version 4.8.1 changelog:
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- changed: Buttons icons in .bmp format with 2 states: normal / disabled ..."resourcesimages oolbarsuttons". This fixes the bad background for some Win9x / WinXP users (Vista still have bugs)

- changed: Unzipped arcades images from "resourcesimagescontrollers.zip" again

- changed: Removed some old code and optimized some functions

- changed: Updated Graphic32 component to latest version 1.8.1 ...faster and new image filters

- changed: Renamed "Filters" menu to "Resampler" (main menu "Images") and added some new filters

- added: Reminder message for Custom Game Appearance feature Displays a reminder message after customizing game appearance (description, category, font)

- changed: Frame box "Customized Game Strings" renamed to "Customized Game Appearance" ... preferences screen, general / games tab

- changed: Emulator version info now extract from -listxml output (MAME based emus)
... if info cannot be extracted, the old way will be used (-help output)
Note: in emulators setup screen, the info is still extracted from the -help output

- added: Frame box "Control Games List With", listing all supported arcade controllers
... preferences screen, general / miscellaneous tab Devastator II, HotRodSE, SlikStik, X-Arcade tabsheets removed

- added: Menu option "Arcade Controllers Layout" (main menu View) to display the images of all controllers and their keys layout used to control games list in the frontend (Devastator II, HotRod SE, SlikStik, X-Arcade)

- changed: Audit feature. Game name replaced by game title and game name appears in
second column (same line as game title)

- fixed: Error in audit feature for games and bios that have "game" / "bios" strings in their titles

- added: Support for 48x48 sized icons in main screen´s tool bar buttons
Main menu "View" / "Large Tool Bar" (disabled by default)

- changed: A bunch of icons in "images oolbars" folder were remade and others added

- changed: Library "IconTools v2.01" replaced by a new library called "TExIcon"
created by Colin Wilson (http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/index.htm)

- removed: The library "IconTools" is not used by this project anymore

- fixed: Tons of memory leaks caused by "IconTools v2.01"

- changed: Dynamic loading of tool bar icons / large image type icons to save memory
and increase speed

- added: New feature: "Scan Not Used Images". It searches for filenames that do not have
a corresponding game name in the games list (main menu "Images")
Note: only unzipped images are supported

- fixed: Zipped icons were not being properly handled in "search missing icons" feature

- added: New feature: "Scan For Missing Images". It searches your entire games list for
games that do not have a screenshot (main menu "Images")
Note: both unzipped and zipped images are supported

- changed: Old MAME builds that use "-listinfo" output are automatically detected when creating new MAME games lists

- removed: Check button "Use XML" from emulators setup screen / MAME tabs

- fixed: Splash screen background disappearing when switching between EL and other apps

- fixed: A few actions were not being properly executed when controlling games list with arcade controllers (most noticeable PG_UP / PG_DOWN)

- added: New actions to arcade controllers (when feature enabled)
There is also a change in the actions layout for all controllers (see main menu "View" / "Arcade Controllers Layout")

- changed: Game documents feature rewritten to merge all docs functions and to fix several
memory leaks when using automatic game info

- added: "Show All" in "Game Documents" games popup menu item
Use this option to view all docs at once from the selected game (game info, history, game driver info, faq)
Note: this is not the same as automatic game info!

- fixed: Image type tool bar icons were not being set at startup

- fixed: Tool bar button systems was not included in [ToolBar] section ("EmuLoader.ini")

- changed: move sections "[MAMu_]", "[Audit]" to a new file: "ini_filesel_extras.ini" since those section are updated only when using certain features
Also, added section "[GameInfo]"

- changed: FMOD always use "Windows Multimedia Output" driver for playback now
... this output gives you the best audio quality anyway

- fixed: A few bugs when running EL on Windows Vista (betas)
... still, a bunch of visual bugs due Vista´s new GUI that will not be fixed until "Delphi Longhorn" is released in 2007

- changed: All updates up to MAME 0.105u3 are supported

- changed: New about screen image ("resourcesimageslogo"), new arcade controllers layout images ("resourcesimages")

- added: new section in "docsel-readme.txt" named "Useful Links" with some interesting
articles about advanced frontend usage and integration with other apps