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As usual, I am too quick at posting, I should learn to first do and then post The matter is already resolved. Well I suppose that if someone else wants to try do the same thing, at least now it's me who can provide some support.

It took me a fairly long time a couple of years ago to finally be able to launch Daphne games properly in GameEx, and now I dread to touch my settings in fear of undoing what is currently working... :/ But on the other hand, I have this Dragon's Lair and Space Ace HD versions on DVD, and on the web someone directed me towards a small software called "dlhd2daph" that is supposed to convert at least the Dragon's Lair HD (probably not the Space Ace HD though) into a video file usable in Daphne. And since the default games in Daphne are very low-definition, switching to HD would be a huge improvement. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Same here to be honest... by I want to make an exception for the old MAC of the 80s

...no love for the old MAC?

I don't want to switch to another frontend

What do you use when you launch from GameEx an emulator that displays a screen smaller than your monitor? There are so many retro systems with aspect ratio narrower than 16:9 which is the most common for modern monitors. Do you just leave the desktop visible in the background? Do you stretch the emulator aspect ratio to match with that of your monitor? Or have you settled for a better alternative?

@snarls You started the original thread on Mini vMAC, have you been able to make it work and start games directly from GameEx?

We have a Logitech L710: https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/product/f710-wireless-gamepad It works wonderfully and is detected without problems by all my emulators (except those few which don't support joysticks at all), didn't need any manual step to install, and after almost 2 years the battery is still going (although we aren't heavy gamers). I especially like the fact that the 2 analog sticks are aligned, because this is much better for all 2-joysticks MAME games. I also have an Afterglow wireless gamepad which I bought as a second controller, it was about half the price compared to the L710. It actually works just as well except for the fact that for some reason I always have to unplug+replug the USB transmitter before Windows 7 can detect it :/

I am interested in adding the MAC to my list of emulated systems. Does anyone have any suggestion for which emulators work best with GameEx? Note that I am primarily interested in emulating very old software from the 80s, so I don't need to emulate any recent MAC OS really. But naturally, it has to be a command-line based emulator. I could only find a 5-year old thread on the Mini vMAC emulator but with no replies. Thanks!

Well for my kind of emulation activities it works perfectly, but with that I mean I am usually not interested in anything that's newer than 20 years old The PS2 emulation was just a test on a day off...

I have a GeForce GTX 550 Ti, but I don't think my problem is a low-end graphic card but rather a slow processor: AMD II 2.7GHz 4Gb RAM.

Thanks a lot RedDog!

This is another problem I've had for ages, and never figured out how to fix... MAME games work fine when I launch them from GameEx in window mode, but the screen is all black when I start them from GameEx in fullscreen. I tried with and without either "-window" or "-bezel" in the MAME command line, and I tried with and without the "Don't use bezels" option, but it's always the same. It doesn't matter if the game is vertical or horizontal. Does this problem ring a bell to anyone? (attached are my latest log.txt and GameEx.ini files).

Well, it did work at the end, although with some trouble in the middle... to be more clear, I created the custom map file with only "Disk 1" of those games, and removed previous list of files to ignore in Wizard, and the menu in GameEx became nice again without any duplicates. Then I proceeded to delete some games directly from the GameEx menu, and here the problem appeared again (so once again duplicate titles, as soon as I started to delete some games with the delete key), but fortunately now with the custom map in place, all those duplicate disappear after re-starting GameEx. Previously instead the duplicates remained even after restarting! I also immediately noticed that if I started to delete games from the bottom of the list (instead of from the top) and then proceed upwards, duplicates would not appear, but as soon as I deleted a second game in the downward direction, a duplicate appeared! I don't know if this makes any sense But as I said at least now these duplicates disappear when I restart GameEx, so everything is fine. Thanks a lot!! Next week after the party, I'll definitely update GameEx to the latest version

Sorry for my slowness... I'll try RedDog's method first. log.txt GameEx.ini And it looks like I am getting older faster that I thought... I am still running version 14.03