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[night]

acroberts, on Jun 11 2005, 05:18 PM, said:

2. Release the source.

Cheers,
Ant.

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I have always been against source code releasing becouse it will only be even more messy like 20 sites doing differents addons to it. And make it impossible to keep track
i would say the only way would either be to working togther if Tom feels that have reached a stage where he cant keep up himself or loose interest in the project ...

my 2 cents anyway

[acroberts]

night, on Jun 11 2005, 10:45 PM, said:

I have always been against source code releasing becouse it will only be even more messy like 20 sites doing differents addons to it. And make it impossible to keep track
i would say the only way would either be to working togther if Tom feels that have reached a stage where he cant keep up himself or loose interest in the project ...

my 2 cents anyway

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Interesting point of view. I look at it this way: Who cares if 20 spin offs are generated if just one person contributes to the improvement the main project? That is still an improvement on the current model. Anyway, if you look at the way open source software develops, there aren't usually many spinoffs - it takes a lot more time to manage an entire spinoff project than it does to make a single contribution to an existing project. A good example of this is MediaPortal (which bares a startling resemblence to GameEx but doesn't have any of the MAME-specific features) - there are a LOT of people contributing to that project and everyone reaps the benefit.

Cheers,
Ant.

[djrobx]

Tom's position on going open source is posted here:

http://www.gameex.in...p?showtopic=299

[djrobx]

One feature I would like *really* badly is the ability to selectively enable Map Keys for the ESC key and MCE Remote "back" key separately.

I normally use the MCE remote to exit a game. It's nice to have a uniform way to do this. A LOT of games and emulators want to use the ESC key for various tasks, but I absolutely hate to give up the ability to exit games with the remote so the ESC key is usable. It would be very helpful for these sorts of games. It would be nice even for emulators, since the UIs often need ESC (in Zsnes, for example, that's how you bring up the menu)

** EDIT **

While it would still be nice to have this built into GameEx I ended up just writing my own remote monitoring and key mapping app in C++. I let GameEx run my monitor without keymapping and it all seems to work. Now I have save states on my MCE remote as well as the ability to get out of games that use the ESC key! Hoorah!

-- Rob

[bllpla]

for next relase i like a fonts option for font size and font color, why a have try to use a based yellow background and i see the font is too bad plese add this small features

thanks and i love gameex is very very good fe

p.s.

sorry for my bad english im italian

[TSpeirs]

bllpla, on Jun 18 2005, 06:46 PM, said:

for next relase i like a fonts option for font size and font color, why a have try to use a based yellow background and i see the font is too bad plese add this small features

thanks and i love gameex is very very good fe 

p.s.

sorry for my bad english im italian

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Have you tried the Outline Fonts setting?

[bllpla]

TSpeirs, on Jun 26 2005, 10:17 PM, said:

Have you tried the Outline Fonts setting?

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yes i have try the outline option and is not bad, but the color option for fonts and outline is my dream
thanks

[TSpeirs]

bllpla, on Jun 26 2005, 10:23 PM, said:

yes i have try the outline option and is not bad, but the color option for fonts and outline is my dream 
thanks 

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Perhaps a sneak preview of you theme, may convince me to implement this?

[djrobx]

Another feature request:

Game list caching for the rom lists in the emulators section. I want to keep only one copy of the emulator ROMs on a network share. While it works great locally, it takes GameEx a very long time (up to 5 seconds every time you move in and out of the ROM list in the NES section) to cue up the list of ROMs over the network.

The MAME games already work great because it keeps a local copy of that list. Maybe it could be an option, and if enabled, it updates the emulator ROM list when doing the MAME Roms or something?

-- Rob

[tomdrake]

djrobx, on Jun 27 2005, 03:53 PM, said:

Another feature request:

Game list caching for the rom lists in the emulators section.  I want to keep only one copy of the emulator ROMs on a network share.  While it works great locally, it takes GameEx a very long time (up to 5 seconds every time you move in and out of the ROM list in the NES section) to cue up the list of ROMs over the network.   

The MAME games already work great because it keeps a local copy of that list.  Maybe it could be an option, and if enabled, it updates the emulator ROM list when doing the MAME Roms or something?

-- Rob

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I have the same problem (slow list loads because of network), while your idea is much more automatic (and I would perfer this), you can make a .map file using Excel and ASAP Utilities' Import File function. I haven't got around to actually doing it, but you can import a list of the files in the directory, then I copy another column and Replace ".zip" with "" (nothing) to make my name colum, then export the whole thing to txt. A little messy, but a doable solution.

[bllpla]

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ok i post a pic preview of my frontend theme but is a very very preliminary test is not the final, i have created a cabinet for mame and i post a pic of my work and i want to make a theme for my favorite fe i love GAMEEX plese apply the fonts option for my or for my cabinet
thanks in advance

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[Sporky]

hello,

thanks for all the great work on the program. i really enjoy using it.

i have a couple suggestions/requests:

i use your frontend on sort of a game console of sorts and use USB controllers to navigate, play, etc. my main problem is that i don't have an abundance of buttons on my gamepads and can't use joytokey to map Esc to an unused button (i use them all). since it seems to escape key is captured to exit any game that is running, is it possible to let the user set this button? if possible, would it be possible to have to be multiple buttons? my ideal situation would be something like where i could set the 'Exit Game' sequence to GamePad 1 Button 5 + GamePad 1 Button 6. something along those lines. that way i could get rid of my keyboard and just use controllers to completely use/play the system.

another problem i have is that i like to switch out controllers from gamepads to joysticks, etc. depending on the game i'm playing. when i hook up a different controller i have to re-config my settings in the emulator i'm using. i think it would be neat to have a config file menu for the games and set the config file to whatever controller setup your using before you start a game.
for example: i make a config for 2 gamepads, then i make a config for 2 joysticks for my NES emulator. i save the files as 2Gamepads.cfg and 2Joysticks.cfg in a specified folder..lets say \config\nes\. when i go to play a NES game under 'Play Game' there is a "Set Config' section and i click that button and it reads the files in that folder \config\nes\. i see 2Gamepads and 2Joysticks as my options....i select whichever i want and gameex replaces the current config for that emulator with the selected config. i think all the user would have to do is specify the config file used by the emulator and the user-defined config file folder for each emulator.

these are just a couple ideas i've come up with that i think could be really useful. i appreciate your hard work.

[djrobx]

tomdrake, on Jun 27 2005, 11:04 AM, said:

I have the same problem (slow list loads because of network), while your idea is much more automatic (and I would perfer this), you can make a .map file using Excel and ASAP Utilities' Import File function. I haven't got around to actually doing it, but you can import a list of the files in the directory, then I copy another column and Replace ".zip" with "" (nothing) to make my name colum, then export the whole thing to txt. A little messy, but a doable solution.

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Hey that's a great solution! I didn't really know what the map file did.

Here's a quick way to create the map file without excel.

Go to a command prompt, go into your roms dir and do

for %s in (*.zip) do echo %s@%s* >> gamelist.map

Now notepad gamelist.map and do a find and replace

.zip@ with .zip|

Then replace:

.zip* with (nothing)

Save it and you've got a map file that works. You can even keep it on the share and it's fast as lightning. Thanks for this tip.

[tomdrake]

djrobx, on Jun 28 2005, 08:45 PM, said:

Hey that's a great solution!  I didn't really know what the map file did.

Here's a quick way to create the map file without excel.

Go to a command prompt, go into your roms dir and do

for %s in (*.zip) do echo %s@%s* >> gamelist.map

Now notepad gamelist.map and do a find and replace

.zip@ with .zip|

Then replace:

.zip* with  (nothing)

Save it and you've got a map file that works.  You can even keep it on the share and it's fast as lightning.  Thanks for this tip.

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And thanks for your tip, I'll give that a try instead... I'm was just so used to using Excel since I do 40 hours a week at work anyways.

[TSpeirs]

tomdrake, on Jun 28 2005, 09:11 PM, said:

And thanks for your tip, I'll give that a try instead... I'm was just so used to using Excel since I do 40 hours a week at work anyways.

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Dont waste your time, the next version of GameEx does automatic caching to a map file

[tomdrake]

TSpeirs, on Jun 28 2005, 09:20 PM, said:

Dont waste your time, the next version of GameEx does automatic caching to a map file 

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Tom, you are the man! I can wait until then, that will make GameEx seem so much faster!

[djrobx]

Thanks Tom, you rock!

[WTB]

Wow. I'm glad y'all went through that. I'm nearing completion of my computer and was wondering how I was going to handle the network "lag." Thank you all for your time; I really appreciate it.

-Matt

[Doctor Nick]

More Screensaver options!

I'd like to be able to set times and such.

[CJ7]

This is a simple request, but can you make it so that you can just create a snapshot for a single game instead of a whole list. Some emulators do not output the screenshot in the exact filename or in the shots directory, so I would rather use your tool. It would be easy to fill in those few games where I don't have screenshots while not having to do the entire list.