Changing what appears on menus

[GoTheBunnies]

Hi all,

Have set up GameEx now, and have my basic MAME games running nicely. A couple of questions re the menus - where does GameEx read the name of the game from? Can I change the name? For exmaple, my Space Invaders displays as 'Space Invaders/Space Invaders'. Doesn't need to say it twice right....so where do I change it?

Also can someone tell me where the option is to 'dumb down' the menu choices - for example, I don't want users to be able to go into the Configuration option. I'm sure I saw it somewhere when I was setting up - just can't remember where.

Thanks

[Draco1962]

Hi all,

Have set up GameEx now, and have my basic MAME games running nicely. A couple of questions re the menus - where does GameEx read the name of the game from? Can I change the name? For exmaple, my Space Invaders displays as 'Space Invaders/Space Invaders'. Doesn't need to say it twice right....so where do I change it?

Also can someone tell me where the option is to 'dumb down' the menu choices - for example, I don't want users to be able to go into the Configuration option. I'm sure I saw it somewhere when I was setting up - just can't remember where.

Thanks

I would recommend against changing the names of the ROMS as they generally follow a standard for recognition within MAME. To modify how GameEx displays your ROMS and edit you menu choices, you can do this in the Advanced Configuration under Advanced MAME (for displaying and filtering ROMS) and Enable/Disable Features (to disable display of Configuration, etc.).

Keep in mind that if you modify any of the settings for ROMS under Advanced MAME you may need to update your list again depending on the settings you change.

[Tempest]

Also, you can customize the layout of everything you see using the 'Custom Menus' program in the start menu.

[Draco1962]

Custom Menus are the way to go if you prefer to go outside of the normal layouts, but I would definitely recommend getting all setup and working well first in the canned layouts before venturing off to custom menus.

[GoTheBunnies]

I would recommend against changing the names of the ROMS as they generally follow a standard for recognition within MAME. To modify how GameEx displays your ROMS and edit you menu choices, you can do this in the Advanced Configuration under Advanced MAME (for displaying and filtering ROMS) and Enable/Disable Features (to disable display of Configuration, etc.).

Keep in mind that if you modify any of the settings for ROMS under Advanced MAME you may need to update your list again depending on the settings you change.

Thanks - so I take it from what you're saying is that I can't change the names that are displayed, without getting into Custom Menus. In the Advanced MAME Configuration I can filter etc, but not change names as such.

Thanks for the Enable/Disable Features tip.

[Tempest]

You can change the displayed names of the games by using a .map file. There are examples of map files in the GameEx\Map files folder. Basically, the format is Rom Name|Display Name.

You will need to point to the map file in your emulator config.