i just bought gameex and installed it and also the latest version of mame .130 . I configured it correctly because i had the unregistered version working with an older mame version. All the paths are correct. When I tell it to update list it usually locks up the computer after 5-10 minutes. I got it to not lock up once and finish the scan but whenever I go to play any rom my comp locks up hard again and no game plays due to locking up and needing to be forced off and reboot the comp. I tried making sure that mame 130 did an audit of the games and I can play them with it no problem. I can't with gameex. It just locks up. when it locked up while using update list, I kept getting the error--eeprom read ng! initialize eeprom and backup. Not sure what that means. Like I said,I got past that once and it finished the scan but if you try to play any game it locks up. Gary