denoiser

The Vic 20 needs to support lots of file formats like .d64 , .t64 , .g64 , .g41 , .Tap , .Crt , .P00 , .Prg , .A0 I got lots of roms for the VIC 20 and I think this should be all the formats known by Win Vice . Good Luck for your work Regards, Denoiser

The Vic 20 ? What a dream. It was my first Computer with lots of Cartridges and the damn datasette with all the horrible " load error messages " I´m waiting patiently for this script. I have tried to set up Win Vice 1.21 in Gameex with the Gameex Included Vic 20 Config , and nothing works. I love this machine too, more than all the actually PC Games and Console Games. You see, I´m a real child of the golden 80´s Regards, Denoiser

I did it , it works fine. Now I can play all my C 64 Games , thank you for the fast help.

a fine update, it works with all my tapes and Cartridges thank you very much. I often wondered that I´ve been the first who started a thread about Setting up this cool machine but I think many users love the great old C 64 and are very thankfully for your great work. I think another problem of using Ccs 64, caused by gameex, is the Esc Button on the Keyboard. Gamex use the ESC Button to end the emulation and go back to the Gameex Menü. Ccs uses exactly the same Button to simulate the run/stop Button on a C64 Keyboard. When you try to play a game, and must hit the Esc Button, to start the game , the Emulation end and you will return to gameex . Maybe the Author Tom Speirs knows how to handle this. btw, Your Script works fine and makes all the C 64 Freaks all over the world happy. Best Regards, Denoiser

Hi Greatflash , I have give it up to setup my C64 in gameex :-( , since I read your Posts , now it works with your help. :-) nice work, I got it running with your Config. I use the Gamebase C64 Collection V3 with about 17.000 Games. To your question, which formats should supported also ? I think it would be nice and useful to support card images ( .crt ) and tape Images ( .tap ) , because the Gamebase C64 Collection V3 contains so many nice Original Tape Files, and Original Cartridges. I love this old stuff :-) When I point to my tape File or Card file Direktory, gameex won´t start the game with your config at this time. At this time your config, and the given runzip.cmd and unzip32 only supports T.64, D.64 right ? Many Greets , Denoiser

Hi Tempest , here is your personal ego boost :-) many thanks from me to you. I changed the bezel settings and it works fine.

Hi , I like to say thanks for all the good Advice. I tried all your hints, but I can´t figure out what´s wrong. To Remember, all the Games works fine at Mame32. I thought forthcoming Releases of Mame should be run more games. I never thought that every Mame Version needs the matching rom set. Tempest : I only copied my mame roms folder in the mame 082b Directory to try whats the reason when some Roms don´t want to start from Gameex. It does not mean, that they belong to this Mame Version. I found my Mame Rom Set ( about 5 GB, surely not all games :-) in the www and I own my Set for 4 years . Since I found the nice tool gameex for all my Emus I used my Mame roms with Mame 32 ( The one with the Windows GUI , to avoid typing all the horrible dos commands) I turned of the option Verify Roms, and also set allow imperfect roms, but I get the same result. Some Games start and some other don´t do this. I found the following Topic, and I think here´s exact the same Error, maybe we can solve the problem alltogether. http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=5351 Bkenobi : How can I figure out which Rom Version I own , My Mame32 Directory has a subdirectory called roms. This folder contain all my games in zip format and many game subfolders. btw : I like the actually Version of Mame32 , i mean this one that gameex downloads for itself when I use the setup Wizard, I think it´s the Version 0.109. But I like to play all my games from gameex.

Thank you for your reply. I thought setting up Mame is much easier. I use the Mame Version v0.109 and most of the games works fine without gameex. I know there are diffenrent versions of mame, but i thought that the latest mame release will guarantee that more games works than a earlier release of mame. What do you mean with Vanilla Mame ? Is is an official Mame Version. Where can I get it from, to test this with my Roms ? For the first Time I used the downloaded Mame Versions of the Gamex Setup Wizard, to test how many roms work. When I try the Advance MAME , I get the error message " unknown command line option rompath " by every game :-( btw, I post my log file , maybe the solution is simple for experts like you. best regards, denoiser log file : 21:13:57.4 14.04.2008: GameEx: Version 9.19: Starting Log 21:13:57.4 14.04.2008: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 21:13:57.4 14.04.2008: Operating System Name: Windows XP 21:13:57.4 14.04.2008: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600 21:13:57.5 14.04.2008: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed 21:13:57.5 14.04.2008: .net Framework 1.1 Installed 21:13:57.5 14.04.2008: .net Framework 2.0 Installed 21:13:57.5 14.04.2008: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.53GHz, 511MB 21:13:57.5 14.04.2008: 2,54Ghz 21:13:57.6 14.04.2008: Running Randomize() 21:13:57.6 14.04.2008: Loading PlugIns 21:13:57.6 14.04.2008: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 21:13:57.6 14.04.2008: Running Misc startup tasks 21:13:57.6 14.04.2008: Setting Menu types 21:13:57.6 14.04.2008: Opening Configuration File 21:13:57.6 14.04.2008: Getting Configuration Values 21:13:57.6 14.04.2008: Using Theme: Default - Media Center 21:13:57.6 14.04.2008: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Media Center 21:13:57.7 14.04.2008: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 21:13:57.8 14.04.2008: Is Media Center running? 21:13:57.8 14.04.2008: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values 21:13:57.8 14.04.2008: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 21:13:57.8 14.04.2008: Media Center Mode 2 21:13:57.8 14.04.2008: Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems 21:13:57.8 14.04.2008: Snap Delay set to: 2 21:13:57.8 14.04.2008: Get other settings 21:13:57.8 14.04.2008: Reading MAME hall of fame 21:13:58.0 14.04.2008: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 21:13:58.0 14.04.2008: Start work for Form 21:13:58.0 14.04.2008: Getting Original Screen Size 21:13:58.0 14.04.2008: Opening Database Connection 21:13:59.0 14.04.2008: Initializing Component 21:13:59.1 14.04.2008: Retrieving resolution setting 21:13:59.1 14.04.2008: Initialising Windows Media Player Component 21:13:59.1 14.04.2008: MAME Path is: C:\Emulators\Mame32 21:13:59.1 14.04.2008: MAME EXE file is: Mame32.exe 21:13:59.1 14.04.2008: ROM Path is: C:\mame082b\roms 21:13:59.1 14.04.2008: Catver.ini is located at: C:\Programme\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini 21:13:59.1 14.04.2008: controls.ini is located at: C:\Programme\GameEx\data\controls.ini 21:13:59.1 14.04.2008: History.dat is located at: C:\Programme\GameEx\DATA\history.dat 21:13:59.1 14.04.2008: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\Programme\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini 21:13:59.1 14.04.2008: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\Programme\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat 21:13:59.1 14.04.2008: Loading Controls.ini map file 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: Snap Path is: C:\Emulators\Mame32\snap 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: AVI Snap Path is: C:\Emulators\Mame32\avisnap 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: Flyer Path is: C:\Emulators\Mame32\flyers 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: Cabinet Path is: C:\Emulators\Mame32\cabinets 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: Title Path is: C:\Emulators\Mame32\titles 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: PCB Path: Not Found 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: Artwork Preview Path: Not Found 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: Panel Path is: C:\Emulators\Mame32\cpanel 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: Manual Path: Not Found 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: Icon Path is: C:\Emulators\Mame32\icons 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: Marquee Path is: C:\Emulators\Mame32\marquees 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: Loading Custom Emulators 21:13:59.2 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 1: Atari 2600 21:13:59.3 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 2: Atari 5200 21:13:59.4 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 3: Atari 7800 21:13:59.4 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 4: Atari Lynx 21:13:59.5 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 5: Atari Jaguar (Project Tempest) 21:13:59.6 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 6: Atari ST 21:13:59.7 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 7: Coleco Vision 21:13:59.7 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 8: Intellivision 21:13:59.8 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 9: Nintendo SNES 21:13:59.9 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 10: Nintendo Entertainment System 21:13:59.9 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 11: Commodore Amiga Games (Gamebase V 1.5) 21:14:00.0 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 12: Commodore C64 21:14:00.1 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 13: Commodore VIC20 21:14:00.2 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 14: Nintendo GameBoy 21:14:00.2 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 15: Nintendo GameBoy Color 21:14:00.3 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 16: Nintendo GameBoy Advance 21:14:00.4 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 17: Sega Master System 21:14:00.5 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 18: Sega Mega Drive 21:14:00.6 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 19: Sega Game Gear 21:14:00.6 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 20: Sony Playstation 21:14:00.7 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 21: Nintendo N64 21:14:00.8 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 23: [PC] Commodore C64 (WinVice) 21:14:00.9 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 24: Commodore Amiga Public Domain Games 21:14:00.9 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 25: Commodore Amiga Game Compilations 21:14:01.0 14.04.2008: Loading Emulator 26: Commodore Amiga - Music Files 21:14:01.4 14.04.2008: Using 2D Animations 21:14:01.4 14.04.2008: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS 21:14:01.4 14.04.2008: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS 21:14:01.4 14.04.2008: Attempting to load game list 21:14:01.5 14.04.2008: Initialising DirectDraw 21:14:01.6 14.04.2008: Creating DirectDraw Device 21:14:01.6 14.04.2008: Using Device: Primärer Anzeigetreiber 21:14:02.1 14.04.2008: 59mb video memory available 21:14:02.1 14.04.2008: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces 21:14:02.1 14.04.2008: Creating Primary Surface - Windowed Mode 21:14:02.1 14.04.2008: Creating Back Buffer 21:14:02.1 14.04.2008: Loading graphic Surfaces 21:14:02.1 14.04.2008: Display is running at: 1280x1024 32bit color, 75hz 21:14:02.2 14.04.2008: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs 21:14:02.4 14.04.2008: Creating Surfaces Volume 21:14:02.4 14.04.2008: Creating Surfaces Arrows 21:14:02.4 14.04.2008: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text 21:14:02.4 14.04.2008: Creating Surfaces Toolbar 21:14:02.4 14.04.2008: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds 21:14:02.5 14.04.2008: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls 21:14:02.5 14.04.2008: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo 21:14:02.5 14.04.2008: Creating Surface Unselected 21:14:02.6 14.04.2008: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit 21:14:02.6 14.04.2008: Creating Surfaces Snaps 21:14:02.6 14.04.2008: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars 21:14:02.7 14.04.2008: Creating Fonts 21:14:02.7 14.04.2008: Creating Game Font 21:14:02.8 14.04.2008: Creating Menu Font 21:14:02.9 14.04.2008: Restoring Menu Font From Cache 21:14:02.9 14.04.2008: Creating Font Black 21:14:03.1 14.04.2008: Creating Font Black Small 21:14:03.2 14.04.2008: Creating Game Font Faded 21:14:03.3 14.04.2008: Creating Title Font 21:14:03.3 14.04.2008: Restoring Title Font From Cache 21:14:03.4 14.04.2008: Fonts Created Succesfully 21:14:03.4 14.04.2008: 25mb video memory left available 21:14:03.4 14.04.2008: Creating instance of global keyboard hook 21:14:26.8 14.04.2008: Text/Language: German 21:14:26.8 14.04.2008: Applying Language/Text 21:14:27.0 14.04.2008: Initialising Bass Audio Library 21:14:27.4 14.04.2008: Running: Mame32.exe -help 21:14:27.4 14.04.2008: Running: C: C:\Emulators\Mame32\Mame32.exe -help > C:\Emulators\Mame32\help.txt 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: Detected MAME Version as: 0.109 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: Now Outputing Mame32.exe - Help 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: --BEGIN-- 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: M.A.M.E. v0.109 (Oct 1 2006) - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: Copyright © 1997-2006 by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME Team 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: MAME is an emulator: it reproduces, more or less faithfully, the behaviour of 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: several arcade machines. But hardware is useless without software, so an image 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: of the ROMs which run on that hardware is required. Such ROMs, like any other 21:14:28.1 14.04.2008: commercial software, are copyrighted material and it is therefore illegal to 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: use them if you don't own the original arcade machine. Needless to say, ROMs 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: are not distributed together with MAME. Distribution of MAME together with ROM 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: images is a violation of copyright law and should be promptly reported to the 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: authors so that appropriate legal action can be taken. 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: Usage: MAME gamename [options] 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: MAME -showusage for a brief list of options 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: MAME -showconfig for a list of configuration options 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: MAME -createconfig to create a mame.ini 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: For usage instructions, please consult the file windows.txt 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: --END-- 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: MAME CMD options: 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: Loading last used Game List 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: Setting Music Volume 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: Creating DirectSound Device 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: Trying: Primärer Soundtreiber 21:14:28.2 14.04.2008: Loading Sound Files 21:14:28.3 14.04.2008: DirectSound Device Created Successfully 21:14:28.3 14.04.2008: Creating ICONS 21:14:28.4 14.04.2008: Restoring Cached ICONS from File 21:14:28.5 14.04.2008: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support 21:14:28.5 14.04.2008: Using Device XUSB Gamepad (Controller) 21:14:28.6 14.04.2008: Playing intro sound file 21:14:28.6 14.04.2008: Initializing MCE Remote 21:14:28.6 14.04.2008: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx! 21:14:28.6 14.04.2008: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame 21:14:29.2 14.04.2008: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully 21:14:44.2 14.04.2008: Writing Game List to disk 21:14:44.2 14.04.2008: Updating MAME Game List 21:14:44.2 14.04.2008: Running: C: C:\Emulators\Mame32\Mame32.exe -listxml > C:\Emulators\Mame32\listinfo.dat 21:15:17.4 14.04.2008: Opening Listinfo.dat 21:15:18.9 14.04.2008: Reading ListInfo.dat 21:15:55.3 14.04.2008: Reading ListInfo.dat - DONE 21:15:55.3 14.04.2008: Running: C: C:\Emulators\Mame32\Mame32.exe -verifysets -rompath "C:\mame082b\roms" > C:\Emulators\Mame32\verify.dat 21:17:54.6 14.04.2008: Opening Verify.dat 21:17:55.6 14.04.2008: Processing Verify.dat 21:17:56.0 14.04.2008: Processing ListInfo.dat 21:18:01.2 14.04.2008: Listinfo.dat Processing Complete 21:18:01.2 14.04.2008: Sorting MAME Game List 21:18:01.5 14.04.2008: Adding Catver.ini info to gamelist 21:18:26.1 14.04.2008: Writing MAME Game List To File 21:18:28.9 14.04.2008: Adding History.dat info to gamelist 21:18:43.9 14.04.2008: Adding Nplayers.ini info to gamelist 21:18:49.9 14.04.2008: Adding History.dat Series info to gamelist 21:19:55.4 14.04.2008: Adding MAMEInfo.dat info to gamelist 21:21:04.6 14.04.2008: Writing MAME Game List To File 21:21:13.5 14.04.2008: Updating Year List 21:21:13.5 14.04.2008: Updating Manufacturer List 21:21:13.6 14.04.2008: Updating Category List 21:21:13.6 14.04.2008: Updating Custom Folders 21:21:13.6 14.04.2008: Writing Year List To File 21:21:13.6 14.04.2008: Writing Manufacturer List To File 21:21:13.6 14.04.2008: Writing Category List To File 21:21:13.7 14.04.2008: Loading Game List 21:21:13.8 14.04.2008: Importing MAME32 Favorites 21:21:13.8 14.04.2008: Recreating ICONS 21:21:26.9 14.04.2008: Attract Mode Re-Enabled 21:25:03.1 14.04.2008: Running: cmd.exe /c C: C:\Emulators\Mame32\Mame32.exe 1942a -rompath C:\mame082b\roms -artwork -artwork_directory artworkgameex 21:28:24.6 14.04.2008: Running: cmd.exe /c C: C:\Emulators\Mame32\Mame32.exe 4in1 -rompath C:\mame082b\roms -artwork -artwork_directory artworkgameex

Hi , I setup the MAME 32 Emu in Gamex by downloading and setup with the Configuration Wizard. After pointing to all my relevant path, I start Gameex. When I choose MAME it takes a while to create the gamelists. But some games in the list won´t start from Gameex. When I try to start the game, gameex will return to the gamelist without starting MAME. It happened not to all games. I think the Roms are not bad, when I start them from the MAME32 Windows GUI all works fine. Does anyone know the solution or maybe have some hints what to do ? Best Regards, Denoiser

Hello , many thanks to fRequEnCy and LB 11 for your help. LB11: The search function is simple and useful, sometimes its so easy I have found another tool based on UnGoodMerge , its called " romdeleter " and makes nothing more than filtering your rom folder and delete the roms you didn´t find useful for your Collection. After done this, I simply point GameEx exactly to this rom folder , maybe I call it " my fav roms" , without creating a map file. Thats more than enough for me Best Regards, Denoiser

thank you for your patience and hints. Can you tell me how many Box Art do you have in your Destination Folder. When I take a look in your gamebase.map there are about 2560 Games (Adf). On which Database are they based off? I mean , is this the hall Amiga Game Collection with all games based on the actually Gamebase Amiga V1.5 ? I miss some games in this map file, Do I have to add this missing games for myself, or is there maybe a easier way to handle this ?

Hello fRequEnCy , thanks for your help. I think thats the best way for me instead creating a map file for gameex manually for my own. I take a look at UnGoodmerge and try to work with this tool. When I want to rebuild my roms with CLR Mame Pro I have to use a No Intro Dat ? From where can I get these No-Intro Dat files ? I haven´t found these files at this time.

hello again , thanks for your help I got it working and now I have the same results I think my mistake was to create a gamelist in WINUAE LOADER before start converting artworks ? When I do this, the artwork tool won´t start working. For my understanding that I do the thing in the right order , my Way is the following : 1. After starting WINUAE Loader, I point to my Gamebase Amiga.mdb, then point to my Game Rom Folder , Create a Gamelist and starts to convert. I don´t own any WHD Load or SPS Games just adf from the Tosec Collection Does Gameex support a second Screenshot or a Box Art Back ?

my snes dat file looks like : [CREDITS] author= email= homepage= url= version= date= comment= [DAT] version=2.00 plugin=arcade.dll split= merge= [EMULATOR] refname= version= [GAMES] ¬1997 New Year FD (PD)¬1997 New Year FD (PD)¬1997 New Year FD (PD)¬1997 New Year FD (PD)¬1997 New Year FD (PD).smc¬73b9899b¬1245696¬¬¬ ¬2.68 MHz Demo (PD)¬2.68 MHz Demo (PD)¬2.68 MHz Demo (PD)¬2.68 MHz Demo (PD)¬2.68 MHz Demo (PD).smc¬175e510b¬745984¬¬¬ ¬2020 Super Baseball (U) [b1]¬2020 Super Baseball (U) [b1]¬2020 Super Baseball (U) [b1]¬2020 Super Baseball (U) [b1]¬2020 Super Baseball (U) [b1]¬cb6ead67¬1572864¬¬¬ ¬3 Ninjas Kick Back (U)¬3 Ninjas Kick Back (U)¬3 Ninjas Kick Back (U)¬3 Ninjas Kick Back (U)¬3 Ninjas Kick Back (U).smc¬71ee7d95¬2097664¬¬¬ ¬3 Ninjas Kick Back (US)¬3 Ninjas Kick Back (US)¬3 Ninjas Kick Back (US)¬3 Ninjas Kick Back (US)¬3 Ninjas Kick Back (US).smc¬71ee7d95¬2097664¬¬¬ ¬3x3 Eyes - Juuma Houkan (J) [b1]¬3x3 Eyes - Juuma Houkan (J) [b1]¬3x3 Eyes - Juuma Houkan (J) [b1]¬3x3 Eyes - Juuma Houkan (J) [b1]¬3x3 Eyes - Juuma Houkan (J) [b1]¬7c360fce¬2097152¬¬¬ ¬3x3 Eyes - Seima Kourinden (J)¬3x3 Eyes - Seima Kourinden (J)¬3x3 Eyes - Seima Kourinden (J)¬3x3 Eyes - Seima Kourinden (J)¬3x3 Eyes - Seima Kourinden (J).smc¬51cb3dde¬1049088¬¬¬ ¬4 Nin Shougi (J)¬4 Nin Shougi (J)¬4 Nin Shougi (J)¬4 Nin Shougi (J)¬4 Nin Shougi (J)¬9008c18a¬524288¬¬¬ It´s only a short part of it and it was created with the Tool " Datutil " . It´s a dos based tool to create those dat files, depending on your Rom Folder.

I have the Goodtools Collection with about 11000 Files for my Snes. What did you mean with regular expression. I know that i´m able to open every Dat File with a tool like an editor and look at all entries but how can I make a .map file ? A map file wants to have two name in a row. One for the rom file , and one for the Game name.