GameEx 5.19 - Released

[Tom Speirs]

19th November 2005
- GameEx 5.19

• Should fix all issues
  associated with using the 'Bigger' fonts setting
• Game image/art/videos now
  display in the corner bigger.
• New Galaxian theme by
  HeadKaze (updates by me) now included in the
  Install.
• Support for Arcade Ambience
  MP3 tracks
  
  • http://arcade.hofle.com
  • The GameEx
    install now features an optional automatic
    setup and download of the Arcade 83 track.
    

  
  [*]Fixes mouse pointer
  not hiding.
  

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[headkaze]

Hey Tom, love what you did with the Galaxian theme!

Just a few questions... The icons only reach about letter T in my Mame list and they are no longer shown (T to Z titles show no icon). Is there some sort of limitation to the amount of icons you can store in memory or is something else causing this? I've tried updating the list a few times and sometimes icons are added and sometimes they are removed. Very strange.

Also I have enabled Adult games which worked for a while, now when I click on them it says *No Games Found*. What do you think might have caused that? (I have the allow adult games option enabled)

Keep it up, GameEx is just getting better by the day!

[time4akshun]

Nice job on the Galaxian theme and even more so on the Arcade 83 install!!

Time

[puppetj]

how do i got about updating gamex without messing my settings? just over write the .exe?

[Tom Speirs]

  puppetj said:

how do i got about updating gamex without messing my settings? just over write the .exe?

Just install the new version, it will upgrade your settings automatically.

[Tom Speirs]

  headkaze said:

Hey Tom, love what you did with the Galaxian theme! 

Just a few questions... The icons only reach about letter T in my Mame list and they are no longer shown (T to Z titles show no icon). Is there some sort of limitation to the amount of icons you can store in memory or is something else causing this? I've tried updating the list a few times and sometimes icons are added and sometimes they are removed. Very strange.

Also I have enabled Adult games which worked for a while, now when I click on them it says *No Games Found*. What do you think might have caused that? (I have the allow adult games option enabled)

Keep it up, GameEx is just getting better by the day!

Hey, no thank you for theme, my work on it was minor.

I dont know whats going on with your ICONS. It could be the cache has got messed up or some of your icons are corruped. Try deleting the SurfaceIcons.. files in the data directory. It could also be that your running out of video or ram memory. It should support up to 7000 ICONS. Does MAME have more games than that now?

There are actually two places you need to enable Adult games, make sure there both on. Have you updated catver.ini yourself at all?

Cheers.

[headkaze]

Ok, I've tried a few things...

1. I tried using Tweak UI to clear the icon cache

2. I tried a clean reboot and doing a list update

3. I tried installing the latest catver.ini

I have less than 7000 icons (3,177 to be exact), so I don't know what's going on. How do I delete "SurfaceIcons"? I can't find such a file in the DATA dir of GameEx, nor anything in the Mame32 folder. Also my video card is a Radeon 9800 Pro with 256M so I can't see it running out of memory any time soon (the PC has 1 Gig of RAM too). I've enabled adult games in both NoAdult=False and ShowAdult=True options in GameEx.ini.

[Tom Speirs]

  headkaze said:

Ok, I've tried a few things...

1. I tried using Tweak UI to clear the icon cache

2. I tried a clean reboot and doing a list update

3. I tried installing the latest catver.ini

I have less than 7000 icons (3,177 to be exact), so I don't know what's going on. How do I delete "SurfaceIcons"? I can't find such a file in the DATA dir of GameEx, nor anything in the Mame32 folder. Also my video card is a Radeon 9800 Pro with 256M so I can't see it running out of memory any time soon (the PC has 1 Gig of RAM too). I've enabled adult games in both NoAdult=False and ShowAdult=True options in GameEx.ini.

Sorry, there actually in the Media folder not data.

I don't know about the Adult games.

[headkaze]

Ok tried deleting those files and re-generating the list, still missing icons at the end, then I tried updating my icons to match all the games and it worked! My theory on this: if you don't have an icon for every rom you have, GameEx is not creating a blank icon properly. So for all the icons you have missing become blank icons at the end of the list. Can you try deleting some of your icons, delete those icon files in MEDIA and re-generate your list. Do you have blank icons at the end of your list now?

Still havn't figured out how to fix the Adult Games problem.