Installation

	Download GameEx 1. Download the latest version of GameEx from here. 2. Install GameEx by launching GameExSetup.exe NOTE: You can install GameEx as many times as you like without the need to un-install first. It will not over-write any of your current settings.

The GameEx Installer	3. Go through each page clicking next until you reach the screen on the left 4. Leave a tick next to Setup and Configure GameEx to launch the Setup Wizard after the installation.

Launching the Setup Wizard from the Start Menu	Setup Wizard from the Start Menu NOTE: You can run the Setup Wizard at any time by selecting Start > Programs > GameEx > Setup Wizard


	Setup Wizard

The Setup Wizard	Introduction The Setup Wizard will help guide you through the setup and configuration of GameEx and emulators. At the end of each page click the Next button to go to the next page. Alternatively you can click the Back button to go back a page.

Relevant Links	Relevant Links Below each page you will find Relevant Links that links to extra information on the web relevant to the current page you viewing.

Navigation Bar	Navigation Bar The Navigation Bar is the Setup Wizard is straight forward. You can move forward a page or back a page, set the current page settings to default, or exit the Setup Wizard. NOTE: When you move back or forward a page, or exit any settings you have changed will be saved.

Icon Key	Option Icons Most options will have an icon to the right of them. The lock indicates a registered only feature. Both provide information about the option. If you are already a registered user you will not see the lock.

	Wizard Mode The Wizard Mode allows you to select the options you wish to configure. Basic Mode Covers the most basic options like Language, Theme Selection, Audio Settings, Video/Movie Settings, Picture/Slideshow Settings, DVD Settings, Download Emulators, Setup MAME, Basic MAME Settings and Other Emulators. Advanced Mode Configure all options. Custom Allows you to choose which options you want to configure. Because this is your first time configuring GameEx choose the Advanced Mode to configure all the options. Select Advanced then click the Next button.

	Select You Language Select the language you want text and options to be displayed in GameEx. Please select your language: Danish English French German Italian Spanish Swedish

	Download Themes This part of setup allows you to download various themes for use in GameEx. Once a download is complete it should be automatically installed for you. You can stop the download at any time by clicking the Stop button. You can view screenshots of the available themes at the GameEx Theme Site. More themes will be available for download in the future.

	Theme Selection This page allows you to select your default theme in GameEx.

	More Themes You can view screenshots of the available themes at the GameEx Theme Site. More themes will be available for download in the future. GameEx includes a Theme Editor which allows you to make your own themes for GameEx.

	Display Settings Here you can set various display settings of GameEx. Use Flat Menus Don't use sub menu tree structure on Start Page. Set to False to use two levels of navigations from the Start Page. Set to True to have a flat Start Page and list all available sections, apps and items. Don't switch resolution Don't change the resolution and use the current windows resolution. If set the next two settings will be ignored. X Resolution / Y Resolution The Resolution to display GameEx in. Most resolutions are supported. If a Y resolution of 479 or below GameEx automatically goes into ArcadeMode and displays smaller text and is less graphical. For ArcadeVGA set this to 640 x 288. Rotate Display Rotate the display suitable for a vertically mounted monitor or display. There are a few restrictions for this which GameEx will automatically detect but mainly only resolutions between 640x480 and 800x600 are supported and it runs in 16 bit colour. This is a registered version only feature although is possible to use if not registered so you can see if you like this features. Turning this on automatically configures GameEx to only list MAME vertical games in addition it adds the command line to rotate MAME 90 Degrees. It also applied this to Attract Mode. Show Buttons Whether to show the Home, Exit, Up and Down arrows or not. Hide Toolbar Whether to show the Toolbar or not. Run On Secondary Monitor If you have a dual display setup the next option allows you to run GameEx on the Secondary Display. Default is false. Run in ArcadeMode Turn ArcadeMode on even if displaying at a suitable resolution. Font Size Modify the default font size. Window/Full Screen Run GameEx in windowed or full screen mode. Hide Desktop Hide desktop by making the desktop black and hide desktop icons.

	Arcade VGA Settings Here you can set various ArcadeVGA settings of GameEx. If your using an ArcadeVGA card from Ultimarc the following settings can be used to automatically run games at the best resolutions. Use ArcadeVGA settings Set UsingArcadeVGA to true if using an ArcadeVGA card. Stretch Res To X / Stretch Res To Y Set StrechResToX and StretchResToY to the resolution to, stretch games to if a game runs at a height above 288, or would display interlaced. Vector Res X / Vector Res Y Set VectorResX and VectorResY to the resolution to display Vector games in. Try to Stretch to 256 Set TryToStretchTo256 to try and find aresolution with a height of 256 first before using the StretchResToX/Y resolution, and stretch to ResToX/Y only if a resolution above 256 is found. If your Arcade Monitor rolls, or significantly stretches with a resoluton height of 288, set TryToStretchto256 True. Sharpen Stretched Games To use RGB Sharp effect with games that are stretched set UseSharp=True (default). Always Stretch x*y AlwaysStretch is a setting that allows you to always stretch games that have an original game resolution of 999x999 where 999 is the X and Y res. You can specify multiple resolutions by putting a semicolon between the resolutions. eg. AlwaysStretch=400x256;512x256. This is a useful setting as some games such as SMASH TV dont have an ArcadeVGA resolution that is near to the original game resolution.

	Audio Settings Here you can set various audio settings of GameEx. Enable Sound FX Enable Sound Effects in GameEx such as select. JukeBox Mode Enable JukeBox. GameEx now features a fully functional Jukebox. It uses Windows Media Player and you will need version 9 or above. Go to http://download.microsoft.com to get a copy free. You must also add all your audio files to the Windows Media Player Library for the Jukebox to have any music listed. If this is enabled your normal playlist in the MusicPlaylist setting is ignored and on startup GameEx will scan the Windows Media Player Library. If this is set to Audio Tags GameEx will not use Windows Media Player and will scan the files in the playlist directory below for tags. The first time and if you add or delete files from the directory this can make the Jukebox slow to start up. MAME Audio Mode MAME Audio Mode. Controls what audio is heard when a MAME game starts. Audio Files (if not Media Player) Play Playlist and File Audio Tag files. Only works if Jukebox is disabled or set to File Audio Tags. Arcade Ambiance MP3 Specifically for Arcade Ambiance Arcade.mp3 from http://arcade.hofle.com/. This file constantly plays in the background at all times. Play Ambiance Enable and play Background Ambience if file exists. Play Intro Sound Play Intro Sound on Startup.

	Input Settings Here you can set various input settings of GameEx. Enable Alpha Paging Enable Alpha Paging. With this setting enabled, when paging through agames list, The list will jump to the next or previous startingalphapbetic character of a game in the list. Enable Keyboard DirectInput Use DX DirectInput for keyboard input, instead of normal windows input.It will be faster, and has better support for when pressing multiplekeys. It is also required for a SlikStik. Default is False. NOTE: If you are using MEDIA Center with a RemoteControl set this to false, otherwise Volume and Back won't work. Enable SlikStik and IPAC Support Enable SlikStik Joystick Support. If you are using a SlikStick, Set this to true. This automatically enables KeyboardDirectInput., Default is False. This may also be needed for IPAC. Disable Mouse Disable the Mouse. Enable Gamepad/Joystick Enable use of GamePad/Joystick. Gamepad Device to use Make GameEx use a specific GamePad, or use all attached devices.

	Keyboard Input These are the key mappings for navigation in GameEx. Enable Custom Keyboard Controls Use Custom Control key and button mappings as specified in custominput.ini. Click on the button to enter a new key mapping.

	Joystick Input These are the joystick button mappings for navigation in GameEx. Enable Custom Joystick Controls Use Custom Control key and button mappings as specified in custominput.ini. Click on the button to enter a new joystick button mapping.

	Video/Movie Settings This enables you to play videos such as music videos and movies in GameEx. Video Playback Do you want to enable video playback? Video Path/s The path to your video files. FFDShow FFDShow is a codec pack that provides codecs for video and audio playback in GameEx. It is recommended that you use this codec pack because it has been verified compatible with GameEx. If you experience video problems, it is recommended that you uninstall all other codec packs including XVid, DivX etc. and install FFDShow from here.

	Picture/Slideshow Settings This enables you to display pictures such as holiday or family photo's in GameEx. Enable Picture Display Do you want to enable picture display? Picture Path/s The path to your picture files. AlphaBlend/Transition Pictures Use alphablend in slideshow for picture transition. Slide Duration (Sec) Slideshow duration in seconds between picture transition.

	DVD Settings This enables you to play DVD's in GameEx. DVD Playback Do you want to enable DVD playback? DVD MPEG 2 Codec MPEG 2 Codec to use for DVD playback. For DVD playback you need a suitable codec such as the NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder, the Cyberlink Video Decoder that comes with PowerDVD or the Ulead MPEG Video Decoder. Use VMR9 Use VMR9 for rendering. This may be required for some newer systems. If you have a modern system and DVD's don't play then turn this on. DVD Use FFDSHOW Use FFDShow MPEG 2 Codec for DVD playback. Enable DVD From Disk Enable the DVD's module allowing you to play DVD's copied to your hard disk or network drive. This is a registered only feature. DVD from Disk Path/s The path to your DVD movies.

	Karaoke Settings Here you can set various Karaoke settings of GameEx. Enable Karaoke Enable Karaoke Module which is a registered user only feature. Path to CDG/MP3 Files Select the folder where your Karaoke CDG Files are located. Play Mode Select whether to play Karaoke immediately whenever a song is clicked or queue the songs for later playing either by starting the Karaoke player or clicking a song when viewing the playlist. NOTE: If you do not have the DXKaraoke plugin installed you will need to click the Install DXKaraoke Plugin button to install it.

	Attract/Screensaver Here you can set various attract/screensaver settings of GameEx. The attract screensaver is a multi process based attract mode that keeps launching different Mame or emulator games as a screensaver. Attract Audio Mode Attract Mode Audio. Controls what audio is heard when Attract Mode is running. Attract Mode Timer Attract mode starts and runs a random game every couple of minutes. New Game Every When in attract mode start a new random game or video each time this value is reached. Play Videos too Also randomly play videos when attract mode is running ie. Commercials. Game to Video Ratio Game to video ratio to play game vs video. Videos Path The folder your videos are located. Only Favorites When in attract mode/screensaver only launch MAME games that are stored as favourites. Play Exit Sound Play the exit sound upon exiting screensaver when it has been running for at least 6 minutes. The file is located in the current theme media folder and called ExitScreensaver.wav. Also Other Emulators Also launch other emulators when running. This can be potentially unstable, so ensure all your emulators are setup correctly and work perfectly. If the emulator is set not to allow music to play it will override the audio setting above. MAME needs to be setup for this to work. This also disables the only favorites option. This is a registered version only feature. Mute Emulators Mute the sound when other emulator games are running.

	GameExtender Settings Here you can set various GameExtender settings of GameEx. GameExtender is like a networked LCD display for GameEx but for a real PC Display or TV, it can also be viewed through a web browser. Enable GameExtender Enable GameExtender on the IP Address and port below. GameExtender acts as an integrated web server that can be viewed in any web browser or the GameExtender viewer on a LAN/WAN or on the internet. IMPORTANT: although when configured to GameExtender can be accessed over the world wide web no security experts have examined GameExtender to ensure there are no security issues with it. Although any reported security issues will be investigated. Use of the GameExtender over networks and internetworks at your own risk. To view in a webbrowser access via http://ipaddress:port. e.g http://127.0.0.1:8383. GameExtender is a feature only available to registered users. IP Address To access GameExtender from a remote PC you may need to use the IP Address of your network adapter of a modem instead of 127.0.0.1. Port Port Number Publish to Server Automatically publish GameExtender images to the GameEx web site. When enabled GameExtender images will be published on the GameEx site and for the gameEx community to see what people are doing and running on GameEx and share. This features does require registration. GameExtender does NOT need to be enabled above for this to work. Notice NOTE: The GameExtender does NOT need to be enabled to publish to the GameEx web site. You must set the 'Publish to Server' setting to 'No' to disable this feature.

	GameExtender Viewer Settings Here you can set various GameExtender Viewer settings of GameEx. Server/Domain/IP Specify the IP Address server or domain name that GameEx with GameExtender enabled on is running. Port Specify the IP port that GameEx with GameExtender enabled on is running. Display on Secondary Display the GameExtender on a secondary screen. Refresh Rate (secs) Seconds before refreshing the GameExtender.

	Download Emulators This part of setup allows you to download various emulators for use in GameEx. It is recommended you leave the Emulators Path to C:\Emulators because the Emulator config's you will encounter later default to use this path. You can of course change this folder if you want.

	Setup MAME? Do you want to setup MAME? Make sure you have MAME installed (Recommended folder is C:\Emulators\Mame32). If you don't have MAME installed and you wish to use MAME in GameEx then you can download and install MAME now and then continue with the configuration. Setup MAME Do you want to setup MAME? Select Yes to access the MAME setup options

	Basic MAME Settings Set the MAME paths. Mame Path Specify or Select the folder MAME is in. MAME EXE Specify the filename of the mame executable. Example MAME.exe or MAME32.exe Rom Path/s The path to your MAME roms. Multiple ROM paths can be entered separate with semicolons. Make sure there are no spaces between the semicolons and the paths. Snap Path SnapPath. Location of Snap Images. JPG and PNG are supported. Zip files are NOT supported Video Snap Path AVISnapPath. The following settings allow you to play videos in place of snapshots. Specify the path of the AVI files. If an avi file is found for a ROM it will be played instead of showing the snap. Go to http://tomspeirs.com for information on where to get game videos for MAME. MNG files can also be played back with GameEx. Specify the path to your MAME MNG files here. For MNG's GameEx will also try and play a corresponding MP3 file. Flyer / Cabinet / Marquee / Panel / Title Path Locations of Flyer Images. JPG and PNG are supported. Zip files are NOT supported. ICON path Location of MAME ICONS. ZIP files ARE NOT supported. Use Bezel Enable and have GameEx use Bezel artwork for Vertical games on a horizontal display. You can modify the imagesused by changing mame.png and mask.png in the GameEx\Media\Bezel folder. Registered version feature. Menu Under Games Don't have MAME show on the Start Page, and put it under emulated games.

	Advanced MAME Settings (1) Here you can set the advanced MAME settings in GameEx. MAME Options Command Line options for when launching MAME.Tip if running on Media Center and on a widescreen TV, set '-resolution widthXheight' to your preffered widescreen resolution. If you have a fast video card newer versions of MAME support hardware acceleration using Direct3D. In this case it's recommended to use '-video d3d -noswitchres -triplebuffer' for fast video cards. Ingame CP View VK This is the virtual key code that when pressed will display the control panel when playing a game. Click the button to set a key mapping. Use Start/Wait Put 'START/WAIT' before the MAME executable in the command line. This is required if running MAME32 on Windows 98/ME only. Otherwise set to False. Bypass Disclaimer/Warnings Automatically bypass the Mame disclaimer and warning screens.

	Advanced MAME Settings (2) Here you can set the advanced MAME settings in GameEx. Run on Launch Shell the following command before launching a MAME or Zinc game. Leave blank to do nothing. The following square bracketted setting can be used in the command line: [ORESX] [ORESY] Original game X and Y Resolution [ARESX] [ARESY] Calculated ArcadeVGA game X and Y Resolution [GAME] The running MAME games name as displayed in the GameEx games list [ROM] The MAME ROM NAME [CONTROL] The control mode number as matched in controls.ini by controlmap.csv EXAMPLE 1: ShellBeforeLaunch = C:\SwitchRes.bat [ARESX] [ARESY] EXAMPLE 2: ShellBeforeLaunch = C:\SwithControl.bat [CONTROL] Run on Exit Shell the following command after the game has exited. Leave blank to do nothing. Show Vert/Horiz Filter the entire Games List for all available lists to just show Horizontal or Vertical Games. Only Working Games / Allow Imperfect Games Only list MAME games where the driver is known to be fully working. In addition AllowImperfect allows a driver status of IMPERFECT to pass as working. In newer versions of MAME, games such as Galaga havea Driver Status as IMPERFECT although run very well. Set AllowImperfect to True to allow these games not to be filtered when OnlyWorking is set to True. Default for AllowImperfect is True. Verify ROMS NAME?, and don't include if bad. This makes updating thegame list slow. Only Existing Roms Only list MAME games that you have on your hard disk rom directory. No Bracketed text Dont Display game Version (Bracketed) info in the game list.For example if set to true '720 Degrees (rev 1)' Will appear in the list as '720 Degrees'. This is useful if running at a low resolution, as text won't get truncated. Use in conjuction with NoClones=True, tocreate a very clean looking list. Use Game Filter / Game Filter Apply a filter to the MAME game list. Seperate words to filter on witha semi colan. Any game name descriptions that contain these words will not be shown in the game list if the GameFilterOn setting is enabled. Dont Filter these ROMS Never filter the following ROMS (They will always appear in the list) Seperate with a semi colan. No Adult Games / No Mahjong Games The following option when set to True will NOT add Adult Games to the list, and these games will not be available from the front end after doing an update list. Default is true.

	Advanced MAME Settings (3) Here you can set the advanced MAME settings in GameEx. No Clones Don't add clones to the list if True. Default is false. Use in conjuction with NoGameInfo=True tocreate a very clean looking list. Show All MAME Games Show a list of All MAME Games. Show MultiPlay Games Show a seperate list of simultantaneous Multiplayer MAME Games. Show 4 PLAYER Games Show a seperate list of simultantaneous 4 Player MAME Games. Show MAME Horizontal Games Allow a list of MAME games that initially were on monitors running Horizontal orientation to be selected from the Start Page. Show MAME Vertical Games Allow a list of MAME games that initially were on monitors running Vertical orientation to be selected from the Start Page. Show MAME Vector Games Allow a list of MAME Vector games to be selected from the Start Page, Default is true. Show MAME NEO GEO Games Show a seperate list of Neo-Geo games, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show MAME Originals Show a seperate list of just MAME original games (Parent Roms), selectable from the Start Page. Default is false. Show Adult Games Show a seperate list of just MAME Adult Games, selectable from the Start Page. Default is false. Show MAME CPS Games Show a seperate list of Capcom, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show MAME Atari Games Show a seperate list of games produced/licensed by Atari, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show MAME Golden Era Show a seperate list of games produced/licensed from 1980 to 1989, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true.

	Advanced MAME Settings (4) Here you can set the advanced MAME settings in GameEx. Show LightGun Games Show a seperate list of games that used a lightgun, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show Trackball Games Show a seperate list of games that used a Trackball, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show Dial/Spinner Games Show a seperate list of games that used a Dial or Spinner, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show Model 2 Games Show a seperate list of games that run on Sega Model 2 hardware used in conjuction with the Model 2 Emulator, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Excluded ROMs These ROMS will not display in MAME lists, they are normally added here by pressing delete in GameEx.

	AdvanceMAME Here you can set the AdvanceMAME settings for GameEx. AdvanceMAME is an excellent MAME build that is designed to support Arcade Monitors and TV's. Use AdvanceMAME Do you want to use AdvanceMAME? AdvanceMAME Path / EXE / Options Whether to use AdvanceMame for launching ROMS. You will still needa valid version of Windows MAME or MAME32 and specify it above. This is required for generating the game list. However if you set UseAdvanceMAME to true The EXE and path below will be used for launching games. Be sure to setup Your advmame.rc file, or use the AdvanceMAMEOptionsBoth Windows and DOS version are supported. DOS only on Win 98/ME NOTE: Dont use the -sound_volume option in AdvanceMAMEOptions as attract mode uses it. NOTE: AdvanceMAMEPath should not include the EXE, just the full path to where AdvanceMAME is located. Specify the EXE in AdvanceMAMEExe.

	Zinc Here you can set the Zinc settings for GameEx. Zinc is an Emulator for Arcade games based on Sony Playstation hardware. GameEx can use this emulator to launch playstation based games instead of MAME. Use Zinc Do you want to use Zinc? Zinc Path / EXE / Options The following settings are used if you wish to use the Zinc Emulator (http://www.emuhype.com/) for launching games based on the 3D SONY Playstation hardware instead of MAME. The Zinc Emulator runs these games much better than MAME, and most will run full speed with full sound on modern hardware. Zinc use should appear seemless in GameExand the games will appear as normal in the lists. The game has to be atleast partially supported by MAME, to appear in the list, and the ROMS must be in the MAME ROM Directory specified above. Therefore don't specify the --roms-directory option in Zinc Options. NOTE: ZincPath should not include the EXE, just the full path to where Zinc is located. Specify the EXE in ZincEXE.

	Model 2 Here you can set the Sega Model 2 Emulator settings for GameEx. Model 2 is an Emulator for Arcade games based on Sega model 2 hardware. GameEx can use this emulator to launch model 2 based games instead of MAME. Use Model 2 Emulator Do you want to use the Model 2 Emulator? Model 2 Path The following settings are used if you wish to use the Sega Model2 Emulator (http://nebula.emulatronia.com/) for launching games based on the Sega Model 2 hardware instead of MAME. The Model 2 Emulator runs these games much better than MAME, and most will run full speed with full sound on modern hardware. Model 2 use should appear seemless in GameEx and the games will appear as normal in the lists. The game has to be at least partially supported by MAME, to appear in the list, and the ROMS must be in the MAME ROM Directory specified above. NOTE: Model 2 should not include the EXE, just the full path to where the Model 2 emulator is located.

	Daphne (1) Here you can set the Daphne Emulator settings for GameEx. Daphne is an arcade Laserdisc emulator that allows the playing of games such as Dragon's Lair and Space Ace. Options The following options enable GameEx to act as a Daphne front end and presents a list of Daphne games that can be selected from the Start Page. DaphnePath, and DaphneSnaps should contain the full path to where the Daphne ExE is located (path only), and the path to snaps to use. Daphne EXE is the daphne executable file (without the path). DaphneSnap is the location of Snap Images DapnheOptions are the global command line options applicable to all games. Set UseDapnhe to true to enable Daphne support in GameEx.

	Daphne (2) Set the various settings for each Daphne game. Select Daphne Game Select the Daphne game. Options Set up the following options for each Daphne Game. Suffix the end of the option with an underscore and a number between one and 30. With Each game having a seperate number. ROMName is the ROM filename GameName is the friendly name shown in the GameEx list GameOptions are the specific command line options for each game Enabled is true or false and whether the game will appear in the list.

	Setup Emulators? Do you want to setup other Emulators? GameEx supports a large number of emulators and because they are written by many different authors the level of difficulty in setting them up in GameEx varies. Setup Emulators Do you want to setup other Emulators? Select Yes to setup other Emulators.

	Emulator Selection Copy the emulators you want from the right list to the left list. GameEx provides a set of default config's for using various Emulators in GameEx. This takes alot of the hard work out of setting them up for you such as providing the command line parameters to run the Emulator full screen. The list on the left represents the Emulator configs currently in GameEx. The list on the right are Emulator configs you can copy across for use in GameEx. You must have a row selected on both lists to copy one across.
Emulator Selection Key	Emulator Selection Key Copy Emulator Config Copies an Emulator config from the right list to the left list for use in GameEx. Copy Emulator Config to RAM This will copy the Emulator config to RAM so you can change the order of your Emulators Copy Emulator Config from RAM This will copy the Emulator config back from RAM so you can change the order of your Emulators. Clear Emulator This will clear the currently selected config on the left list.

	Emulator Setup (1) Set the various settings for each Emulator. Select Emulator Select the emulator. Enabled Whether this emulator is enabled and appears in GameEx. e.g Enabled=True Start Page Name The name of the Emulator as it appears on the Start Page. e.g StartPageName=Atari 2600 Games. Title Text The Name that shows when the list of emulator games is displayed. Logo The name of a PNG or JPG Image without the extension and path that will be shown on the Start Page when the emulator is selected. This image must be in the Program Files\GameEx\Media\Logos folder. Note there are a selection of images already there for most emulated Systems. Working Path The working Path in which the Command will be run from. Specify a full path. No UNC paths. ROM Path A single full path to where the ROMS for the Emulator are located. UNC paths are not supported. Rom Filter Only list files that match the filter. Use this to select only valid ROMS. Seperate multiple filters with a semi colon. e.g RomFilter = .bin;.atr;.2600. If your ROMS dont show up, make sure this setting is correct, or leave it empty. Command Line This is the Command Line used to launch the emulator and ROM. Specify the command you wish to run. The directory and drive would priviously have been set to that specified in the Working Path. You can use any setting from this section by placing it in square brackets. Additonaly you specify [ROM] the Rom Name without file extestion, or [ROMFILE] for the Full ROM File Name with extension. Here are few examples: Command=MAME.exe [ROM] -ROMPATH=[ROMPATH] Command=Project64.exe [ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE] NOTE*: Some Emulators required double quotes in the Command Line to work. Eg. "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" Snap/Video / Title Snap / Box Art / Cartridge Path Path to where images are contained. JPG or PNG only.

	Emulator Setup (2) Set the various settings for each Emulator. Select Emulator Select the emulator. ROMS in Folders? Set this to true if your ROMS are in folders, and GameEx should scan the ROM Directory for folders and not files. Map Keys Set MapKeys to true to close the applications process if Back or Escape are pressed. If this is on when the button or key is pressed, the application will close and focus will return to GameEx. This won't work if Command is a batch file. Wait Before Keys Wait for specified milliseconds before sending the Keys specified in SendKeys. This allows for time waiting for the emulator to load up eg. WaitBeforeKeys=4000. Keys To Send Send key strokes specified to the application. SendKeys uses the Microsoft Send Keys command. For Example SendKeys="[ENTER]ABCDEFGH" Look here for how to specify keys such as ALT, CTRL, F1 and EnterThis can be useful for switching the emulator to full screen mode. Replace Dashes Set to True to replace Dashes in Rom Name as shown in the list with Spaces. Replace Underscores Set to True to replace Underscores in ROM Name as shown in the list with Spaces. Capitalise Words Set to true to capitalise the first letter of every word in the ROM Name shown in the list. Remove Text in Brackets Set to True to remove any text in brackets at the end of the Rom Name. e.g '720 (JP)' Becomes '720' in the Games List. Show Desktop ShowDesktop will allow the Desktop to be shown instead of a black screen. Unless the application is a full screen DirectX Application or if you just get a black screen set ShowDesktop to True. Debug Mode Set to true to debug your emulator config. This shows the desktop and allows you to view the batch file that runs your emulator. This batch file is also located in the Program Files\GameEx\Data\ folder and is called called RunItGame.bat. Map File File location of a .map file, that allows you to create a games list for the emulator based on the contents of the file. The file should be a text file list with Rom File Name on the left with extension, and Game name on the right. Seperate the two with a pipe \| or use GameLauncher format. MAPfiles are compatible with Game Launcher Map Files. If you specify a full file and path GameEx will load the map file from there, if you just specify a file name GameEx will load the map file from the config directory. MAP files must have the file extension .map. Also Launch Full path and file name to a file to launch synchronously with the Emulator. This is usually something like an AutoIT script. This runs at the same time as emulator. See my vp.aut script for Visual PinMame. Maybe also possibly a Trainer.

	Emulator Setup (3) Set the various settings for each Emulator. Select Emulator Select the emulator. Offline List DAT Zip This is optional and can point to an OfflineList DAT Zip file, which allows use of OfflineLists snap files. To use OfflineList needs to be installed, the pictures downloaded, and your SNAP Path should point to the appropriate image directory within the Offline List install path. Example: SnapPath=C:\Program Files\OfflineList0.7\imgs\N64 - Official OfflineList OLDatZip=C:\Program Files\OfflineList0.7\datas\n64_OL.zip. Launch Before Launch this command line before the game. You can specify [ROMFILE] [ROM] [WORKINGPATH] [SNAPPATH] [ROMPATH] [EMU] Emulator Number. Launch After Launch this command line when the game exits. You can specify [ROMFILE] [ROM] [WORKINGPATH] [SNAPPATH] [ROMPATH] [EMU] Emulator Number. Advanced Config Advanced Emulator Config File. Located in \CONFIG\EMULATORS\. Look here for Examples. Excluded Files Games listed here are excluded from the list. There normally added by pressing delete in GameEx. Custom Background Displays a custom background for the emulator stored in your theme's MEDIA folder. PNG format is recommended. Play Music Whether to continue to play any Jukebox music when using the emulator. If on the Jukebox continues to play when in a game, but note this can cause conflicts and cause crashes or the make the emulator not work. Treat as 1 PC game Tell GameEx this emulator is for 1 PC Game, and then when the emulator is selected it will skip the list of games and automatically launch or show info for the first and only game in the list. Database GameEx now features the ability to have databases for emulators, so you can navigate and filter emulators much like you do for MAME eg by category, year and manufacturer along with showing game descriptions. The database files should be MS Access 97 or 2000. There should be tools available out there if you dont have the required software. The files should be in the Data\Emulators\ directory and at least 1 file is included with the install, If you want to modify an included file be sure you , If you want to modify an included file be sure you make a new copy of it. 7-Zip/GoodMerge This enables GoodMerge support or supports multiple roms in one 7-zip (.7z) file. This is a registered only feature. Play in Screensaver Allow games in this emulator to play in the screensaver.

	HTML Applications Set the various settings for each HTML Application. Enable HTML Applications Specify UseHTMLApps true/false to turn this entire feature on or off. If turned off GameEx will not create the IE Web Browser component, thus saving memory, resources, and solving issues if you have an old version of IE intalled. Enabled Whether to use the html app with GameEx. URL The full web address of the application. File locations are also supported. Name Name as it appears on the Start Page. Logo Logo for the start page, must be located in the Media\Logos Folder. Specify a JPG or PNG without the extension. Emulate Mouse To emulate mouse movement and clicks with the keyboard or Joypad.

	External Applications Set the various settings for each External Application. These settings are designed for full screen multimedia apps or games only. Although will partially work with normal windows apps. Select External Apps Select the HTML App. Enabled Set Enabled if the Application is to be used. Name Name is the friendly name of the application as it will appear on the Start Page. Path Path is the full path to where the application will be launched from. CMD CMD Is the full command line including drive, path and file that will be used, Or if the Path is the same as the folder the application is in, you just specify the application here. Snap/Logo Snap is the file name without extension of a PNG or JPG file that will be shown when the item is currently selected on the Start Page. This image must be placed in the Program Files\GameEx\Media\Logos\ directory. Show Desktop ShowDesktop will allow the Desktop to be shown instead of a black screen. Unless the application is a full screen DirectX Application or if you just get a black screen set ShowDesktop to True. Map Keys Set MapKeys to true to close the applications process if Back or Escape are pressed. If this is on when the button or key is pressed, the # application will close and focus will return to GameEx. This won't work if cmd is a batch file. Wait Before Keys sent / Keys to Send Set WaitBeforeKeys, and SendKeys to pause execution for so many milliseconds and then send keystrokes to the application. SendKeys uses the Microsoft Send Keys command. For Example SendKeys="[ENTER]ABCDEFGH" This can be useful for switching the emulator to full screen mode. Look here for how to specify keys such as ALT, CTRL, F1 and Enter Emulate Mouse For registered users this setting will emulate the mouse on a gamepad. When set, pressing the directional pad will move the mouse. Button 1/CTRL will left click. Button 2/ALT will right click.

	Radio Stations Set the various settings for each Radio Station. Select Radio Station Select the Radio Station. Enabled Set Enabled if the Radio Station is to be used. Name Name is the friendly name of the Radio Station as it will appear on the Start Page. URL URL of the Radio Station.

	News Feeds Set the various settings for News. Enable RSS News Enable and show News in GameEx. Select News Feed Select the News Feed. URL URL of News Feed.

	Enable/Disable Features (1) This is where you can enable and disable features in GameEx. Enable Auto GameEx Updates Automatically download and install new versions of GameEx. Registered Version Feature. Enable Rip CD Enables an option to rip an inserted CD to WMA. Internet access to us.freedb.org is required for this to work. Registered Version Feature. Show Start Screensaver Show an option to start the screensaver immediatly under More Games and Programs. MAME - Game sorting When this is enabled GameEx will sort game names beggining with The by the first character after The. Emulators - Game sorting When this is enabled GameEx will sort game names beggining with The by the first character after The. Show Game Information Show Game Information Page after selecting a game. True or False.If not set to true, game will launch straight away, otherwise gameinformation and recommended games will display. Recommended Gamesare selectable, and playable. The Game info page will also allow you toview a games flyer and cabinet image.If set to true, GameEx will use MAMEInfo.dat and History.dat when updatingThe game list. The default is True. Show Export to MCE When enabled an item will be shown which when selected will export all most played and favorites to MCE. Registered Version Feature. Enable Random Game Enable and show Random Game on the Start Page. This will launch a random game across all emulators. Enable Most Played Enable and show Most Played games on the Start Page. This will take you to a list of the most played games in order. Enable Theme Picker Enable and show the theme picker which allows you to change the theme while in GameEx. Disable Please Wait animation Whether to show the loading animation that displays when GameEx needs to process or load for several seconds. Hide Update List When set to true HideUpdateList hides and disables the Update List menu option in GameEx. Hide StandBy HideStandy hides the standyby menu option on the StartPage.

	Enable/Disable Features (2) This is where you can enable and disable features in GameEx. Hide Log Off HideLogOff hides the logoff menu option on the StartPage. Hide Create Snaps HideCreateSnaps hides the create snaps menu option in custom emulators. Disable Exit DisableExit disables exiting from GameEx, and hides the exit menu option on the Start Page, and in the Gui. If this last option is set to True the only way to exit GameEx will be to use CTRL-ALT-DELETE, or Shut down/Restart the PC. If you wish to be able to exit from GameExBut not allow shutting down of the PC from the Start Page, then set HideShutDown to True. Disable Escape Key Disables exiting of GameEx with the Escape Key. Hide Shutdown / Hide Restart The following three options are mainly for Arcade Cabinets running in, Public, or Commercial places, or where children have access. When set to true HideUpdateList hides and disables the Update List button in GameEx, and DisableExit disables exiting from GameEx, and hide the exit buttonon the Start Page, and in the Gui. If this last option is set to True the only way to exit GameEx will be to use CTRL-ALT-DELETE, or Shut down/Restart the PC. If you wish to be able to exit from GameExBut not allow shutting down of the PC from the Start Page, then setHideShutDown to True. HideCreateSnaps hides the create snaps button in custom emulators. HideLogOff hides the logoff button on the StartPage.Default for all five is False. Enable Start Page Enable Start Page. Setting the following setting to True will enable the, Start Page. If configured you can select other, Emulators and game lists from this Start Page. There are also options, To restart and shutdown the PC (If DisableExit is not on)., If set to false, GameEx will resort back to being MAME only, and displaythe last used list. Default is True. Show/Enable Favorites Enable MAME favorites. Skip Intro Skip intro. Show Start Page First If EnableStartPage is set to True, the following setting determines if the Start Page is shown first after launching GameEx, or whether the last used list is shown. Set ShowStartPageFirst to True to always show the StartPage first if the Start Page is enabled. Set the setting to False, to show the last used list after launching GameEx. The default is True. Disable MAME Disable MAME usage, no MAME game lists or games will be available from the Start Page is this is set to True. Enable Configuration App Enable external config app. Enable Panel Viewer Whether to display Control Panel with button mappings and use controls.ini.

	Enable/Disable Features (3) This is where you can enable and disable features in GameEx. Allow Window Resize Allow Window to be resized. Show Loading Screen Show the loading screen at startup. Show Run Last Game Show option to run last MAME game on the Start Page. Hide Zinc Don't display the MAME Playstation/Zinc list. This is just the displaying of the list. It wont disable Zinc. Disable Delete Games DisableRemoveGame turns off the ability to remove games from lists with the delete key. Auto Exit Games After This setting, will exit any game or external application automatically after the period set. This is for the purpose of stopping children playing games, but still allowing GameEx to be used.

	Tweaks/Performance (1) Here you can set the Tweaks and Performance settings of GameEx. Load Radio Stations On Thread When enabled Radio stations will load in the background and not hold up the front end. They will start playing when connected. Snap/Video Delay The Timer speed to wait before showing snaps or videos. Set slower to improve responsivness. Set faster to make /Portals/0/images/videoes appear quicker. Media Center Exit/Start Mode Specifies the way in which GameEx is handled when launched alongside MCE. Exit GameEx if MCE loaded If this setting is enabled GameEx will continually check to see if ehshell is a running process and if so exit GameEx. This should fix problems if the Home button is pressed on the MCE remote when GameEx is running. Load Playlist on thread When starting GameEx load the initial playlist on a thread. This can really speed up startup time if you have a big music library but means music will not play straight away, and you have to wait before the Jukebox page can be accessed. Create Image/Video on thread The following settings tell GameEx to open and create new game images or videos on a thread. Setting this to true will improve responsivness when navigating the lists, although may mean that initially displaying images or videos takes a little longer. Launch On Startup / Launch On Startup dont wait / Launch On Exit / Launch On Exit dont wait The following settings are for launching programs on startup on exit of GameEx. The NoWait settings wait for the application to close before resuming execution. The other two settings run asynchronously with GameEx, and GameEx wont wait for them to Exit. LaunchOnStart fires up pretty much immediately when GameEx Starts and before it initialises audio, graphics or the gameEx interface. The Launch on Exit are the 'Last' things Gameex does. Make sure these settings are blank if you do not wish to use them. DirectDraw Dont Wait If this is set it tells GameEx not to wait for blitting to finish with DirectDraw. This might fix flickering VSync issues on older cards. If you have no issues like this, dont use this setting, as it causes exceptions. Snap Best Match If this is set and GameEx cant find a matching artwork file, it will search the relevant image path and try to find a close match. If your snap/video artwork slows down GameEx a lot when navigating lists turn this off.

	Tweaks/Performance (2) Here you can set the Tweaks and Performance settings of GameEx. You can select your closest system config to set our recommended default settings or you can customize them manually. Choose Config Choose your closest system configuration Dont Wait for VSync Normally GameEx waits for a vertical Sync of the display before drawing to the screen. This should offer smooth animation on fast PC's and is normally recommended. Although Waiting for a VSync takes takes up CPU cycles. It may also be a little pointless to wait for a VSync on older PC's where GameEx runs slowly anyway. Setting NoWaitVSync to true will make GameEx Update the screen whenever it can and may make GameEx run a little faster. Also if used in conjunction with Sleep you can claim back more CPU cycles from GameEx. Reduce CPU Utilisation If you have critical processes running at the same time as GameEx such as TV/Video Capture/Encoding you can specify a value for Sleep in Milliseconds and GameEx will give this time back to the CPU just before updating the screen. A value of 0 disables this setting and is the default. If you feel you must use this setting a value no higher than 20 is recommended otherwise you will really start to see a slow down of GameEx. Use 16 Bit Colour The following setting will use 16 Bit colour instead of 32. You only need to use this if you have low specification video or CPU hardware or you can't get GameEx to set the resolution in 32 Bit Colour. In other words your Video card wont run in 32 bit colour at any useful resolution. This may also improve performance (although not confirmed) so try this setting if you have a lower spec PC in general and GameEx runs slowly. This turns off Font Anti Aliasing as they don't look right when this option is set. (Anti Aliasing does not effect performance though). Alpha Blend Videos Alpha Blend Videos. Advanced Graphics Use more video memory and allow and load different background images for different modules. Menu Transitions The type of animated transition to use when navigating between menus 3D Alpha Blended looks fantastic and the best but requires a good PC and graphics card.

	Verify Setup This part of setup allows you to verify your file paths are correct. Click the Verify Setup button to generate a report of path's that don't exist or other possible file or path errors. It's a good idea to use this function and go back and check your settings are correct. If a path is incorrect GameEx may produce an error, so this prevents you from having to go back and forth from the Setup Wizard to GameEx. You can Print the report and use it as a guide. Press the Back button to go back and find the settings you may need to fix.

	Finished Setup Wizard You have finished setting up GameEx! Now you can test your settings by launching GameEx. You can always go back to the Setup Wizard and make more changes, the Setup Wizard will not interfere with your current settings. You may like to try the Custom Wizard Mode next time to specify which options to configure.

Installation

	Download GameEx 1. Download the latest version of GameEx from here. 2. Install GameEx by launching GameExSetup.exe NOTE: You can install GameEx as many times as you like without the need to un-install first. It will not over-write any of your current settings.

The GameEx Installer	3. Go through each page clicking next until you reach the screen on the left 4. Leave a tick next to Setup and Configure GameEx to launch the Setup Wizard after the installation.

Launching the Setup Wizard from the Start Menu	Setup Wizard from the Start Menu NOTE: You can run the Setup Wizard at any time by selecting Start > Programs > GameEx > Setup Wizard


	Setup Wizard

The Setup Wizard	Introduction The Setup Wizard will help guide you through the setup and configuration of GameEx and emulators. At the end of each page click the Next button to go to the next page. Alternatively you can click the Back button to go back a page.

Relevant Links	Relevant Links Below each page you will find Relevant Links that links to extra information on the web relevant to the current page you viewing.

Navigation Bar	Navigation Bar The Navigation Bar is the Setup Wizard is straight forward. You can move forward a page or back a page, set the current page settings to default, or exit the Setup Wizard. NOTE: When you move back or forward a page, or exit any settings you have changed will be saved.

Icon Key	Option Icons Most options will have an icon to the right of them. The lock indicates a registered only feature. Both provide information about the option. If you are already a registered user you will not see the lock.

	Wizard Mode The Wizard Mode allows you to select the options you wish to configure. Basic Mode Covers the most basic options like Language, Theme Selection, Audio Settings, Video/Movie Settings, Picture/Slideshow Settings, DVD Settings, Download Emulators, Setup MAME, Basic MAME Settings and Other Emulators. Advanced Mode Configure all options. Custom Allows you to choose which options you want to configure. Because this is your first time configuring GameEx choose the Advanced Mode to configure all the options. Select Advanced then click the Next button.

	Select You Language Select the language you want text and options to be displayed in GameEx. Please select your language: Danish English French German Italian Spanish Swedish

	Download Themes This part of setup allows you to download various themes for use in GameEx. Once a download is complete it should be automatically installed for you. You can stop the download at any time by clicking the Stop button. You can view screenshots of the available themes at the GameEx Theme Site. More themes will be available for download in the future.

	Theme Selection This page allows you to select your default theme in GameEx.

	More Themes You can view screenshots of the available themes at the GameEx Theme Site. More themes will be available for download in the future. GameEx includes a Theme Editor which allows you to make your own themes for GameEx.

	Display Settings Here you can set various display settings of GameEx. Use Flat Menus Don't use sub menu tree structure on Start Page. Set to False to use two levels of navigations from the Start Page. Set to True to have a flat Start Page and list all available sections, apps and items. Don't switch resolution Don't change the resolution and use the current windows resolution. If set the next two settings will be ignored. X Resolution / Y Resolution The Resolution to display GameEx in. Most resolutions are supported. If a Y resolution of 479 or below GameEx automatically goes into ArcadeMode and displays smaller text and is less graphical. For ArcadeVGA set this to 640 x 288. Rotate Display Rotate the display suitable for a vertically mounted monitor or display. There are a few restrictions for this which GameEx will automatically detect but mainly only resolutions between 640x480 and 800x600 are supported and it runs in 16 bit colour. This is a registered version only feature although is possible to use if not registered so you can see if you like this features. Turning this on automatically configures GameEx to only list MAME vertical games in addition it adds the command line to rotate MAME 90 Degrees. It also applied this to Attract Mode. Show Buttons Whether to show the Home, Exit, Up and Down arrows or not. Hide Toolbar Whether to show the Toolbar or not. Run On Secondary Monitor If you have a dual display setup the next option allows you to run GameEx on the Secondary Display. Default is false. Run in ArcadeMode Turn ArcadeMode on even if displaying at a suitable resolution. Font Size Modify the default font size. Window/Full Screen Run GameEx in windowed or full screen mode. Hide Desktop Hide desktop by making the desktop black and hide desktop icons.

	Arcade VGA Settings Here you can set various ArcadeVGA settings of GameEx. If your using an ArcadeVGA card from Ultimarc the following settings can be used to automatically run games at the best resolutions. Use ArcadeVGA settings Set UsingArcadeVGA to true if using an ArcadeVGA card. Stretch Res To X / Stretch Res To Y Set StrechResToX and StretchResToY to the resolution to, stretch games to if a game runs at a height above 288, or would display interlaced. Vector Res X / Vector Res Y Set VectorResX and VectorResY to the resolution to display Vector games in. Try to Stretch to 256 Set TryToStretchTo256 to try and find aresolution with a height of 256 first before using the StretchResToX/Y resolution, and stretch to ResToX/Y only if a resolution above 256 is found. If your Arcade Monitor rolls, or significantly stretches with a resoluton height of 288, set TryToStretchto256 True. Sharpen Stretched Games To use RGB Sharp effect with games that are stretched set UseSharp=True (default). Always Stretch x*y AlwaysStretch is a setting that allows you to always stretch games that have an original game resolution of 999x999 where 999 is the X and Y res. You can specify multiple resolutions by putting a semicolon between the resolutions. eg. AlwaysStretch=400x256;512x256. This is a useful setting as some games such as SMASH TV dont have an ArcadeVGA resolution that is near to the original game resolution.

	Audio Settings Here you can set various audio settings of GameEx. Enable Sound FX Enable Sound Effects in GameEx such as select. JukeBox Mode Enable JukeBox. GameEx now features a fully functional Jukebox. It uses Windows Media Player and you will need version 9 or above. Go to http://download.microsoft.com to get a copy free. You must also add all your audio files to the Windows Media Player Library for the Jukebox to have any music listed. If this is enabled your normal playlist in the MusicPlaylist setting is ignored and on startup GameEx will scan the Windows Media Player Library. If this is set to Audio Tags GameEx will not use Windows Media Player and will scan the files in the playlist directory below for tags. The first time and if you add or delete files from the directory this can make the Jukebox slow to start up. MAME Audio Mode MAME Audio Mode. Controls what audio is heard when a MAME game starts. Audio Files (if not Media Player) Play Playlist and File Audio Tag files. Only works if Jukebox is disabled or set to File Audio Tags. Arcade Ambiance MP3 Specifically for Arcade Ambiance Arcade.mp3 from http://arcade.hofle.com/. This file constantly plays in the background at all times. Play Ambiance Enable and play Background Ambience if file exists. Play Intro Sound Play Intro Sound on Startup.

	Input Settings Here you can set various input settings of GameEx. Enable Alpha Paging Enable Alpha Paging. With this setting enabled, when paging through agames list, The list will jump to the next or previous startingalphapbetic character of a game in the list. Enable Keyboard DirectInput Use DX DirectInput for keyboard input, instead of normal windows input.It will be faster, and has better support for when pressing multiplekeys. It is also required for a SlikStik. Default is False. NOTE: If you are using MEDIA Center with a RemoteControl set this to false, otherwise Volume and Back won't work. Enable SlikStik and IPAC Support Enable SlikStik Joystick Support. If you are using a SlikStick, Set this to true. This automatically enables KeyboardDirectInput., Default is False. This may also be needed for IPAC. Disable Mouse Disable the Mouse. Enable Gamepad/Joystick Enable use of GamePad/Joystick. Gamepad Device to use Make GameEx use a specific GamePad, or use all attached devices.

	Keyboard Input These are the key mappings for navigation in GameEx. Enable Custom Keyboard Controls Use Custom Control key and button mappings as specified in custominput.ini. Click on the button to enter a new key mapping.

	Joystick Input These are the joystick button mappings for navigation in GameEx. Enable Custom Joystick Controls Use Custom Control key and button mappings as specified in custominput.ini. Click on the button to enter a new joystick button mapping.

	Video/Movie Settings This enables you to play videos such as music videos and movies in GameEx. Video Playback Do you want to enable video playback? Video Path/s The path to your video files. FFDShow FFDShow is a codec pack that provides codecs for video and audio playback in GameEx. It is recommended that you use this codec pack because it has been verified compatible with GameEx. If you experience video problems, it is recommended that you uninstall all other codec packs including XVid, DivX etc. and install FFDShow from here.

	Picture/Slideshow Settings This enables you to display pictures such as holiday or family photo's in GameEx. Enable Picture Display Do you want to enable picture display? Picture Path/s The path to your picture files. AlphaBlend/Transition Pictures Use alphablend in slideshow for picture transition. Slide Duration (Sec) Slideshow duration in seconds between picture transition.

	DVD Settings This enables you to play DVD's in GameEx. DVD Playback Do you want to enable DVD playback? DVD MPEG 2 Codec MPEG 2 Codec to use for DVD playback. For DVD playback you need a suitable codec such as the NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder, the Cyberlink Video Decoder that comes with PowerDVD or the Ulead MPEG Video Decoder. Use VMR9 Use VMR9 for rendering. This may be required for some newer systems. If you have a modern system and DVD's don't play then turn this on. DVD Use FFDSHOW Use FFDShow MPEG 2 Codec for DVD playback. Enable DVD From Disk Enable the DVD's module allowing you to play DVD's copied to your hard disk or network drive. This is a registered only feature. DVD from Disk Path/s The path to your DVD movies.

	Karaoke Settings Here you can set various Karaoke settings of GameEx. Enable Karaoke Enable Karaoke Module which is a registered user only feature. Path to CDG/MP3 Files Select the folder where your Karaoke CDG Files are located. Play Mode Select whether to play Karaoke immediately whenever a song is clicked or queue the songs for later playing either by starting the Karaoke player or clicking a song when viewing the playlist. NOTE: If you do not have the DXKaraoke plugin installed you will need to click the Install DXKaraoke Plugin button to install it.

	Attract/Screensaver Here you can set various attract/screensaver settings of GameEx. The attract screensaver is a multi process based attract mode that keeps launching different Mame or emulator games as a screensaver. Attract Audio Mode Attract Mode Audio. Controls what audio is heard when Attract Mode is running. Attract Mode Timer Attract mode starts and runs a random game every couple of minutes. New Game Every When in attract mode start a new random game or video each time this value is reached. Play Videos too Also randomly play videos when attract mode is running ie. Commercials. Game to Video Ratio Game to video ratio to play game vs video. Videos Path The folder your videos are located. Only Favorites When in attract mode/screensaver only launch MAME games that are stored as favourites. Play Exit Sound Play the exit sound upon exiting screensaver when it has been running for at least 6 minutes. The file is located in the current theme media folder and called ExitScreensaver.wav. Also Other Emulators Also launch other emulators when running. This can be potentially unstable, so ensure all your emulators are setup correctly and work perfectly. If the emulator is set not to allow music to play it will override the audio setting above. MAME needs to be setup for this to work. This also disables the only favorites option. This is a registered version only feature. Mute Emulators Mute the sound when other emulator games are running.

	GameExtender Settings Here you can set various GameExtender settings of GameEx. GameExtender is like a networked LCD display for GameEx but for a real PC Display or TV, it can also be viewed through a web browser. Enable GameExtender Enable GameExtender on the IP Address and port below. GameExtender acts as an integrated web server that can be viewed in any web browser or the GameExtender viewer on a LAN/WAN or on the internet. IMPORTANT: although when configured to GameExtender can be accessed over the world wide web no security experts have examined GameExtender to ensure there are no security issues with it. Although any reported security issues will be investigated. Use of the GameExtender over networks and internetworks at your own risk. To view in a webbrowser access via http://ipaddress:port. e.g http://127.0.0.1:8383. GameExtender is a feature only available to registered users. IP Address To access GameExtender from a remote PC you may need to use the IP Address of your network adapter of a modem instead of 127.0.0.1. Port Port Number Publish to Server Automatically publish GameExtender images to the GameEx web site. When enabled GameExtender images will be published on the GameEx site and for the gameEx community to see what people are doing and running on GameEx and share. This features does require registration. GameExtender does NOT need to be enabled above for this to work. Notice NOTE: The GameExtender does NOT need to be enabled to publish to the GameEx web site. You must set the 'Publish to Server' setting to 'No' to disable this feature.

	GameExtender Viewer Settings Here you can set various GameExtender Viewer settings of GameEx. Server/Domain/IP Specify the IP Address server or domain name that GameEx with GameExtender enabled on is running. Port Specify the IP port that GameEx with GameExtender enabled on is running. Display on Secondary Display the GameExtender on a secondary screen. Refresh Rate (secs) Seconds before refreshing the GameExtender.

	Download Emulators This part of setup allows you to download various emulators for use in GameEx. It is recommended you leave the Emulators Path to C:\Emulators because the Emulator config's you will encounter later default to use this path. You can of course change this folder if you want.

	Setup MAME? Do you want to setup MAME? Make sure you have MAME installed (Recommended folder is C:\Emulators\Mame32). If you don't have MAME installed and you wish to use MAME in GameEx then you can download and install MAME now and then continue with the configuration. Setup MAME Do you want to setup MAME? Select Yes to access the MAME setup options

	Basic MAME Settings Set the MAME paths. Mame Path Specify or Select the folder MAME is in. MAME EXE Specify the filename of the mame executable. Example MAME.exe or MAME32.exe Rom Path/s The path to your MAME roms. Multiple ROM paths can be entered separate with semicolons. Make sure there are no spaces between the semicolons and the paths. Snap Path SnapPath. Location of Snap Images. JPG and PNG are supported. Zip files are NOT supported Video Snap Path AVISnapPath. The following settings allow you to play videos in place of snapshots. Specify the path of the AVI files. If an avi file is found for a ROM it will be played instead of showing the snap. Go to http://tomspeirs.com for information on where to get game videos for MAME. MNG files can also be played back with GameEx. Specify the path to your MAME MNG files here. For MNG's GameEx will also try and play a corresponding MP3 file. Flyer / Cabinet / Marquee / Panel / Title Path Locations of Flyer Images. JPG and PNG are supported. Zip files are NOT supported. ICON path Location of MAME ICONS. ZIP files ARE NOT supported. Use Bezel Enable and have GameEx use Bezel artwork for Vertical games on a horizontal display. You can modify the imagesused by changing mame.png and mask.png in the GameEx\Media\Bezel folder. Registered version feature. Menu Under Games Don't have MAME show on the Start Page, and put it under emulated games.

	Advanced MAME Settings (1) Here you can set the advanced MAME settings in GameEx. MAME Options Command Line options for when launching MAME.Tip if running on Media Center and on a widescreen TV, set '-resolution widthXheight' to your preffered widescreen resolution. If you have a fast video card newer versions of MAME support hardware acceleration using Direct3D. In this case it's recommended to use '-video d3d -noswitchres -triplebuffer' for fast video cards. Ingame CP View VK This is the virtual key code that when pressed will display the control panel when playing a game. Click the button to set a key mapping. Use Start/Wait Put 'START/WAIT' before the MAME executable in the command line. This is required if running MAME32 on Windows 98/ME only. Otherwise set to False. Bypass Disclaimer/Warnings Automatically bypass the Mame disclaimer and warning screens.

	Advanced MAME Settings (2) Here you can set the advanced MAME settings in GameEx. Run on Launch Shell the following command before launching a MAME or Zinc game. Leave blank to do nothing. The following square bracketted setting can be used in the command line: [ORESX] [ORESY] Original game X and Y Resolution [ARESX] [ARESY] Calculated ArcadeVGA game X and Y Resolution [GAME] The running MAME games name as displayed in the GameEx games list [ROM] The MAME ROM NAME [CONTROL] The control mode number as matched in controls.ini by controlmap.csv EXAMPLE 1: ShellBeforeLaunch = C:\SwitchRes.bat [ARESX] [ARESY] EXAMPLE 2: ShellBeforeLaunch = C:\SwithControl.bat [CONTROL] Run on Exit Shell the following command after the game has exited. Leave blank to do nothing. Show Vert/Horiz Filter the entire Games List for all available lists to just show Horizontal or Vertical Games. Only Working Games / Allow Imperfect Games Only list MAME games where the driver is known to be fully working. In addition AllowImperfect allows a driver status of IMPERFECT to pass as working. In newer versions of MAME, games such as Galaga havea Driver Status as IMPERFECT although run very well. Set AllowImperfect to True to allow these games not to be filtered when OnlyWorking is set to True. Default for AllowImperfect is True. Verify ROMS NAME?, and don't include if bad. This makes updating thegame list slow. Only Existing Roms Only list MAME games that you have on your hard disk rom directory. No Bracketed text Dont Display game Version (Bracketed) info in the game list.For example if set to true '720 Degrees (rev 1)' Will appear in the list as '720 Degrees'. This is useful if running at a low resolution, as text won't get truncated. Use in conjuction with NoClones=True, tocreate a very clean looking list. Use Game Filter / Game Filter Apply a filter to the MAME game list. Seperate words to filter on witha semi colan. Any game name descriptions that contain these words will not be shown in the game list if the GameFilterOn setting is enabled. Dont Filter these ROMS Never filter the following ROMS (They will always appear in the list) Seperate with a semi colan. No Adult Games / No Mahjong Games The following option when set to True will NOT add Adult Games to the list, and these games will not be available from the front end after doing an update list. Default is true.

	Advanced MAME Settings (3) Here you can set the advanced MAME settings in GameEx. No Clones Don't add clones to the list if True. Default is false. Use in conjuction with NoGameInfo=True tocreate a very clean looking list. Show All MAME Games Show a list of All MAME Games. Show MultiPlay Games Show a seperate list of simultantaneous Multiplayer MAME Games. Show 4 PLAYER Games Show a seperate list of simultantaneous 4 Player MAME Games. Show MAME Horizontal Games Allow a list of MAME games that initially were on monitors running Horizontal orientation to be selected from the Start Page. Show MAME Vertical Games Allow a list of MAME games that initially were on monitors running Vertical orientation to be selected from the Start Page. Show MAME Vector Games Allow a list of MAME Vector games to be selected from the Start Page, Default is true. Show MAME NEO GEO Games Show a seperate list of Neo-Geo games, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show MAME Originals Show a seperate list of just MAME original games (Parent Roms), selectable from the Start Page. Default is false. Show Adult Games Show a seperate list of just MAME Adult Games, selectable from the Start Page. Default is false. Show MAME CPS Games Show a seperate list of Capcom, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show MAME Atari Games Show a seperate list of games produced/licensed by Atari, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show MAME Golden Era Show a seperate list of games produced/licensed from 1980 to 1989, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true.

	Advanced MAME Settings (4) Here you can set the advanced MAME settings in GameEx. Show LightGun Games Show a seperate list of games that used a lightgun, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show Trackball Games Show a seperate list of games that used a Trackball, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show Dial/Spinner Games Show a seperate list of games that used a Dial or Spinner, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Show Model 2 Games Show a seperate list of games that run on Sega Model 2 hardware used in conjuction with the Model 2 Emulator, selectable from the Start Page. Default is true. Excluded ROMs These ROMS will not display in MAME lists, they are normally added here by pressing delete in GameEx.

	AdvanceMAME Here you can set the AdvanceMAME settings for GameEx. AdvanceMAME is an excellent MAME build that is designed to support Arcade Monitors and TV's. Use AdvanceMAME Do you want to use AdvanceMAME? AdvanceMAME Path / EXE / Options Whether to use AdvanceMame for launching ROMS. You will still needa valid version of Windows MAME or MAME32 and specify it above. This is required for generating the game list. However if you set UseAdvanceMAME to true The EXE and path below will be used for launching games. Be sure to setup Your advmame.rc file, or use the AdvanceMAMEOptionsBoth Windows and DOS version are supported. DOS only on Win 98/ME NOTE: Dont use the -sound_volume option in AdvanceMAMEOptions as attract mode uses it. NOTE: AdvanceMAMEPath should not include the EXE, just the full path to where AdvanceMAME is located. Specify the EXE in AdvanceMAMEExe.

	Zinc Here you can set the Zinc settings for GameEx. Zinc is an Emulator for Arcade games based on Sony Playstation hardware. GameEx can use this emulator to launch playstation based games instead of MAME. Use Zinc Do you want to use Zinc? Zinc Path / EXE / Options The following settings are used if you wish to use the Zinc Emulator (http://www.emuhype.com/) for launching games based on the 3D SONY Playstation hardware instead of MAME. The Zinc Emulator runs these games much better than MAME, and most will run full speed with full sound on modern hardware. Zinc use should appear seemless in GameExand the games will appear as normal in the lists. The game has to be atleast partially supported by MAME, to appear in the list, and the ROMS must be in the MAME ROM Directory specified above. Therefore don't specify the --roms-directory option in Zinc Options. NOTE: ZincPath should not include the EXE, just the full path to where Zinc is located. Specify the EXE in ZincEXE.

	Model 2 Here you can set the Sega Model 2 Emulator settings for GameEx. Model 2 is an Emulator for Arcade games based on Sega model 2 hardware. GameEx can use this emulator to launch model 2 based games instead of MAME. Use Model 2 Emulator Do you want to use the Model 2 Emulator? Model 2 Path The following settings are used if you wish to use the Sega Model2 Emulator (http://nebula.emulatronia.com/) for launching games based on the Sega Model 2 hardware instead of MAME. The Model 2 Emulator runs these games much better than MAME, and most will run full speed with full sound on modern hardware. Model 2 use should appear seemless in GameEx and the games will appear as normal in the lists. The game has to be at least partially supported by MAME, to appear in the list, and the ROMS must be in the MAME ROM Directory specified above. NOTE: Model 2 should not include the EXE, just the full path to where the Model 2 emulator is located.

	Daphne (1) Here you can set the Daphne Emulator settings for GameEx. Daphne is an arcade Laserdisc emulator that allows the playing of games such as Dragon's Lair and Space Ace. Options The following options enable GameEx to act as a Daphne front end and presents a list of Daphne games that can be selected from the Start Page. DaphnePath, and DaphneSnaps should contain the full path to where the Daphne ExE is located (path only), and the path to snaps to use. Daphne EXE is the daphne executable file (without the path). DaphneSnap is the location of Snap Images DapnheOptions are the global command line options applicable to all games. Set UseDapnhe to true to enable Daphne support in GameEx.

	Daphne (2) Set the various settings for each Daphne game. Select Daphne Game Select the Daphne game. Options Set up the following options for each Daphne Game. Suffix the end of the option with an underscore and a number between one and 30. With Each game having a seperate number. ROMName is the ROM filename GameName is the friendly name shown in the GameEx list GameOptions are the specific command line options for each game Enabled is true or false and whether the game will appear in the list.

	Setup Emulators? Do you want to setup other Emulators? GameEx supports a large number of emulators and because they are written by many different authors the level of difficulty in setting them up in GameEx varies. Setup Emulators Do you want to setup other Emulators? Select Yes to setup other Emulators.

	Emulator Selection Copy the emulators you want from the right list to the left list. GameEx provides a set of default config's for using various Emulators in GameEx. This takes alot of the hard work out of setting them up for you such as providing the command line parameters to run the Emulator full screen. The list on the left represents the Emulator configs currently in GameEx. The list on the right are Emulator configs you can copy across for use in GameEx. You must have a row selected on both lists to copy one across.
Emulator Selection Key	Emulator Selection Key Copy Emulator Config Copies an Emulator config from the right list to the left list for use in GameEx. Copy Emulator Config to RAM This will copy the Emulator config to RAM so you can change the order of your Emulators Copy Emulator Config from RAM This will copy the Emulator config back from RAM so you can change the order of your Emulators. Clear Emulator This will clear the currently selected config on the left list.

	Emulator Setup (1) Set the various settings for each Emulator. Select Emulator Select the emulator. Enabled Whether this emulator is enabled and appears in GameEx. e.g Enabled=True Start Page Name The name of the Emulator as it appears on the Start Page. e.g StartPageName=Atari 2600 Games. Title Text The Name that shows when the list of emulator games is displayed. Logo The name of a PNG or JPG Image without the extension and path that will be shown on the Start Page when the emulator is selected. This image must be in the Program Files\GameEx\Media\Logos folder. Note there are a selection of images already there for most emulated Systems. Working Path The working Path in which the Command will be run from. Specify a full path. No UNC paths. ROM Path A single full path to where the ROMS for the Emulator are located. UNC paths are not supported. Rom Filter Only list files that match the filter. Use this to select only valid ROMS. Seperate multiple filters with a semi colon. e.g RomFilter = .bin;.atr;.2600. If your ROMS dont show up, make sure this setting is correct, or leave it empty. Command Line This is the Command Line used to launch the emulator and ROM. Specify the command you wish to run. The directory and drive would priviously have been set to that specified in the Working Path. You can use any setting from this section by placing it in square brackets. Additonaly you specify [ROM] the Rom Name without file extestion, or [ROMFILE] for the Full ROM File Name with extension. Here are few examples: Command=MAME.exe [ROM] -ROMPATH=[ROMPATH] Command=Project64.exe [ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE] NOTE*: Some Emulators required double quotes in the Command Line to work. Eg. "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" Snap/Video / Title Snap / Box Art / Cartridge Path Path to where images are contained. JPG or PNG only.

	Emulator Setup (2) Set the various settings for each Emulator. Select Emulator Select the emulator. ROMS in Folders? Set this to true if your ROMS are in folders, and GameEx should scan the ROM Directory for folders and not files. Map Keys Set MapKeys to true to close the applications process if Back or Escape are pressed. If this is on when the button or key is pressed, the application will close and focus will return to GameEx. This won't work if Command is a batch file. Wait Before Keys Wait for specified milliseconds before sending the Keys specified in SendKeys. This allows for time waiting for the emulator to load up eg. WaitBeforeKeys=4000. Keys To Send Send key strokes specified to the application. SendKeys uses the Microsoft Send Keys command. For Example SendKeys="[ENTER]ABCDEFGH" Look here for how to specify keys such as ALT, CTRL, F1 and EnterThis can be useful for switching the emulator to full screen mode. Replace Dashes Set to True to replace Dashes in Rom Name as shown in the list with Spaces. Replace Underscores Set to True to replace Underscores in ROM Name as shown in the list with Spaces. Capitalise Words Set to true to capitalise the first letter of every word in the ROM Name shown in the list. Remove Text in Brackets Set to True to remove any text in brackets at the end of the Rom Name. e.g '720 (JP)' Becomes '720' in the Games List. Show Desktop ShowDesktop will allow the Desktop to be shown instead of a black screen. Unless the application is a full screen DirectX Application or if you just get a black screen set ShowDesktop to True. Debug Mode Set to true to debug your emulator config. This shows the desktop and allows you to view the batch file that runs your emulator. This batch file is also located in the Program Files\GameEx\Data\ folder and is called called RunItGame.bat. Map File File location of a .map file, that allows you to create a games list for the emulator based on the contents of the file. The file should be a text file list with Rom File Name on the left with extension, and Game name on the right. Seperate the two with a pipe \| or use GameLauncher format. MAPfiles are compatible with Game Launcher Map Files. If you specify a full file and path GameEx will load the map file from there, if you just specify a file name GameEx will load the map file from the config directory. MAP files must have the file extension .map. Also Launch Full path and file name to a file to launch synchronously with the Emulator. This is usually something like an AutoIT script. This runs at the same time as emulator. See my vp.aut script for Visual PinMame. Maybe also possibly a Trainer.

	Emulator Setup (3) Set the various settings for each Emulator. Select Emulator Select the emulator. Offline List DAT Zip This is optional and can point to an OfflineList DAT Zip file, which allows use of OfflineLists snap files. To use OfflineList needs to be installed, the pictures downloaded, and your SNAP Path should point to the appropriate image directory within the Offline List install path. Example: SnapPath=C:\Program Files\OfflineList0.7\imgs\N64 - Official OfflineList OLDatZip=C:\Program Files\OfflineList0.7\datas\n64_OL.zip. Launch Before Launch this command line before the game. You can specify [ROMFILE] [ROM] [WORKINGPATH] [SNAPPATH] [ROMPATH] [EMU] Emulator Number. Launch After Launch this command line when the game exits. You can specify [ROMFILE] [ROM] [WORKINGPATH] [SNAPPATH] [ROMPATH] [EMU] Emulator Number. Advanced Config Advanced Emulator Config File. Located in \CONFIG\EMULATORS\. Look here for Examples. Excluded Files Games listed here are excluded from the list. There normally added by pressing delete in GameEx. Custom Background Displays a custom background for the emulator stored in your theme's MEDIA folder. PNG format is recommended. Play Music Whether to continue to play any Jukebox music when using the emulator. If on the Jukebox continues to play when in a game, but note this can cause conflicts and cause crashes or the make the emulator not work. Treat as 1 PC game Tell GameEx this emulator is for 1 PC Game, and then when the emulator is selected it will skip the list of games and automatically launch or show info for the first and only game in the list. Database GameEx now features the ability to have databases for emulators, so you can navigate and filter emulators much like you do for MAME eg by category, year and manufacturer along with showing game descriptions. The database files should be MS Access 97 or 2000. There should be tools available out there if you dont have the required software. The files should be in the Data\Emulators\ directory and at least 1 file is included with the install, If you want to modify an included file be sure you , If you want to modify an included file be sure you make a new copy of it. 7-Zip/GoodMerge This enables GoodMerge support or supports multiple roms in one 7-zip (.7z) file. This is a registered only feature. Play in Screensaver Allow games in this emulator to play in the screensaver.

	HTML Applications Set the various settings for each HTML Application. Enable HTML Applications Specify UseHTMLApps true/false to turn this entire feature on or off. If turned off GameEx will not create the IE Web Browser component, thus saving memory, resources, and solving issues if you have an old version of IE intalled. Enabled Whether to use the html app with GameEx. URL The full web address of the application. File locations are also supported. Name Name as it appears on the Start Page. Logo Logo for the start page, must be located in the Media\Logos Folder. Specify a JPG or PNG without the extension. Emulate Mouse To emulate mouse movement and clicks with the keyboard or Joypad.

	External Applications Set the various settings for each External Application. These settings are designed for full screen multimedia apps or games only. Although will partially work with normal windows apps. Select External Apps Select the HTML App. Enabled Set Enabled if the Application is to be used. Name Name is the friendly name of the application as it will appear on the Start Page. Path Path is the full path to where the application will be launched from. CMD CMD Is the full command line including drive, path and file that will be used, Or if the Path is the same as the folder the application is in, you just specify the application here. Snap/Logo Snap is the file name without extension of a PNG or JPG file that will be shown when the item is currently selected on the Start Page. This image must be placed in the Program Files\GameEx\Media\Logos\ directory. Show Desktop ShowDesktop will allow the Desktop to be shown instead of a black screen. Unless the application is a full screen DirectX Application or if you just get a black screen set ShowDesktop to True. Map Keys Set MapKeys to true to close the applications process if Back or Escape are pressed. If this is on when the button or key is pressed, the # application will close and focus will return to GameEx. This won't work if cmd is a batch file. Wait Before Keys sent / Keys to Send Set WaitBeforeKeys, and SendKeys to pause execution for so many milliseconds and then send keystrokes to the application. SendKeys uses the Microsoft Send Keys command. For Example SendKeys="[ENTER]ABCDEFGH" This can be useful for switching the emulator to full screen mode. Look here for how to specify keys such as ALT, CTRL, F1 and Enter Emulate Mouse For registered users this setting will emulate the mouse on a gamepad. When set, pressing the directional pad will move the mouse. Button 1/CTRL will left click. Button 2/ALT will right click.

	Radio Stations Set the various settings for each Radio Station. Select Radio Station Select the Radio Station. Enabled Set Enabled if the Radio Station is to be used. Name Name is the friendly name of the Radio Station as it will appear on the Start Page. URL URL of the Radio Station.

	News Feeds Set the various settings for News. Enable RSS News Enable and show News in GameEx. Select News Feed Select the News Feed. URL URL of News Feed.

	Enable/Disable Features (1) This is where you can enable and disable features in GameEx. Enable Auto GameEx Updates Automatically download and install new versions of GameEx. Registered Version Feature. Enable Rip CD Enables an option to rip an inserted CD to WMA. Internet access to us.freedb.org is required for this to work. Registered Version Feature. Show Start Screensaver Show an option to start the screensaver immediatly under More Games and Programs. MAME - Game sorting When this is enabled GameEx will sort game names beggining with The by the first character after The. Emulators - Game sorting When this is enabled GameEx will sort game names beggining with The by the first character after The. Show Game Information Show Game Information Page after selecting a game. True or False.If not set to true, game will launch straight away, otherwise gameinformation and recommended games will display. Recommended Gamesare selectable, and playable. The Game info page will also allow you toview a games flyer and cabinet image.If set to true, GameEx will use MAMEInfo.dat and History.dat when updatingThe game list. The default is True. Show Export to MCE When enabled an item will be shown which when selected will export all most played and favorites to MCE. Registered Version Feature. Enable Random Game Enable and show Random Game on the Start Page. This will launch a random game across all emulators. Enable Most Played Enable and show Most Played games on the Start Page. This will take you to a list of the most played games in order. Enable Theme Picker Enable and show the theme picker which allows you to change the theme while in GameEx. Disable Please Wait animation Whether to show the loading animation that displays when GameEx needs to process or load for several seconds. Hide Update List When set to true HideUpdateList hides and disables the Update List menu option in GameEx. Hide StandBy HideStandy hides the standyby menu option on the StartPage.

	Enable/Disable Features (2) This is where you can enable and disable features in GameEx. Hide Log Off HideLogOff hides the logoff menu option on the StartPage. Hide Create Snaps HideCreateSnaps hides the create snaps menu option in custom emulators. Disable Exit DisableExit disables exiting from GameEx, and hides the exit menu option on the Start Page, and in the Gui. If this last option is set to True the only way to exit GameEx will be to use CTRL-ALT-DELETE, or Shut down/Restart the PC. If you wish to be able to exit from GameExBut not allow shutting down of the PC from the Start Page, then set HideShutDown to True. Disable Escape Key Disables exiting of GameEx with the Escape Key. Hide Shutdown / Hide Restart The following three options are mainly for Arcade Cabinets running in, Public, or Commercial places, or where children have access. When set to true HideUpdateList hides and disables the Update List button in GameEx, and DisableExit disables exiting from GameEx, and hide the exit buttonon the Start Page, and in the Gui. If this last option is set to True the only way to exit GameEx will be to use CTRL-ALT-DELETE, or Shut down/Restart the PC. If you wish to be able to exit from GameExBut not allow shutting down of the PC from the Start Page, then setHideShutDown to True. HideCreateSnaps hides the create snaps button in custom emulators. HideLogOff hides the logoff button on the StartPage.Default for all five is False. Enable Start Page Enable Start Page. Setting the following setting to True will enable the, Start Page. If configured you can select other, Emulators and game lists from this Start Page. There are also options, To restart and shutdown the PC (If DisableExit is not on)., If set to false, GameEx will resort back to being MAME only, and displaythe last used list. Default is True. Show/Enable Favorites Enable MAME favorites. Skip Intro Skip intro. Show Start Page First If EnableStartPage is set to True, the following setting determines if the Start Page is shown first after launching GameEx, or whether the last used list is shown. Set ShowStartPageFirst to True to always show the StartPage first if the Start Page is enabled. Set the setting to False, to show the last used list after launching GameEx. The default is True. Disable MAME Disable MAME usage, no MAME game lists or games will be available from the Start Page is this is set to True. Enable Configuration App Enable external config app. Enable Panel Viewer Whether to display Control Panel with button mappings and use controls.ini.

	Enable/Disable Features (3) This is where you can enable and disable features in GameEx. Allow Window Resize Allow Window to be resized. Show Loading Screen Show the loading screen at startup. Show Run Last Game Show option to run last MAME game on the Start Page. Hide Zinc Don't display the MAME Playstation/Zinc list. This is just the displaying of the list. It wont disable Zinc. Disable Delete Games DisableRemoveGame turns off the ability to remove games from lists with the delete key. Auto Exit Games After This setting, will exit any game or external application automatically after the period set. This is for the purpose of stopping children playing games, but still allowing GameEx to be used.

	Tweaks/Performance (1) Here you can set the Tweaks and Performance settings of GameEx. Load Radio Stations On Thread When enabled Radio stations will load in the background and not hold up the front end. They will start playing when connected. Snap/Video Delay The Timer speed to wait before showing snaps or videos. Set slower to improve responsivness. Set faster to make /Portals/0/images/videoes appear quicker. Media Center Exit/Start Mode Specifies the way in which GameEx is handled when launched alongside MCE. Exit GameEx if MCE loaded If this setting is enabled GameEx will continually check to see if ehshell is a running process and if so exit GameEx. This should fix problems if the Home button is pressed on the MCE remote when GameEx is running. Load Playlist on thread When starting GameEx load the initial playlist on a thread. This can really speed up startup time if you have a big music library but means music will not play straight away, and you have to wait before the Jukebox page can be accessed. Create Image/Video on thread The following settings tell GameEx to open and create new game images or videos on a thread. Setting this to true will improve responsivness when navigating the lists, although may mean that initially displaying images or videos takes a little longer. Launch On Startup / Launch On Startup dont wait / Launch On Exit / Launch On Exit dont wait The following settings are for launching programs on startup on exit of GameEx. The NoWait settings wait for the application to close before resuming execution. The other two settings run asynchronously with GameEx, and GameEx wont wait for them to Exit. LaunchOnStart fires up pretty much immediately when GameEx Starts and before it initialises audio, graphics or the gameEx interface. The Launch on Exit are the 'Last' things Gameex does. Make sure these settings are blank if you do not wish to use them. DirectDraw Dont Wait If this is set it tells GameEx not to wait for blitting to finish with DirectDraw. This might fix flickering VSync issues on older cards. If you have no issues like this, dont use this setting, as it causes exceptions. Snap Best Match If this is set and GameEx cant find a matching artwork file, it will search the relevant image path and try to find a close match. If your snap/video artwork slows down GameEx a lot when navigating lists turn this off.

	Tweaks/Performance (2) Here you can set the Tweaks and Performance settings of GameEx. You can select your closest system config to set our recommended default settings or you can customize them manually. Choose Config Choose your closest system configuration Dont Wait for VSync Normally GameEx waits for a vertical Sync of the display before drawing to the screen. This should offer smooth animation on fast PC's and is normally recommended. Although Waiting for a VSync takes takes up CPU cycles. It may also be a little pointless to wait for a VSync on older PC's where GameEx runs slowly anyway. Setting NoWaitVSync to true will make GameEx Update the screen whenever it can and may make GameEx run a little faster. Also if used in conjunction with Sleep you can claim back more CPU cycles from GameEx. Reduce CPU Utilisation If you have critical processes running at the same time as GameEx such as TV/Video Capture/Encoding you can specify a value for Sleep in Milliseconds and GameEx will give this time back to the CPU just before updating the screen. A value of 0 disables this setting and is the default. If you feel you must use this setting a value no higher than 20 is recommended otherwise you will really start to see a slow down of GameEx. Use 16 Bit Colour The following setting will use 16 Bit colour instead of 32. You only need to use this if you have low specification video or CPU hardware or you can't get GameEx to set the resolution in 32 Bit Colour. In other words your Video card wont run in 32 bit colour at any useful resolution. This may also improve performance (although not confirmed) so try this setting if you have a lower spec PC in general and GameEx runs slowly. This turns off Font Anti Aliasing as they don't look right when this option is set. (Anti Aliasing does not effect performance though). Alpha Blend Videos Alpha Blend Videos. Advanced Graphics Use more video memory and allow and load different background images for different modules. Menu Transitions The type of animated transition to use when navigating between menus 3D Alpha Blended looks fantastic and the best but requires a good PC and graphics card.

	Verify Setup This part of setup allows you to verify your file paths are correct. Click the Verify Setup button to generate a report of path's that don't exist or other possible file or path errors. It's a good idea to use this function and go back and check your settings are correct. If a path is incorrect GameEx may produce an error, so this prevents you from having to go back and forth from the Setup Wizard to GameEx. You can Print the report and use it as a guide. Press the Back button to go back and find the settings you may need to fix.

	Finished Setup Wizard You have finished setting up GameEx! Now you can test your settings by launching GameEx. You can always go back to the Setup Wizard and make more changes, the Setup Wizard will not interfere with your current settings. You may like to try the Custom Wizard Mode next time to specify which options to configure.

Installation

Download GameEx

The GameEx Installer

Launching the Setup Wizard from the Start Menu

Setup Wizard from the Start Menu

Setup Wizard

The Setup Wizard

Introduction

Relevant Links

Relevant Links

Navigation Bar

Navigation Bar

Icon Key

Option Icons

Wizard Mode

Select You Language

Download Themes

Theme Selection

More Themes

Display Settings

Use Flat Menus

Don't switch resolution

X Resolution / Y Resolution

Rotate Display

Show Buttons

Hide Toolbar

Run On Secondary Monitor

Run in ArcadeMode

Font Size

Window/Full Screen

Hide Desktop

Arcade VGA Settings

Use ArcadeVGA settings

Stretch Res To X / Stretch Res To Y

Vector Res X / Vector Res Y

Try to Stretch to 256

Sharpen Stretched Games

Always Stretch x*y

Audio Settings

Enable Sound FX

JukeBox Mode

MAME Audio Mode

Audio Files (if not Media Player)

Arcade Ambiance MP3

Play Ambiance

Play Intro Sound

Input Settings

Enable Alpha Paging

Enable Keyboard DirectInput

Enable SlikStik and IPAC Support

Disable Mouse

Enable Gamepad/Joystick

Gamepad Device to use

Keyboard Input

Enable Custom Keyboard Controls

Joystick Input

Enable Custom Joystick Controls

Video/Movie Settings

Video Playback

Video Path/s

FFDShow

Picture/Slideshow Settings

Enable Picture Display

Picture Path/s

AlphaBlend/Transition Pictures

Slide Duration (Sec)

DVD Settings

DVD Playback

DVD MPEG 2 Codec

Use VMR9

DVD Use FFDSHOW

Enable DVD From Disk

DVD from Disk Path/s

Karaoke Settings

Enable Karaoke

Path to CDG/MP3 Files

Play Mode

Attract/Screensaver

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