KevinPedrick

I've used the technique described on the front page to add a few PC games to my cabinet, namely Little Fighter 2, Streets of Rage Remake and Super Mario War. I've got some screenshots in .png format sized at 256 x 234 pixels named exactly the same as the .lnk files I'm using for the games and specified the snap directory on the emulator config area. Trouble is, the screenies will not appear in the menu. Can anyone offer any tips..?

I don't understand it but the new collection of SNES Roms with file extensions works a dream. I'm sure very few people would bother with a collection of roms without file extensions - I wouldn't by choice - but it may be worth keeping in mind that this may be an issue with GameEx. Thanks for your support everyone

I've downloaded a different collection of roms, and these have file extensions. Hopefully I'll have some better luck with these

Hoenstly... I absolutely do have file extensions visible, I can see all other file extensions of all other files. It is posible that files can be renamed to something without a file extension and I suspect that whoever built this collection did just that so that only game names were listed in whatever SNES emulator front end he was using. Have tried without a filter and with a filter of *.* and yet GameEx does not pick them up. Anyhoooo... I suspect this isn't the cause of the issue. I've renamed some files so to give them a .smc extension and with / without a filter gameex still fails to find them. Directing the directory and filter of my SNES emulator setup to look for my Genesis roms and it still doesn't find them - although I cannot understand what I've done wrong in the SNES setup, its very similar to the Genesis setup.

I've had more of a play with this now. I've renamed a few roms to .smc and applied a filter in the advanced configuration but it still says no ROMs found. Just as an experiment I also directed my SNES emulator to look for the Genesis ROMs and applied a .bin filter but it still said no ROMs available. I'm quite sure I've set the emulator page up correctly. There is no reason why my Fusion emulator should work but my ZSNES fail, they are very similar! Any further ideas..?

Ah, so you're suggesting if I filter on [!] then I'm probably fine, right..? These SNES roms defo do not have file extensions. Its possible to rename a file in windows and remove its file extension so I assume thats what has happened here. Like I said, they do work with Zsnes but can't be found by GameEx. What file extesnion would you expect a SNES rom to have, perhaps I can rename a few and see what happens. Otherwise, maybe I should scour for another list of roms.

I "acquired" the complete collection of 700 odd SNES roms and really, none of them have a file extension although they do work when selected from Zsnes. Cheers for the suggestions I'll experiment some more. I'm assuming there is nothing stoppiong me setting up mame as any other emulator in order to build a complete list, will that work? Also, my 5000 odd "acquired" complete collection of Genesis roms carry a hell of a lot of clones. The roms are coded with things like [!], [h1], , etc. I've figured out that means US origin and such like for E and J but no idea what any of the others mean, anyone come across this before? Also, any suggestions of how to trim this list down but keep the best of the available clones?

I'm a registered user of GameEx now and still lovin' it! I'm trying to setup some PC games, Zsnes and Fusion to work with GameEx. The PC games are playing lovelly but I've got some issues with Zsnes and listing the games. First of all, GameEx is failing to find my snes roms. I'm sure the rom directories are set correctly and there is no rom filter but still it says no games found. I suspect that because none of my SNES roms have file extensions that GameEx is failing to find them, is this likely? When trying to prepare a group of emulators so to have all my games from arcade, PC, Fusion and Zsnes as one flat list I'm able to add PC Games and Fusion (and I assume Zsnes when it finds my roms) in one list but not my mame roms. How do you add mame to an emulator group? ANy help would be much appreciated.

I'd like to add Little Fighter 2, http://www.littlefighter.com/ and Streets of Rage Remake, http://www.bombergames.net/sorr_gallery/main.php Both freeware and both very arcade cab friendly

So has anyone here given this a try..? Sounds like everything I want in one package but the posts from mameworld are concerning Why rename the .zip file..? Why not have a zipped executable or just offer the .exe for download..?

Built mine about 3 years ago. Originally running AdvanceMame and AdvanceMenu from DOS I've recently switched to Mame and GameEx. I really liked the cocktail cabinet designs of the late eighties, the idea being it could be a functional coffee table aswell as home arcade, but wanted bigger than 14" screen, didn't want to be forced into only playing opposite ends and wanted a four player unit. This ruled out my original idea of converting a genuine unit so a few drawings, some MDF and plenty of blood, sweat and tears later I arrived at this! Its Ultimarc controls and the 4-player IPAC (which is awesome!!!), an AMD motherboard and processor plus typical power supply, harddrive, etc., a 17" Cathode Ray PC monitor that functions no problem and is sturdy enough to be mounted face up spray painted matt black, and a large piece of tempered glass which was probably the most expensive individual component! Although I feel it looks fine here, it looks at its best when surrounded by mates and covered in beer cans The incident I referred to was about a year after I originally built it, I moved house. It survived the move no problem but in its new home it kept resetting after a few minutes of play. I first felt it maybe the power pack and replaced that - still resetting. I then investigated the motherboard and ram and after my brother in law got his "expert" hands on them ( ) ended up replacing them too - still resetting. Abandoned DOS, never managed to configure soundcard with new motherboard, and went for a Windows XP install hoping Windows may tell me more - still resetting! After probably 200 quid in components and countless hours puzzling I was still at a complete loss. Turns out, the power socket in my new living room had a dodgy connection and switching to a different socket solved the problem Amazing how you overlook the most obvious! Still, its been interesting getting back involved in the MAME cabinet community and its been the reason I've discovered GameEx! Although pleased with the design, for the benefit of anyone feeling inspired by this, there are a couple of minor things I'd have done differently if I started all over again. Player 1's buttons sit a little too close to player 2's joystick. Difficult to explain but a group sitting curved around a vertical mounted screen is fine but a group sitting round a horizontal mounted screen doesn't work so well - for those at the end its kinda the same effect as watching a vertical mounted screen rotated by 30 degrees, a little off putting. I also noticed that no arcade games have 3 and 4 players using more than 4 buttons, so limited players 3 and 4 to 4 buttons to save on space. This does mean that any 4 player games with more than 2 buttons results in players 3 and 4 having a different layout to players 1 and 2, and of course 4 player SNES games sometimes use more than 4. Besdies these issues, I still love my machine Trouble is you're using the screen in its largest plane, i.e. the whole surface is flat. There is probably an inch thickness of wood around the screen supporting it then an extra 3 to 4 inch for the controls. The surface of the table overhangs a lot more at the side without controls to maintain the symmetry, but this surface needs to lift off before it can pass through typical household doors. There are options for reducing the width such as reducing the structure around the screen, maybe tilting the control box (which I considered but decided the necessary woodwork would be more trouble than its worth). I'm sure a bigger screen is achieveable but 17" was fine for me and I really don't think the kit, as is this design, could fit through a door with anything above a 19" screen. This was the look like I was going (plus mine for comparrison) for and I reckon I've modernised the idea but maintained the look and feel.

Tried BootLogo, the executable seemed to run, I selected the MAME logo but on reset... still the Windows XP boot screen

Nice one! Was just thinking about this very thing - didn't have to go too far

As I said earlier, for me to be truly happy with my XP based Mame cabinet I'm gonna need to get rid of as much visual reference to Windows as possible! The Desktop is not too bad since the task bar can be hidden and background made black, but what really irritates me is the start up and shut down screens. This imahe completely gives the game away! http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2671/bootta8.jpg Anyone know how these can be replaced in XP Pro..? Should point out that I feel these give a valuable feedback and a black screen isn't really desirable. WOuld also like to disguise the logon screens if its possible. Thanks in advance

Thanks a lot, thats worked lovelly - and thanks for the warm welcome. Originally I ran my machine from DOS, I tried to keep Windows as clear as possible, but sine "an incident" I've not managed to get sound from a DOS setup. Modern hardware with severely dated software is not a good mix. I've given up and gone with a Windows XP (partially motivated byt the awesome GameEx) but now I need to disguise Windows as much as possible if I'm gonna be happy!