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**gonchal2004** · February 17, 2008

Hi all i am trying to configure diferent background image to each emulatos, but i canÂ´t. Is it posibly?. I have tried in the config menu to select a png for each emulator and didnÂ´t work. then, i tried to make my own theme. I select the background image, it appears perfect in the preview area, but when i open game ex, and enter for example in megadrive, it shows de same mame background of the start. Why?

**Tom Speirs** · February 17, 2008

gonchal2004 said:
Hi all i am trying to configure diferent background image to each emulatos, but i canÂ´t. Is it posibly?. I have tried in the config menu to select a png for each emulator and didnÂ´t work. then, i tried to make my own theme. I select the background image, it appears perfect in the preview area, but when i open game ex, and enter for example in megadrive, it shows de same mame background of the start. Why?

Advanced Config > Display Settings > Advanced GFX > On

**shaunopp** · February 18, 2008

gonchal2004 said:
Hi all i am trying to configure diferent background image to each emulatos, but i canÂ´t. Is it posibly?. I have tried in the config menu to select a png for each emulator and didnÂ´t work. then, i tried to make my own theme. I select the background image, it appears perfect in the preview area, but when i open game ex, and enter for example in megadrive, it shows de same mame background of the start. Why?

You need to go into the Emulator and select a custom background there. Changing it in the Theme layout editor doesn't seem to work whether you have Advanced GFX on or not.

From the GameEx setup wizard:

Custom-->Emulator Setup

Select the Emulator you want a custom background for from the pulldown

Hit next twice to get to Emulator Setup (3)

about halfway down is 'Custom Background'. Select your background.

Keep hitting next and exit

Should work in GameEx then.

**Tom Speirs** · February 18, 2008

shaunopp said:
You need to go into the Emulator and select a custom background there. Changing it in the Theme layout editor doesn't seem to work whether you have Advanced GFX on or not.
From the GameEx setup wizard:
Custom-->Emulator Setup
Select the Emulator you want a custom background for from the pulldown
Hit next twice to get to Emulator Setup (3)
about halfway down is 'Custom Background'. Select your background.
Keep hitting next and exit
Should work in GameEx then.

Thanks, Im trying to fix this for the next release. I guess Mamewah importing is broken because of this too?

**gonchal2004** · February 18, 2008

TSpeirs said:
Thanks, Im trying to fix this for the next release. I guess Mamewah importing is broken because of this too?

Thanks a lot both of you. As you sais i can change the background via game ex confogurator-emulator-custom background. But i cannot make my theme with custom backgrounf for each emualtor.

**shaunopp** · February 19, 2008

TSpeirs said:
Thanks, Im trying to fix this for the next release. I guess Mamewah importing is broken because of this too?

If you need me to do any testing with the Theme Editor, let me know. I'm a graphic artist and web developer by trade so I have over 15yrs. worth of layout & photo editing software experience to draw comparison from.

Even though I came to GameEx from using Mamewah I didn't use the converter as it wasn't reliable and just became quicker to recreate it. Not sure how this affects the conversion.

**bkenobi** · February 19, 2008

If you created your own themes for MAMEwah, then you would have the source available to just redo things for GameEx. The Theme Editor is really for people who want to take their MAMEwah downloaded theme into GameEx quick and dirty. I've seen good results, but then I didn't try it extensively to say when/why it wouldn't work. I don't think I actually had a problem with it, but I only tried it a couple times before finding one of the default themes I liked.

**gonchal2004** · February 19, 2008

ok, i have make my own theme, very beautiful and very happy. I have select the custom backgrounf for each emulator. but there is a problem When i launch a emulator game it works fine, but when i hit escape to return to game ex it crashes with this mesage:

06:55:00.6 19/02/2008: Running: cmd.exe /c E: fusion.exe -fullscreen "E:\MEGADRIVE\roms\Ghouls 'N Ghosts (REV 01) (JUE) [!].bin"

06:55:10.1 19/02/2008: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured

06:55:10.1 19/02/2008: Referencia a objeto no establecida como instancia de un objeto.

06:55:10.2 19/02/2008: en w.dj() en w.at() (means reference to an objet no established like an instance to an objet)

06:55:10.2 19/02/2008: Trying reinitialising the display after sleeping for 4 seconds

06:55:10.2 19/02/2008: Exception count will be dropped to 15

06:55:15.4 19/02/2008: --**--

06:55:15.4 19/02/2008: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured: Exiting

06:55:15.4 19/02/2008: Closing database connection

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: First Exception:

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: El argumento 'Number' es un valor no vÃ¡lido. (means argument "number" in not a valid value)

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en Microsoft.VisualBasic.ErrObject.Raise(Int32 Number, Object Source, Object Description, Object HelpFile, Object HelpContext)

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.a(String A_0, Double A_1, Double A_2, Boolean A_3)

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.a(Int32 A_0, Int32 A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3)

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3, Boolean A_4, Int32 A_5)

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1)

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.j(Boolean A_0)

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.ca()

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.at()

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: Last Exception:

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: Referencia a objeto no establecida como instancia de un objeto.

06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.dj()

In mame games doesnt happen, but it does in all emulators.

**Tom Speirs** · February 19, 2008

gonchal2004 said:
ok, i have make my own theme, very beautiful and very happy. I have select the custom backgrounf for each emulator. but there is a problem When i launch a emulator game it works fine, but when i hit escape to return to game ex it crashes with this mesage:
06:55:00.6 19/02/2008: Running: cmd.exe /c E: fusion.exe -fullscreen "E:\MEGADRIVE\roms\Ghouls 'N Ghosts (REV 01) (JUE) [!].bin"
06:55:10.1 19/02/2008: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured
06:55:10.1 19/02/2008: Referencia a objeto no establecida como instancia de un objeto.
06:55:10.2 19/02/2008: en w.dj() en w.at() (means reference to an objet no established like an instance to an objet)
06:55:10.2 19/02/2008: Trying reinitialising the display after sleeping for 4 seconds
06:55:10.2 19/02/2008: Exception count will be dropped to 15
06:55:15.4 19/02/2008: --**--
06:55:15.4 19/02/2008: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured: Exiting
06:55:15.4 19/02/2008: Closing database connection
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: First Exception:
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: El argumento 'Number' es un valor no vÃ¡lido. (means argument "number" in not a valid value)
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en Microsoft.VisualBasic.ErrObject.Raise(Int32 Number, Object Source, Object Description, Object HelpFile, Object HelpContext)
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.a(String A_0, Double A_1, Double A_2, Boolean A_3)
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.a(Int32 A_0, Int32 A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3)
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3, Boolean A_4, Int32 A_5)
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1)
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.j(Boolean A_0)
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.ca()
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.at()
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: Last Exception:
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: Referencia a objeto no establecida como instancia de un objeto.
06:55:15.5 19/02/2008: en w.dj()
In mame games doesnt happen, but it does in all emulators.

Did you base your theme on an existing one? I know this is a problem with the AcidBrain Vision theme. Did you make custom emulator layouts as well as backgrounds?

**gonchal2004** · February 19, 2008

TSpeirs said:
Did you base your theme on an existing one? I know this is a problem with the AcidBrain Vision theme. Did you make custom emulator layouts as well as backgrounds?

hi i have make a theme based in arcade clasic theme and another one based on arcade theme using its own backgrounds. Both have the same problem. i have only change image size, position of list..

**Tom Speirs** · February 19, 2008

gonchal2004 said:
hi i have make a theme based in arcade clasic theme and another one based on arcade theme using its own backgrounds. Both have the same problem. i have only change image size, position of list..

Did you change positions etc for individual emulators?

**gonchal2004** · February 19, 2008

yes i have change the position for example of the game list

**Tom Speirs** · February 19, 2008

TSpeirs said:
Did you change positions etc for individual emulators?

Its ok, I can see the problem. Ill get this fixed for the next release.

**gonchal2004** · February 19, 2008

TSpeirs said:
Its ok, I can see the problem. Ill get this fixed for the next release.

Thanks Tom. I will update when yo do it. But... What ca n i do now?. Make a theme with no changes of position? Â¿how can create an own theme?. because when i do "new project" in theme editor it always tell me to select a created theme

**shaunopp** · February 19, 2008

gonchal2004 said:
Thanks Tom. I will update when yo do it. But... What ca n i do now?. Make a theme with no changes of position? Â¿how can create an own theme?. because when i do "new project" in theme editor it always tell me to select a created theme

You can still do custom positioning, just not on an Emulator by Emulator basis, you need to use one universal set of coords for the time being. For some reason the Theme Editor doesn't won't remember positioning for certain items. Just make note of the X and Y position in the Theme Editor for the problem items and then go into the Theme.ini file and change the position manually. Each time you go in and out of the Theme Editor and re-save it you'll have to do this again.

**headkaze** · February 20, 2008

shaunopp said:
You can still do custom positioning, just not on an Emulator by Emulator basis, you need to use one universal set of coords for the time being. For some reason the Theme Editor doesn't won't remember positioning for certain items. Just make note of the X and Y position in the Theme Editor for the problem items and then go into the Theme.ini file and change the position manually. Each time you go in and out of the Theme Editor and re-save it you'll have to do this again.

Which elements and locations are not saved? Things like this are easy to fix so it's best to report them as a bug.

**shaunopp** · February 24, 2008

headkaze said:
Which elements and locations are not saved? Things like this are easy to fix so it's best to report them as a bug.

Was discussed in the Themes Editor Questions thread back in Early December

shaunopp said:
I'm having the same problem as gerg was with the info box staying in the same location and don't see a response from him trying Headkaze's suggestion. I've tried changing 'Info' to 'ImageInfo' in the Theme.ini with no luck. In fact, when I then open the Theme again it recreates the Info box (and init entry) with the default location and size: Info=20,160,251,159

headkaze said:
I've sent an e-mail to Tom about this issue. I have a feeling I changed the name of one of the graphic elements which was not updated in GameEx. We should get this fixed ASAP. Just out of curiousity can you try changing "Info" to "Menu". I have a feeling that could be the one I renamed.

**Tom Speirs** · February 24, 2008

As far as I know the issue your referring to was actually fixed in a previous version.

Can you confirm?

Thanks.

Tom

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