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Koop

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  1. The download screen for GameEx says the supported OSes are Windows 8 and below. Is that still true or does Windows 10 work? I think this is relatively urgent because the free Windows 10 upgrade window is expiring soon (July 28). I would like to upgrade my OS but I'd like to know if Windows 10 support is on the roadmap or what the plan is. Thanks for the info!
  2. This is more of a question specific to Stella v3.6.1, but I thought someone might have some good advice. I'm trying to play some Atari 2600 games that require the "keyboard" or "kid's controller". By default Stella has many of these controller input commands mapped to keyboard buttons, but the problem is two-fold: The default buttons mapped by Stella are randomly strewn across my arcade buttons (my setup caters to MAME buttons).I can't simply map the controller keyboard buttons (picture a telephone dial pad: 1-9,*,0,#) to my current controller setup because each game uses the controller differently. For example, in Big Bird's Egg Catch it uses 5 and 6 to move left and right. Another game Alpha Beam With Ernie uses 4 and 6 for left and right.Photos of original controller: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=atari+2600+kid%27s+controller&t=ffnt&iax=1&ia=images I first looked at Xpadder to solve the per game issue, but as far as I can tell Xpadder is only useful for gamepads, not keyboards. I don't think Stella itself supports per game controller configurations (or am I missing this?). Any thoughts?
  3. Actually I wasn't able to get it working. I was able to put together a controller file (ctrlr) that I think is pretty close to what would be needed, but anytime I use the MAME command to use that file, MAME just fails to launch. I'm not exactly sure what is going on because when launching through GameEx it just returns me to the GameEx screen for that game (nothing much happens). I simply don't have the time to devote to this problem right now so I've given up. It's a small issue for me anyway because it only affects my analog controls and it only has to be fixed once per computer boot. Anyway, sorry I couldn't be more help. But if I ever look into it again I'll update this post. Maybe Evolution will have this functionality built in!??! (hint hint)
  4. Thanks, yeah I've done all of those steps. Is it not working because I haven't purchased Evolution yet? I just came across this post: http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/15645-resolved-help-with-online-gamecard-feature/?p=136278 But that post seems to conflict with this post: http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/14961-news-forum-and-registration-updates/?p=128653 which says "The good news is, is if you have a valid gameex registration regardless of when you got it you get the online upgrade for free."
  5. I'm stuggling to understand what the main purpose of GameEx Online is other than to make GameEx more social (sharing stats, recommended games, etc.). I think the ability to configure GameEx remotely is interesting, but I'm not understanding why I'd want to do that.... Unless it is designed so that you can setup a dead simple cabinet with only basic controls which would leave you basically unable to configure it without plugging in a mouse/keyboard. Is that is the purpose? Also, I can't figure out how to setup GameEx Online... is there a guide? I input my username/password into GameEx setup, I've launched GamedEx and now I'm logged into GameEx Online with my browser but it says "No Games Found".
  6. Thanks Draco. This looks to be exactly what I need. Thanks for finding that. I'll let you all know how it goes.
  7. I know this isn't a GameEx problem, but I can't find the answer to this anywhere on the internet. Is there anyway to force windows (or MAME) to always recognize the same physical mouse device as mouse1 and the other physical mouse device as mouse2? I'm using an iPAC and I have spinners for player 1 and 2 as well as 1 trackball, but everytime I boot windows it recognizes these 3 mouse devices in a different order and thus assigns them different enumeration (mouse1-3). The result is that the controls I've setup for MAME are usually screwed up and I have to reconfigure them after each boot. Is there any solution for this either in Windows, in MAME, or with a 3rd party application (I own Xpadder)? Thanks.
  8. Thanks a lot. In that case I'm probably not going to worry about this, at least for now because it's really not a big deal. But that explains why I couldn't find that data in the config files
  9. Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to reset the "number of times played" stat for 2 MAME games. I use these 2 games for testing purposes (one for 4-player controls and the other for spinner controls) and because of that I've launched them a ton of times and so their stats for "number of times played" are inflated. I'd like to only reset (or preferably manually change it to a smaller number) for just these 2 games. Is that data stored in a config file somewhere? Thanks.
  10. I want to build a library of my PC games using GameEx to browse them. I don't even want to be able to launch into the games, I just want to build a nice looking library to browse with game art and descriptions, etc. Is it possible to add games to the GameEx database without actually having the game present on the computer? In other words, how can I add a game to a list without referencing any .exe or other file? Has anyone done something like this before? What did you do? Any suggestions for where to get the cover art, descriptions for PC games, etc.? Thanks.
  11. This topic is resolved. The new file worked. The last problem I was having in my last post was that I wasn't using the MAME executable that I created to allow direct input (I think that's what was special about this mame.exe). However, using this version of mame.exe has finally made clear to me the reason for another problem I've been having where both of my spinners are recognized as 1 device. I've already started a thread for that topic here, so I'll continue to seek help there. Thanks for your help.
  12. I actually already had 1.1.8 on my system (I installed the latest GameEx version and then imported my config files). However, I downloaded that file and it fixed my problem. The list now populates with emulators. I haven't gotten it to work in MAME yet, but that's a different problem that I'll work on now.
  13. I'm having trouble with my plugin manager. I want to use the Xpadder plugin, but when I select the Xpadder plugin and click "configure" in the plugin manager I get an error saying "unhandled exception has occurred in your application..." (see attached photo). If I click "Quit" the application will close, but if I click "Continue" the Xpadder plugin will launch, but there are no emulators to choose from in the drop-down menu. This is a new installation of GameEx on a fresh Windows 8 install (I just upgraded my OS from Win XP to Win 8 and let me tell you it is such a nice upgrade to not have to deal with that old OS on this machine anymore). When I installed GameEx on this computer I carried over my settings and configuration files so it's not exactly a "fresh" installation of GameEx. Any ideas what's causing this error? Thanks. log.txt GameEx.ini
  14. Yeah, you really nailed it with this plugin. I haven't used it much but so far it's been really easy to use and seems very powerful and flexible.
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