i cant create game videos!

[geodeath]

Hello all!

I installed gameEx a couple of hours ago, since i am almost ready with building my own cabinet ( ) and i tried to create mame videos.

I installed mame 120 manually, since the mame version the wizard downloads is old..

I also have a full 120 rom set, and all paths are correct in the configuration utility.

However, when i try to run the create videos utility, it always gets out of full screen and into a window (which i would presume is done in order for the videos to be in their native res)

and when it runs the games one by one, it always gets stuck into the "press ok or joy left/right to continue" screen, although i specifically set it up to bypass them.

Even if i manually type ok and make the game start, it still wont output any videos at all in the avisnap folder of mame32 folder.

I have ffdshow installed as well.

What should i do?

george

[bkenobi]

I suggest you check out EmuMovies. They are really nicely done movies that show action of the game rather than just the title screen that you might get from the create videos option.

[geodeath]

yeah, i considered it, but i thought that i would leave gameEx to create them since i already have the full rom set, instead of downloading 18 gigs of vids.

I think it gets stuck at the "ok" screen and the game info screen.

[bkenobi]

The reason it does that is because MAME has changed input systems so GameEx currently cannot send "OK" to get through that screen. There is a thread here about how to compile a patched version that has that verification removed. I suggest you check it out since it does some other nice stuff as well.

Incidentally: I wanted to point out that the EmuMovies collection is very large as a whole, but it's not that big if you just grab what you want to use. The current set has high resolution and standard resolution sets. If you are using them for previews, the standard set should be just fine. Also, there is some duplication in the sets due to artwork (cropped, full) and aspect ratio (horizontal, vertical). I downloaded artwork/full and horizontal from the standard set and it was around 4Gb. If I wanted to create the videos, they would have been around that same size and taken days to do (if not longer). The real advantage is that Circo has personally checked to make sure there is good action in the videos rather than just stagnant title screens.

[rberger3]

Hi,

I went to the emumovies site and when i click on the mame 119 torrent link it just loads a page of gibberish, nothing downloads, not chance to save the torrent? Am i going to the wrong section?

[rberger3]

Hi,

I went to the emumovies site and when i click on the mame 119 torrent link it just loads a page of gibberish, nothing downloads, not chance to save the torrent? Am i going to the wrong section?

[Hadoken]

hi im having the same trouble except with mine it goes through them until it gets to t then stops with a gameex log error its such a kick in the stones as ive done it three or four times already and just get the same error ps if you go to the emumovies site try just clicking the pictureyou can always get them on dvd aswell if you dont have the bandwidth however i think they just go from hash to o on the 119 set as in not all the way to z

[bkenobi]

Go to EmuMovies and select Arcade collections. Then right click on the link that says torrents for "M.A.M.E. .119 HiQ/SQ (WIP)(#-O)" and save the link. If you click on it, it opens the torrent directly which looks like junk. You probably could save that page and load it in your torrent downloader, but it's safer to just go back one step and save the file the other way.

[rberger3]

Go to EmuMovies and select Arcade collections. Then right click on the link that says torrents for "M.A.M.E. .119 HiQ/SQ (WIP)(#-O)" and save the link. If you click on it, it opens the torrent directly which looks like junk. You probably could save that page and load it in your torrent downloader, but it's safer to just go back one step and save the file the other way.

Ah yes, that worked. Thanks!