Latest updates from Spesoft.

gameex.com design refresh

Another site redesign completed today using you know what. www.gameex.com

AI killed the internet star

I just developed and designed three web sites in only one evening using you know what, including seo optimisation. spesoft,com was the main one. cics.uk.com was redesigned and this one was new. Crazy!

MAME videos

The new MAME title videos are complete. They are located on the FTP here: /-GameEx-/- Emulator Artwork & Videos -/MAME/video_title 95% of them are a decent attract mode capture. The upscaled videos on the FTP are howeve…

60 fps MAME attract mode title videos

10 years ago I created a 60 fps MAME attract mode title video set. I decided to revisit this project last week with the latest MAME sets, MAME version and ffmpeg. I also fixed up and updated the code to run at 64 bit an…

GameEx Online performance and AI

I have been heavily working on GameEx cross platform and have setup and configuration working via the GameEx Online web app. Its tricky building this into GameEx itself across all versions due to GUI elements, paricular…

GameEx cross platform 19.79

Some nice progress with GameEx cross platform. Mame launching and list updates are working on both Linux and Mac, supporting both system wide and local MAME folder installs. Setup and configuration is now working. Final…

GameEx 19.77

I was using some software by Preemptive solutions on a scheme for small software houses as part of the build process for GameEx and PinballX. They have been significantly raising the price every year and this year they…

GameEx 19.76

Adds Commodor 64 SID music support. This was previously only available in the 32 bit version. Note that they take a while to load as a high quality conversion is done by sidplayfp. Personally I have not heard them sound…

GameEx 19.74

MAME 3D cabinet models can be downloaded and automatically setup by the iinstaller. Removed some Microsoft dependancies.

GameEx 19.71

New GPU accelarated video renderer. Nvidia removed VMR 9 support and this release adds a new video renderer fallback using media Foundation and shared textures with DirectX 11 which is GPU accelerated. Upgraded to .net…

Coding with AI

if anyone is interested, I did pursue with coding with help from AI. It does allow you to find out and do absolutely anything with code. What I found is when it is wrong and it often is you just have to tell it is wrong…

GameEx 19.67

I assume I fixed it and not Nvidia or Microsoft but full screen exclusive mode is fixed and the default again.

GameEx 19.66

I spent about 20 hours trying to implement another video playback solution without lots of work because NVidia recently broke VMR 9 support. I thought I found another solution via ChatGPT which was the first time I trie…

Happy new year.

I wrote this on Facebooks tonight and their AI removed it citing cyber security concerns. I thought it seemed good so wanted to share. More an example of how clever AI is getting. May seem funny now, but trust me, from…

GameEx 19.61

Updated system databases.

GameEx 19.60

Epic game store support.

GameEx 19.55

Game mucic for emulators now plays while browsing the lists. OGG and MP3 supported.

GameEx 19.53

Various fixes and improvements to default themes. Improved font display.

GameEx 19.51

Expanded font scaling options.

GameEx 19.50

GameEx Arcade edition now features font scaling to make text larger or smaller. It is under display settings. Font scaling now also works with gamellauncher mode.

GameEx 19.43

Just a little fix that mainly broke browsing for media files. Updated .net 8 runtrime. Some good news. It looks like intel fixed their processer GPU drivers on 12th gen and above at some point and VMR 9 video playback i…

GameEx 19.41

Trimmed binary sizes again after fixing DirectInput issue.

GameEx 19.39

Significantlyr reduced the size of the executable. This should result in faster startup time and performance. Fixed and faster emulator caching.

GameEx 19.37

Faster startup and initial emulator load.

GameEx 19.36

Improved display timing and improved caching of system databases.

GameEx 19.35

AI upscaled menu bar, Fixes some scaling issues.

GameEx 19.34

Big updates to online game store features. Added Ubi (Uplay) and GOG. Both plug and play with automatic game detection, database and artwork support. Steam video downloads. Improved launch and exit detection. I did look…

GameEx 19.31

Steam fixes. Improved exit detection. Fixesd download sxcreenshots Unfortunatly videos are no longer easily accesible. I spent several days working on this and did find a solution and even tried hosting the files. It wa…

GameEx 19.30

Fixed the new system databases missing date field. Fixed memory leak caused by bass.dll Full screen exclusive mode has been permanently disabled again. In my testing I could only launch a MAME game once. I did not hear…

Smartscreen warning

My code signing certificate was renewed for three years and GameEx and PinballX have been updated with the new security. This will cause a "Windows has protected your PC" message when running the setup until there are e…

GameEx 19.26

Fixes error when installing due to COM surrogate process open. New artwork on server. Preparation for big emulator setup improvements coming soon.

GameEx 19.23

New and updated system databases.

GameEx 19.20

Fixes to GameEx Online.

GameEx cross platform update.

Getting closer. Performance has been well optimized which was just an issue on Android. You will still need a decent device but it runs reasonably okay on my TLC TV. Any slowdown is mostly down to the GPU. I also tested…

GameEx on $130 Intel 97 Mini PC

Even if you don't run GameEx the power you get for the money is amazing. It came with a clean version of Windows 11 Pro 24h2. The SSD was SATA so check that if you are buying. I have said it before buy why I buy a PI. T…

GameEx 19.18

Fixed MAME Bezels not extracting after download in the installer. Thanks to the Bezel Project there is also a massive update to the bezels, now including all working games in MAME 0.270.

GameEx 19.17

More performance improvements.

performance?

I am constantly trying to optimize PinballX and GameEx but i am quite surprised how fast PinballX starts up on my laptop.It is a fast modern laptrop but does any other front end beat this?

GameEx 19.09

Performance improvements. Karaoke enabled again but only supports video files.

GameEx 19.08

To allow old Windows versions whilst supporting the latest .net runtime - Windows 10 and 11 will now run GameEx under .net 8. The .net 8 Windows desktop runtime will be installed as part of the setup. Fixes Gamebase sup…

GameEx19.02

Although still in Alpha, GameEx cross platform is coming along well. This release implements theme downloads and selection, game manual viewer (cbz format), IPTV support, and the please wait status/animation. Check it o…

GameEx Cross Platform

I have just uploaded the latest progress on GameEx cross platform. I am now using Unity 6 and all or most performance issues have been addressed. It is almost functionality comparible to the original GameEx thanks to vi…

GameEx 18.90

GameEx and GameEx Arcade Edition have been combined into a single installer and should cover every Windows operating system since and including XP. I spent a lot of time optimizing and cleaning up the installer as well…

GameEx 18.87

New net 8 lite version. Fixes arcade edition auto update. Fixes not playing http video streams. Improved detection for non working system vmr 9 and fall back to sample grabber. Minor rendering performance improvements.

GameEx running on Android

GameEx Multiplatform 1.40

GameEx Multiplatform 1.40 (alpha) released. The frontend interface is pretty much functionally complete. Fixes several significant performance issues. Android version now runs at 60 fps even on lower end devices. Try it…

GameEx 18.78

Several bug and cosmetic fixes. The GameEx Arcade flash games feature has been removed. Full screen exclusive mode has been permanently disabled. I think it is a Windows 11 issue. I am not able to fix it.

GameEx 18.76

MAME attract mode bezels have been AI and otherwise upscaled to HD/2K