How to backup my settings?

[nelifex]

Hullo folks,

Recently got in to GameEx and loving it. Just wondering a few things about the program.

How would I go about backing-up my settings and configs for GameEx? I spent an hour or so setting up my emulators, paths and stuff, and would like to backup this lot in case something happens to my install. Is it as easy as copying over the gameex/data/backup/data.mdb?

Also, if you can answer me this, is there a known issue with running Project Tempest (Atari Jaguar) through GameEx? All my paths are correct but it doesn't want to load the ROMs. P.T. will open but closes right away.

Thanks for any input guys!

[bkenobi]

You can backup the gameex.ini and that will save most things. Depending on what else you have changed, there are some other files that need backing up too: custom menus (CONFIG\CustomMenu.ini), alternate emulators for MAME (CONFIG\mameemumap.ini), custom emulator advanced configs (CONFIG\emulators\???), custom themes, etc. The easiest thing to do is just back up the entire GameEx directory, but that's not necessary...just a bit easier.

[nelifex]

yes, that would seem to be the easiest option, but if I update GameEx I'd worry that I'd be overwriting version-specific files, so I will go ahead and backup the whole thing, but only use the CONFIG files for future re-installs/updates.

thanks for your response!

[bkenobi]

If you decide to only backup specific files, you would want to install GameEx 2x for a full restore from nothing.

1) install GameEx

2) copy files into GameEx directory

3) install GameEx

That way you are sure you haven't jacked up your install and you should have all your files you need. Alternately, just keep the files you back up in the same directory structure as what GameEx uses. Then you can put your backups in C:\Program Files\GameEx\... and then install over top of them. I hope that makes sense.

[smd111]

actualy you can just put all the files in thare place and just install over it because iv had to do it befor

[Tempest]

That doesn't always work. Be safe, Backup!

[nelifex]

I hope that makes sense.

understood, thank you