Garrett Fell

Okay - I am getting closer! I did find some of this content off the emumovies site and downloaded some that content last night for the video “Theme Backgrounds” and well as the video backgrounds for the games themselves. I downloaded the first “pack” which covers “005” and about the first 60 or so after that in alpha numerical order. I am a basic free member here - so l may need to fully register to make this less of a manual process I am totally fine with that Here’s what I’ve found so far.... 1. I may have grabbed the wrong themes backgrounds which doesn’t properly correspond to how the themes are named on my gameex menu. I get no themes playing when I select a theme from the main menu 2. The video backgrounds to play a cool movie rather than scroll a set of tiled logos sort of works It seems to be getting stuck in the first file in the video backgrounds directory and never changes For example if the background for 005 is there - it’ll load that one up, but never change it as I flip through other titles If I remove it - now “1st and 10” is the first title and that one will get stuck as I flip around I am going to play around with this more this evening when I get home (I am typing this on my phone on a train) I am also have another issue with controller set-up in the wizard throwing an exception, but I think I found the resolution (thanks google) to that issue being with a directx upgrade. Maybe related maybe not? Thanks for all the help with this

You bet....right here! GameEx.ini log.txt

Okay - One thing I am still not clear-on. I understand that for the automatic art downloads it will look at my MAME romlist and download the various artwork/videos and I assume file them appropriately. Somewhere..... The question is - where does it put them? It seems to be putting them in two different places and maybe hasn't made it all the way through the lists yet?? 1. Right now - it's putting content into C:\Emulation\Asset\MAME "Snaps" is currently being populated as we speak, but all other directories off the MAME directory are still empty (Boxes, Cartridges, Controls, Manuals). The titles directory was touched yesterday, but has no content other than a NOT FOUND directory with a bunch of files in there. 2. I see it's also been putting some content into C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\ But no updates in there since yesterday morning. It populated CABINET, ICON, LOGO, MANUAL, MARQUEE, SNAP, TITLE and VIDEO with a bunch of stuff. It did *not touch* the VIDEO_BACKGROUND or VIDEO_THEMES directories. They are empty! Where does this content come from? I assume this is where the really cool backgrounds come from? That's what I am after. Right now my wheel has all of the "LOGO" data and the background is a tiled and scrolling set of LOGOs. The SNAP video plays on the left-hand side and I think is also displaying the TITLE picture right below. I did also get the EmuMovies Sync application and pulled a bunch of content over for that. It's in a separate (took the default) directory structure and I don't have anything pointing to it. Thanks for the help. FNG - I know..... -Garrett

Thank you for your reply. Yes - I am just working on MAME right now. I may have this resolved? It's working again. I had MAME de-selected in the emulator setup screen. I selected it and it looks like it's working again. I think....sort-of. I had MAME installed on this machine before I had Gameex installed. I didn't let gameex handle the install. Maybe I should-have? I guess I am not clear on the differences (and maybe overlap?) between some of the items in the Setup Wizard and some of the locations where various media is being stored. Wizard: MAME Settings vs. Emulator Selection vs. Emulator Setup (with MAME selected) Media locations: C:\Emulation\Assets\MAME\* C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\*

To clarify a little more - I am not seeing any content on the left hand side of "the wheel screen". I do get an appropriate picture on the wheel - and the background is a scrolling set of tiled pictures. So odd, because it saw it working once this morning.....

I did check this - There is content in that directory that matches the name, but the directories are upper case vs it trying to go after something in lower case for whatever reason. I'll attach the .ini file here as well.... GameEx.ini

Hey all - I am a brand-new Gameex user as of yesterday, and I've come across something I just can't figure out. In short - the artwork/video and other media I've downloaded doesn't consistently show-up in the Gameex menus I've seen it work before, but then it stopped - then I saw it work again after a reboot of the machine, then it broke again and is still broken. Best I can tell something seems to be flipping upper case to lower case? I tried "the Google" and found some vague references to this from many years ago, but with no resolution. I tried forum search as well to no avail. That's why I am here now - hoping for a little assistance. I am including some snippets from the log here and have also attached the whole file as well..... I've tried deleting all the path info using the setup wizard, and re-doing all that - same thing. There's plenty of content in the VIDEO directory Help! 10:08:24.06 3/4/2018: Opening Configuration File 10:08:24.08 3/4/2018: GameEx Arcade Edition: Version 15.10: Starting Log 10:08:24.30 3/4/2018: Data Source=C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\DATA\data.db3;Pooling=true;FailIfMissing=true 10:08:24.38 3/4/2018: MAME Path is: C:\MAME 10:08:24.39 3/4/2018: MAME EXE file is: mame64.exe 10:08:24.39 3/4/2018: ROM Path is: C:\MAME\roms 10:08:24.39 3/4/2018: Catver.ini is located at: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\DATA\catver.ini 10:08:24.41 3/4/2018: controls.ini is located at: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\DATA\controls.ini 10:08:24.44 3/4/2018: History.dat is located at: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\DATA\history.dat 10:08:24.44 3/4/2018: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\DATA\nplayers.ini 10:08:24.44 3/4/2018: command.dat is located at: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\DATA\command.dat 10:08:24.46 3/4/2018: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\DATA\mameinfo.dat 10:08:24.46 3/4/2018: Snap Path is: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\SNAP 10:08:24.46 3/4/2018: Database Snap Path: Not Found 10:08:24.46 3/4/2018: Background Snap Path: Not Found 10:08:24.47 3/4/2018: AVI Snap Path is: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\VIDEO 10:08:24.47 3/4/2018: Video theme Path is: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\VIDEO_THEMES 10:08:24.47 3/4/2018: Video background Path is: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\VIDEO_BACKGROUND 10:08:24.47 3/4/2018: Flyer Path: Not Found 10:08:24.47 3/4/2018: Cabinet Path is: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\CABINET 10:08:24.49 3/4/2018: Cabinet 3D Path: Not Found 10:08:24.49 3/4/2018: Title Path is: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\TITLE 10:08:24.49 3/4/2018: Title Path is: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\LOGO 10:08:24.49 3/4/2018: PCB Path: Not Found 10:08:24.49 3/4/2018: Artwork Preview Path: Not Found 10:08:24.50 3/4/2018: Panel Path: Not Found 10:08:24.50 3/4/2018: Manual Path is: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\MANUAL 10:08:24.50 3/4/2018: Icon Path is: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\ICON 10:08:24.50 3/4/2018: Marquee Path is: C:\GameEx Arcade Edition\MEDIA\DOWNLOADED ARTWORK\MAME\MARQUEE 10:08:26.97 3/4/2018: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\themes\default - default\media\bak.mp4 10:08:44.99 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\005.mp4 10:08:46.15 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\10yard.mp4 10:08:46.65 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\10yard85.mp4 10:08:47.19 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\progolf.mp4 10:08:47.67 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\pc_1942.mp4 10:08:52.46 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\1942.mp4 10:08:53.48 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\1943.mp4 10:08:53.83 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\1943mii.mp4 10:08:54.20 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\tceptor2.mp4 10:08:54.57 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\4in1.mp4 10:08:54.97 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\4dwarrio.mp4 10:08:55.78 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\600.mp4 10:08:57.57 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\720.mp4 10:08:58.05 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\mariner.mp4 10:08:58.51 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\ad2083.mp4 10:08:59.26 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\ar_argh.mp4 10:08:59.80 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\abscam.mp4 10:09:00.35 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\aceattac.mp4 10:09:06.45 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\alienar.mp4 10:09:09.26 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\ambush.mp4 10:09:11.05 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\arabian.mp4 10:09:13.73 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\idsoccer.mp4 10:09:14.72 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\aliencr.mp4 10:09:15.64 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\aliensec.mp4 10:09:16.19 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\aliensyn.mp4 10:09:25.24 3/4/2018: Open: Failed Opening Video: c:\gameex arcade edition\media\downloaded artwork\mame\video\pc_trjan.mp4 log.txt