2007: Marquee Path is: F:\Extras\marquees

22:28:57.1 4/24/2007: Loading Custom Emulators

22:28:57.1 4/24/2007: Loading Emulator 1: Nintendo N64 (Project 64)

22:28:57.1 4/24/2007: Loading Emulator 2: Nintendo SNES (ZSNES)

22:28:57.1 4/24/2007: Loading Emulator 4: Nintendo NES (NEStopia)

22:28:57.1 4/24/2007: Loading Emulator 6: Sega Genesis (GENS+)

22:28:57.2 4/24/2007: Loading Emulator 7: Sega CD (Fusion)

22:28:57.2 4/24/2007: Loading Emulator 8: Sega Master System (Fusion)

22:28:57.2 4/24/2007: Loading Emulator 9: NEC TurboGrafx 16 (MagicEngine)

22:28:57.3 4/24/2007: Using 2D Animations

22:28:57.3 4/24/2007: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS

22:28:57.3 4/24/2007: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS

22:28:57.3 4/24/2007: Initialising DirectDraw

22:28:57.3 4/24/2007: Applying GameEx is Loading Image

22:28:57.4 4/24/2007: Creating DirectDraw Device

22:28:57.4 4/24/2007: Using Device: Ultimarc ArcadeVGA2

22:28:57.4 4/24/2007: 499mb video memory available

22:28:57.7 4/24/2007: Setting Resolution to 1024x768 32 bit color

22:28:57.7 4/24/2007: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces

22:28:57.7 4/24/2007: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode

22:28:57.7 4/24/2007: Creating Back Buffer

22:28:57.7 4/24/2007: Loading graphic Surfaces

22:28:57.7 4/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs

22:28:57.8 4/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Volume

22:28:57.8 4/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Arrows

22:28:57.8 4/24/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text

22:28:57.8 4/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar

22:28:57.8 4/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds

22:28:57.9 4/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls

22:28:57.9 4/24/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo

22:28:57.9 4/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit

22:28:57.9 4/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Snaps

22:28:57.9 4/24/2007: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars

22:28:58.0 4/24/2007: Creating Fonts

22:28:58.0 4/24/2007: Creating Menu Font

22:28:58.0 4/24/2007: Restoring Menu Font From Cache

22:28:58.0 4/24/2007: Creating Game Font

22:28:58.3 4/24/2007: Creating Font Black

22:28:58.4 4/24/2007: Creating Font Black Small

22:28:58.5 4/24/2007: Creating Game Font Faded

22:28:59.0 4/24/2007: Creating Title Font

22:28:59.0 4/24/2007: Restoring Title Font From Cache

22:28:59.1 4/24/2007: Fonts Created Succesfully

22:28:59.1 4/24/2007: 442mb video memory left available

22:28:59.2 4/24/2007: Starting GameExtender on: 127.0.0.1:8383

22:28:59.4 4/24/2007: Text/Language: English

22:28:59.4 4/24/2007: Applying Language/Text

22:28:59.4 4/24/2007: Initialising Bass Audio Library

22:28:59.5 4/24/2007: MAME CMD options: -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy

22:28:59.5 4/24/2007: Attempting to load game list

22:29:00.6 4/24/2007: Loading last used Game List

22:29:00.6 4/24/2007: Setting Music Volume

22:29:00.7 4/24/2007: Cannot Load Play List. Check Path and filename

22:29:00.7 4/24/2007: Creating DirectSound Device

22:29:00.7 4/24/2007: Trying: Primary Sound Driver

22:29:00.7 4/24/2007: Loading Sound Files

22:29:00.7 4/24/2007: DirectSound Device Created Successfully

22:29:00.7 4/24/2007: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support

22:29:00.7 4/24/2007: Unable to create a joystick device

22:29:00.7 4/24/2007: Initialising DirectInput for Keyboard support

22:29:00.8 4/24/2007: Initializing MCE Remote

22:29:00.8 4/24/2007: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx!

22:29:00.9 4/24/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame

22:29:01.1 4/24/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully

22:29:12.7 4/24/2007: Loading Karaoke Cache

22:29:29.0 4/24/2007: Exiting GameEx!

22:29:29.0 4/24/2007: Saving Settings

22:29:31.1 4/24/2007: Disposing Plugins

22:29:31.1 4/24/2007: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit

[Tom Speirs]

Can you try the default theme.

[ninjatech]

I tried the default theme but I still had no luck.

I ran karaoke many times in a row to try to read the title bar of the screen that flashed before game EX comes back up. It says:

"Game EX | Karaoke | [filename of song] | [##]/60"

The digits before "/60" change each time I run it. Don't know if that extra info is useful.

[ninjatech]

Bump!

[Fuzzy Logic]

I experience this same problem, i bought gameex quite a while ago, however i only use gamex for the karaoke function, as there is no other decent alternative for Media Center.

i did have MCE 2005 and i experienced this problem when i tried to upgrade to later versions, only the version that i downloaded when i first purchased it worked, and all subsequent versions produced this error.

I have sinced upgraded to Vista, and i am using the latest build of gameex. and this problem is also not working, so now the only feature i purchased gameex for cannot be used.

worth noting, when i first installed gameex and tried to play a CDG file i got a message saying that the file type is not recognised and it asked me if i want to try to play the file anyway, i said yes and the sond played ok, however upon subsequent retries the songs will not play resulting in the same error above.

Can you please assist me with this? the log file does not show any errors as far as the logfile displays, it says it has started the file for playback and ended without error.

also just another question would it be possible to add a startup setting to load the Karaoke player directly without going to the mame frontend.

Regards

Stuart Buchanan

[Tom Speirs]

I experience this same problem, i bought gameex quite a while ago, however i only use gamex for the karaoke function, as there is no other decent alternative for Media Center.

i did have MCE 2005 and i experienced this problem when i tried to upgrade to later versions, only the version that i downloaded when i first purchased it worked, and all subsequent versions produced this error.

I have sinced upgraded to Vista, and i am using the latest build of gameex. and this problem is also not working, so now the only feature i purchased gameex for cannot be used.

worth noting, when i first installed gameex and tried to play a CDG file i got a message saying that the file type is not recognised and it asked me if i want to try to play the file anyway, i said yes and the sond played ok, however upon subsequent retries the songs will not play resulting in the same error above.

Can you please assist me with this? the log file does not show any errors as far as the logfile displays, it says it has started the file for playback and ended without error.

also just another question would it be possible to add a startup setting to load the Karaoke player directly without going to the mame frontend.

Regards

Stuart Buchanan

Hi, I have been looking at this but its a bit difficult because I cant duplicate it. What would help though is if you could both post gameex.ini in the config folder zipping it first. If I can get it to do it for me it should be no problem getting it fixed.

Thanks.

Tom

[Fuzzy Logic]

Tom Thanks For he Offer Of Help, but i tried a few different configurations f gameex and had the same problems, and since you cold not replicate it i figured that it must be something specific to my Setup, it turns out this was due to ffdshow so i put an exception in the audio and video decoder configuration to not use ffdshow in gameex.exe and this works.

now i am trying to suss out why in vista the microphone does not playback realtime but it does record ok. ahh well