Few trivial concerns

[Ninja Rygar]

When emulators are grouped in a "Group"... how exactly does GameEx determine which custom background/selection music to give the group?

My concern is, it actually doesn't start playing any custom music for the group until a rom is selected. Strange! Even if both emulators that are in the group use the same folder for their selection music. This is EXTREMELY trivial I realize... but it's like, it's one of those little things I notice. It would be nice if the selection music for a group worked just the same as emulators that are not grouped.

I have a few questions about CD based emulators such as the playstation. I looked around and I'm unable to find the answer... how does one group the CD's together in the menu? Take for example, a 3 CD game like Final Fantasy 7... each CD shows up in the menu currently, and I can't figure out how to have them show up on the game info page instead. Is that possible?

I'm not lazy, I really did look.

Databases seem to have some issues, (though they're still impressive!), like for example, if a good merged set ends with a period, various things may not work. A game like "Super Mario Bros..7z", because it ends with a period, will not show snaps, titles, boxes or anything even if the filenames are EXACT. Simple solution would be to just remove the period... but now the database can't find it. So it's either have artwork, have a database entry, but not both. Shame...

And another issue seems to be with multiple entries, or just flat out wrong entries. Take for example, a game like "Dinosaurs for Hire" on the Sega Genesis. The database shows it as "A dinosaur Tale" or something like that. I guess it's the "Use Database Name" option that is a little weird.

I notice that NeoGeo Pocket Color and Mono have totally different databases. Are they really treated as seperate consoles? Most emulators, and even good tools, treat those two as the same console... just because I guess it's convenient. (Same with the GBx and GBC). I seperated the roms and then grouped them in gameex so both consoles have their databases show up while on the same list, but wouldn't it be a good idea to group those two databases into one like Good Tools/Good Merge etc...?

I have one PC game being treated as an emulator on my menu (Mugen as a matter of fact) but I noticed when you close mugen, it doesn't take you back to the start page, it takes you to a rom list, as if mugen was an emulator. I know I'm being annoying, but isn't there anyway to make it... not do that? The rom list for mugen turns out to be a bunch of text files, and dll files. I'm treating it as a PC game, so it doesn't make a rom list when you start it up, only when you exit it.

And finally... this may be getting a little too specific... MAME, and Zinc. Turns out trying to get Zinc and Model2 games to have the right controls is a puzzle. Zinc normally gives each rom it's own controller cfg file, but can also use a default one for all games. Problem is, all Zinc games use VERY different controller schemes... or whatever... so if it's right for one game, it's probably not for another. I did some reading about the MAMELoader and gave that a shot, but as it turns out, I had no idea what I was doing. GameEx just refused to work after I tried that, so I switched back.

There were some other things I wanted to bring up but... well... I can't really think of them right now.

[Tom Speirs]

Thank you for the post. Although minor, these are good points, and some of them I class as bugs. Ill try to address when I get a chance.

As for the CD's the merge feature should hopefully take care of that.

[Ninja Rygar]

The merge feature doesn't seem to be doing anything unfortunately.

It's weird, especially with the Playstation. Do the .bin files have to be in zips, or subfolders? Would that help any? I tried subfolders, but it still acted the same way. I'd rather not keep them in .zip files, as it takes too long to extract them for my tastes.

The way it is right now, the database doesn't even know what the .bin/.img files are, with or without the "Use Database Name" option.

By the way, what's a .cue file? Is that needed?

I've tried making a .map file, but again.... it didn't seem to do anything. What am I missing here?

EDIT: Whoa whoa whoa whoa, stop the car... I think I just realized something. Well, 2 things. One is that I'm a complete noob. The second is, .bin files are used for burning images onto an actual CD... I was using them as regular rom files... which GameEx probably has a problem with... am I right? Could that be why it won't group them or display the database information? Because they're .bin files? I will look into this matter further.