Redoing my cab

[Toonces]

Hi Guys! It's been a while now and I've decided to change things up a bit on my cab and start over. I've removed the 2 49 way sticks and GPWiz49's and replaced them with 2 Wico360's until I can acquire 2 Ultrastick360's. I really think the Ultrasticks will match the Japanese cab better so that's where I'm heading. Now, my cab has been running PowerMAME .105 for a long time now and I am considering updating to the latest version of mame. I still have an LEDWiz connected up to 14 RGB LED's for the player & start buttons. GameEx has come so far as well as Headkaze appears too have been more than a little busy himself. What I'm wondering is where to go when starting over? Do I need Headkaze's plugin(s)? or has that been incorporated into GameEx now? My setup is fairly simple for the moment as a 2 player, 6 buttons each, 2 start buttons and 2 8 ways. I will be expanding that to 2 Ultrasticks in the next month but that's it. I really liked the PowerMAME features but I don't think I need PowerMAME to achieve the same thing anymore. Am I correct?

Thanks for the help!

Toonces

[Nologic]

Dang #4 eh? wow old school.

You'll still need the plugin for th ledwiz.

Past that I'm clueless...don't have a cab.

I'm sure some of the other guys can be a LOT more helpful about the subject.

[Toonces]

Yeah, I've been using GameEx for a while

Thanks for the info on the plugin. There's so much new stuff it gets a little overwhelming. The last version I was running was 7.09 and I think it was 5. something previous to that. It still amazes me the number of releases Tom does to GameEx. I think I've downloaded 3 versions since I started the rebuild!

I started from Scratch this time using Windows XP Jacked Core. Very stripped build. Includes network but no shares. boots up quickly and runs fast. I think the default install only uses like 20MB RAM. Pretty much just enough windows to support running programs. I installed the .net runtimes, winvnc and an ftp server so I can upload everything to it. So far so good. It looks like I might even be finished by the end of the holiday weekend

Toonces