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| 13th January, 2012 - GameEx 12.53 |
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| 6th January, 2012 - GameEx 12.50 |
Integrated and automatic Daemon Tools Lite support. This improves the compatibility with included CD based emulator configs and can act as a replacement for the previous disc mounting support.
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| 5th January, 2012 - GameEx 12.49 |
GameEx 12.46 to 12.49 - various minor fixes based on feedback from the forum.
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| 2nd January, 2012 - GameEx 12.45 |
Happy new year to GameEx users new and old. I am happy to release the first
GameEx version of 2012.
- Theme/Skinning:
- New static HTPC style list option in the theme editor. This gives an
alternative list in the start page menus.
- New theme editor option to not show the weather condition icon and
just the temperature
- Weather condition icons can now be loaded from a theme if in the
[theme]\media\weather folder
- The auto update image can be used with a theme if in the
[theme]\media folder. Change autoupdate1.png
- Themes now support indivdual background images for start menu items. Located in the media\logos\background folder.
- Display and Emulators:
- New game specific background snap folder for emulators and MAME.
These images will be shown in the background when browsing the list when
set.
- If the above path is not specified there is a new display mode to
show snaps in the background based on existing art paths.
- Custom artwork paths for emulators now support videos.
- The image ribbon display mode now support paging up and down.
- Several minor cosmetic related bugs fixed.
- Media:
- GameEx can now act as a full UPNP/DNLA client. This is supported for
all media including the jukebox, pictures, media library and Videos. In
terms of the Jukebox, GameEx will try to load the entire library and act
as it normally does displaying the entire collection. At the present
time videos have to be download from the media server and do not stream.
The client has been tested with Windows Media Player, Mezzmo and
Serviio.
- GameEx will now download and display artist pictures in the Jukebox
and will display these if album artwork cannot be found.
- New Get MetaData menu option for the Jukebox to download all
artwork.
- Better support of album artwork in the Jukebox.
- With thanks, GameEx now uses the
TMDb API for movie artwork and metadata. In addition it will now
download movie ratings. TMDb has a
very good search engine so matches appear to be quite accurate.
Therefore with this release the movie database utility is legacy and no
longer included with the install. Please consider contributing to TMDb.
- For videos the create snaps menu option is now called Get MetaData
since it now also retrieves box art, descriptions, year of release and
rating.
- Their are now three separate folders for videos so GameEx can
properly identify metadata. That is Movies, TV shows and other videos. I
am currently awaiting approval from
theTVdb.com to do more with TV shows. Hopefully I will get it,.
- Again, in my tests the matching is much more accurate than before.
- GameEx will now display videos at the correct aspect ratio when they
have a different display size.
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| 11th December, 2011 - ScummVM at gamesdbase.com |
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| 6th December, 2011 - Updated GameEx Video |
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| 1st December, 2011 - Xbox Content |
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| 29th November, 2011 - GameEx 12.38 |
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| 28th November, 2011 - GameEx 12.36 |
Vastly improved quality (Clear Type text) and loading speed of text files in ebook viewer.
New setting to filter out MAME Casino games.
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| 27th November, 2011 - GameEx 12.33 |
Improved speed loading manuals, ebooks and comics. Fixes ebook reader on older graphics cards at high resolutions.
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| 25th November, 2011 - Sega Model 3 |
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| 25th November, 2011 - GameEx 12.30 |
This release has significant user interface and display enchancements as shown in the video below. These are implemented as new "views" and are accessed by selecting "Change View" on the menu.
Video/Movie/Karaoke playing has been enhanced and the player now runs under the GameEx display engine giving a much better user experience.
Video previews now show for Karaoke.
GameEx can now show the full MAMEinfo.dat and History.dat text.
Folder listings for Pictures and Videos is now a little more intelligent.
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| 13th November, 2011 - GameEx 12.24 |
Setup Wizard 2.5.1 by Ben Baker. The Setup Wizard now remembers the last mode and selections. The first and second pages have also been combine into one to save a click. Fixes issue because default theme was not set.
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| 12th November, 2011 - GameEx 12.21 |
Some profling has been performed on GameEx and various code speed optimizations have been made. GameEx now starts up and runs quicker. There is also less logging at startup. When ROMS are unzipped they are now placed in the users temporary folder rather than the emulators ROM path.
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| 11th November, 2011 - GameEx 12.20 |
Increases buffer and timeout of internet radio streams from 5 seconds to 28 seconds. This should help issues over wireless or patchy connections. Note: Streams may take longer to load now. Also updated audio libraries. Because of the audio library updates M4A files are now playable on Vista and windows 7. This should include radio stations.
Fixes to audio tag reading.
12.19 had minor touchscreen and theme fixes.
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| 8th November, 2011 - GameEx 12.18 |
This release has had significant time spent on it with the main purpose of giving GameEx
unparalleled touchscreen and tablet pc support. Every feature in GameEx has been optimized for touchscreen use and specific touchscreen features have also been implemented for MAME and emulators.
- Enhancements:
- All features including search, pictures, ebook reading, video/dvd playback are optimized for touchscreen use.
- Touchscreen and tablet use now has its own configuration page in the setup wizard where various settings can be altered.
- Can automatically detect a tablet PC and configure accordingly. Tablet PCs
don't use mouse emulation and therefore need some internal tweaks. This is automatic.
- Thanks to Ben Baker, hooks into MAME to control lightgun and mouse games with a tablet PC and also the
ability to send credits and start games with special taps/clicks.
- For emulators clicks can be mapped to key presses.
- Ability to filter MAME and GameEx arcade games for only touchscreen compatible games.
- New screensaver aimed at touchscreen use, which shows date, time, weather, scrolling message and optionally slideshow.
- Touchscreen setting to exit games and applications with certain clicks.
- Thanks to Ben Baker the bypass disclaimer feature is now working with modern MAME releases.
- New feature and setting allowing the ability to quickly resume to the last menu and list when restarting GameEx.
- New help text feature. This allows a simple way to show information and help when launching MAME, emulators or applications.
- There are now separate snap image and preview video paths for emulators.
- Fixes:
- Many sizing, positioning, theme loading/restoring and scaling issues fixed and improved. Mostly for non theme editor themes.
- Fixes not properly disabling the all games list when set.
- Fixes weather icon no longer working.
- Fixes issue where drawing primitives or weather could crash GameEx.
- Improved performance of overlays when playing videos and DVDs.
- Some minor setup wizard fixes thanks to Ben Baker.
- Changes:
- Touchscreen usage is only supported with non theme editor themes (ie default themes).
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| 22nd October, 2011 - Games Database - Amiga Videos |
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| 19th October, 2011 - GameEx 12.17 |
- Fixes for latest MAME release
- Fixes to touchscreen support
- Fixes inability to disable configuration access from the front end
- Added missing audio and enable/disable settings to the setup wizard
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| 10th October, 2011 - GameEx 12.16 |
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| 6th October, 2011 - New faster hosting |
I am pleased to announce our server has now moved to a host which offers much better speeds to users ouside of the USA. e.g Europe. I would like to take a moment to thank Jeremy of EmuMovies for help with this.
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| 30th September, 2011 - GameEx 12.15 |
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| 25th September, 2011 - GameEx 12.14 |
The manual/ebook viewer now features a 2 page layout view. Press select to change view.
Thanks to Ben Baker the default Daphne config settings for new installs is improved.
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| 15th September, 2011 - GameEx 12.13 |
Due to a security issue, upgrading to this or future versions is required in order to continue to use GameEx online features. This includes YouTube, GameEx Arcade, and online MAME lists. They will no longer work in older versions. Sincere apologies for the inconvenience.
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| 11th September, 2011 - GameEx 12.12 |
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