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Hello! I came across this a little while ago...thought I would share. Its a news story from 20\20 (used to air on Friday Nights on ABC many many years ago) from 1988. ...how things can change in 26 years... On a side note, I should be getting back to being more active here starting in about a month. We have one more vacation we are planning for (to Orlando, FL) near the end of February, and afterwords, finally...finally back to my little projects . One thing I was very excited to hear about was GameEx Evolution...it may seem a little too much to ask....but can we get a small "taste" of what it will have to offer?...maybe one or two small breadcrumbs of info of what it will have us drooling over? .....pleeeeeeeaaaaaaasssseeee LC

Try setting (temporarily) the debug to true. That will PAUSE the command GameEx sends before launching the emulator. Take a look at the command line it creates. I'm willing to bed there's something wrong somewhere. For instance, the RomPath you have specified doesn't exist, or maybe the path to your command. Something else; you say you just got the emulator. MESS requires the ROM files for each system you plan to emulate. Simply having the MESS program won't cut it. You need the ROM/BIOS of the system. That's the 2nd word in your command: "mess.exe vectrex -cart "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" -view "[ROM]" -joy -now"" Make sure that you have that in the correct path (I believe the system roms go into the /roms/ path of MESS and are required to remain zipped. Hope that gets you somewhere. You could also try running the last game via the start menu. That way you skip GameEx completely and can guarantee the problem is just with your settings and not something with the emulator. Find it by going to Start->All Programs->GameEx->Utilities->Run Last Game

Thanks for the warm welcome everybody. Got a better score! ExedExes - 215,109 ALMOST made it to the end of Class 1. I'll try to do that.

Pllllleeeeeaaaassseeee lol ...It would make a great ending to my very busy work week (I literally worked over 40 hours since Tuesday morning...we had a bad ice storm blow through Tuesday afternoon which rendered the roads useless. I have a 35 mile commute to work, so after I arrived at work Tuesday morning at 6:30 am, I finally made it back home around 3 hours ago...sooo glad to be back lol ) I promise to keep it a secret...hehehehe What I would do for GameEx Evolution: - I would volenteer to walk my neighbors dog...even during times when they don't know about it. - I would entertain old people at a nursing home by doin' the Macarena followed by a weird-retro version of a one man show about a blooming flower - I would clip our neighboorhoods grass with a set of dull fingernail clippers and a boiled herring You name it....I'll do it

I would recommend attaching in this forum initially so that the membership can review your drafts. They may find some things left out that may need to be added. nullPointer and I have also been active in assisting with any formatting issues. Please submit the drafts in .doc or .docx format (will require to be ZIPped or RARd to account for the forum filters). Once a final draft is submitted, we can can convert them to .pdf format if you are unable to do so and then post them to the pinned documentation project thread. Thanks again for your interest and contributions!

Just finished converting the raw php dump requests into XML, which is my preferred method of parsing. Check out that URL again and you'll see what I mean. Now I can focus on setting modes for each type of data that I can grab, and then I can start coding something that takes it all and does something with it.

Chankast Launch This is a wrapper for the Dreamcast emulator Chankast (http://www.chanka.org). It works with all versions of Chankast, even those that are not designed for full screen mode. It is also written in C++ and is only 72k in size. CPWizard CPWizard is a control panel editor, control panel (controls.dat), game info (listinfo.xml/Catver.ini/nplayers.ini/HallOfFame.xml), game history (history.dat), mame info (mameinfo.dat), special moves (command.dat) and hiscore (story.dat) viewer. CPWizard is a CP editor and viewer with a graphics library designed to build a custom CP. It runs resident in the icon tray and can be invoked by pressing pause in Mame without the need for command line options. It can export CP as images or bezel artwork that can be toggled on or off inside Mame. It also supports emulators other than Mame. FixColorKey This program is for people who want transparency in GameEx but also want to keep black areas black. What it does is let you browse to a folder and it will scan each png file and if it contains transparency it will brighten the rest of the image by 5% then make the transparent area pure black. Now when you display the image in GameEx blacks should be black and the transparency should be transparent. Detective DS London, 1974. You are a famous Scotland Yard Detective who must solve the murder of the rich aristocrat Angus McFungus, who’s body has been discovered at his home at 427 Park Lane. Arriving at the residence you soon discover that this will not be a simple ‘open and shut’ case, and will take all your finely honed detective skills to solve. Can you put your finger on the killer? GameEx Login This program allows you to have multiple users in GameEx each with their own game lists and favourites. You can have up to 10 users including a "Default" login, select a custom username and avatar and password protect certain users. This should be good for people who have children and want to have a gamelist that does not have adult games, but also another password protected login with them included. Jungool 'Jungool' a physics based platform adventure with a touch of puzzle solving. LCD/LED Plugin GameEx plugin that supports LEDWiz, PACDrive, BetaBrite, BPP-440, CrystalFontz, PJRC, ProLite hardware devices. It also supports Speech and Sample event driven effects. MAME Analog Joystick Map Editor This is a Mame joystick map editor. Loads/Saves Mame ini files that can specify a control map for specific games. Some example ini files included. Save the ini files to the Mame's ini folder (create an ini folder if it's not there). Name the file [ROM].ini. MAME Compiler 64 FE to help compiling Mame and applying diff patches. Supports Mame 32/64 and MameUI 32/64. Manic Miner: The Lost Levels This game is a collaboration of Flash (ASM Coding), Headkaze (Coding Support), Lobo (Graphics), Spacefractal (Music), Sverx (libXM7 music system) and Rev.Stu (Concept, Research & Story) and has been the culmination of 3 months tireless work spread over the last 26 years since Willy's first outing. Marquee2Bezel This program that will convert your marquee collection into custom bezels for use in MAME. PleasureExtractor This program is made to extract Visual Pinball, Visual PinMAME and Future Pinball collections from PD. PlugIn Launch This plugin allows you to launch apps before and after games in GameEx. It also allows you to launch games with extra variables from GameEx's standard launch method. PlugIn Rotate Rotate using LPT port or LED method (or both so you can use the keyboard LED to indicate the rotation). Auto Rotate GameEx to the correct orientation when starting a game. PlugIn UltraStik GameEx plugin for UltraStik 360. VJoy Virtual Joystick VJoy Virtual Joystick is a driver and icon tray application for converting keystrokes into joystick input. It supports two virtual joysticks as well as command line control. It has signed drivers thanks to Ultimarc (no need to place your machine into driver testing mode) and supports 64-bit systems such as Vista and Windows 7. Warhawk DS Were proud to present the first Nintendo DS game by Flash and HeadKaze called Warhawk DS. It's based on a C64 SHMUP from 1986 and has been designed to maintain it's retro gameplay and charm. WebCamSnap This program will allow you to take photo's and video's from your Webcam and view them in GameEx. Basically you add the files in the attached zip to your GameEx directory, then setup the program in GameEx config under External Applications. This program will display your webcam stream live in full screen. You press a key to take a photo or record a video. Make sure the PhotoDir and VideoDir settings are the same as your GameEx Pictures and Video directory. Now you can view your photos and video's in GameEx under Multimedia->Pictures/Videos. Windoze Solitaire Solitaire for Windows users have been spoilt over the years with three of the greatest and most popular Solitaire games of all time; Klondike, Spider and Freecell. Now, we bring these games to iOS for free, keeping the original feel but bringing a fresh new modern look and simple intuitive control system. WinUAE Loader WinUAE Loader is a WinUAE launcher for arcade cabinets. It supports GameBase Amiga, SPS and WHDLoad game sets and allows you to remap input to suit arcade controls. WinUAE Config Creator This program will take a collection of ROMs and create uae configuration files for them based on a single uae config file.