AngelicPenguin

Ahh ok...I THINK I did that, but I'll give it a try again. I was just surprised to see a reference to 1.08 when I had downloaded 1.11. I just wanted to make sure I hadn't done anything wrong. -Matthew

Hi, I'm pretty much a MAME/GameEx newb, and I had a question about MAME versions. I SORTA get that mame dat files contain all the information about the Rom sets for whatever version of MAME you are running (I don't quite get how you validate your roms, or get updates, or new dats, or whatever.) I know GameEx uses the dat file to update the MAME list (for specifically what I'm not sure.) So I downloaded a new Romset (v.111u5) and I looked into the dat file in GameEx (C:\Games\Emulators\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat), and it says "# MAMEINFO.DAT v0.108 Last Update: 22nd August 2006" at the top. Do I need to get a new DAT file? I downloaded one named "MAME SuperSet v0.111", but I'm not sure if I just overwrite the GameEx one and update the "Advanced MAME Settings", or if I'm even SUPPOSSED to be doing that. I did do several searches and got a lot of info on DATs and MAME and CLRMamePro, but I haven't yet assimilated it well enough to understand precisely what I'm to be doing when I update ROM sets, etc. Any tips or help would be appreciated! Thanks, Matthew

So what's that feature about? I'd say the preview videos...it's what really sells this app to all my friends when I scroll through hundreds of games and each one is showing a little clip of the game playing.

Solved! After reading those sites about the getProcessByName(...) command checking the floppy drive, I found one site that had a microsoft guy saying it's being rewritten to NOT do that. So I went and checked my Add/Remove Programs and sure enough, 1.1 .Net, a 1.1 HotFix .Net and a 2.0 .Net were in there. I removed 1.1 .Net and no more floppy access. I would have thought installing 2.0 overrides/updates 1.1 but apparently SOMETHING from 1.1 was still being called. So if anybody sees anything quirky, my suggestion will be "do you ONLY have .Net 2.0?" Again, thanks for the help folks -Matthew

I did some googling and I found this URL: http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/20.../23/164045.aspx Perhaps that's it. I'm not a .net developer (java, baby), so does anybody know how to run that little script to test if it happens? Thanks in advance -Matthew

Thanks for the help! The floppy drive is set to A. I ran the verify setup (is there any other way to do it other than clicking Setup Wizard, then Advanced, then rapid fire through all the menus?) and it did find several paths that didn't exist (like c:\karoake, c:\DVD, etc) which I then removed. Still no go though, still accesses it. It actually accesses it twice on startup, once on exit. Heck, it even accesses it once when i run the Advanced Configuration. Maybe it's a .Net 2.0 feature...anytime you run a .Net application it wants to check your floppy just to see if anyone still uses one. -Matthew

Hi! Minor thing, does anybody else have the floppy drive accessed when you start up and exit GameEx? No biggie, but it's sorta annoying to hear the click click. I did a forum search for 'floppy' and found two posts from folks who had the same issue, but no resolution... Thanks! -Matthew