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Thanks for all your help. I have used the RomCenter on your advice. Its given me a few more games in Game EX with Verify Roms turned on. I have 1754 games in it now. I'll have to live with it as I dont think I'm going to get any better. Is that good? Just one more thing, what is the best mame to use with Game EX? i.e. the version that gives the most games. I am now using the latest version, being 148.

Ok, found the verify roms option. I now have 4717 showing. No Slap Fight .... boo hoo Thank for your help NullPointer

Hi NullPointer, Where do I find the verify roms? How do I update my roms? I downloaded the latest version on mame 148 and have reformatted another computer to Win 7 Ultimate. Changing to the latest version on Mame (from Mame32 0.90) took me from only having 73 games to 1467 games which is great but there are still plenty of games missing. I have over 5000 roms all in zip form. Please assist again. Thanks.

Thanks for the replies. I had a friend come around who knows command line and your recommendations, NullPointer, didnt work (but thank you), however Tempest, yours did. I changed Mame version and it started working. You guys rock! Now I have another slight problem. Not sure if should post a new thread but here goes... When I do an update to the games list it only gives me 73 games, however I have over 5000 roms and in mame itself at least half of them work. Under the setup wizard the mame setup is ok in terms of roms location. Please assist.

Also going through the setup wizard, then I get to some screensaver screen a window pops up telling me about some unhandle error, but I have the option to continue, which I do.

ok, so I went through the setup wizard again. The mame32.exe file seemed ok, however I deleted it and added it again (I went to the mame32.exe file and clicked on it to ensure it was the .exe file and it did open mame). It goes into Game EX better however it still stops at 1 second and I manually have to press enter. Maybe that's just the way it works, but doesn't seem right. When I'm in Game EX and go to all Mame games, it says I have none. When I click to search or add then it shows me a windows popup saying 'unknown option "-list.xml" continue anyway? I select continue and it takes me back into Game EX and seems to get stuck on creating list info.dat (2%) It did do this earlier when I managed to get in. Please help further. Thanks

I posted the GameEX.ini file. I have been through the setup a number of times. Maybe that mame help directory might be an error on my side. I'll go through it again and ensure it's the .exe file. Thanks.

ok, didn't read your post the 1st time properly. Attached is the GameEX.ini file. GameEx.ini

Thanks for your reply. I'll need to get hold of him in due course. Just weighing up my options right now to see what works better (just nothing is working right now) I've attached my log file. Not sure how to attache the other file as I cant get into the app. log.txt

Hi Draco, I did include the log.txt file?

Hi, I was battling earlier to even get into the application but saw a post about DirectX. Installed it (DirectX9) and the 'GameEX has encountered an error' message went away and seemed like it was going to work. The application booted into the nag and wait screen and counted down from 20 seconds. It freezes on 1 second. On a few occasions after pushing keyboard buttons, incl cntr+alt+del it went in. I managed on two occasions to navigate to the All Mame games and it proceeded to do some sort of game list and got stuck on 2% complete. Most times I had to hold the power button down and restart my machine. When my machine booted up each time my desktop background was on black. I reset it back each time. On the occasions where I managed to open task manager and force shut my background was black and the desktop icons missing. I have deleted Game EX and reinstalled it on a number of times. This made no difference. I run Windows XP Pro SP3. My Mame runs 100% and my PC has no issues I'm aware of. Please help me solve the problem. I am about to start manufacturing arcade cabinets for a living and need a front end to make my system look professional. I cant be selling a system with bugs. Thanks, Alex

Hi, I am having the same problem. I have just downloaded and installed Game EX and when it tries to launch the application I get the windows has encountered an error message and it won't open. I tried a fresh install, and a install over the old one, same issue. I've also done the Setup Wizard and hopefully configured everything ok. My Mame is working 100% I have attached the log file for ref. Hope I can get a solution to the error. Thanks, Alex log.txt