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Run the GameEX Setup Wizard and find the Advanced MAME Settings. In the box that says MAME Options make sure it doesn't say -now and instead have it say -w

Try changing parameters to just [TABLEFILE] Mine looks like what's on the link below. http://i.imgur.com/ONDJxem.jpg Do you have a MAME.xml at location "PinballX\Databases\MAME" ?

If you didn't happen to notice, Tom posted that the latest version of GameEX supports the latest Catver.ini which is probably responsible for resolving your issue

Or you can just use official MAME because GameEX is your UI

Run the setup wizard from the windows start menu when GameEX is not running. Double check the MAME settings and Advanced MAME settings very carefully. Have verify ROMs set to No (You can verify your stuff with clrmamepro) It's ok to have No porn,casino, and mahjong (if you want) but make sure all other filters are not on. Last but not least extract official MAME somewhere and try with that. Perhaps it's some problem with the latest version of UIFX

It can't be a problem of the latest GameEX because last night I reformatted my PC and installed Windows 10 Pro. The latest MAME hooked into GameEX just fine and found almost 8K games. I did however set everything up again in the setup wizard. I didn't attempt to use anything from the previous install. I'm only having a problem with a GameTag pluigin which I will post about in the appropriate thread. Fixed it. I love how log file tells everything wrong

@Mogg whether your romset is 100% complete or not and whether it's from 161 or 170 makes no difference to GameEX and doesn't have anything to do with the issue you're having. Now unfortunately these boards don't allow me to view all my past posts and searching old posts only has some limited window, so I'm unable to find how I've helped others with similar issues. There was an issue with history.dat where you had to open it and remove/replace all instances of | because it made GameEX hang at carnevil. There's also other things to make GameEX quit assembling information. I had to clean a nplayers.ini because it's filled with crap for games that GameEX filters out anyway. Anyway, point being is I highly doubt it's anything with your romset or GameEX install. These messy unofficial external files is what is pissing off GameEX and the key is to clean them up some how. With nplayers I cleaned thousands of lines of garbage of games it doesn't show anyway and it completely fixed the problem instead of hanging at some random letter. Now what does the MAME part of your setup wizard looks like? You want to have verify ROMs disabled and perhaps think about using custom paths for these external files and we'll go from there. http://i.imgur.com/DXKN0Ze.png

Sorry man that it didn't 100% resolve the problem. The issue here is that all these external files have become a complex complicated mess. I pray one day GameEX or Evolution can have it's own dedicated database with all this information rather than depending on external bunches of files.

Here's what I use. It's my Category.ini, Catver.ini, and nplayers.ini backup your previous files and put these where MAME/GameEX can find them. In setup wizard you can point to the files then preform an update list with GameEX and all should be good Hopefully it helps your problem test.zip

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Happy New Years Tom and thanks again for making these available. I scrolled through every MAME game in my setup and only see a small amount of videos missing. I have to figure out if the video didn't get made or if it's a XML creation mistake on my part. Just thought I'd throw these up now before I lost the listing. Thanks again for your work and making these available Air Duel (airduel) Arm wrestling (armwrest) Astropal (astropal) Dragon Spirt (dspirt) Evil Stone (evilston) Exciting Soccer (exctsccr) Gekisou (gekisou) Hang Pilot (hangplt) Konami 80's AC Special (konam80s) Megatack (megatack) P-47 The Phantom Fighter (p47) Pepper II (pepper2) Psyvariar (Psyvariar) Psyvariar -Medium Unit- (psyvaria) Quaterback (quaterb) Shikigami No Shiro (shikigam) Wing Force (wingforc) ******** This will be in MAME 0.170 XII Stag (xiistag) Zig Zag (zigzag)

I'm hoping to clean mine up and remove the few dupes that are in there, but it's incredibly boring work to do that. Someday though.

My XML has 865 games in it. Your attachment has only 11 games in it FYI

Actually, I could just use the file names of the MP4 files as a reference listing to see what's missing from my XML. However, if Tom already has one created that would save a ton of time because I'm not aware of any way to automate the creation of it.

I believe I've found the problem. In your PinballX.ini you have this *Executable=mame64.exe -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo* I added that to mine and games don't work anymore. Try changing it to *Executable=mame64.exe*

I just saw and noticed this thread. I hope I can be of some help. First I must ask why you're using MAMEUI and not official command line version of MAME since PinballX is your Front-end so you wouldn't need the UI part of it. I also try and tell people to not have such exotic paths and try to stick with defaults as much as possible (it all takes the same amount of disk space possible) My mame.ini has this for rompath J:\MAME ROMs;J:\MAME CHDs;J:\SOFTWARE LIST ROMS;J:\MESS CHDs;I:\MESS CHDs My MAME root folder is J:\MAME PinballX.ini http://pastebin.com/d9TDLKpX log.txt 08:17:47.5 12/17/2015: PinballX - Version 2.06 08:17:47.6 12/17/2015: Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 64-bit (5.9GB) 08:17:47.6 12/17/2015: Loading Settings 08:17:47.6 12/17/2015: Initialize Component 08:17:47.6 12/17/2015: Initialize Display 08:17:48.7 12/17/2015: Loading PlugIns 08:17:50.3 12/17/2015: Hiding Cursor 08:17:50.3 12/17/2015: Hiding Taskbar 08:17:50.4 12/17/2015: CPU: Intel® Core i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz 08:17:50.4 12/17/2015: GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 08:17:50.4 12/17/2015: Displays: 1 08:17:51.4 12/17/2015: Load Game List 08:17:51.4 12/17/2015: Loading Database: Pinball FX2 08:17:51.5 12/17/2015: Loading Database: Visual Pinball 08:17:51.5 12/17/2015: Loading Database: MAME 08:17:51.6 12/17/2015: Loading Database: physics mod 5 08:17:51.6 12/17/2015: Loading Custom Database: VP ONLY 08:17:51.6 12/17/2015: Loading Custom Database: MAME ONLY 08:17:51.7 12/17/2015: Loading Custom Database: PM5 ONLY 08:17:51.8 12/17/2015: Finding and matching artwork and videos 08:18:08.7 12/17/2015: Loading Game Statistics and Scores 08:18:08.9 12/17/2015: Loading Surfaces 08:18:09.3 12/17/2015: Finished Loading Surfaces 08:18:09.3 12/17/2015: Initialize Audio 08:18:09.5 12/17/2015: Set Keyboard Controls 08:18:09.5 12/17/2015: Initialize Joystick 08:18:09.6 12/17/2015: 1 Joystick Attached 08:18:09.6 12/17/2015: Load Startup Video: J:\PinballX\Media\Startup Videos\Loading.mp4 08:18:09.7 12/17/2015: Started 08:20:50.0 12/17/2015: Launch System 08:20:50.0 12/17/2015: Waiting for threads 08:20:50.0 12/17/2015: Disposing display 08:20:51.8 12/17/2015: J:\MAME\mame64.exe sinistar 08:24:16.5 12/17/2015: Exit System Control Pressed 08:24:30.3 12/17/2015: Exiting 08:24:30.3 12/17/2015: Showing Taskbar 08:24:30.3 12/17/2015: Unhiding Mouse Cursor 08:24:30.4 12/17/2015: Disposing Plugins 08:24:30.4 12/17/2015: Saving Settings 08:24:30.4 12/17/2015: Waiting for Online Thread 08:24:33.9 12/17/2015: Bye

Hey Tom may I ask how you can generate a listing of all vertical games alphabetically by their set name used in MAME? I created my XML by eyeballing snaps which isn't the most percise. I've downloaded all 1215 of the MP4 files, but the XML I've created only has 86X something games. Do you happen to have an XML that matches all these files so I can give them all a look? Again Thanks for creating these as I enjoy very much playing vertical MAME games in PinballX. I have to say it's the absolute best option

Yeah, I REALLY, REALLY, would like to use GameEX or Evolution (in the future) for the software lists and hope Tom can add some kind of support at some point, at least for simple consoles that use carts and CDs would be very nice. The core features of MAME like HLSL/GLSL, load/save states, Fast forward, easy way to map inputs, have me so hooked that I don't even use stand-alone emulators anymore. There's no way I'm also adding stuff one by one and so I've never really done that. MAME is so incredibly simple to get up and running from scratch. As long as you have your rompath pointing to the correct folders of ROMs, CHDs, root folder of all softlist stuff, It's as simple as executing "mame64 nes" then you can TAB into MAME's own internal file manager and softlist load whatever you want to play. With a popular site hosting so much [FREE] stuff. It literally takes minutes to have tons and tons of systems and thousands upon thousands of games all ready to be played. Perhaps GameEX could have a software lists sub catagory and would be able to generate the game listing based off of the appropiate XML file or machine chosen.

I just found this thread because I've been very busy lately. I use PinballX A lot for vertical games that I've created my own XML for to the best of my ability. Thanks a lot Tom for the work on these. I'm downloading now and will check them out very soon

Thanks u-man for posting your settings. I'm enjoying them very much

Thanks so much! Having that specific setting enabled was causing all sorts of problems here. Tag is now showing last game played and correct uptime after a GameEX shutdown. Thanks so much

Sorry, I meant I did download the latest version which is 12.34 http://www.gameex.com/download-gameex/ I was mistakenly calling it 12.33 because gameex.com has that as the latest version listed. Anyway, after install of the latest version when I execute a exit gameEX shutdown command in GameEX I notice a black screen for about 2 seconds and then it disappears from my task bar. In windows task manager the background service is still running. I believe some changes in a recent version of GameEX is doing these problems as I've never had anything like this happen before.

My previous forum post was made after I played a game and had GameEX running for over an hour then I executed a shutdown. I never restarted GameEX and it wasn't running after the hour session. Anyway, I downloaded GameEX 14.33 and did an install. After playing a few minutes and then executing a shutdown in GameEX, I noticed in windows task manager that GameEX_Background.exe *32 continues to be running. I'm not sure what you mean I'm a version behind. Everything looks like I have the latest releases available.