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funkydmunky

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  1. Saw and installed the new release but I still have the stuck marquee image for me. To upgrade does one just run it and point to the same install directory? I never upgraded in the past as I never felt the need. Just making sure I am doing things right and not causing probs Also do you want new .ini/log files?
  2. Just noticed an updated GameEx Arcade version to 18.14 so grabbed and updated. Seems like I had just D/L so wasn't expecting that kinda frequency. Nice to see. Same result as 18.11 as for the marquees though.
  3. GameEx Arcade edition 18.11 Marquees work great but get stuck to the last game played before it enters Attract mode so it doesn't shuffle to match the current game being displayed. The marquee addition is great and love to sit back and spot games I've never played from afar. GameEx.ini log.txt
  4. I tried the x-arcade mame injector which I hadn't done since my OS reinstall. Seems to have done the trick this time! Thanks for your input. It had been a few years and was really like starting out from scratch.
  5. Okay a little update. I got the MAME.ini with the CORE INPUT and put X-Arcade in the ctrlr line. Unfortunately the same result on selecting Play This Game. Fade to black, white flash then black and then back to the selection screen.
  6. Hi Draco1962. Thanks for the input. I didn't have a MAME.ini file. It must have been wiped long ago. Didn't know I needed one and don't recall these difficulties in the past. I read up and figured out how to create a MAME.ini and now have one. I don't see the # CORE INPUT OPTIONS. I do see a # CORE OUTPUT OPTIONS. Is it that?
  7. Hi sorry for the slow responce. Yes I did. I did a quick install of GamEx Arcade the the Mame System Pack from this site. Went to the crtlr folder in the Mame path. There was an X-Arcade in there.
  8. Hi Draco1062. Thanks for your help. The X-Arcade works fine. It is just when I add the "-ctrlr x-arcade" to the line GameEx won't load the game. It launch loops. If I remove it it loads fine. But the of course I have no controller support. I have to reiterate GameEx and X-Arcade work perfectly fine until I launch a game. At this point I will re-do Windows and try again from scratch. I think too many attempts at this might have borked the system as far as GameEx goes. I used to run this cab fine (with some help) but now it has been 4+ months of on and off of just one more go. I will report back as soon as possible with the results.
  9. I have an issue when I add the "-ctrlr X-Arcade" to the controller under Advanced Mame Settings. The issue is before added every thing works fine but as soon as it is added launching a game will stall and loop back to the same Play This Game screen. Before I had discovered it was the "-ctrlr X-Arcade" I had tried all kinds of versions of Mame desperate to find out what was wrong. Mame always worked outside of GameEx in my troubleshooting. Today I redid everything and forgot to add the "-ctrlr X-Arcade" in my testing and it worked. Thinking I had fixed the issue I setup the X-Arcade stick with -ctrlr X-Arcade and the Play This Game screen loops. But the controller works fine. I remove -ctrlr X-Arcade and everything works except now I have no controller obviously. I am dumbfounded as how this issue can exist but it does for me. I have repeatedly added and removed -ctrlr X-Arcade with the same repeatable result.
  10. Hi everyone. Followed instructions and all worked fine. Have all my ROMS and directed to their folder and all is good. But it looks quite bland and there is nothing displayed in the preview window. It is just blank black. I run GameEx Arcade (which I installed first, then ran) and have set the MAME System Pack to its .exe as per instructions. Do I need to run GameEx Advanced config and change some directories being that I am using GameEx Arcade Edition? Any help appreciated.
  11. Okay got it going. Made sure "Screens" under "advanced setup options" was set to defaults. I don't think this was the problem. And played with display properties. It looked fine but wasn't working as noted. Disabled, re-enabled, reset resolutions, disabled extended desktop, enabled extended desktop etc.. Finally worked. So it was stuck on something I guess. Thanks for the help offered. Always appreciated
  12. Yes I quickly had a look at that thread. It's a bit above my level, and the use case isn't the same. I will have to drop in a mame forum somewhere Thanks for helping me narrow it down
  13. Hi Draco1962. I ran in MAME and had the same screen switch. I used Marquee Masher 1.4.23. Is there another plug-in? log.txt
  14. Hi folks. As stated I have a dual screen setup. Vertical for the GameExArcade and a horizontal to the marquee's. Software loads and runs completely normally. I scroll and select game and when I launch game it switches from my main display (monitor 1) to my second display (monitor 2). Marquees work fine as well up until game is launched and it switches to that screen. I have disabled the marquee plug-in for testing and it performs the exact same action. It just simply want to switch displays on game launch. Any help appreciated. GameEx.ini
  15. Okay folks hope all is well. As a hopeful final update to this curious case, I think I have an answer. After a series of baffling connecting evidences, I am sure I figured out what was going wrong. For starters the demo (attract mode) always worked well initially. It was only when it no longer did I asked for answers. This is where it got confusing. I would unplug a USB device and re-plug and it would work. But only temporarily. I would unplug a IDE drive and it would work, but only temporarily. I would seemingly fix the problem only for it to reappear. Then I got (finally) thinking. Why did it work before? Why all the changes with only temp results? I went to USB under Device Manager and turned off Auto Power Save. Boom! I guess some update screwed things up, but that is the fix. I scrolled up though the above replies to be sure I hadn't missed any advice. Why was my keyboard and mouse still working fine though? Why did this affect my X-Arcade so randomly and nothing else? Anyway, thanks for your time. Hope this helps somebody in the future GameEX Arcade is awesome and still the only one. Add a few more "Fav's" though. WTH were you thinking? Eight trillion menu's with one "fav" category! WTF! Embarrassing ya.
  16. Does this work well with GameEx Arcade in vertical mode? Looks nice for 4:3/16:9, but I worry it will be poor or my 9:16. Anybody have a fav marquee repository they want to share?
  17. Not bezels, I meant Marquees. I couldn't seem to find the info on the site. Any links to GameEx Arcade running with whatever Emu Movies does?
  18. Might do. Will I gain any bezels though, or just fancier backgrounds?
  19. I am going to do a YT video in the future and try to give some build info. I really just built it as I went, but kept my original plans with measurements that I will scan. I kept a series of pics as I did the build. I will let you know when I have it organized.
  20. I would love to fully exploit all marques as I am missing many. I have tried to source as many as possible. Any hints where to gather more(sorry if stupid question)? I have done search engine requests for my fav arcades that I have no marque, downloaded the art and PhotoZoomed (up-res'ed) the pic as a replacement. Not ideal but still quite nice.
  21. Made and designed this myself. Thanks to GameEx Arcade and Marque Masher. It was a priority to have a great vertical play space and thanks to GameEx this was possible. Having a nice 32" vertical (equals about 20" diagonal for landscape game) with an active marque is a dream come true for all classics. Did a retro pixel theme with the wood. Hopefully it looks retro and like nice furniture at the time. I did the bezel bellow the standard bezel because I wanted the user/player to enjoy the visual while they were playing. Original bezels were made for locating from a ways off in traditional cabinets, and the brilliant art was often missed or ignored. Not now Standard ArcadeX controller. I'm going to do a design/project build on YouTube at some point. Anyway here is a vid I made for friends to see. Sorry for the quality. I shot it low light so the RGB would shine with my Go-Pro. So bad low light quality, and sweet fish-eye just the the astronauts use.
  22. Okay I think I have found a solution for those interested. Although I don't know who would be at this point LOL. I have removed a USB keyboard from the system, one that had been there from day one in which there were no issues. Now the glitch hasn't repeated in what would normally be the time frame in which it would. My "theory" is that something went glitchy in the removed keyboard and something in GameEx either upon launch (rare) or after a time in the attract mode, polled the XArcade controller which is a USB keyboard itself and the other keyboard interfered. Just a guess on my part. I left Pinball FX3 running for days which uses the same cabinet and never had the XArcade controller "glitch", but then again it doesn't have an attract mode or a similar mode that might interfere with the bad USB keyboard. Again I am only assuming the keyboard is bad as it seems to work fine in function, but seems to be the culprit in interfering with GameEx. So anyways thanks for the ideas and suggestions to help find a solution. It was a weird one. As a side note when using the XArcade in PS/2 plug mode, one must plug it into the PS/2 keyboard port on the PC, BUT also plug a PS/2 keyboard into the XArcade itself. Failure to do so will prevent it from functioning. It had been years and I had been forgotten to me. Hope any of this helps someone in the future.
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