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I figured it out, I didn't understand what the advanced emulator config was changing. I discovered that in the setup wizard on the advanced emulator configuration page it was using an .ini file called (mapping off) process closed.ini for all the emulators. I opened this file in the advanced emulator config, changed the buttons and then saved the file. I opened zsnes and was able to exit using the gamepad buttons. Thanks!

OK, so in Advanced Emulator Config, I ticked the box to enable exit with the joypad and set the buttons accordingly. I hit File > Save, then exit the utility. The buttons still didn't work and when I went back in to the config to check the buttons my settings had vanished. I couldn't see any documentation for the utility, am i supposed to save over the custominput.ini??

I've just reinstalled Gameex on my HTPC, it's been a while since I've used it. I'd like to use a combination of buttons on my gamepad (it's a 360 wired controller) say A, B, X, Y & Select together to exit whatever game I happen to be in, MAME or any emulator. Is there a step by step guide on how to configure this? I've had a poke around the custominput.ini file and i've set the buttons in the [joystickexit] section but it doesn't work. The file says that the buttons start at 0 so I've tried subtracting 1 from each button but it still doesn't work. I was testing with ZSNES. I swear that I used to have this working on my old HTPC, but I remember that this was always tricky to configure!

I couldn't see a .map file in the data folder, I deleted the .dbcache and .dbcacheini file but this didn't force a rescan. In the end I had to delete the emulator in the advanced config and re-add it again to get the files to rescan. This can't be normal surely? Why can't there just be a rescan button?

Am I being stupid? I can see the update list option in mame but how do I update rom the list in an emulator? I changed the rom path in the advanced configuration of one of my emulators but it still shows the old list in gameex. How do I force a rescan?

Thanks for all the advice, but i'm fairly sure i've fixed my blank screen issue by killing the hideos.exe process before launching zinc so i'm happy with my setup now. To answer your previous question "what changed since it was working before?" well, northing. You see, I thought I had fixed it but I discovered today that if I opened GameEx, windowed it, then full screened it again the problem didn't occur. Previously when I was messing around I had windowed GameEx to change things then made it full screen again to test - masking the issue. I thought I had fixed it but then the next time I opened GameEx full screen then tried to play a zinc game it was hidden again, and there went most of my day today In answer to someone elses question comment about not being in a cabinet, correct, it's a HTPC underneath a 42" plasma telly. I have the power settings set to sleep after 15 minutes so that it will wake from S3 sleep, record something from the TV tuner then return to S3 sleep again 15 minutes later. S3 sleep is extremely cool, killing all but power to the RAM and it wakes up in seconds - ideal for a media center. I also had a screensaver come on after 5 minutes, turn off the TV at 10 and send the PC to sleep after 15 mins. I've since disabled the screensaver and TV power off, leaving only the sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity. The problem seems to be that Zinc doesn't register as system activity and when i'm about the 700 meter mark in Mr Driller the system shuts off Any ideas on this issue? MAME doesn't seem to be affected - I set the screensaver etc. to 1 minute for testing, MAME carried on working but Mr Driller was lights out by 50 meters. Cheers Ian

Launching taskkill.exe /IM hideos.exe before launching Zinc seems to have done the job. I have another issue now - the screen saver keeps coming on during gameplay. Zinc isn't being detected as system activity! I hate zinc

OK, i've been at this for flippin' hours now and i'm on the verge of giving up. I just tried setting up zinc as a seperate emulator but wtf is zinc_loader.exe??? it's not in my zinc folder and zinc.exe appears to do nothing when launched from withing gameex. I've read about something called taskkill.exe. Is it feasible to run taskkill to kill hideos.exe after zinc is launched?

This problem continues to plague me.......opengl renderers work great in zinc but give me a black screen when opened through GameEx when full screen (the emulator is hidden by HideOS.exe). D3D renderers open fine through GameEx but the performance in zinc is horrible and unplayable. I tried pete's opengl2 plugin that seemed to work through gameex but it's way to fast and the wrong resolution, I coudn't find any way to alter the settings (the renderer.cfg seemed to have no effect). HELP!!

Awesome, thanks!

Thank you for the quick reply! Is this issue documented somewhere? I couldn't find any information about this through Google.

Sorry this isn't technically a GameEx question but..... I have Joy2key set up so that when I press the right ananlog stick button (PS2 controller) it sends Esc, Alt, X. This works for every emulator i've used in the past, it's nice and simple and I don't need to manually configure every emulator to quit using the joypad. So, I installed the new version of MAMEUI32 last night (backing up my old MAME32 install first!), it works great but pressing the joypad button to quit no longer works, the Escape key on the keyboard works as expected but Joy2key just doesn't seem to function with the new MAME. Has anyone else seen this?

Not sure if this is what you're referring to but I just found this thread: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...entry8308 All I had on the options line was the zinc-config option, I added all the renderer configs and it's working great now. /me is off to play Mr Driller then tackle the Model 2 config

Actually, alt-tab doesn't work, ignore that. If I kill the HideOS.exe process, the emulator appears. I don't have this issue with D3D in zinc, what's up?

Hi, I've built a new HTPC and i'm trying to get everything set up the way it was before. I'm having trouble with ZiNc, it runs great outside of GameEx, however, I have to use the OpenGL renderer since it runs much better than D3D on my system. When launching a ZiNc game in GameEx I get a black screen, I can hear the sound playing and if I alt-tab to ZiNc I can play the game. If I run with D3D on ZiNc, it works fine but using D3D is not an option (unless anyone knows how to make it run as good as OpenGL!). I have Hide Desktop set to NO in the advanced config. How can I get this to work? Thanks!