Problem with Favorites - update hung & cab won't boot

[Tempest]

Can you tell me what my '65 Mustang is worth?

If so, I'll give you some details on the car...

Regarding GameEx, the screen shot that you show is definitely the 'In Game' Screen. By default it is set to 76 which is the letter 'L'. Here is a list of Virtual Keycodes

If you can find a utility to display to Virtual keycode when you press a key, Then you could verify what your joytick is doing. If not, possibly ask the manufacturer what the VK code is for P2 down.

[Cret]

You sir, are a legend!

It was that setting after all, but the reason I had said it wasn't when I looked previously is that I was looking at the wrong set of key codes, so it appeared that it was a different key!

I think I got the details from a file called scan codes or something similar, where it had a code of 11 for the zero key, and I'd been searching either for a zero or an eleven in all the settings, but it turns out the code is actually 48, and that's exactly what was in there.

I feel a bit stupid since I had checked this setting and was sure it was not the cause since the values were not what I expected, but I'm glad that it was indeed (as I said it would be) just a setup issue not a bug as such.

Really appreciate the assistance. I do have another slight issue though which is that two of my keys are the left & right Win keys (codes 91 & 92). These again are hardwired to my control circuit and can't be changed. I had to run a registry hack to disable the actual windows menus functions for these when I started using the game controller (as per its instructions), and I don't know if this is related to that registry change possibly?

Basically these two controls work fine outside Gamex in the emus themselves, but appear to simply not function through Gamex. I know this is cheeky when I've already got the result to this first problem but would you happen to know offhand why this might be, or suggest a likely cause?

I intend to get searching through the setup stuff again to look for these values, but it seems odd that if they're used somewhere that it's not invoking a gamex function and also isn't working in game, UNLESS they're used as some sort of disabled keys or something?

Anyway, thanks mate, and if you DO have a 69 mustang you're a lucky sod!

[Tempest]

Hmmm, I said '65. What made you say '69?

I know this is cheeky when I've already got the result to this first problem but would you happen to know offhand why this might be, or suggest a likely cause?

Actually, this is the 3rd problem, please refer to the topic title for the first problem.

All I can say is that GameEx responds to low level inputs, pretty much bypassing software. Try undoing the registry changes you made, and see if your controller works with GameEx afterwords.

[Cret]

Hmmm, moving swiftly on....

This could be a problem I think. I did as you suggested and undid the registry tweak that comes with this controller circuit.

After a reboot to enforce the registry change, P1 & P2 Button 6 begin to work again, but sure enough the Windows start menu pops up and it effectively Alt+Tabs at the same time to the 'hidden' desktop (if that makes any sense).

So with the registry hack in force the emulators themselves work fine with these keys working, but Gamex appears to sort of disable them in some way. But without the hack, the keys work both in the emulators directly, and through Gamex, but can't actually be used because of the 'side effects' of the windows menus and alt tab effect.

Is there anything you know of within Gamex that can help me get around this, or perhaps some other means of removing the normal function of these keys without the hack but so they will still work in gamex?

I've got a nasty suspicion that this is going to be trouble to get around, but as before, I'd take pleasure in being proven wrong (and it's not often people hear me say that).

[Cret]

YAY!! I found a solution/workaround for this.

After googling on the windows keys, most of the results I was finding were basically just pointing to the same registry hack that I already had. Not suitable as I already have discovered.

But then I found a page that linked to an app called Sharpkeys. It's a free executable that allows you to very quickly and easily remap any key to any other one. I was a bit skeptical as to whether this would give the desired outcome as I had a suspicion it would work at a different level to what I required.

I mapped the "," and "." keys to the left & right Win keys and then rebooted. Fired up Gamex, and straight away, the buttons are working fine and with no pesky windows start menus appearing. Superb!

This is great and finally I can get my mate round to give him a real ass kicking on SF2 turbo (Snes), since we had to cancel for last night as my wife was ill.

Thanks once again for all the assistance on this thread - I appreciate the efforts/patience.

Hope this info proves useful to someone else in future as well.

I hope this is ok but apologies if not. This is the link to the page where I found this app. I've got no affiliation with anyone linked to this, just stumbled on it and found it solved my problem very nicely. And it's free.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/map-any-key-to-any-key-on-windows-xp-vista/

Cheers

Jim

[Tempest]

Please don't let my particular (peculiar?) style of humor put you off. I'm here to help if I can.

Try running the attached Win Block.exe, before starting GameEx, and see if it helps.

Win Block.exe needs to be left running in the background, don't close it until after you see the results in GameEx.

Win Block.7z

[Tempest]

Looks like I fooled around long enough that you found your own solution.

You can link to almost anything, as long as it's not copyrighted material that people don't have the rights to EG: Roms, DVD images, Warez, etc.