just a quick question :)

[geodeath]

Hi all!

Its been a long time since i wrote here.

I am almost done with my cabinet running gameEx (thats what i said back then though lol) and i wanted to ask this, since there have been a lot of new versions of gameEx over time...

Will updating my gameEx installation mess with any configurations/emulators/whatever? I have absolutely no problems or bugs running the version of gameEx i do (not really sure about the version but a lot of time back, maybe 1 year) apart from it not really changing resolutions (and filling the screen after doing so) when i exit some emulators, leading to some emulators coming with a margin, so unless there is something spectacular or it wont mess at all, i wouldnt care to update in fear of having to setup things i forgot up till now. lol

I will post pics of my cab. Only the plexiglass screens are missing

George

[gryhnd]

It won't mess with them, but I did find that my old MAME (0.8x) didn't want to talk to a recent Gx the way it wanted for the new hi/lo score thingy. I didn't want to go through the hassle of finding all new ROMs to update MAME, so I'm still happily back on an earlier Gx.

Let me find that thread.

-pause-

Here it is. FWIW I do seem to be unique in my situation.

[bkenobi]

There are a lot of new options in the last year, so I wouldn't say that you will be problem free just by updating. The main thing is that the defaults for the new options might not match what you currently have. My tentative thought would be you should be ok, but your best bet is to copy your entire GameEx directory to a backup location. That way, if you do run into any issues, you can revert back or just look at what you had as a reference.

Either way, if you do run into any issues, there are plenty of people here that are willing to step you through the fixes. I would definitely update just because of all the new options Tom has added in the last year if it were me though!