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**WTB** · January 20, 2006

OK, I love GameExtender. Any plans for the customization of the displayed info? Maybe cart shots for the nes emulator, box shots for GBA games, maybe a CP shot for the MAME games etc?

Or maybe a quicker refresh and having it scroll through the shots: fullscreen title shot, then fullscreen screenshot, then fullscreen etc?

-Matt

**Tom Speirs** · January 22, 2006

OK, I love GameExtender. Any plans for the customization of the displayed info? Maybe cart shots for the nes emulator, box shots for GBA games, maybe a CP shot for the MAME games etc?
Or maybe a quicker refresh and having it scroll through the shots: fullscreen title shot, then fullscreen screenshot, then fullscreen etc?
-Matt

It should already have a refresh setting, and does cycle through the artwork if you have the setting enabled to show game info. Although in the next release it will cycle through the artwork even if its not enabled.

It also shows the MAME CP. Maybe you posted this before I made these enhancments available. If not go grab the latest version. Its even better!!

**WTB** · January 22, 2006

Rad! I'm already a couple revisions behind. Can't wait to play! Thanks Tom.

-Matt

**gerble1000** · January 23, 2006

one small thing ,abouth the advanced config.ini

it now allows 10 button config wich is brillient but

buttons 1-6 works fine only 7-10 seems to be the same button as button 6

even though ive changed the codes.

i have played around with it for a few days now and cant get it working

thanx gerble1000

**emphatic** · January 23, 2006

I've been checking out some old pc games recently and I find that most won't let me reconfigure the controls. This is very annoying as you understand I and thought;

"- Wow, what if GameEx could save a 'controller-translation' file for my games!?"

This is how it should work:

1.You go to GameEx configuration and choose "input/controller-translator"

Here you map out your controller (i.e. your joystick or whatever you use)

Then Save it.

2. Here's the good part: You start any game that has "fixed controls" (arrow keys, anyone?) outside of GameEx and take a note of the keys.

3. In the configuration file for that game in GameEx configuration, you enter the key combination for that game.

For example: My X-Arcade is setup like this:

Player 1 |up|=8 |down|=2 |left|=4 |right|=6 |button1|=j |button2|=y |button3|=space |start|=1

Now when I load up the game from within GameEx, I get an automatic "remapping" of my buttons to this:

So, basically, I never have to take out my keyboard to use menus anymore. Just my joystick and GameEx.

I don't know if JoyToKey (I only briefly looked at it's website) can do this already, (This would be more like "KeyToKey")because I never found a use for it until now, but wouldn't it be a great addition to GameEx?

Emph

**headkaze** · January 23, 2006

Your thinking of Autohotkey which can map any key to another key and works very well. I use it in a couple of situations with games that don't allow custom controls. You can map any joystick or key to another key on the keyboard very easily. On top of that you can compile the ahk files to an exe and launch them before an emulator. I use taskkill.exe /F /IM [scriptname].exe to kill the script after it's launched.

**incubus158** · January 24, 2006

Hey heres an easy request.... I would love it if you fixed the [TEXT] sector of the INI. I used to be able to specify what I wanted to call things within the system. Now its DEAD broke. Try it for yourself with your default.gameex.ini file in your latest version. Try changing text.... not going to happen. :-(

**emphatic** · January 24, 2006

Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted!

Emph

Your thinking of Autohotkey which can map any key to another key and works very well. I use it in a couple of situations with games that don't allow custom controls. You can map any joystick or key to another key on the keyboard very easily. On top of that you can compile the ahk files to an exe and launch them before an emulator. I use taskkill.exe /F /IM [scriptname].exe to kill the script after it's launched.
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**Tom Speirs** · January 24, 2006

one small thing ,abouth the advanced config.ini
it now allows 10 button config wich is brillient but
buttons 1-6 works fine only 7-10 seems to be the same button as button 6
even though ive changed the codes.
i have played around with it for a few days now and cant get it working
thanx gerble1000

Hi, yep, you just found a bug. Thanks for reproting it, it really does help when people tell me these things. Its fixed now my end and will be in the next release.

Cheers,

Tom

**Tom Speirs** · January 24, 2006

Hey heres an easy request.... I would love it if you fixed the [TEXT] sector of the INI. I used to be able to specify what I wanted to call things within the system. Now its DEAD broke. Try it for yourself with your default.gameex.ini file in your latest version. Try changing text.... not going to happen. :-(

Hi, I hope to make it more intuitve in the future, but you DO NEED to set the language to custom or blank in the ini to get it to work.

Thanks,

Tom

**gerble1000** · January 27, 2006

hey tom

thanx for doing the 10 button advanced config .

it works great.

one more request if i can,

can you make the attract screen saver work on

emulated games like project 64 and snes games ect.

cus that would be cool

you could even put an enable/disable feture on each emulator.

thanx gerble1000

**Tom Speirs** · February 6, 2006

On the links and extras page:
http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/Extras.htm
*Reminder* to update the screenshot archive link:
http://localarcade.com/screenshotarchive/
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In game extender (http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/images/30.jpg) is there a way that you could add the 'info' about the game? (ie http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/Includes/..%5CImages/7.jpg)
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How about the ability to add information about games in other emulators? ie have a menu item for games to add info/description, and save in a file for each emulator (then we can share).
like mame has
http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/Includes/..%5CImages/7.jpg

Well that first one has be the fasted request I've implemented. Its done now

Seriously though, good and well thought requests.

**incubus158** · February 7, 2006

OMG Tom... thanks for implimenting that custom textual description for each game. I cant wait to have the community share these. We have been needing new things in the emulated games section. The last new thing has been since around 3.14 when you included sections for carts and boxscans. We need the same kind of options on our emulators as we do with mame to make this the pimpest game system ever!

Please remind everyone of this fix on your next release.

**koolmoecraig** · February 7, 2006

What would be the greatest feature ever would be the ability to filter Vertical games from Horizontal.

And I still would like an even BIGGER font size option.

Hell. I'll even kick a few bucks to add this!

**Tom Speirs** · February 7, 2006

OMG Tom... thanks for implimenting that custom textual description for each game. I cant wait to have the community share these. We have been needing new things in the emulated games section. The last new thing has been since around 3.14 when you included sections for carts and boxscans. We need the same kind of options on our emulators as we do with mame to make this the pimpest game system ever!
Please remind everyone of this fix on your next release.

Actually its not implemented yet but I am working on it. The last thing added to emulators was actually two things recently the ability to navigate through artwork full screen without going back and the option to continue playing music/jukebox when launching a game.

**oxbow** · February 9, 2006

I've an idea/request to keep the fruittables nicely in order;

If you set 'Romsinfolders' to True, GameEx doesn't seem to look for extensions anymore at the moment..

An option so GameEx will look for roms with an extension (stated in the config) in their own folder would be nice. (Ex. if you wanna play Hot Spots WDX it has to look for the file in the "..Roms/Hots Spots WDX/Hot Spots WDX.gam" file)

Some bellfruit artfiles have the same name so this will prevent that you'll mix up (and overwrite) tablefiles if you have to put them in one big folder

**oxbow** · February 10, 2006

Configure keys/joystick to change aspect, soundtrack, angle etc.

I believe you can change the aspect already by pressing 'enter'?

**SyNTaXer** · February 19, 2006

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**Evilforces** · February 21, 2006

Hi all!!

I think a very interesting option is if you can del any game from mame or any emulator directly from the list.

I think the way is an option to del the game (only from the list) and other option to del game from the list and from the hard disk.

This for me is a very interesting option because you can del any game you donÂ´t want to have in your hard disk.

Thanks a lot.

**Modab** · February 21, 2006

One feature I currently enjoy about GameEx that I don't want to see changed is the simplicity of the main screens. I don't need a whole bunch of complex options when all I want to do is select and play a movie or game with my friends.

I would like editable folders, management tools, lists of games I don't have, etc... but I wouldn't want them cluttered around in the main menus. Keep it in a separate program like the Configuration, or Theme Editor.

**Modab** · February 22, 2006

I would be very happy if there was support for UNC paths.

I'm sure you talked about it briefly in a previous post, but I can't do a search for UNC so I don't remember whether this feature would be possible or not. I really hope it is!

**Michael** · February 24, 2006

i cant seem to do this not sure if its possible,

how about aminated gif support for the menu pictures?

please let me know if this is possible, as i think it would be a cool feature

**headkaze** · February 24, 2006

i cant seem to do this not sure if its possible,
how about aminated gif support for the menu pictures?
please let me know if this is possible, as i think it would be a cool feature

It would probably be easier to add avi support. It could already be in there, have you tried putting an avi in LOGO directory with the same filename as a logo (leaving the avi extension of course)?

**Michael** · February 25, 2006

It would probably be easier to add avi support. It could already be in there, have you tried putting an avi in LOGO directory with the same filename as a logo (leaving the avi extension of course)?
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good point headkaze i never even thort of trying an avi file and yes it works great

thanks

**Michael** · February 25, 2006

I would be very happy if there was support for UNC paths.
I'm sure you talked about it briefly in a previous post, but I can't do a search for UNC so I don't remember whether this feature would be possible or not. I really hope it is!
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not quite a unc path but i use maped network drives in win xp to play video files from a server pc

duno if this will be any use to you

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