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hello I havent had the time to test this until today. I can confirm that this procedure has fixed the issue on my cabinet. Thanks very much for sharing!

Thanks for sharing! I'll give it a try. Will this resets my favorites (I cant remember in which database they are stored)?

I did a full uninstall/reinstall of GameEx. The only thing I kept was my .ini file to preserve my settings. I see the same issue with the latest release of the 5 files discussed above. The vast majority of the ROMs will show the right information but some of them will show game information from a different game. At least I am not the only one seing this I will just keep on moving on configuring my new PC and wont bother with this issue anymore.

I'm going to try the uninstall/reinstall method later on today. Will report back. If it doesn't work, I will simply disable this feature and move on. thanks again for the help

I noticed the issue first when I was using the latest files of the "extras". The files I had were "0.171" release. I can try again with 0.170... what are the right sources for these files, there seems to be multiple sources, some "official" some less official?

yes I did double and triple checked everything. I tried with the most recent version of those files and went back to the ones that are shipped in the gameex installation package.

I did some more research and troubleshooting. The game description displayed is coming from the file history.dat. What I found is that all of my roms that don't have corresponding description entry in the file history.dat will show a random description in GameEx. The issue do not happen at the display time (ie. when gameex display the game info) but rather when the game list update process happen. If I look in the gamelist.txt, I can see the line for the rom and the wrong description beside it. Can anyone else try to repro the issue? find a ROM you have that doesn't have a description in history.dat and see if you have a good description for it in gamelist.txt or in GameEx MAME game list menu? I don't know what else to try. Looks like a small bug in the game list building process to me. I don't remember having this issue on my "production" PC in cabinet which is running GameEx 11.xx thanks!

I am already using MAME 0171 from mamedev.org. I will switch to groovymame when the PC will be in cabinet but for now I am still using a "stock" mame. I would be very surprised that the theme would have any influence because if I look in the gamelist.txt file that is built by GameEx I can see the bad entry, ie. for the example above I see the line for "lasso" but with the description of "crush roller"

Hello I deleted those 5 files (catver,history,nplayers, command and mameinfo) and re-installed GameEx. The versions of those files contained in the gameex installation package are somewhat older but I wanted to start from scrath. I rebuilt my game list. The issue is still present, however less widespread than with the previous files. By randomly browsing in the game list, it took me about 20 hits to find an occurrence. See below. "lasso" is being described as "crush roller"

Confirmed. I have the 0.171 release of all those files. My mame version is also 0.171. Here is a list of the files on my hard drive and also below a screenshot of the source I used for the files.

Attached. Thanks! Let me know if you want a log file of a game list rebuild log.txt GameEx.ini

I downloaded the mameinfo.dat linked above, copied it to my Gameex\data folder (C:\Gameex\Data) and rebuilt my game list in GameEx. Same issue. My GameEx config for the mameinfo.dat location is "DATA\mameinfo.dat" what else should I try?

Hello! Thanks for the quick reply. I do not have the latest mameinfo.dat. When I tried to download it from the link provided in the support file section of the Gameex website, (http://www.gameex.com/support-files/) then link was invalid so I went on and forgot about this. I will try to update it tonight when I am back home and report back. thanks

Hello all! I am currently rebuilding a new computer for my cabinet as everything in it is currently 6 or 7 years old, including GameEx. To make a long story short, I installed Gamex and configured it and I have a small issue. When I browse the MAME game list and select a game, quite often but not all the time, the game information shown is totally wrong and not related to the game. See the screenshot attached as an example. The description says that the game "Gunmasters" is a "F1 Racing game". Some games will show the right information but many are just wrong. I downloaded the latest "history.dat" from the link (http://www.arcade-history.com/) provided in the download section of the gameex web site and placed it in the DATA folder and then rebuilt updated my game list. Anyone have a fix for this problem? thanks very much!

I think i'll just leave the high score support to off in gameex. Didnt really used it much anyway. Also, if I decide to try to get it working again, I assume that just recompiling my MAME build will give the same results, so I guess there is an updated hi-score patch that I need to apply to my MAME source, right?

nope, I only updated GameEx, same mame build. My cabinet is now working by turning off the high score option in GameEx. I'll re-enable it and post a log file tomorrow.

Hello, This morning I updated my cabinet to the latest version of GameEx. before i've been running GameEx 10.19 for many many months without issues. Since I updated, every time I launch a game, I get a Hitotext crash. What should I try to fix that? thanks EDIT: just did some more test and it's worse than only the hitotext issue. GameEx will freeze upon selecting some mame game from the favorite list and I need to turn off the power on the cabinet.

Hello I have two U360 sticks on my CP. So I am using xpadder with Gameex to map keys to the sticks for navigation. for those who are using xpadder, do you keep it running when lauching mame? can it interfere with mame usage of joysticks? currently I am unloading it with with the gameex option to run a program before lauching mame and I am loading it again after mame finished running. Sometimes I seems to loose joystick (xpadder) input in gameex. wondering if that can be the cause and how other people are using xpadder thanks!

Ok, I got it to work. Have to use the "start" command to have the command line window to show up. so the process is: set "show desktop" to yes set the path to: C:\windows\system32 set the command to: start cmd.exe /C "C:\scripts\my script.cmd" cheers!

I did some more troubleshooting last night. Gameex will start .cmd scripts. However, the command line window will not show up. On my PC with dual monitor, I put a process monitor on the second window and I can see that GameEx is spawing the process but it doesnt show up on the desktop nor in the task manager applications list. is there a way to have the window showing so I can see what the script is doing? (again, showdesktop is set to yes)

Hello I have created a few command line scripts to manage my cabinet (update roms from a network share, update mame, etc). I am trying to add them to the external applications menu but it doesnt work. when lauching a script (from the "More program" menu) I see the desktop appear but the script doesnt execute. I have enabled "show desktop" to yes in gamex configuration. my scripts are in "C:\scripts" so this is what I set in the path of the external application. For the application I tried a few things. The first thing I tried is just the script name ie: "mameupdate.cmd" and I also tried to launch the command line with the script as a parameters ie: "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /C mameupdate.cmd". both didnt work. I can run the scripts manually with both method. is there anything I am missing in my gameex config? thanks all