Games not working...so lost now

[xenolion]

Ok I know that somewhere this had to been talked about. When I start a game in GameEX I can select the game then it goes to the a black screen and I get a loading 4% then bang I am back to the GameEX game selection screen. When I select the same game inside Mame32fx it works fine. So I know that Im missing something simple.

Its a 1ghz PIII

512 meg of ram

3 - 40 gig hard drives

DVD-R Drive

ATI 256 AGP Radeon

Win-TV 150 PVR PCI

4 port PCI card

Windows Media Center

I was also thinking of how I can get StepMania setup in to GameEX other emulator sections. Any help would be great thank.

[Stu1983]

I've Stepmania setup in my cabinet... I create a batch file for every PC game and have a seperate emulator section call PC which then just list the batch files as roms, it's handy as I can launch auto hot key files and what not before each PC game if need be... the batch file for Stepmania is an easy one though it's just

T:

cd "T:\Games\StepMania CVS\Program\"

StepMania.exe

obviously you'd need to change the paths

As for you Mame problem try adding a pause to the end of the "Run Last Game" batch file that GameEx creates in "\GameEx\DATA\runitgame.bat" and then run it from windows and see if it bring's up any obvious errors

[hansolo77]

I create a batch file for every PC game and have a seperate emulator section call PC...

Even easier than making batch files is to just make shortcuts... Copy the the game shortcut to a folder and have gameex look in that folder for the .lnk files.

[xenolion]

Ok heres something to add into this. When I run the "Run Last Game. bat" out side of Game Ex it runs great, but when I select the mame game in side it I get only to 4% then back to the selection screen. I dont get why this is happening.

As for stepmania the bat and ink works great. The n64 and snes emus work great.

[kenclops]

Ok heres something to add into this. When I run the "Run Last Game. bat" out side of Game Ex it runs great, but when I select the mame game in side it I get only to 4% then back to the selection screen. I dont get why this is happening.

As for stepmania the bat and ink works great. The n64 and snes emus work great.

Switch all mame games from Direct3d to DirectDraw. I was having the same problem.

[enoch]

Even easier than making batch files is to just make shortcuts... Copy the the game shortcut to a folder and have gameex look in that folder for the .lnk files.

But what to do about the rom path?

[Stu1983]

But what to do about the rom path?

Just set your rom path to point to the folder containing all your shortcuts or batch files

The problem for me with using shortcuts is that because I have an arcade cabinet I need to run other programs like Joy2Key to change the game controls before I run the game and then close them after the pc game has closed which is why a batch file is the easiest option in my case