Topic: Have You Guys Heard Of Gamex? (Read 109 times)

sbpaabck · « **on:** December 17, 2009, 04:26:00 PM »

Thanks for the info but this forum is really for xbox related stuff not pc based stuff. unless it could be ported to xbox - that is a different matter...

Mega Man (?) · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2009, 06:19:00 PM »

I have known about this for a while now...
It "IS" like our new emus and such....
But...

With alot of it, you must setup yourself.
You must also donate to GameX or it has this nasty little status page that is like 30 seconds long every time you load it up....

GameX is one of a few pc based emu frontends.

I believe that our xbox emus have great compatibility and for those of you that still want that "console experience"...it is the best way to go.

The Rxtras are the most complete sets of xtras out there. Certainly beyond the standard "no intro" stuff.

They are also pretty much "punch n' play", so all you have to do is download them and put the packs in the proper places.

Mega Man (?) · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2009, 08:41:00 PM »

QUOTE(BlueSlingShot @ Dec 17 2009, 07:31 PM)

No i agree the xtras are plug and play which is great and setting up Gamex takes extensive time creating paths, etc. Me personally working 50 hours a week, i don't have the patience to do half of what these kids did with Gamex. Plus yes the xbox is the most logical "console" experience. For Gamex you'd have to use your typical mouse and keyboard...

I was just wish the xbox was capable of running all the emu's that were created for it without performance limitations like xboys gba, or pcsxbox, with the extremely pleasing skins/gui's you guys have made.

For sure.

nes6502 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:28:00 PM »

QUOTE(BlueSlingShot @ Dec 18 2009, 04:31 AM)

No i agree the xtras are plug and play which is great and setting up Gamex takes extensive time creating paths, etc. Me personally working 50 hours a week, i don't have the patience to do half of what these kids did with Gamex. Plus yes the xbox is the most logical "console" experience. For Gamex you'd have to use your typical mouse and keyboard...

I was just wish the xbox was capable of running all the emu's that were created for it without performance limitations like xboys gba, or pcsxbox, with the extremely pleasing skins/gui's you guys have made.

I use Gamex and it's fantastic. Everything can be controlled by the gamepad. You can even control all the PC games with only a gamepad. It can be configured to do nearly anything. For example, I use it to play Saturn games. I pick a saturn game from the list, it then does all this automatically:

Starts Daemon tools
Mounts the image
Starts the emulator
The game starts
I press the button on my gamepad that represents the escape key on the keyboard
Gameex listens for esc key presses and exits the emulator
Unmounts the image
closes Daemon tools

All of that is hidden and automatic. I don't see the windows desktop or even the emulator GUI. It's just like a console but better because now I can run anything as long as my PC is powerful enough. I never understood why people would pay $500 to upgrade the RAM or CPU on the Xbox when you could build a gaming PC for less that was 5 times as powerful as the Xbox. In fact, I could probably build a gaming PC for 500 that was more powerful than a 360 today.

However, there are things in Xbox emulators that PC versions don't have (like rumbles for console games). No matter how you set it up, it still doesn't look as good as most of Xport's GUIs. However, dedicated PC gaming computers are the future for emulation. They just need frontends that are as good as what is on the Xbox.

madmab · « **Reply #4 on:** December 18, 2009, 08:00:00 AM »

Are there any decent sites that start as a decent start point for Gamex? I was actually toying with the idea of starting of with something simple (like N64 emulation, 1964, etc) since I found a PC driver for using PS3 Dualshock's. And since I was also considering setting up some type of "media server" set-up the movie and music playback features may also come in handy.

But it looked like it can be a bit involved....

I had a neat little mamewah package I picked up a few years back which had a lot of stuff already preset up and it was pretty nice and I was going to, eventually, build off of that. But mamewah doesn't seem like it is much supported these days and the "media center" style will probably end up working better for me anyways..

ressurectionx · « **Reply #5 on:** December 18, 2009, 08:17:00 AM »

Really, if gamex is as good as I'm hearing, they should just alter their code to handle the Xtras the way they're packaged when they're finally uploaded. That would be a lot easier than trying to re-do all of the Xtras to work with that emulator.

Why reinvent the wheel?

Of course my whole point of doing this was emulation on the XBox, but as the project became more involved we were thinking of more powerful systems down the road.

You guys and gals will see. When this is finally released into the wild there is not a single set out there as comprehensive as the Xtras.

EDIT: In my opinion it's infinitely easier to use than messing around with Gamebase. I still haven't figured out that one for the Commodore 64 emulator.

Ease of use for the end user is what this is all about.

bigby · « **Reply #6 on:** December 18, 2009, 09:01:00 AM »

There is a project at the moment, to make it easier to setup all the emulators and their configurations. Hopefully this will make GameEx more user friendly.

I have been using GameEx on and off for a couple of years (aswell as the Xbox!) and it can be a hassle getting it all to work from the start. However it does have a lot of features and it has it's own theme editor. I have actually been using the hyperspin artwork assets to create some themes.

ressurectionx · « **Reply #7 on:** December 18, 2009, 09:07:00 AM »

The Xtras make it impossibly easy to set up things. When they're released properly with supporting romsets which won't be made known about here, all you do is download them, FTP them to the proper spots (emus, xtras, and saves) and everything works immediately as you fire up the machine.

This is what I'm trying to say..... If the PC emu was made to be compatible with the Xtras then the work is already done for all of the games playable to an English speaking audience on all the major consoles supported by the Box (aside from N64 & PSX at the moment). This also includes videos/artwork/synopsis for hundreds, perhaps over 1,000 hacks, translations and homebrew.

I've also gotten the very best artwork from thecoverproject, hyperspin and various other sources, as well as collecting tons of artwork by hand or making them on my own.

I'm not going to be doing this forever... actually, I think I'll be done by the end of the first quarter of next year. I'm just hoping that these packs are seen for the importance they are at that point and that people choose to build from there instead of wasting time reinventing the wheel.

Mega Man (?) · « **Reply #8 on:** December 18, 2009, 09:27:00 PM »

Hey BlueSS
I think the new xtras/emus system are going to be like that.
I also think Bomb Bloke made a program to easily convert the situation.

bigby · « **Reply #9 on:** January 05, 2010, 06:30:00 PM »

GameEx has been updated to 10.35.
By running the setup wizard, you can choose which system you want to setup, which emulator to use and it will download the emu. It will then ask if you want it to be configured (imported) into GameEx.

It also gives info on any other files that the emulator needs (Bios, dll .etc)

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