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[Gildahl]

Now that I finally have my cab up and running, I'm finding that there is just one remaining hurdle in GameEx that is keeping me from completely loving it--though I am really close.

To choose a game, I want players to simply [a] choose a system, then [b] choose a game. This works now; but the trick is that I'd like to only list games that are Favorites. Unfortunately, the existing Favorites system doesn't quite work this way and using custom game maps (my current solution) is not very inconvenient.

To overcome these issues, I'd like to beg (politely, of course) for a new capability in CustomMenu.ini such that when displaying a Favorites menu, a name/value parameter can be provided to specify a list filter. For example, if I had a custom menu item defined like this...

Item_1=12,Atari 2600 ,0, 2600pic, system=atari 2600

...selecting this menu item at runtime would display the Favorites list with the atari 2600 system filter pre-applied. By extension, other filters could be applied as well such as year="1982" or category="platform".

I believe this single change would address all my issues with the Favorites system, as well as similar issues with the Favorites system that other users have expressed in this forum. It also shouldn't require any UI or wizard changes.

Thank you for considering this feature.

[celly]

This is more of a request for the Setup Wizard.

I'm all about short cuts. Since the cutover to the Setup Wizard from the Advance Config, to change certain emulator items. Sometimes it's a pain when the Wizard is set to Advanced, to scroll with the next arrow 10-12 times until finally you reach the Emulator Selection screen. I'm requesting a shortcut icon on initial startup of the Wizard to go directly to the Emulator Selection setup screen. While we're at it, how about a shortcut to the MAME setup too.

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[nullPointer]

Hi Celly,

I thought I might throw out a workaround idea for this feature request. If you select the Custom Mode rather than the Advanced Mode in the setup wizard you can select only the screens you want to include in the navigation flow. So in my setup for instance I have Mame Settings, Emulator Selection, Emulator Settings, and Advance Emulator Settings checked off. (Remember to include both the Emulator Settings and the Advanced Emulator settings in these selections, otherwise the navigation flow will only include the Emulator Selection screen). Now that the Setup Wizard remembers your selections, those settings will persist between sessions. It’s basically (almost) like having customizable shortcuts to those sections (or any other section). If you need to adjust other settings you can go back to advanced mode (or better yet temporarily add the pertinent settings screens to your custom navigation flow), and your custom settings will still be there when you're done.

Just a thought.

[celly]

NP thanks for the workaround! Ill try it out when i get home.

EDIT: Works, just a bit buggy. In custom it works but then when I do click the next arrow, it takes me back to the welcome screen and then to the first screen. Wierd. I'll just keep clickity-clickity-clickity. Thanks for the tip though.

[CobraSA]

I am currently testing 7z merged set with ActRaiser. I have an ActRaiser.7z file which contains all clones of ActRaiser and in box folder I put boxes of JP & US versions, but in GameEx even if you select the US version it will show the JP box. I would like GameEx to display the box of the region version I select. I need to test further but this problem likely affects snaps, manuels, etc... everything Could you please fix this behavior so that when you have title (USA) and title (Europe) in title.7z merged set and title (USA).png and title (Europe).png n box folder, it shows the exact pic/manuel; etc... matching the name, instead of trying to guess "the best".

Thanks.

[CobraSA]

Any interest in the latter? Also I should add that in order to not affect anyone in a negative way, the behavior should be the following: first search for the files with the exact same filename (bare extension of course) and if it doesn't find it, then go for guessing the more appropriate file. That should satisfy everybody.

[Adultery]

GameEx does this already, just not within GoodMerge archives.

[CobraSA]

Adultery, on 25 April 2012 - 11:14 PM, said:

GameEx does this already, just not within GoodMerge archives.

I understand that, But the biggest (and perhaps the only) reason why I bought a key was to benefit from the goodmerge features. I wouldn't understand if goodmerge was left with more inconveniences than advantages, not very nice for people who choose to support game ex financially. Also in goodmerge mode, we have those nice little flags which are no available in non merged mode.

[Adultery]

I'm actually working on getting those flags added in via MAP file, but ultimately that stuff is up to Tom.

[Draco1962]

FEATURE/ENHANCEMENT REQUEST: GameEx has the capability to display images that are placed within the \gameex\themes\<themename>\media\logos\database path. These images can correspond to manufacturers, categories, or years search options (I believe these are captioned in the manulist.txt, catlist.txt and yearlist.txt files respectively). My request is three-fold:

1.) Have the path for each (manufacturer, category, year) defined via Setup Wizard so that those using this feature can set-up a their own paths within GameEx outside of the theme in use.
2.) Set an option to where the list is not overwritten when GameEx version updates are installed so that the user may add content accordingly.
3.) Have GameEx search these user-defined paths or the main theme logos path (\gameex\themes\<themename>\media\logos\) to display the Year, Manufacturer, and Category search logos in the menus with a logo file of the user's choice.

I was recently reacquainted with this feature that is not oft used and I am presently working on several logo packs to capture each of these search categories for use within a personal theme. (Ok, who am I fooling? I will share!). By operating outside of the theme paths, this will allow for conservation of theme sizes when submitted.

[TSpeirs]

Draco1962, on 26 April 2012 - 02:08 AM, said:

FEATURE/ENHANCEMENT REQUEST: GameEx has the capability to display images that are placed within the \gameex\themes\<themename>\media\logos\database path. These images can correspond to manufacturers, categories, or years search options (I believe these are captioned in the manulist.txt, catlist.txt and yearlist.txt files respectively). My request is three-fold:

1.) Have the path for each (manufacturer, category, year) defined via Setup Wizard so that those using this feature can set-up a their own paths within GameEx outside of the theme in use.
2.) Set an option to where the list is not overwritten when GameEx version updates are installed so that the user may add content accordingly.
3.) Have GameEx search these user-defined paths or the main theme logos path (\gameex\themes\<themename>\media\logos\) to display the Year, Manufacturer, and Category search logos in the menus with a logo file of the user's choice.

I was recently reacquainted with this feature that is not oft used and I am presently working on several logo packs to capture each of these search categories for use within a personal theme. (Ok, who am I fooling? I will share!). By operating outside of the theme paths, this will allow for conservation of theme sizes when submitted.

Glad you are working on this. It is a very underused feature. I like the idea. I will look at it.

[TSpeirs]

CobraSA, on 26 April 2012 - 12:01 AM, said:

I understand that, But the biggest (and perhaps the only) reason why I bought a key was to benefit from the goodmerge features. I wouldn't understand if goodmerge was left with more inconveniences than advantages, not very nice for people who choose to support game ex financially. Also in goodmerge mode, we have those nice little flags which are no available in non merged mode.

If your not happy with your purchase you should contact me directly but I consider this a bug and will try to look at it. It should try an exact match for the merged game first IMO too.

[Draco1962]

TSpeirs, on 26 April 2012 - 05:14 PM, said:

Glad you are working on this. It is a very underused feature. I like the idea. I will look at it.

Tom - As I have started moving forward, I noticed that the Category.txt file will not work as the sub-categories are separated by / (Maze / Outline, Driving / Track, etc.). The system requires the logo file to match the name. I did discover that the default Driving carried through to all the Driving / <sub-category> views.

I would like to amend my feature request to pull the year, category, and manufacturer from the Date, Publisher, Category fields in the respective mdbs for the emulators. I am not sure what the feasibility is for this part of the request. It might crawl if searching through all the mdbs for a general search, however, would be negligible if searching within a specific emulator/system unless a "master file" was created and updated from all system mdb files.

[CobraSA]

TSpeirs, on 26 April 2012 - 05:17 PM, said:

I consider this a bug and will try to look at it. It should try an exact match for the merged game first IMO too.

Awesome. I am really looking forward to it, so that I can finally 7z-merge all my sets.

[Chaos.Tiki]

Some sort of administrator password feature for certain menu items. I would like a password promt to show up when I select the setup wizard though GameEx. That way, random people can't walk up to my machine and butcher the command lines, theme, and layout of the machine. (or exit GameEx) Also be able to disable it if someone doesn't want to use the feature.

[Draco1962]

There is a multi-user feature that you can use as well for when you want to run a standard "guest level" setup vs. admin for testing and update purposes.

[Krakerman]

The ability to use more than one background image for emulator groups. So for example emulator 1 has a background and emulator 2 has a background but if we group emulator 1 and emulator 2 and you select a game in the list and it is associated with emulator 2 it needs to display the background for emulator 2 and not emulator 1 for the entire group. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks Tom!

[Chaos.Tiki]

Ill check out the user feature and see if that does (essentially) what I was talking about.




SUGGESTION For Karaoke mode, have the menu be able to be set to playing the jukebox instead of the karaoke audio samples, so while im selecting a song from the list I, my "patrons" wont listen to slivers of songs.

Essentially the same as in a Karaoke bar.

Between singers (while the dj selects the next track for the next person) regular jukebox music plays.

Aslo have the Jukebox fade in and out between Karaoke songs.



ANOTHER SUGGESTION

I see how the 3d transition fades between the BGS. Can we have an option where the 2d BGS also fade, instead of the harsh jump cut between screens.

[Chaos.Tiki]

Another suggestion.

Can we disable the start screen bg and fg while the GameEx logo is animating? I like seeing my logo pop out over a black screen, then have the bg and fg images appear after.