First of all Id like to give a
huge thanks to Headkaze, for all his help on this
release and for all his work on the theme editor. We
worked together a lot the passed couple of weeks and
he contributed massively.
Theres been too many fixes too
mention, including minor cosmetic fixes, and attract
mode runs smoother. I wont list
them all here and Ill just focus on the enhancements and
new features.
GameEx has been optimized a fair
bit again, and this version runs
significantly faster.
Ive also shaved a bit of the
EXE image size.
The biggest new feature in this
release is support for vertical rotated displays.
Theres a few restrictions on the resolutions you can
use with this, but turning on this one setting will
also automatically configure MAME for vertical games
only, and also automatically configure ArcadeVGA for
vertical resolutions when running MAME. There is a
screenshot here
The other big thing is that this
release includes HeadKazes Theme Editor version 1.51
which now allows the image display to be positioned separately
from the menus in GameEx, and includes various other
fixes and updates. There is still some functionality
to implement
in GameEx for the editor, but there should not be any outstanding
issues, and it is now possible to change the font
colour.
Theres a new setting to Show
Buttons, allowing complete removal of both the Home
and Exit buttons.
A new setting to not display the
title text.
Theres a new GameEx logo. Again
thanks Headkaze.
A new feature for the Attract
Mode/Screensaver. Theres the ability to play a sound
file when exiting attract mode after its been running
for over 6 minutes. The idea is to make it fun when
the cabs been running a while, and someone walks up to
use it.
Much like how GameEx can
dynamically use Zinc to launch MAME games based on PSX
hardware it can now do the same and has support for
Model 2 hardware and the Model 2 emulator. Most of the
work for this is done in the background, and theres
only two settings to set to get this up and running.
Note after setting it up youll need to update the
list again.
