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Yeah same here. That would be great.

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Would it be GameEx or the Emus that need to support 7z? I did a comparison of Zip vs 7z... F-Zero X (for N64) all 17 Good roms in one file: (E, U, J, hacks, bad roms etc) Extracted = 272mb Zip = 210mb (done with WinRar set at 'Best' compression) 7z = 12mb!!! For N64 games 7z is pretty impressive.

They need to go in the following gameex sub-folder, in whichever theme you are using - for example in the folder 'Themes' --> 'Default - Default' --> 'Media' --> 'Logos'. In the gameex config.ini you also need to put the file name. Eg. amiga.png would be in the config as StartPageLogo=amiga (If you want to use videos, they go in the same folder). I've you are using GameEx with a higher monitor resultion than default, you might want to make to pics larger to suit. I think any size will work, but it's probably best to open up some of the existing logos and use the same sizes to save resizing within gameex. If you do a picture that is the equal number of pixels for height and width, it will distort the image, so best not to make it a square picture. To make them, for pngs, it probably best to use Macromedia Fireworks (png is the native format for FW), though pngs will work in Photoshop also. I've not tried making pics with transparency myself, but I assume the pic is either left on a layer unflattened, or has an alpha channel.

I don't understand what you're doing, but Tom put me on to an excellent free app called AutoIT (when I was trying to get non command line emus working). Might be a long-shot, but it may help. But anyway, it's real easy to figure out the scripting (for people like myself who don't know what they're doing). You can do stuff like make it wait til certain windows are active, or end the script once other windows are no longer active, launch other programs, it can use ini files, automate the keyboard or mouse, create a gui, and you can make exes with it to for people without AuotIT - there's heaps more stuff you can do with it, and heaps more technical stuff you can do which I have no idea about. The help file is very good as it has detailed descriptions and examples of all the commands. The only problem I've had, which I haven't figured out yet, is if I use it in the emu configs "AlsoLaunch" line, and I have paths in the script, it seems to still try and use the GameEx path, instead of the one in the script, but if used as if it's a rom or emu in the "Command" line, it doesn't do this. May be worth checking out, if you haven't already. But again, I don't really know what you want to do.

With Zinc, you might need to change the line in "renderer.cfg" to... FullScreen = 1 ; Fullscreen mode: 0/1 Pretty sure it's set at 0 by default. Can't remember if there was anything else that had to be changed, sorry mate, hopefully that's all.

I used get the same crash problem (with it loading fine straight after crashing without fail), and still get the same problem in the log.txt, but I think for me they were 2 seperate problems, so this may be no help at all... Does your log.txt look something like this... 19:31:47.6 8/04/2005: Icon Path is: C:\Emulation\System\Arcade\MAME\Pictures\icons 19:31:47.6 8/04/2005: Marquee Path is: C:\Emulation\System\Arcade\MAME\Pictures\marquees 19:31:47.6 8/04/2005: Attempting to load game list 19:31:47.8 8/04/2005: Loading last used Game List 19:31:47.9 8/04/2005: Initialising Bass Audio Library 19:31:48.7 8/04/2005: Loading Music Play List 19:31:48.7 8/04/2005: Creating DirectSound Device 19:31:48.7 8/04/2005: Trying: Primary Sound Driver 19:31:48.7 8/04/2005: Loading Sound Files 19:31:48.8 8/04/2005: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 19:31:48.8 8/04/2005: Creating ICONS 19:32:01.7 8/04/2005: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support 19:32:03.4 8/04/2005: ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING if it does, and you have a mame icon path set up, try removing the path and see it that works. I have a problem with the icons path for some reason. I also used to have GameEx load every second time after crashing too, but sorry, I can't remember what I did to fix it (which wouldn't have been much at all). I'm using a newer version now, so I either re-installed gameex, installed a newer version, or it was the icon path thing that fixed it. But testing the icons again now (with v3.48), it's a bit different as the music from my playlist plays, and hideos can be seen, but I get the log.txt behind it and it crashes every time. Previously it was only log.txt on its own. I can't remember if the icon thing fixed the crashing every 2nd time when it used to happen to me. Tom - sorry I didn't mention the crash and load every second time when I could have given more detail too - just thought it was me messing around with the ini causing it - which I've done quite a bit.

It's pretty damn good hey. I'm stoked Killer Instinct and Donkey Kong now work properly.

Music is working for me using the playlist.txt with Service Pack 1, but I haven't tried the actual jukebox menu section - don't know if it's different or not.

David, cheers for the ads - yeah the Atari one is pretty funny/cheesy. And also the "Nintendon't" genesis one Found some Commordore ones - the C64 Australian ads are pretty funny - they even have a song on them (on the waterslide one): "Are you keeping up with the commodore? Cos the Commodore is keeping up with you" hehe - the funny thing is though that I can remember hearing that song when I was a kid (I'm from Australia)... Commodore Amiga 500, Amiga 1000, 600/CDTV, CD32 http://www.commodorebillboard.de/Commercia...Commercials.htm Commodore 64, Vic20 http://www.commodorebillboard.de/Commercia...ialsEnglish.htm

You can do custom folders for a 'classics' folder (using a 'other emulator' slot), but it's probably not exactly what you're after - there'd be no second info page for 'classics' - you can do multiple emulators in one menu however. It's a fair bit of work to set up though for the method I used, which is creating a bat file for each game. As far as i could figure out, all the preset menus can be turned off except 'All Mame Games', 'Favourites', and 'Multiplayer', so you could get want you want (with those 4 sections you mentioned), but with Multiplayer still showing. check out this thread: "Custom Folders?" http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=72 just to update to what I said at that thread, the mame games do work this way. Tom also mentioned to me to check out AutoIT which is great for scripts for automatic stuff and more (http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=100 towrds bottom of thread), and though I haven't tried for doing this, I reckon you could get around what I mentioned with emulators that need 'send keys' options not working with bat files, by using AutoIT scripts instead of bat files, or along with the bat files for sending the keys.

Sorry getting back to you so late. I couldn't see anything I thought would cause problems. The only differences I could see that I have are none of my roms are in zip files, and for SNES and Genesis, I've got showdesktop set as true, but from memory I don't think that caused problems for me having it as false. Sorry I can't be any help, but was worth a try anyway. I've attached my ini file if you want to check it out. I guess if you haven't done so already, you could just try different combinations of unzipped/zipped and fullscreen/windowed (in emulator and gameex). I'm sure GameEx worked for me from the start without changing anything special for WinXP, so not sure what else to say sorry mate. The "PAUSE" and "press any key to continue" will not show up if you set "Debug=false" but don't think that would cause it to not work - it's just so you can see what the "Command=" line is doing. I have my Gens one currently set to true and its still working no problems. GameEx_ini.txt

This may not help at all, but you might be able to narrow down some of the possibilities. I don't have the same problems and are using a SBLive. I'm using a P4 2.8 / 256mb ram with WinXP pro and I have mp3s playing in the background. I also made my own background pic at a higher res (1600x1800) and have tried using videos instead of screenshots. I've sometimes had a quite few apps running too (Firefox with 10-15 tabs open for example).

If you could post your configs, I could compare with mine - I'm using the same emulators (latest versions) and WinXP pro and they're working for me. Though I also got my configs from the uploads, so I may not be any help.