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Sounds good! I will add it to my to-do list. Unfortunately it's a bit cold out in the bungalow where this cabinet is at the moment, so my to-do list is probably going to wait until spring.

Hi. I recently built a 4 player (franken)panel that has a 7" LCD display in it (it's a DoubleSight USB monitor), for my mame upright cabinet. I had also replaced the PC in this cabinet (from Windows XP to Windows 7 x64) and am setting things up fresh. Before I get too far, thought I would ask anyone else with a second display what their experiences have been with the different options out there for a second display e.g. mamehooker, mame magician, cpwizard etc. At this point I have only tried mamehooker and gotten it working with mame. I had a few head scratching moments where it seemed to work and then didn't and then did. I'm happy with just using the second display for static images like marquees, but as well as mame would also like an image displayed when GameEx is running, and also want to use it for other emulators. Looking at the mamehooker tutorials looked even more complex for non-mame applications than it was setting up for mame. Please give me your thoughts on if I should stick with mamehooker or try something else. Cheers!

I just bought this for USD$14.99 as it said 50% off. Deal ends in 16 hours. (I have never actually played any Steam game, nor installed via GameEx. This will be on my to-do list.)

I'm putting together a new PC for an old cabinet, wondering if anyone has put together a single download for this theme?

On the subject of backups, what methods or systems are people using these days? I feel I am I am a bit antiquated, or perhaps unnecessarily complex. So curious how others do it. I use a stack of 3.5" internal drives, and depending on the machine, a external USB 3.0 HDD dock, or internal removable HDD caddy. Then it's the normal "windows backup" for system images, and then I use robocopy for data. robocopy allows you to only copy what has changed, & keep the destination the same as the source. I like having the data in an accessible format (not archived, zipped, or in a proprietary format). I've used it forever and am comfortable with it. Sometimes if I'm lazy I will just do it from my main machine across the network and not physically goto the machine I'm backing up. Then the drives are physically stored in a bungalow type building on my property (it's not attached to my house). Except for the drives for the upright arcade cabinet that's in the bungalow, they stay in the house. This is for about 25TB. The arcade stuff is about 7TB on its own.

I had this happen randomly also (under Windows XP however, on a currently disassembled cab), since I was using an ipac I just used the shift function mapped to an ALT-TAB "macro" which would switch to GameEx.

Killing it bro

My mame videos are actually all working fine in your theme. Both on the home screen and within the mame game select menu.

Okay so here's my home screen, emulator select, and n64 game list: I'm guessing that's how it is supposed to look? If the only way to get a video playing on the home screen next to Emulated Games is to change the custom text, I will live with it as is. Cheers!

Thanks! I cleared the path that was present in BakSnapPath= and that fixed the background snap image problem. Could not find this in GameEx.ini for Daphne so used the setup wizard. However I still didn't have any logo or video for Nintendo N64 in the emulator select screen and it didn't make a difference if it was 64 or N64. I saw emu_1_startpagelogo=[Console] Nintendo 64 and StartPageLogo=[Console] Nintendo 64 in GameEx.ini so I put a [Console] Nintendo 64.png in LOGOS and both image and video came up: My hopefully only remaining question is regarding the front / home / start page. Should there be a video played next to the Emulated Games selection (called Console & Computer in mine), the same as there is for MAME (called Arcade Coin-Op in mine)?

Cheers GameEx.ini In case it's relevant this machine is on Windows XP SP3 (3.5GB RAM). I may be wrong but it looks like the background is flashing really quickly before being replaced. Is this just a background snap setting? My setup wizard doesn't show that being enabled.

Yes and no.. but this may be another issue. I did as advised above, renaming from Nintendo 64 to Nintendo N64 as that's what mine is setup as: So this is my Emulator selection screen: And this is the game list screen after selecting the emulator: So the foreground elements are there but not the background. But now that I've just checked, it is the same for my mame & daphne games (although they correctly have a logo and video preview whereas Nintendo N64 has nothing). Any ideas?

I plan on installing this this weekend, and have a followup question regarding this. What exactly does this entail (the bit I've highlighted above)? e.g. my "mame all games" has been changed in the custom text to "coin-op" (or something like that), and "emulated games" is "console & computer". I don't want to change my custom text, but I do want everything to work correctly. Cheers,

Agreed... switches! I have a bunch of 2600s in my collection but only got one woody before I stopped collecting..

This looks hot. Look forward to it. So many details are spot on (you need to put a floppy disk double-siding notcher in there somewhere!). Also, all the best with your surgery.