duloz

Alright, so after my post yesterday, I discovered that another feature outside of GameEx that I wanted to get working was not possible in Windows 8... I had windows 8 Pro installed, so it was easier than not to downgrade to Windows 7 without touching anything, except that I had to reinstall GameEx over itseld in order to re-register... And suddenly: Mame roms are once again not showing up.... I realized that the only major difference between my arcade cabinet, where I was hooked up during this work, and at my in-laws where i got gameex to find all of my roms: my cabinet has a touch screen. I just turned off touch features in GameEx config, and it seems like the rom detection is taking the longer amount of time that I experienced when it started working correctly yesterday... May be somethign to add to the obvious list of culprits as the number of touch screen laptops increases.

So just realized one major difference, but not sure if it would have an impact, since MAME is configured to the correct mapping, and It just mimics keyboard inputs, but at home I do have the pc hooked up to an X-arcade dual stick controller, but since it is permanently attached to my arcade cabinet, it is not connected now... any weird and off the deep end chance that that would have an impact? otherwise, MODs, please mark as resolved.

ok. So whatever I managed to do to fix it came from this thread. Since it didn't resolve immediately upon whatever fix I did, I can't give credit where credit is due, but basically here's the gist of it: Ran update this morning with "Existing Roms Only" turned off, but "Verify Roms" turned on. It Gave me EVERY rom compatable with my MAME version, whether I had it in my roms folder or not... Went back to the configuration tool, turned existing roms only back on, updated the list, and now have the proper roms list... The only thing that I KNOW is different from when I was having trouble is that I took the PC to my in-laws house to continue working on it, as we drove up to visit for the weekend... Geographic location is not likely to be the fix, but for some reason, things just start work properly in this house... May be it is the "ghost" of my wife's grandfather, they always joke around that he likes to play tricks on them... More likely, obviously, is that one of the above pieces of advice fixed my issue, but it wasn't immediate, so I can't say which. So, thanks everyone for your help! Wish I could be more specific.

Ok, I have no idea what changed... Scratching my head on this, but suddenly this morning without making any further changes, it appears that everything is there... I'll do some further testing before I declare this one solved, but going to scratch my head for a while...

log:

ini:

I have to turn off "only existing Roms" to get it to identify anything, if I turn off verify, won't that leave me with every single rom showing?

ok, so I can't paste my ini file, too long, I guess... I give up...

Got it to recognize about 200 games earlier today, but still not ones I care about... If I run against an EMPTY roms folder, it gives me two famicom bioses... INI file below, incase that is the issue:

One question I do have, though. It very well could be something that I screwed up in running through advanced configuration. I first installed gameex on Saturday, so would assume I have the latest version. I've done several "fresh" installs since, after deleting the gameex folders entirely, but a lot of my settings seem to stick from one install to the next... Is there any way to completely wipe these out so that I am truly starting fresh?

I'm sure I will. I loved the system prior to registering. I've just gotten to a point of frustration that I can't sort this out. I'm a configuration monkey for a living, so the fact that I can't get this working right so far is a double whammy, since it is hurting my ego as well. 😕

At work now, but have to work a half day so that my wife can go to the doctor. I'll try installing latest version when I get home, and if that fails, I'll post ini, etc... At this point, I have filters turned off, so not even sure how that could be the issue.

AO I've been fighting with this for three nights, up until 2:30 trying different approaches every night. I'm about done, unless someone can help. I have been working against a list of about 50 roms, Gameex detects NONE of them. I've tried a dozen different MAME versions and builds, every solution seen so far on this forum. If I step up to a set of 4,000 roms that I have on a separate drive, Gameex will detect about 78 of them. Obviously, my Rom folder is correct if it detects a subset of the roms... Nothing is working at this point. Everythign was PERFECT until Sunday, when I paid to get a lifetime subscription. I'm at the point now where I regret that choice, and will probably have to seek a refund and switch to Maximus arcade, since I know that it actually works, whereas I have been completely unable to use gameex at all, no matter how much more I like it....