ArcadeVGA Vertical config & gamelauncher

[dwight]

Hi,

I'm trying to find a vertical layout that I can use at low res (288x640) with an ArcadewVGA card that will also only use my custom menu (which includes my favourites and an exit option only). The GameLauncher layout seems to always use it's own menu, and refuses to use my custom menu - I have tried setting the "Use Gamelauncher" option to both Yes and NO without the results changing.

I have tried the GameLauncher, Gamelauncher original, and gamelauncher original v1 without success. The gamelauncher original v1 profile crashes gameex. Also, when using gamelauncher, for some reason always starts up in the "SNES" emulator folder - I have to hit the third button to get back to the main menu, which still shows the gamelauncher menu, not my custom menu. I have also tried the ArcadeVGA-LoRes, MCE Glossy V3, Default and a few other profiles, but while these do use my custom menu, at this low resolution and in vertical orientation (288x640) then game selection lists fall off the edge of the screen and are unreadable. Gamelauncher is the only profile that seems to show the graphics and menu properly.

I'm using an ArcadeVGA card with an arcade Monitor in vertical orientation on a Windows 7 OS. Windows 7 is set to portrait mode to make navigation easier. GameEx is set currently set to use an x resolution of 288 and a Y resolution of 640 on both the Display settings config screen, and the arcade VGA screen and does not have any rotation options turned on. I'd prefer to keep windows in portrait mode, but If I have to change, happy to do so as GameEx is all that will run on this rig once its configured. A problem with portrait mode is that most layouts try to change the resolution to 640x288 or 640x480 and fail (shows up in the gameex log) probably because they don't have a vertical mode hence don't recognise 288x640 as a portrait mode.

Can anyone offer advice on a profile I should use for lo-res vertical setup? Or how to use gamelauncher mode with my custom menu? Is there somewhere I should look for how to setup vertical mode with windows and gameex properly?

Thank for any advice,

Dwight.

[Tom Speirs]

Gamelauncher mode does not support skinning, other than turning on/off text items and changing the font and is the only way to run vertical at that low a resolution.

[dwight]

  On 3/19/2010 at 3:31 AM, TSpeirs said:

Gamelauncher mode does not support skinning, other than turning on/off text items and changing the font and is the only way to run vertical at that low a resolution.

Thank