a n00b, impressed, with some general questions

[Tom Speirs]

Yeah, I cater for the yanks far more than I should

Very low priority, but perhaps Ill add a file.exists check before launching.

Any chance you could start posting feature requests under feature requests? I'd also like to move your feature requests in this topic to the pinned topic. OK to do that?

I realise not everything in this topic is a feature request, and this topic is generally helpful to me. I dont mind it being a bit different. Although its getting a bit of a pain, only because its so long. Yourll get more chance of me addressing stuff, if you post a bit differently. Dont mean any offence .

Cheers.

Tom.

[Smiff]

yeah ok from now on ill post feature requests in the feature requests topic, you dont need to do it, cos ill go through and take whats still relevant.

thank*you*

[Smiff]

ok i think this belongs here, cos its just me being thick:

when i interrupt attract mode to play a game (that was demo-ing), why is that i can hear the game's sound, but very quiet ?

[Tom Speirs]

ok i think this belongs here, cos its just me being thick:

when i interrupt attract mode to play a game (that was demo-ing), why is that i can hear the game's sound, but very quiet ?

Thats the option to not play Attract mode with sound. You cannot turn off sound in MAME completly without actually turning off the sound chip emulation. This causes some games not to work. Therefore I just set the volume to the lowest level possible, which can sometimes still be heard if you have you volume whacked up.

I am a little confused, I thought you said you could not play attract mode games, it exited!?

[Smiff]

i can play them for a minute or two if im lucky, then it exits

thx for the explanation.

[Tom Speirs]

i can play them for a minute or two if im lucky, then it exits

thx for the explanation.

OK, fixed in next release.

[Smiff]

edit2: this is a non-issue. my mistake. please scroll down for real issues

alright, spent a couple of hours on this, got some improvement (first i had bad bios) but i still can't get some games to show up in gamex.

e.g. the entire 'King of Fighters' series.

they appear, validate and run fine through MAME32FX gui.

MAME32FXPP.exe is what i use in gamex.

i've updated all the support files i can think of (mameinfo, catver, nplayers, history).

doh, what am i missing?!

edit: here's all relevant config afaik:

OnlyWorking=True

AllowImperfect=True

VerifyRoms=False

OnlyRoms=True

NoGameInfo=False

GameFilter=Japan;Korea;Asia;Hispanic;bootleg;french;german;hack;prototype; hardware

GameFilterOn=False

NoAdult=True

NoClones=True

MameOptions=-skip_gameinfo -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy -skip_validitychecks

edit2: yes the rom paths are correct, because i have ROMs sorted by system and other Neo-Geo games show up.

[Smiff]

haven't figured out the above yet.

seperate q:

i have some apps i want to run in PAL videos modes. is there a "best" way of running a batch file (which will send a command to powerstrip), along with an external application but still have gameex integrate properly. i cant see that it can all go into one batch file as the parameters must still be passed to the external app, and gameex must know which process to watch. how do you do this sorry? any help appreciated.

edit: AlsoLaunch= would do this, but its not available for apps?

[Smiff]

someone was using gameex and the controls went nuts - it tried to go to the top of every menu, always, like someone was holding up. restarting gameex fixed this. not an input device issue afaik.

edit: in case it helps, the mouse was disabled and only one digital arcade stick in use controlling GameEx. not sure exactly what was pressed, some kids were on it....

[Smiff]

got a problem with the input config - i have pads in pairs, and can only use one (the first) of each, since gameex config can't seem to tell difference between the two with same name :/

[Smiff]

while tring to configure weather html app

runtime error

...gameex.exe

R6025

- pure virtual function call

??

edit: saved fine and worked after restarting.

[Smiff]

Tom, did you change anything with the way dirmap is handled in the latest version? i can't get my photo slideshows to work now. when launching, gameex just shows the transition and immediatley returns to the launch screen. there is no attempt to start the program (and no last run .bat generated, and with debug on, it never opens a prompt).

arrrgggh! after fiddling for an hour trying config changes, im stuck, any suggestions please?

this happens as soon as i put a MAPFile= line in the app config. it worked before so i dont understand it, i don't think i messed the file up or anthing, ive tried simplifying it.

edit: just a thought ,could mapfiles be conflicting with your file exists check you put in the latest version? please let it be something simple like this.

i would try going back to the prev gameex ver to check if its me or gameex but dont know if its safe to install older ver over top of 5.11?

[Tom Speirs]

Tom, did you change anything with the way dirmap is handled in the latest version? i can't get my photo slideshows to work now. when launching, gameex just shows the transition and immediatley returns to the launch screen. there is no attempt to start the program (and no last run .bat generated, and with debug on, it never opens a prompt).

arrrgggh! after fiddling for an hour trying config changes, im stuck, any suggestions please?

this happens as soon as i put a MAPFile= line in the app config. it worked before so i dont understand it, i don't think i messed the file up or anthing, ive tried simplifying it.

edit: just a thought ,could mapfiles be conflicting with your file exists check you put in the latest version? please let it be something simple like this.

i would try going back to the prev gameex ver to check if its me or gameex but dont know if its safe to install older ver over top of 5.11?

Yes, that was a bug caused by a request by Smiff

[Smiff]

got problem with mapfile

i want to be able to put folders from different trees in a single mapfile.

however all paths get given the base rom folder path from RomPath=

so i thought of putting the complete paths into the dirs.map:

instead of

Folder "Folder label"

having

C:\Some\Path\Folder "folder label"

and instead of

[romfolder\[romfile]

just [romfile] in the emu config.

but this doesn't work, gameex seems to truncacte to the last folder

e.g. "C:\Some\Path\Folder" becomes just "Folder".

any way around this please?

[Tom Speirs]

any way around this please?

Not without some significant coding changes, sorry. Although Ill add it to the list. Post a feature req.

[Smiff]

got a problem with cursors.

tried Stardock CursorXP windows mouse cursor enhancement app.

works very nice in windows and apps.

but flickers like mad in GameEx. any thoughts? :/

tried don't wait for blit in gameex

tried turning off shadows, alpha etc. in mouse options

can't see anything yet that makes it flicker-free in gameex.

[Tom Speirs]

got problem with mapfile

i want to be able to put folders from different trees in a single mapfile.

however all paths get given the base rom folder path from RomPath=

so i thought of putting the complete paths into the dirs.map:

instead of

Folder  "Folder label"

having

C:\Some\Path\Folder "folder label"

and instead of

[romfolder\[romfile]

just [romfile] in the emu config.

but this doesn't work, gameex seems to truncacte to the last folder

e.g. "C:\Some\Path\Folder" becomes just "Folder".

any way around this please?

I had a look at this for your Smiff. GameEx does not truncate the \ in [ROMFILE] as far as I can see. Check runitgame.bat after launching to be sure though. Did maybe the emulator truncate it because you had [ROMFILE] without the quotes around it? Should be "[ROMFILE]"

[Smiff]

Tom thanks but i can't get it to work

C:\Some\Path\Pictures

is the format of the line in the mapfile

on launch

[romfile] gets turned into just Pictures

so the command is app.exe /slideshow=Pictures

which of course, doesnt work :/

using debug mode, that is also whats in runinitgame.bat

what might i be doing wrong?

edit: with quotes around "[Romfile]" it just becomes "Pictures".

def. gameex doing the truncating not the app (irfanview)

[Smiff]

there seems to be some input bug in gameex where sometimes the controls will go nuts (ping-ping-ping-ping forever) like someone is holding a key. this can be when using keyboard or joystick to navigate. only way to fix i know is exit and restart gameex. no one else seen this? :/

[Tom Speirs]

there seems to be some input bug in gameex where sometimes the controls will go nuts (ping-ping-ping-ping forever) like someone is holding a key. this can be when using keyboard or joystick to navigate. only way to fix i know is exit and restart gameex. no one else seen this? :/

I've seen it before a while back. Its not a GameEx bug, but DirectX conflicts with other apps.

Are you going to start posting new topics soon ?

[Smiff]

ok, so how do we go about solving it. some time to release other apps? its a real showstopper for users when it happens.

yes sorry i'll start making each topic its own thread then.

[Tom Speirs]

ok, so how do we go about solving it. some time to release other apps? its a real showstopper for users when it happens.

yes sorry i'll start making each topic its own thread then.

I have tried various things, like refreshing the devices. Could you try and narrow what apps or emulators its happening with. If its a lot it may be something related to your setup perhaps? As I said I've not seen this issue myself for a long while.

Let me know.

I dont mind you posting here if its just ramblings and chat, but possible bugs etc should have there own topic if possible.

Cheers

[Smiff]

input thing now being discussed here http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=720

thanks

[Smiff]

got a problem with cursors.

tried Stardock CursorXP windows mouse cursor enhancement app.

works very nice in windows and apps.

but flickers like mad in GameEx. any thoughts? :/

interesting, since upgrading to 5.14 i now see a normal windows/plain white mouse cursor in gameex, and its not flickering, so thats fine

is that something you changed Tom?

edit: no, only first time after starting gameex. after that its back to flickery :/

edit3: it seems like you fixed something in 5.14, i consistently see a standard system pointer now, not as pretty as the CursorXP pointer, but useable and flicker-free

[Smiff]

for custom input, for joystick, doesnt allow changing up/down/left/right?

id like to be able to use the dpad instead of analogue stick for gameex navigation, much more intuitive, please.

edit: btw, dpad on Adaptoid is 4 buttons, in case that matters, thanks

(didn't post to feature requests because not sure its not possible!)

edit: btw, as promised, a link on pj64.net, should be bringing you some new users (we may rearrange links a bit later)