Gildahl

Thanks! And one neat feature in arcadeEIP is support for parallel versions of MAME such that if you (for example) setup your mame folders like this: \Emulators\MAME_179 \Emulators\MAME_237 ...any game (such as vector games) whose roms are in the \roms folder of MAME_179 but not in MAME_237 will automatically be run in 179. Basically, roms are always run from the highest version they are found in. BTW, in what way is 179 better for vector games? Is it the HLSL settings? I should also mention that there are some more recent videos posted here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUq6aj4TJUPN9izghAuBdxA

That would be this guy...https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FJ21RNW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1 I had actually bought this one first (which might be more suitable as a built-in), but found the above one better as a topper monitor. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QGBL568/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Added a new dynamic marquee feature, including basic support for display of the game's high score (using hi2txt). You can see a demonstration video and download link here.

Oh, one more thing. Even though the video snap does not appear on the screen for the first item in the list, I still *hear* it. So almost as if something's up with the z level.

If I change the theme to Default-Default it still exhibits the same issues (joystick and first item in favorites not showing video).

Looks like turning off video upscaling fixes the problem with the background going black on screen having video snaps. So thanks for that suggestion! While testing, though, I noticed a secondary issue with the video snaps. It seems that when I first go into my favorites list, the video snap for the very first game in the list ("1942" in my list) is not shown. If I go down to the next game, the video for that one does show, and if I then return back to the first one again the video snap for the first one now appears. This can be duplicated every time. Regarding the U360s, they work like gamepads/ordinary joysticks. I have all power saving options turned off in the USB settings. I will try turning off the cursor hider plug-in and see what happens with that.

I just posted my config files to my other thread on the joystick issue.

I've added my config files here. It's very strange. When I start GameEx, there is no joystick control unless I am lucky (menus work with keyboard and mouse though). This is true in the main menu, and my submenus (list of favorites, for example); however, curiously, in the menu at the game level (Play Game, Marquees, etc.) the joystick works fine. When I back out of this menu, however, the joysticks stop working again. This all happens whether I launch a game or not. In everything else I've tried, such as in games, in the UltraMap config utility, or the Windows game controller utility, the joysticks work fine. This problem also occurs in older versions where I never had a problem before, so it is pretty baffling. I'm going to add one other thing too that seems unrelated, but also started happening randomly at about this time, which is that occasionally when I exit GameEx, my mouse pointer does not show up, and I have to use the windows mouse properties to restore it. Another strange oddity. CustomMenu.ini GameEx.ini log.txt Theme.ini

I'll post the ini and log when I get back to my machine...I should note, however, that I did try with the default theme as well and it exhibited the same behavior.

Windows 10 Pro, version 20H2 with the last update installed on 7/11.

After upgrading to the latest version, I'm finding that selecting any game that has a video snap causes the background in my theme to go black. If the game doesn't have a video snap, but say, just an screen snap, then the background remains. Going back to the old version (16.54) it doesn't do this, but doing an update to the latest introduces this behavior. I can post my ini files later if needed, but first just wondering if this is a known issue.

I've developed a strange issue lately with my joysticks (Ultra 360s) not working in GameEx menus. They will work sometimes, say after a reboot, but most of the time they don't work at all. Mouse/trackball/spinner control in the menus continues to work, and within games the joysticks work fine; however, as soon as I return to GameEx they don't do anything--unless I'm lucky and they happen to start working again. First off, I don't think this is a GameEx problem per se, since I've gone back to older versions where I know everything was working fine, and these now exhibit the same problem. Consequently, I'm thinking that it may be a Windows issue since it did seem to happen after a recent update. The thing is though, that GameEx is the only software I experience this problem in and nothing else. Has anyone else encountered this sort of problem?

This post is to announce a little program I wrote that I call arcadeEIP. It's an emulated game switching program that I wrote primarily to extend GameEx with some features that I often thought I'd like--mainly, a live attract mode--but it adds some extended launch capabilities and a minimalistic game menu for quick game switching and favorites management too. Since it's a little hard to explain exactly what it's good for, I posted a video here to introduce it: See the included docs, and especially the MAME Quick Start text file to get started. https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArCGq1gvf0jkhcps9OhCyubzHy8Usg?e=RcND4F Additional videos can be found here... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUq6aj4TJUPN9izghAuBdxA Download link: https://github.com/gildahl/arcadeEIP Dave

Small update. GameEx only updates the favorites field in gamelist.txt when it's fully re-generated, so to avoid the inconvenience of needing to do this every time the favorites list is updated, I've added the capability to read the favorites field directly from Data.db3. You'll just need to make sure the file Class_SQLiteDB.ahk and sqlite3.dll are in the same folder as the script when you run or compile (links are in the code comments). Link to gamelist_toolbox_v1.1

I believe I found the culprit. There was a line in the [internal] section of GameEx.ini that had changed from mameversion=0.145 to 0.222 even though Defender is running under MAME 0.222. Changing it back to 0.145 fixes the problem. I do use a launch script; however, that allows me to launch games under any version of MAME I like, so perhaps that has something to do with it (though I've been doing that for years); but anyway, it does seem fixed now. Will just need to keep an eye to see that this setting doesn't change in the future I guess.