GameEx 5.00 - Now Out

[Tom Speirs]

7th September 2005
- GameEx 5.00

• Video/DVD on screen display
  now displaying again, and now always showing when
  it needs to.
• Fixes/tweaks to MAME bypass
  warning and disclaimer settings.
• Should fix
  functions2.isplaying start up error that some
  users where experiencing.
• The biggest change is you can
  now specify an advanced configuration file for any
  emulator.
• Featuring joytokey style
  Joystick to keyboard mapping.
  
  • Play visual pinball with
    a gamepad!
    

  [*]Ability to check for
  additional processes before exiting a game. [*]Monitor X-Arcade/SlikStik/Back
  button for exiting game, and/or Escape key. [*]The ability to send a key to
  the emulator to exit cleanly instead of ending the
  process. Example: Alt-F4 for Project 64, Q for
  ZSNES [*]Specify a joystick
  combination to exit emulator. [*]Also in this release:
  

  • Enhanced SendKeys
    functions for emulators and applications. Now
    uses API calls, allowing SendKeys to work with
    all apps.
  • Use Gamepad to key
    mapping for daphne, including credit and start
    button.
    

  
  
  

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[Smiff]

massive amounts of w00t. unfortunately i have to go to bed now, been up (again) fighting with the new pj64 site..

will try tomorrow cheers Tom

[emphatic]

Wow! Good work! Will try it when home from work.

Emph

[djrobx]

*Bows to the almighty Tom*

Can't wait to play with these features!!

-- Rob

[WTB]

Holy Jeebus! Again, thank you. I'll play with this tomorrow!

-Matt

[Paco62]

MAN, I can hardly play any of my games because I am always messing around with the new updates!!! Thanks again for all your hard work. Every release has something great that I enjoy. Anxious to see how PinMame works with a gamepad (while I wait FOREVER for my SlikStik to come it).

[evilpenguin]

Wow, some great features in this release. I can't wait to try it out. Thanks Tom!

[emphatic]

When I pressed 'escape' to exit from attractmode I exited GameEx as well. Is this a bug or just a freak occurance just for me?

Emph

[Tom Speirs]

When I pressed 'escape' to exit from attractmode I exited GameEx as well. Is this a bug or just a freak occurance just for me?

Emph

It seems to be an issue with the bypass disclaimer setting. Are you using it?

[emphatic]

Yes. I have it 'on'.

Another thing:

When I launch GameEx, it displays the startpage like I want it to, but with the wrong background. It displays bak.bmp instead of startbak.bmp. Only after I have selected one of the menu items and then go back the correct bmp is displayed. Is this a bug or am I missing something in configuration?

Edit:

I just tried a workaround by having start page enabled but set "show start page first" to false. I thought that I would start in MAME directly with the option to hit "back" to go to the start page, but I guess that I'm missing something. In my WIP theme I have disabled the "home" & "exit" buttons at the top and also the top menu so I can't reach the startpage at the moment. Perhaps I have to have those buttons enabled then?

Emph