Bugs found...

[Lawrence]

I'm quite confident this is a bug. I mentioned it many months ago, but the post slipped through the cracks, I guess.

GameEx will crash and burn on files with Japanese characters in them. If I put a video with Japanese characters in it into any of my video directories GameEx will crash when I try to go into that particular folder (either with the regular Video option or the Media Library). Same holds for MP3s.

If I remove any files with Japanese characters (or rename them) everything will work fine.

I've tried 4 different computers with this -- it's repeatable on all.

I haven't tested, but I'm willing to wager that the same holds true for Roms with Japanese characters in the filename.

Of course I could get everything to work by just renaming all my files, but I'd really rather not -- most of my music is Japanese from my own CDs that I ripped myself which media player automatically labelled with the correct Japanese names. And besides -- there's a Japanese translation of GameEx -- which is pretty much worthless, if GameEx crashes on Japanese filenames.

I can send some sample Japanese files if you want to try to recreate the problem.

Also, a minor bug in the Movies Database. If I click cancel after doing a search, it will populate the fields with the results from the search -- basically the opposite of cancelling.

Also, a minor thing but somewhat annoying. GameEx pulled up an incorrect cover for one of my Doctor Who vids -- I deleted the cover in the GameEx folder, and set the vid to nothing in the Movies Database. After doing that, I pulled up GameEx and it redownloaded the same incorrect cover on its own. I deleted it again, but still GameEx stubbornly redownloads the thing every time. 2

[Lawrence]

*bump*

[lingpanda]

  Lawrence said:

*bump*

Why the bump?

[Lawrence]

Tom was away and I don't think he saw it. I posted about GameEx completely crashing whenever Japanese files are present several months ago and that post slipped through the cracks, so I just want to make sure this one doesn't.

[Brian Hoffman]

  Lawrence said:

Tom was away and I don't think he saw it. I posted about GameEx completely crashing whenever Japanese files are present several months ago and that post slipped through the cracks, so I just want to make sure this one doesn't.

I would suggest to send Tom an email if you do not feel your post is getting the attention it shoud. It could just be there is no solution currently.

Tom@spesoft.com

remember to put Gameex in the subject line.