Frank B

Thanks - that makes sense. I am building a new arcade cabinet after shelving my project for a long time so re-training myself has been a slow process. I don't get where I can get updated roms that match the new mame - i have not even dared looking at other emulators and roms and how that all needs to be mapped. If i could purchase a drive with everything working and simply map to GameEx that would be ideal as a casuial user. for now, i am happy with what I have and can show the kids how we used to play video games. thanks for the feedback.

quick follow-up - found and old script for the ini file - used that and now it works. So I am ok - except that I am still using the 2007 mame.exe file. if it aint broke dont fix it i guess, but I am curious as to why the newest version of mame wont play some of my roms...

Yes - tweaking the mame.ini file worked just fine. So I have 2 identical folders with the exact same files except for the mame.exe. One has a 2007 version, the other has the latest version. The one with the latest version of mame will not allow me to play games I was playing just fine with the old version, to include 720, centipede and pretty much all of my neogeo games. I realized that in order to fix the track ball issue, you need an mame.ini file. That is what was missing from my 2007 version. So I copied the mame.ini file from the new version and pasted it to the foder with the old version. This resolved the trackball issue and I was able to open the games i cannot open with the newest mame. However, the issue now (and I assume it is a conflict with the ini file) is that i have no sound in the games. I do have sound in the menu, but when i open the game, no sound. Again, this is in my "clone" folder with the 2007 version of the mame.exe

As a quick followup, the version of mame that works is from 2007. in the new version i cant open any neogeo games either. So i copied the ini file from the new version of mame and put that in the old mame folder so i can enable the trackball. so far, i can open 720 and centipede but now i dont have sound...is it the ini file? thanks

Thank you all, evidently windows needed an update and that did the trick! But now I have a new problem/question. I had an old version of mame that i had simply copied from another drive. In this drive is where all of my games were located. When I mapped GameEx to the drive, everything worked perfect, except my trackball. I read some forums and figured the issue was resolved easily with the ini file. Unfortunately, no ini file that I could tweak. So, I downloaded the new version of mame into a new folder, and copied all of my files over - so I have them twice essentially - so i dont lose what I had. When I mapped the new drive, everything is working well EXCEPT I can no longer see centepede and 720 - at least those are the 2 that I immediately noticed. I even checked the box that says show all roms even if they dont work...what am i doing wrong? BTW - love the supportive community here - you guys are a great group

Hello - relative newbie here. I have an older Dell, I3 with 8MB of RAM, running windows 10. I downloaded the latest version of GameEX, ran the wizard, turned everything off (start-up stuff) that could interfere, and it just sits there and wont start. I run it on my laptop and runs fine. what am I missing?! thanks! FB