This would be a big relief for every Theme-Creator. which is boring.Īs we have allready the option to filter horizontal or vertical games, i think it can not be so hard to switch foreground "masks" based upon the ROM's display orientation.
This is really sad and a main reason, why in every GameEx-Theme you will see a simple, plain display of Snapshots and Titles. The only way to achieve this in GameEx, is to get rid off of ALL your other media for MAME, like Titles, Flyers, CPs etc. If you dont believe, you can watch this link:Īlso the Marquees always fit perfectly AND if there is no image available, than a standard MAME Marquee is displayed. GameEx (nor any other FEs I am aware of for that matter) can switch foreground "masks" based upon the ROM's display orientation.ĭraco I absolutely understand what you mean, but the Maximus Arcade Frontend can switch foreground "masks" based upon the ROM's display orientation. If the foreground mask is set to optimize for horizontal, then vertical movies will have the bars on either side. The good thing is, all the rest, can easily be done with a little - not sure you understand what I am saying regarding how it treats the images. Its beyond my scope, why this is so hard to program, but it is like it is. If you dont like this, i suggest to post your wishes in the feature-request-thread, like many, many others allready did.
I recommend to use horizontal screens for the start, as this will cover ALL console Games plus the MAME horizontal Games (approx. As MAME has horizontal and vertical Games, GameEx will only be able to show one thing correctly, either horizontal or vertical screens, but not both. The other problem will be the Snap-screens inside the cab. Flyer, Title, ControlPanel etc.) regarding the choosen game. GameEx will showing up the next thing it can find (e.g. Another thing is, as we dont have Marquees for all MAME games, you will get in trouble with games that dont have a Marquee. it is like Draco said, the Marquees have different sizes and GameEx can NOT compensate all the different scales. As it seems, you have not even setup a theme and therefore there is no way for GameEx to know, what background you want. You will need to get familiar with the THEME-EDITOR. Hope to hear from you or anyone who has a solution.Įither there is something wrong with your setup or you are not carefully watch the changes with the "Change-View" option. Is it possible for GameEx to not show a marquee-picture with this theme and to not show a background other than the default blue background? The Change View-option in the menu bar of GameEx unfortunately doesn't result in getting a default blue background with this theme. This may help some, but not for all marquee images. You can modify the height and width of the image2 by loading your theme in Theme Editor and saving the changes. I say partially as not all marquee images follow the same size requirements and will only stretch within GameEx so far. Second, once this is done, it will partially fix the marquee showing at the top of the machine in the background. What you need to do within the emulator screen for the game is select Change View in the Menu bar until the view shows the correct background and list configuration. Welcome! The issues you mention are two-fold and not likely to be fixed via the Setup Wizard.
In the attached picture this problem does not occure.Ĭould anybody help me setting up this theme? I have tried to change settings using the GameEx Setup Wizard but with no succes. * Because my marquee-pictures unfortunately don't stretch to fit the cab and a lot of movies (vertical games) don't fill the cabs screen the donkey-kong-like background (see above) is showing in part of the marquee- and screen-section of the cab. How can I accomplish this? My marquees don't stretch to fit the cab How can I achieve this?Ģ) The marquee in the attached picture is nicely stretched to fit the cab. I don't know where GameEx pull this image from? (I think from my flyers-folder) I just want the default blue background. For example: when I select Donkey Kong in my gamelist the background changes to a donkey-kong-like background *. With every game I select the background changes and I'd like to have this blue background as default, regardless of which game I select. See attached examle-picture of Maximum arcade theme:ġ) the gamelist has a blue background. I'm having a few issues setting op this theme and I'd really appreciate it if somebody could help me. I'm trying to setup a nice theme and I really like the Maximum-arcade-theme. I recently bought the lifetime registered version of GameEx and I'm glad to join the community!