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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
