GameEx 5.10 - Now Out

[Tom Speirs]

21st September 2005
- GameEx 5.10

• New most played/frequently
  played list/module
• Update German translation by
  Cupid
• Removed Play DVD from start
  page. Only under Multimedia now.
• Added setting to not wait for
  blitting. This might stop flickering on ancient
  video cards. Although causes slow down.
• Fixed exception when
  returning to News list after attract mode runs.
• Attract mode will no longer
  fire up when waiting for the news list to populate
• Now checks that an emulator
  ROM exists before launching.
• Fixed cant not exit attract
  mode and play the game.
  

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[njay]

Thanks !!

[cupid]

Thanks Tom!

To all german users:

... und daddelt was das das Zeug hält! ;-)

(German slang for "play as much as you can"!)

[Smiff]

5.11 changelog?

thanks Tom, theres a couple of my things in there

[Tom Speirs]

5.11 changelog?

thanks Tom, theres a couple of my things in there

Just a sorting fix for the most played games. TimesPlayed=4 was ranking higher than TimesPlayed=399 etc.

[emphatic]

When using the Most Played option, I noticed that that page uses the emubak.png. Could you make a mostplayed.png and use as the background instead? For skinning purpouses. Feel free to move this into feature requests if you want to, but I figured this was a bug.

Edit: In Text/Language, Most Played doesn't have a text field called Most Played Start, like MAME Start is to MAME list etc. This would also be nice to have, to get the same feel in all menus.

Edit #2: If you choose "last game", you go into the presentation page for that game and the "MAME All-list" title is showing at the top. I find this a bit confusing while navigating through the different pages. But maybe that's just me.

Emph

[Smiff]

i think this release may have broken mapfile usage (as fails rom exists check?) can anyone confirm?

[Tom Speirs]

i think this release may have broken mapfile usage (as fails rom exists check?) can anyone confirm?

I think your right it would make sense. Map Files without multiple dirs may still work. Ill look at it at the weekend.

Cheers.

[djrobx]

Yeah, I would suggest the option to disable rom check (or disable with MAP file use). The map files give us a way to make a list of choices without necessarily having a list of files. I think that's a good thing, at least until you get more customization options.

[Smiff]

thanks Tom, please don't reduce the functionality of the mapfile, disabling the rom check for all mapfile use or an option per emu/app would probably be the best way...

although i don't see why gameex can't check the dir exists, because the dirs in my mapfile do exist.. but perhaps some people dont want a check for a reason, like the dirs are created after gameex is started or something.

sorry i feel kinda stupid cos i asked for that check.

[Tom Speirs]

thanks Tom, please don't reduce the functionality of the mapfile, disabling the rom check for all mapfile use or an option per emu/app would probably be the best way...

although i don't see why gameex can't check the dir exists, because the dirs  in my mapfile do exist.. but perhaps some people dont want a check for a reason, like the dirs are created after gameex is started or something.

sorry i feel kinda stupid cos i asked for that check. 

Again, dont worry. I am not removing the functionality, its just a bug I need to fix. I will look at it and fix it.