Deleting games with arcade buttons

[Cisek]

Hi

I know that I can delete games with delete key on keyboard, but I would like to do it with button on my arcade cabinet. I tried joytokey and it works good on windows, however it doesn't work when in gameex. Any ideas?

[bkenobi]

I'm not exactly sure what you want to do here.

If you want to remove the game from the list in GameEx, you can press the delete key and it will add it to the filter list so you won't see it any more. This will not delete the rom from your drive, it will just keep it from showing up in the list. If this is your desired result, you can map a key to delete using JoyToKey or XPadder. It's also possible to use AHK since this is a simple thing (which would also make button combos a bit easier).

If you want the game physically deleted from the drive, you will need to use a script (AHK or otherwise) or a GameEx plugin that will detect you key combo and somehow delete the game you are selecting. This is a bit more difficult because you will need to either read the gameex.ini file for the last game added to the filter or develop a plugin that will run when that delete button is pressed.

There is no easy way currently to remove the game from the drive. There is currently a method available to remove the game from your list.

Btw, this has been requested and discussed in the past. You might want to check the forum for older posts on this topic to get more details and perhaps some already available code snippets.

[Tempest]

If you want to delete the files, I could script something...

[Cisek]

  On 9/24/2009 at 9:38 PM, bkenobi said:

If this is your desired result, you can map a key to delete using JoyToKey or XPadder.

This is exactly what I am doing and the sad thing is that it doesn't work in gameex, though it works anywhere else besides gameex. Try yourself to map the delete key to joystick and remove the game with it, it won't work.

[Cisek]

Do you have any sollution for me?

[R-DUB]

Open the advance configuration and go to Enable/Disable features.

on the last page make sure that you don't have the delete games disabled.

[Cisek]

  On 9/29/2009 at 3:19 AM, R-DUB said:

Open the advance configuration and go to Enable/Disable features.

on the last page make sure that you don't have the delete games disabled.

It is enabled. Tried xpadder and joytokey and both work fine, except when in gameex, where they don't work at all, why is that?