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Oh wow, interesting output... Active code page: 65001 1346b.cpu-u25 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5092.prom-u1 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5093.prom-u2 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5094.prom-u3 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5095.prom-u4 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5096.prom-u5 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5097.prom-u6 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5098.prom-u7 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5099.prom-u8 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5100.prom-u9 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5101.prom-u10 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5102.prom-u11 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5103.prom-u12 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5104.prom-u13 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5105.prom-u14 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5106.prom-u15 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5107.prom-u16 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5108.prom-u17 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5109.prom-u18 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5110.prom-u19 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 5111.prom-u20 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) epr-1286.sound-16 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) 6331.sound-u8 NOT FOUND (tried in 005 005) FATALERROR: Required files are missing, the game cannot be run. Press any key to continue . . . That's as basic as user error as it possibly gets.. but check my GameEx.ini, ROM paths are set as they should be?

Interesting advice. I recently was using MameUI64.exe with .153. I recently updated the set with the supplemental .154 set. At that point I updated MAME64/MAMEUI64 to .154 and they seem to have possibly stopped functioning around then. I had previously enabled ADAVANCEMame support as a feature, that version is drastically behind version .154. But then I disabled the use of it and still neither mame64.exe or mame6ui.exe for .154 launch these ROMs through GameEx without crashing. Do you happen to know how to force cmd.exe to stay open after it stops the executable so I can see what the output was?

Okay UPDATE - It seems like any emulator besides MAME and MESS launch and operate just fine. MAME and MESS are the only offenders for some reason. I saw it get as far as actually completing the loading of the game, it said "LOADING COMPLETE" That's the point where it crashes. Maybe crash is the wrong word - It doesn't crash per-se, it just acts as if I had hit ESC and it drops back to the GameEx menu... Any idea why these two emulators would do this and none others? Its so odd, MAME was working just fine until I did UPDATE LIST - It pulled all the titles and then downloaded artwork and all that, but for some reason this issue has popped up now...

So I turned on debug mode and saw this: F:\Gaming\GameEx>chcp 65001 Active code page: 65001 F:\Gaming\GameEx>F: F:\Gaming\GameEx>CD "F:\GAMING\EMULATORS\MESS" ECHO is on. mess.exe a2600 -cart "f:\gaming\EMULATORS\ROMS\Atari 2600\Roms\Air Raiders (USA) .7z" -joy -now ECHO is on. F:\GAMING\EMULATORS\MESS>PAUSE Press any key to continue . . . At that point I pressed a key, then everything happens so quickly I can't really confirm EXACTLY what the output is but it seems to enter the same mess.exe launch game command again. At this point MESS loads up, it starts loading the game, and again it closes itself out immediately and returns to the GameEx game select menu. I use MESS for this example but it does this will all emulators for all games. Any ideas?

So I finally got GameEx configured properly enough to see all the artwork and ROMs I have present in my collection. Just as soon as I fixed everything up, a new problem presented itself. I have CPWizard enabled and when a game starts up, it hangs on the button display until I hit ESC. Is there supposed to be another way to pass this screen? After I hit ESC it just drops right back to the list of games. I thought the problem was CPWizard so I disabled it. But it turns out that CPWizard wasn't the problem after all. No matter what game or what emulator I choose, whenever I launch the game, it starts the emulator up but IMMEDIATELY closes the emulator and drops back to GameEx. Now when I use MAME or MESS it at least shows a split second of display, enough to see that MAME/MESS has actually started. But like I said, its just for a split second - before the ROM can even finish loading, its already dropped back to GameEx. Anyone have any ideas? GameEx.ini log.txt

I think we can mark this as [RESOLVED] What I ended up doing was loading a different skin - the UPDATE LIST option then presented itself. For the record, I am using GameEx in the directory F:\GAMING\GAMEEX\

Hello, If I go to check my MAME ROMs, it shows all of the ROMs I have in the MAME ROM directory... but they are all named exactly what the actual filenames are named. They also have no artwork displaying whatsoever. I assume that this is solved by using the "Update List" option that I keep reading about all over the forums, correct? The problem is, that option does not exist anywhere on any menu, certainly not the MAME menu. Even more infuriating is that randomly the list of files I have disappears entirely and GameEx reverts to showing the 4 games included with artwork in the \GAMEEX\DEMO\ directory. There is absolutely NOTHING in my config that points to these files. Why would it do this? Here's what I see instead of a proper listing of MAME ROMs and the menu listing showing no option to UPDATE LIST. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance. log.txt GameEx.ini