GameEx 4.58 - Out

**Tom Speirs** · July 14, 2005

14th July 2005
- GameEx 4.58

Should fix issue where MAME
loses focus on occasions.
Improved startup and exit
speed for MAME, emulators, and apps.
Video/DVD on screen display
when showing, displays for 4 seconds as opposed to
10

**Smiff** · July 14, 2005

jesus man, this is...

awesome actually.

i'll be updating twice today.

btw is it supposed to be safe to update without backing up & restoring your config? is there an install for upgrade option i'm missing? i only started at ver 4.54 so i'm not totally used to the procedure yet - it seemed to reset some of my config.

edit: strangely the download dissapeared when i was halfway through downloading. i wonder if that means you're upping another new version.

edit2: and its back

**Tom Speirs** · July 14, 2005

btw is it supposed to be safe to update without backing up & restoring your config? is there an install command line for upgrade i'm missing? i only started at ver 4.54 so i'm not totally used to the procedure yet.

Does it all for you automatically, and nobodies had an issue yet.

EDIT: Yes I just upped. Should be OK now. I left a few settings turned on in the config which would throw off newbies so I did a rebuild.

**Smiff** · July 14, 2005

i thought it reset some of my config, but probably i just shouldn't install software while drunk/tired. thanks!

**Tom Speirs** · July 14, 2005

i thought it reset some of my config, but probably i just shouldn't install software while drunk/tired. thanks!

As I said before, it will only reset missing settings.

If you went into the ini and removed the Also Launch setting completely for example. GameEx would treat this as empty, but the install would see its missing and put it back with whatever the default value is. I expect thats what happened.

**Smiff** · July 14, 2005

nah i just saw same problem, after this upgrade

LaunchBefore=C:\launchbefore.bat

LaunchAfter=pause

were added back to my zSNES config.

i left them cleared but not deleted.

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

edit: sorry is that what you meant should happen? can you make the installer not do this, or should i comment the lines out completely with # ? or some other way to show that i mean it to be not filled in. is there a null character i should be using?

and small observation about installer:

"finishing install" takes a long time.

dunno if it's just my system, no biggie.

only tried once but speed to return to GameEX seems wonderful, thank you!

**Tom Speirs** · July 14, 2005

nah i just saw same problem, after this upgrade
LaunchBefore=C:\launchbefore.bat
LaunchAfter=pause
were added back to my zSNES config.
i left them cleared but not deleted.
LaunchBefore=
LaunchAfter=
edit: sorry is that what you meant should happen? can you make the installer not do this, or should i comment the lines out completely with # ? or some other way to show that i mean it to be not filled in. is there a null character i should be using?
and small observation about installer:
"finishing install" takes a long time.
dunno if it's just my system, no biggie.
only tried once but speed to return to GameEX seems wonderful, thank you!

The upgrade util does not do that. You must have a messed up ini file with duplicate sections or something.

**rootnik** · July 14, 2005

Outstanding!

I'll install once the family is done with the htpc and report back.

**Smiff** · July 15, 2005

The upgrade util does not do that. You must have a messed up ini file with duplicate sections or something.
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

i think the issue is this:

user must not indent lines with tab. spaces are ok.

(you have indented most of the zSNES entry one tab stop width using spaces).

sorry about that.. was just trying to make it look neater.

another thing learnt!

**rootnik** · July 15, 2005

Tim,

I like the changes you have made. Exiting out of an emulator is much smoother than before. I noticed that Media Center focuses correctly now. GameEx's wife friendly rating just went through the roof

The only bug I can report is how the emulator exits if the green button is pressed. I'm sure this has been reported before, if not I will give more information on the error I get there.

It just seems to want to start loading MCE without exiting the emulator completely. Can I suggest either disabling the button while an emulator is launched, or having it act like the back button currently does?

I have the self control not to push the green button during gameplay, but I have doubts that my wife will She uses that button to exit everything to get back to the MCE main menu... gonna be a hard habit to break.

**Ressurection** · July 15, 2005

Thanks for the update!

Fixes my focus issue.

**WTB** · July 15, 2005

Holy Jeebus. Thanks for the work!

-Matt

**Tom Speirs** · July 15, 2005

i think the issue is this:
user must not indent lines with tab. spaces are ok.
(you have indented most of the zSNES entry one tab stop width using spaces).
sorry about that.. was just trying to make it look neater.
another thing learnt!

Aha, that must be it, well spotted.

**djrobx** · July 15, 2005

The only bug I can report is how the emulator exits if the green button is pressed. I'm sure this has been reported before, if not I will give more information on the error I get there.

LOL! Here I was all excited because Tom got "The green button" to work smoothly from within GameEx. What did the other half do last night? Pressed the green button while MAME was in a random game in attract mode!! Argh!

So yeah, if Tom can add some additional checks to see if ehshell.exe starts while waiting for an emulator to exit, kill it off, then exit gracefully, that would be great. If you do implement this, can you make it optional when running emulators? I have some pretty complex "kill the running app" rules in my own "key monitor" program, so it'd probably be better if I handled that situation myself when using my own monitor program.

**Tom Speirs** · July 15, 2005

If you do implement this, can you make it optional when running emulators? I have some pretty complex "kill the running app" rules in my own "key monitor" program, so it'd probably be better if I handled that situation myself when using my own monitor program.

Perhaps I should modify the original setting, and add one for each emulator. Which would be 'Check for particular process and Exit' That way it would be more flexible and perhaps work with the other HTPC software?

I must say though, I am not too motivated, as my green button on my remote has only ever worked when within MCE

**Tom Speirs** · July 15, 2005

i think the issue is this:
user must not indent lines with tab. spaces are ok.
(you have indented most of the zSNES entry one tab stop width using spaces).
sorry about that.. was just trying to make it look neater.
another thing learnt!

No worries, this is no longer an issue, the upgrade app now strips out the tabs. Will be in next release.

**Ad_Enuff** · July 15, 2005

Tom,

I removed an old version of GameEX and then reinstalled the latest, but I'm getting a strange problem...it cant see MAME.

I have used the easy config and teh one within GameEX but the option to play MAME stuff just isnt appearing.

How do I resolve?

Ta

**Tom Speirs** · July 15, 2005

Tom,
I removed an old version of GameEX and then reinstalled the latest, but I'm getting a strange problem...it cant see MAME.
I have used the easy config and teh one within GameEX but the option to play MAME stuff just isnt appearing.
How do I resolve?
Ta

Hi,

The log is your friend. It tells you why GameEx disabled MAME usage.

Also, up until the last build, I left AdvanceMAME turned on, which did this. Go into Advanced MAME settings, and turn it off.

Cheers,

Tom

**Ad_Enuff** · July 15, 2005

Also, up until the last build, I left AdvanceMAME turned on, which did this. Go into Advanced MAME settings, and turn it off.

It was Advanced MAME that was causing the problem.

maybe take care of that next release? It certainly gave me a head scratcher

**Smiff** · July 15, 2005

Left GameEx 4.58 running, (MAME demos presumably), came back and saw this:

not sure if its repeatable yet, will restart

GameEx.exe Common Languate Runtime  Debugging Services

Application has generated an exception that could not be handled

Process id=0x5ec (1516), Thread id=0x5f0 (1520)

never seen this before. any ideas?

unrelated Q, is there an easy way to see which version of GameEx you're running?

**Tom Speirs** · July 15, 2005

Left GameEx 4.58 running, (MAME demos presumably), came back and saw this:
not sure if its repeatable yet, will restart
GameEx.exe Common Languate Runtime Â Debugging Services

Application has generated an exception that could not be handled

Process id=0x5ec (1516), Thread id=0x5f0 (1520)
never seen this before. any ideas?
unrelated Q, is there an easy way to see which version of GameEx you're running?

Its the error thats displayed whenever a .net app has an unhandled exception. It must be the attract mode where it occured, as exceptions everywhere else are handled. Its not a 4.58 issue, and not code has changed there for a whie. Maybe MAME crashed or something, was it still running when you came back?

**Tom Speirs** · July 15, 2005

It was Advanced MAME that was causing the problem.
maybe take care of that next release? It certainly gave me a head scratcher

It was actually taken care of in 4.58.

**Smiff** · July 16, 2005

No worries, this is no longer an issue, the upgrade app now strips out the tabs. Will be in next release.
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

you are also stripping out blank lines, perhaps this is a bit much? (Sorry to be so picky)

that crash i haven't seen again, i'll keep an eye out for it.

thanks

**Tom Speirs** · July 17, 2005

you are also stripping out blank lines, perhaps this is a bit much? (Sorry to be so picky)
that crash i haven't seen again, i'll keep an eye out for it.
thanks

I dont see that here.

The format of GameEx.ini is actually competely changed during upgrade to the default one I supply in the install. This is necessary to ensure any comments I add for new settings are in the file, which I stopped doing so detailed ones anyway after I made the config app avaialble. Anyway, people really should be using the configuration app to make changes. I cant really support issues really unless there done with the config app.

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