Text/language changes not being shown / adding items to start menu / custom mame images

[rabidpuppy]

3 questions:

1. I made a few changes to the text/language settings, but they don't show up - e.g. changing "MAME" to "Arcade Games", "Emulated Games" to "Console & Computer Games" etc. Have exited, changed themes, even updated list, but still the old text labels display. Have checked gamex.ini and my changes are indeed saved there:

StartMAME=Arcade Games

StartApps=System Setup

StartEMU=Console & Computer Games

What am I doing wrong? How do I get the theme to reload the text/language settings from the gameex.ini?

edit: found out had to change language from "English" to "Custom" in the text/language dropdown.

2. Along the same line of thought, how do I go about making a start menu item change what it shows e.g. MAME (which I want to read "Arcade") to display both MAME and LaserDisc games. Also to add a new start menu item e.g. "Computer Games". Ideally I want the first 3 items on my start menu to be

Arcade Games (MAME and LaserDisc)

Console Games (emulated console games e.g. atari2600)

Computer Games (emulated computer system games e.g. c64)

3. I can't figure out how to add additional artwork to MAME, like you can with other emulators. I have various other screenshots (bosses, scores, gameover etc) that I want to add to the MAME gameinfo page, but can't find where to do it. In advanced config you can only do this to other emulators you setup.

Cheers!

[bkenobi]

2) You can't really customize the menus as much as you are asking. The best thing I can suggest is to try using flat menus. It won't give you submenus, but it will give you access to everything without searching. This will start to look cluttered if you have a TON of emulators though.

3) I don't believe there is any way to add more artwork. The only thing you can do is to make MAME an external emulator, but that's not a good idea since you will lose a ton of functionality for a couple extra images. The only real suggestion is to make a feature request to have some custom artwork. It's not a bad idea, so you might as well post it and see what happens!