Two problems..need help please

[jblaster]

I have googled for two nights and found nothing to help me, I may be using the wrong terminology.

I have two problems.

1. When I try to play Asteroids or Asteroids deluxe, I press thrust and the screen blanks out then comes back when I press it again.

This doesn't seem to happen on all vector games. I can still hear the sound when the screen goes blank.

2. In Mame only mode, I have the option to add to the favorites but , how do I get a favorites option in my menu to list them?

Thanks in advance for the help,

J

[bkenobi]

This is a shot in the dark, but my guess is that you are using the shift or some other system type key for your buttons. When you hold down the key, it brings up the sticky keys thing for you which tries to steal focus. The only thing I can really suggest to be sure is to check to see if there are any error messages in the MAME cmd window. Run Asteroids and then exit GameEx. Launch "Run Last Game.bat" from the GameEx Start folder. Before you do that, add 'PAUSE' to the end of that file so the window doesn't disappear after finishing. What does that window say when you exit MAME?

[jblaster]

This is a shot in the dark, but my guess is that you are using the shift or some other system type key for your buttons. When you hold down the key, it brings up the sticky keys thing for you which tries to steal focus. The only thing I can really suggest to be sure is to check to see if there are any error messages in the MAME cmd window. Run Asteroids and then exit GameEx. Launch "Run Last Game.bat" from the GameEx Start folder. Before you do that, add 'PAUSE' to the end of that file so the window doesn't disappear after finishing. What does that window say when you exit MAME?

I have already disabled sticky keys and when I run the Mame32 emulator outside of GameEx, it works fine. I will check the error messages and get back to you.

Thanks,

J

[Brian Hoffman]

I have googled for two nights and found nothing to help me, I may be using the wrong terminology.

I have two problems.

1. When I try to play Asteroids or Asteroids deluxe, I press thrust and the screen blanks out then comes back when I press it again.

This doesn't seem to happen on all vector games. I can still hear the sound when the screen goes blank.

2. In Mame only mode, I have the option to add to the favorites but , how do I get a favorites option in my menu to list them?

Thanks in advance for the help,

J

1. Look at your mame.ini and try changing your video mode to ddraw to d3d.

It should be in the mame dir.. If it doesnt exist type mame.exe -cc or mame32.exe -cc what ever your mame exe is.

2. Check the advance config and make sure you have show favorates enabled.