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I know that this is not quite a GameEx question, but I have gotten some great help in this forum on several occasions, so I thought I would post this question here. I am running Mame32 and Visual Pinball (VP) on my home arcade using GameEx as the front end for both. I have everything running great (after much work) except for the ability to exit out of VP games from my control panel. In order to exit out of VP games, you need to hit escape and I have no escape button on the control panel, so I have to get out the keyboard and hit it there. Not very practical for my kids to use. After much searching, there does not seem to be a way to remap the exit function within VP. It looks like I am going to have to re-map a button on my control panel (to escape) in order to exit out of VP games from the control panel. I plan on re-maping the button that is used to exit out of Mame games for consistency. It is currently mapped to "P". If I do it, then I have to reconfigure the Mame setting to exit by hitting escape and not P. Can anyone help me with that? Or if someone has another solution, I am certainly open to any and all suggestions. Thanks

Does anyone know how to get the screenshots to show up when using Game Ex with Visual Pinball?

Thanks for your help. I was able to find the file in this forum but, where do I put vpauto.exe?

Has anyone recently got Visual Pinmame running with Game Ex? If so, any tips in setting it up?

Thanks for your help. This is an awesome program and I am really impressed with the service you provide. Do I need to extract the files in the snaps, cabinets, marquees, flyers, icons, and artwork files?

I am new to game ex and mame. Just installed game ex on my cabinet and it is working great. However, I cannot seem to get the snapshot to show in the lower left corner when each game is hightlighted. Also, at the top of the menu, the only choices are view controls and play game. It does not list flyer, marquee, cabinet, etc. I would really like to get the display similar to the "donkey kong" image on the screens page on the website. I know that I have the snaps, marquees, etc. because I can see them when I use Mame 32 and I have set all the paths to the correct folders. I am thinking that it must be in the configuration, but I cannot figure out what to change. Any help?

I am new to Game Ex and am interested not only in which people are using, but also why?

I am new to GameEx and am having trouble getting it to start up. Here is the error log: 20:32:07.8 12/28/2005: GameEx: Version 5.33: Starting Log 20:32:07.8 12/28/2005: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 20:32:07.8 12/28/2005: Operating System Name: Windows XP 20:32:07.8 12/28/2005: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600 20:32:07.8 12/28/2005: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed 20:32:07.8 12/28/2005: .net Framework 1.1 Installed 20:32:07.8 12/28/2005: Checking Registration 20:32:07.8 12/28/2005: Running Randomize() 20:32:07.8 12/28/2005: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 20:32:07.8 12/28/2005: Running Misc startup tasks 20:32:07.9 12/28/2005: Setting Menu types 20:32:07.9 12/28/2005: Opening Configuration File 20:32:07.9 12/28/2005: Getting Configuration Values 20:32:07.9 12/28/2005: Using Theme: Default - Default 20:32:07.9 12/28/2005: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Default 20:32:07.9 12/28/2005: Text/Language: English 20:32:07.9 12/28/2005: Applying Language/Text 20:32:07.9 12/28/2005: Creating Scancodes.txt (List of DirectInput scan codes) 20:32:08.0 12/28/2005: Snap Delay set to: 1 20:32:08.0 12/28/2005: Is Media Center running? 20:32:08.0 12/28/2005: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 20:32:08.0 12/28/2005: Media Center Mode 2 20:32:08.0 12/28/2005: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 20:32:08.0 12/28/2005: Get other settings 20:32:08.0 12/28/2005: Using 2D Animations 20:32:08.0 12/28/2005: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 20:32:08.0 12/28/2005: Launching HideOS.exe 20:32:09.0 12/28/2005: Hiding Taskbar 20:32:09.0 12/28/2005: Start work for Form 20:32:09.0 12/28/2005: Getting Original Screen Size 20:32:09.0 12/28/2005: Loading ICON 20:32:09.0 12/28/2005: Initializing Component 20:32:09.0 12/28/2005: Initialising Bass Audio Library 20:32:09.2 12/28/2005: Loading default loading screen 20:32:09.2 12/28/2005: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS 20:32:09.2 12/28/2005: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS 20:32:09.2 12/28/2005: Initialising DirectDraw 20:32:09.3 12/28/2005: Creating DirectDraw Device 20:32:09.3 12/28/2005: Using Device: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500 20:32:09.3 12/28/2005: Setting Resolution to 800x600 32 bit color 20:32:10.9 12/28/2005: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces 20:32:10.9 12/28/2005: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode 20:32:10.9 12/28/2005: Creating Back Buffer 20:32:10.9 12/28/2005: Loading graphic surfaces 20:32:10.9 12/28/2005: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs 20:32:11.1 12/28/2005: Creating Surface Volume 20:32:11.1 12/28/2005: Creating Surfaces Arrows 20:32:11.1 12/28/2005: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text 20:32:11.1 12/28/2005: Creating Surfaces Toolbar 20:32:11.1 12/28/2005: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds 20:32:12.5 12/28/2005: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls 20:32:12.5 12/28/2005: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo 20:32:12.5 12/28/2005: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit 20:32:12.6 12/28/2005: Creating Surfaces Snaps 20:32:12.6 12/28/2005: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars 20:32:12.7 12/28/2005: Creating Fonts 20:32:12.7 12/28/2005: Creating Menu Font 20:32:12.8 12/28/2005: Creating Game Font 20:32:12.9 12/28/2005: Creating Game Font Standard Size 20:32:13.5 12/28/2005: Creating Font Black 20:32:13.6 12/28/2005: Creating Font Black Small 20:32:13.7 12/28/2005: Creating Game Font Faded 20:32:13.8 12/28/2005: Creating Title Font 20:32:14.0 12/28/2005: Fonts Created Succesfully 20:32:39.1 12/28/2005: Initialising Windows Media Player Component 20:32:39.2 12/28/2005: MAME Path is: C:\Mame32 20:32:39.2 12/28/2005: MAME EXE file is: Mame32.exe 20:32:39.2 12/28/2005: ROM Path is: C:\Mame32\roms 20:32:39.2 12/28/2005: Catver.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini 20:32:39.2 12/28/2005: controls.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\data\controls.ini 20:32:39.2 12/28/2005: History.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\history.dat 20:32:39.2 12/28/2005: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini 20:32:39.2 12/28/2005: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat 20:32:39.2 12/28/2005: Loading Controls.ini map file 20:32:39.2 12/28/2005: Loading Custom Emulators 20:32:39.6 12/28/2005: Snap Path is: C:\Mame32\snap 20:32:39.6 12/28/2005: AVI Snap Path: Not Found 20:32:39.6 12/28/2005: Flyer Path is: C:\Mame32\flyers 20:32:39.6 12/28/2005: Cabinet Path is: C:\Mame32\cabinets 20:32:39.6 12/28/2005: Title Path is: C:\Mame32\titles 20:32:39.6 12/28/2005: Panel Path: Not Found 20:32:39.6 12/28/2005: Icon Path is: C:\Mame32\icons 20:32:39.6 12/28/2005: Marquee Path is: C:\Mame32\marquees 20:32:39.6 12/28/2005: MAME CMD options: -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy 20:32:39.6 12/28/2005: Attempting to load game list 20:32:39.7 12/28/2005: Loading last used Game List 20:32:39.7 12/28/2005: Setting Music Volume 20:32:39.7 12/28/2005: Creating DirectSound Device 20:32:39.7 12/28/2005: Trying: Primary Sound Driver 20:32:39.7 12/28/2005: Loading Sound Files 20:32:39.8 12/28/2005: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 20:32:39.8 12/28/2005: Creating ICONS 20:32:40.1 12/28/2005: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support 20:32:40.1 12/28/2005: Unable to create a joystick device 20:32:40.1 12/28/2005: Playing intro sound file 20:32:40.2 12/28/2005: Initializing MCE Remote 20:32:40.2 12/28/2005: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx! 20:32:40.2 12/28/2005: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame 20:32:40.3 12/28/2005: ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING 20:32:40.3 12/28/2005: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.DrawInternal(tagRECT* destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, tagRECT* srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags, DrawEffects& bltEffects) 20:32:40.3 12/28/2005: at Microsoft.DirectX.DirectDraw.Surface.Draw(Rectangle destRectangle, Surface sourceSurface, Rectangle srcRectangle, DrawFlags flags) 20:32:40.4 12/28/2005: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.DisplayFrame()