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NEWS: GameEx 9.94 Released

Tom Speirs

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Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

Tom Speirs

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Ive tried to perfect and optimize a few things with this release mainly the input system. There's also a new merge feature for lists.

  • Input:
    • ALL keyboard controls are now configurable, that means you can specifiy specific keys for volume and page up/down among others. This is of course welcome for control panels, but should also allow a wider range of remote controls to be used
    • Directions are now customizable for game pads. Useful for control panels and if you want to navigate the interface with a d pad
    • As with keyboard controls, now multiple buttons can be set to perform the same navigation functions with gamepads
    • The global gamepad exit combo is now read and set in custominput.ini instead of previously being fixed
    • If using an advanced emulator config, and not mapping the gamepad exit combo within that, GameEx will now check for the global exit combo
  • Merge feature:
    • There is a new merge feature for emulators that will list distinclty only one item for all clones with the same file name. When selecting the parent, the clones will be displayed on the info page. This can work in conjuction with the existing zip/7-zip support if wished. In addition Flag icons for merged and goodmerged games now work with NoIntro and Tosec format on the game info page
  • Other changes:
    • The MAME only mode now also allows access to favorites, last played, most played, and random game
    • The MAWS live list is now working again
rlswick Ultimate GameEx Guru!

rlswick

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Yourll have to remind me about that one. I dont recall it.

Best of ,Greatest hits albums are all merged

Example,

Moody blues greatest hits

ZZtop greatest hits

journey greatest

and others all the songs from those groups are in each others albums

you will have 3 #1 songs 3#2 ect

Ive tried eveything

I had to quit using it becase I had songs everywhere.

And All my albums are in separate folders.

rlswick Ultimate GameEx Guru!

rlswick

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yeah, I guess it would do that since it goes by album name only. Ill take a a look.

Thanks Tom,Maybe this is easier said then done to fix.

I know its alot worse in windows media player than in file tags!

greatflash GameEx God (Top Rank)

greatflash

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Another great update Tom,

Really happy to have the Flags at last :)

IMBerzerk Ultimate GameEx Guru!

IMBerzerk

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Great stuff Tom, thanks a mil! This welcome update for using GameEx on a cabinet! :)

Adultery GameEx God (Top Rank)

Adultery

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Started having issues with GameEx starting last build... I have a hunch it has something to do with HideOS since all I get on launch is a black screen. I'm gonna install this manually and see what happens.

.:EDIT:. It seems that I can't get the GameEx menu to come up after the opening splash screen, but if I leave it go on the black screen where the menu should be, the Attract Mode still seems to be booting up games just fine. Maybe it has something to do with HideOS, maybe not...

I'm using Flash's RetroBox theme and it's always been fine before. *puzzled*

chriss GameEx God (Top Rank)

chriss

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these are two features i was waiting for! the flags and the custom input! thanks tom, cool release!

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

Tom Speirs

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Thanks for the update! I'm guessing this doesn't look at the HideOS stuff from the other thread? Good stuff!

Yes it does try to. Maybe thats why Adultery has a problem, although it shouldnt change anything on startup. Adultery can you post your log and ini?

Adultery GameEx God (Top Rank)

Adultery

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Sure Tom. Here ya go. :)

By the way, I can only get GameEx to exit if I CTRL+ALT+DEL on the keyboard (if that's connected or not I don't know).

Adultery GameEx God (Top Rank)

Adultery

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Not that I'm aware of... I'll try and reboot and see what happens from there.

Only thing I can think of is I added two SF IV joysticks and a new 27" LCD monitor, but it worked since then so I don't know. :(

Adultery GameEx God (Top Rank)

Adultery

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A reboot did the trick (shoulda just did that first anyway) but thanks for looking into it for me. :)

Glad to have GameEx back!

wahoo Ultimate GameEx Guru!

wahoo

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Ive tried to perfect and optimize a few things with this release mainly the input system. There's also a new merge feature for lists.<UL><LI>Input:</LI><UL><LI>ALL keyboard controls are now configurable, that means you can specifiy specific keys for volume and page up/down among others. This is of course welcome for control panels, but should also allow a wider range of remote controls to be used</LI><LI>Directions are now customizable for game pads. Useful for control panels and if you want to navigate the interface with a d pad</LI><LI>As with keyboard controls, now multiple buttons can be set to perform the same navigation functions with gamepads</LI><LI>The global gamepad exit combo is now read and set in custominput.ini instead of previously being fixed</LI><LI>If using an advanced emulator config, and not mapping the gamepad exit combo within that, GameEx will now check for the global exit combo</LI></UL><LI>Merge feature:</LI><UL><LI>There is a new merge feature for emulators that will list distinclty only one item for all clones with the same file name. When selecting the parent, the clones will be displayed on the info page. This can work in conjuction with the existing zip/7-zip support if wished. In addition Flag icons for merged and goodmerged games now work with NoIntro and Tosec format on the game info page</LI></UL><LI>Other changes:</LI><UL><LI>The MAME only mode now also allows access to favorites, last played, most played, and random game</LI><LI>The MAWS live list is now working again</LI></UL></UL>

Wow! Thanks! The merge and flag icons are working good so far. Could you extend the text strings for the flag icons? For example threre are some game names with (JPN) that don't display a flag. Is there a list out there of the various text strings used for languages in No-Intro and TOSEC sets that can be used as a reference?

If not I could try to help by importing rom lists into Excel and do some filtering to find all the unique language strings.

bkenobi GameEx God (Top Rank)

bkenobi

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I may have spoken too soon in regards to hide desktop working. I was playing a bit of Virtual Boy yesterday and when I exited I saw XPadder switching profiles. It should have been minimized, but that's not really the point here. If there's anything I can do, let me know.

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

Tom Speirs

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Best of ,Greatest hits albums are all merged

Example,

Moody blues greatest hits

ZZtop greatest hits

journey greatest

and others all the songs from those groups are in each others albums

you will have 3 #1 songs 3#2 ect

Ive tried eveything

I had to quit using it becase I had songs everywhere.

And All my albums are in separate folders.

This is fixed in 9.95

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