Lord Zog

I've been a long-time user of GameEX and my arcade machine crashed.. Upon installing my key and setting up GameEX, it's telling me I need a subscription to download themes... Is my key outdated for newer GameEX's, or has something changed?? If I go to Client Area, it doesn't show any of my purchases either, or option to renew key.. (Or show I even bought it..) But I still have my key from June 2007..

Shame that Jag sucks also for emu. Everything is emu'd fine for me except but I can't pack away my Panasonic FZ-1 or Jag just yet.. As for perfect dumps, unless ya do them yourself, there are 3 versions of most of the games that have been classified as "perfect" but the checksums don't match.. Same with 3DO.. Even TOSEC isn't complete on this system..

I use it for some roms, but the emulator itself is garbage.. A lot of compatibility issues and bad sound.. One rom will be LOUD as hell, and another will have missing samples, but works fine on my Panasonic 3D0 so the rip is good.. MESS has a non-working "driver" for 3D0, just not working yet.. Lets see if this gets better once the driver is assigned to someone to work on..

BUMP!! Been over a year! Can we get this pinned and a few other users setups added to this now? I am curious to what others are using now that its been over a year! Don't be shy!

Make sure you ARE NOT running the LATEST drivers from nVidia (180.xx) as it no loger supports the 6xxx series of vid cards.. Uninstall your old drivers, and run DriverCleaner and install the latest supported by your card, 178.24. If you use anything higher, your vid card will run slower as these drivers are no longer optimized for the 6xxx series.. Ya should run fine with a 6600GT tho.. Ran that for 2 years before going to the 8800 series and never had issues with GameEx or any emulators I have installed.

Good luck rippin' them. Thats a lot of disks to rip. Also, ya can mod your .CUE's to relect the drives.. So, for example.. Collection A-J is on your D: drive, have your .CUE's say like "d:\PS2\A\AquaAqua.BIN", and then your E: would have like K-S so the .CUE's sould say like "E:\PS2\N\NeedforSpeedCarbon.BIN".. All your .cue's could then be in your C:\Program Files\GameEx\RomCues\PS2\*.CUE and your PS2 filter in GameEx would be to just look at *.CUE. Then the .CUE's do the work for ya.. Or just use Raid.. Easier to do and just sounds easier. But the .CUE option works.. Did this on a network drive for 3DO and Sega Saturn when I filled my PC case and had no more room for HDD's till I bought a server case to hide in the closet.

Complete collection is 3.2TB. 1541 Games. Thats just for the USA stuff and a few games are still planned. I could be missing a few things, but this is complete from what I can find.

Bah! XP SP3 Build 5512 is now RTM and is now avail at http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownlo...2300ebfde4.exe... Go back to XP! I did.

Good Job MS! Now XP SP3 is pushed to April.. They can't even meet their own deadline..

Yup.. Works fine on my XPS m1730 with Vista Home Premium and SP1.. But, my main emu machine is XP as a few emu's don't play nice with Vista quite yet.. That and I find XP is a tad quicker than Vista and with SP3,, they say its even faster than XP with SP2. lol.. If I don't see a big improvement tho, I will be using Vista on my emu machine as soon as those broken emus (2 of them) are updated. I figured it was just a matter of copying the complete folder, but wanted to make sure.. Thanks fer the info.

With Windows XP SP3 around the weekend.. (Supposed to be Tuesday or so), do I just backup my "C:\Program Files\GameEx" folder to keep my settings after install or another folder? Can I just backup my "C:\Program Files\GameEx\Data\" folder?? I am doing a complete format and reinstall as with all SP's, we get Kernel updates not avail from patches, which means, possible speed increases.. lol.. Lemme know as I am backing up everything important from my boot drive and will be formatting as soon as XP SP3 is released and integreated into my XP cd for a new install. It's due anyways... Haven't formatted since XP SP2. Thanks!

Wow. DX10 on XP.. Didn't think it would install on an XP machine.. Either way, just uninstall her and install latest DX9.0c Nov 2007 Redist and it'll fix you up.

Always happens with stuff like that. Don't feel bad. My Nvidia nForce 3 mobo isn't suppoprted by Vista lol.. Wanted to try Vista since I was a beta tester for it with MS Connect, and I had to use it on my lappy to be able to submit my bugs to get a free copy of her. lol.. And its still sitting on the HDD not burnt as I don't like it. lol... That and Pro-Tools doesn't work in Vista so no go for me..

Works fine so far.. Been pretty stable since last beta to this RC from Dec 18th.

If no TV/DVR, you could always try MediaPortal. Thats what I use.. Great as a DVD player interface as well if you rip movies ot HDD. If not, just stick with GameEx as yur main frontEnd.. You can use MediaPortal and GameEx at the same time as well.

Yup.. Just slowly do the transition to gigabit.. In the long run, it works great at 1000mbit as opposed to 100.. But you only notice the difference with copying large files.. Half my network is still 100 mbit for the PC's in the living room and in my home office. My gaming machine, HTPC, and my fileservers use gigabit tho. Lappy still uses just 54mbit as it has no support for n-draft 802.11.

The nas boxes are nice, but you would be only benefiting if it supported gigabit ethernet.. Even USB 2.0 drives are still slow as fu*k... Got 4 Seagate FreeAgent Pro 500's here and they are SLOW. I only use them for my MP3 library now for streaming music through the house.. And very rarely I add stuff to em, so, I now have a dedicated music server running on an old P4 1.8 that does my music streaming through a serial interface to the house..

Merry Christmas GameEx community! Since everyones listing their gifts, I might as well too. For X-Mas, I got socks, rechargable batteries, boxers, and some cash. Got the wife a nice necklace, dinning room table, and a 35 Gal Aquarium shes been bugging me for.. My gift from her is still being decided as she was let go from her last job and just recently started working.. So, its a matter of picking out something.. Might wait till March fer a new BlackBerry 9000 series. The 8700 is getting old.. Or a Pioneer AVIC-N3.. lol.. N1 is old now.. Too many things I want.. lol.. As for my son, a few little things, R/C car, Buzz Lightyear, and a few videos and books.. (Hes 3 yrs old) but he had a blast... I had to dress up as Santa.. w00t.. And no, I didn't take pics for those about to ask. Oh yeah.. And she got me a nice book on Arcade Cab building.. Maybe I will be in the garage for the next little while. lol..

Heh.. Promise 16 port SATA-2.. And yes, every drive that is in use I have an exact copy as well in storage as nothing on the emu drives change anyways, and majority of the games I own anyways.. So no need to worry about loss.. Complete Sega-CD, 3DO, CD-i and such is from ebay and friends.. Mame is from the mame community, and most of the roms, I have dumped myself with various hardware over the years before the "Good-Tools" existed. And this is just for my HTPC that has GameEx and ProgDVB.. Only thing I don't have a backup of is my PVR stuff, which is fine.. Most of it is just episodes of programs the wife watches.. I could care less about "Oprah".. And NoLogic.. Ya should post your specs anyways.. No need to feel guilty if I have a little more than ya.. Been Emuing for too long! Still a great read to see what others are using for setups..

Surprised this is no longer a sticky, as well, no one else posted their setups.. I guess only 6 users use GameEx? lol..

When the DC-Dump group started, they had about 30 games.. Then they tossed them out saying they were changing the ripping rules as well.. Also, TOSEC's roms are good.. But the ISO's are junk.. Got em all here.. All 900+ GB's on TOSEC and half the ISO's (3D0, Sega-CD, DC, AMIGA's, etc..) A lot of em were never scanned in CDMage for sector errors.. I had to buy my sega-cd collection in pieces from ebay and what I already had.. 162 games later, I am happy! But TOSEC, they have had the opportunity to do Sega-CD as a group, and not even half way there.. Even 3D0.. Actually, with TOSEC, NOTHING is complete.. I have about 80 more GDI's here I ripped with my broadband adapter and when I offered to send the .GDIs, they said I am not a member, and to just post the CRC/MD5 values of the ripped files... Nah.. And thats why I don't like them. Oh yeah, and half the isos don't work..

Agreed. The TOSEC idea was great, but all the CD/DVD media has EDC and ECC removed.. Kinda pointless if ya ask me.. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to get the DC rips in full finally for NullDC.

No bios use is best in KEGA as full bios useage was never fully implemented other than Sega-CD which you need. Kega 3.6 was supposed to have this feature but looks like the project is done. Been a while. lol.

If you really need a new vid card, tell her yours died and you NEED a new one.. That or a GF that doesn't mind. heh.. Just bought another Seagate 1TB 7200.11 and I am about to order a new lappy (Old one is a celeron) and she says "As long as she can use it once in a while". Those are the ones ya need. lol.. If you think your fuc**d before ya get married, your already fuc**d.

Only dreamcast dat is for .GDI's.. Most DC rips, since we can't do them ourselves without some tools, are group releases with no dats. Sorry