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I would like to create a MAME only cabinet with one game per screen* (*preferred) or menu of say 9 games (like iCade, etc) so easy to scroll throw a minimum number of MAME only games (without a menu). Has anyonbe got any suggestions of a theme that does this (I cannot find one), I've even had a go myself but to no avail. Thanks.

One thing i've always loved about GameEx is all the little features you discover that may at first not seem obvious to you. MAME custom lists may well be one of those features! I've only recently discovered them myself and now can't live without them. So what are they? Well, you know all the various lists you can enable in the MAME section of GameEx, for example: Atari Games, Classics, Vertical Games etc etc? Well you can make your own! "Really?! Well stop babbling and show us how!" Sure thing For this guide i will be using our High Score Competition custom MAME list as an example. You can grab a live updated version anytime, here. As you can see it looks quite simple, and it really is! Let's break it down: [FOLDER_SETTINGS] | | This section must be included,RootFolderIcon = cust1.ico | but is not important. Leave as is.SubFolderIcon = cust2.ico |[High Score Games] | This is the Title of your list as it will appear in GE. It can be anything you like! <--It's important to leave this gap!1944 |anteater |arkanoid | Your game list! Just list the roms you would likebankp | included in your list, one on each new line. The onlyblazstar | thing to remember here is use the ROM name - GameExbloodbro | will take care of formating it for you into nice Titlesbombjack |You can create your lists with Windows Notepad (or any decent text based editor) using the above format, BUT make sure you save it with the .ini extension and NOT .txt (ie: myubermamelist.ini). The filename can be anything you like but obviously it's good practice to give it a name that makes sense to you.Great! Now what? Now you need to tell GameEx where your lists are! You should put all your lists into one folder. I have a folder in my MAME directory called "customlists", but they can be anywhere you like. Just make sure they are all together in that one folder. Next, load the GE Setup Wizard> Custom> MAME Settings. Find Custom Lists Path, and browse to the folder containing all your lists: Finally, boot GameEx. Go into the MAME section and hit Update List. Wait for it to do it's thing and then back out of the main game list (it will load the All MAME Games list automatically when it's finished updating) and BOOM! There is your snazzy custom list waiting to be browsed If i've not explained anything clearly just leave a reply and i'll do my best to assist you. Now get creating them awesome lists! For your pleasure, some lists that i have created: Dazzle's MAME Shmup Hitlist (WIP): thedazzlelist.ini The GC-Wolfman Shmup Comp 2014: wgcshmuptourney2014.ini The Internet Gaming Bash of the Year 2014: IGBOTY2014.ini Monster Mash 2014: monstermash2014.ini Internet Gaming Bash of the Year 2 - 2015: IGBOTY2-2015.ini - Courtesy of Buzzin69 Enjoy! TIP: To get the rom name of the games you want to add to your list, i find using Romcenter the easiest method. It will create a database from your own MAME.exe from which you can just search the title of the game you want and it will tell you the associated rom name. It sure beats sifting through 28,000 roms in Windows! halloweenbash2015.txt

March/April 2016 GOTM Winner - Cynicaster - 127,435 (link) Jumping Jack Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 Luigimaker 135,395 2 Cynicaster 127,435 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 3 millerbrad 112,100 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 4 Mame Offender 90,300 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 5 wolfman24 86,205 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 6 ExedExes 51,650 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 7 rtkiii 28,120 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 8 Floyd Turbo 22,175 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL Last Updated by hansolo77: 06-17-2021 Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Jumping Jack: ROMSet: jjack Freeze: Off Difficulty: Medium Rack Test: Off Flip Screen: Off Extra: Hard Cabinet: Upright Lives: 3 Special Rules: None NOTE: The red coloured values have to be changed to match the Twin Galaxies settings. Make sure to change these accordingly ! # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide: # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide: # general rules for submitting you hi-score:

http://arcademarquee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/juno-first_marquee.jpg Juno First Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 ExedExes 394,390 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 2 Mame Offender 302,680 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 3 Cynicaster 195,850 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 4 KRC 163,730 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 5 rtkiii 148,280 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 6 jedah 140,520 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 7 murve33 103,040 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 8 Floyd Turbo 99,560 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 9 wolfman24 95,580 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 10 Floyd Turbo 93,120 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL Last Updated by hansolo77: 01-13-2021 millerbrad - 46,450 (link) GimmeClassics - 45,050 (link) Buzzin69 - 43,520 points (link) hansolo77 - 39,790 points (link) Adultery - 37,940 points (link) Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Juno First: ROMSet: junofrst Lives: 3 Cabinet: Upright Unused: Off Difficulty: 1 ---> All settings are appropriate on DEFAULT. No need to change anything. # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide > link # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide > link # general rules for submitting you hi-score > link # the above settings are the default Twin Galaxies settings > see attached file ~GC

Hello everyone - Hoping you can help me. I recently installed GameEx Arcade Edition on my Windows 10 machine. It launches, but will immediately freeze / hang after the main menu appears. I've tried several troubleshooting steps to no avail: - Deinstalled / Reinstalled - tried both 32 and 64 bit versions. Tried it just uninstalling the program / as well as deleting all files left behind in the GameEx folder - Removed all emulators / configs and tried running with a "barebones" MAME setup - changed my ROMs folder to a folder with only 3 working ROMs. Still froze. Tried with both MAMEUIFX64 and regular MAME64 interface - Tried launching without running Setup at all - just out of the box. Still freezes - Tried launching without downloading any artwork, etc. - Ran GameEx "as Administrator" FYI, I have registered and loaded my registry key properly. Not sure what the issue is. I've attached my System Info / DxDiag as well as my Logs from GameEx. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks LOG.zip System Info and DxDiag.zip GameEx.ini

September 2014 GOTM Winner: TodayIsForgotten - 999,750 (link) BANNED! MO is the unofficial winner! 238,600 (link) Gyruss Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 Mame Offender 238,600 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 2 ExedExes 206,350 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 3 Fallout_002 136,650 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 4 Buzzin69 108,650 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 5 Yung-Jedi 106,700 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 6 murve33 98,900 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 7 rtkiii 69,000 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 8 hansolo77 65,350 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 9 millerbrad 46,850 10 wolfman24 42,900 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL Last Updated by hansolo77: 10-09-2020 helpman - 36,300 Floyd Turbo - 29,850 (link) GimmeClassics - 32,500 (link) Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Gyruss ROMSet: gyruss Lives: 3 Cabinet: Upright Bonus Life: 30K 90K 60K+ Difficulty: 6 Special Rules: none --> Please make sure to change difficulty settings to 6 ! Other settings are appropriate at default. # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide > link # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide > link # general rules for submitting you hi-score > link # the above settings are the default Twin Galaxies settings

June 2014 GOTM Winner: Yung-Jedi - 1,197,280 (link) Snow Bros Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 wolfman24 1,387,860 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 2 Yung-Jedi 1,197,280 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 3 helpman 834,180 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 4 Mame Offender 736,500 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 5 ExedExes 644,150 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 6 Cynicaster 562,270 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 7 MNMax21 425,990 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 8 Floyd Turbo 179,440 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 9 GimmeClassics 160,330 http://goo.gl/N4i6bL 10 millerbrad 123,680 Last Updated by hansolo77: 10-09-2020 rtkiii - 113,300 hansolo77 - 67,700 (link) GeorgeT - 54,870 (link) Buzzin69 - 46,250 (link) Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Snow Bros: ROMSet: SnowBros Region: America [Romstar license] Flip Screen: Off Service Mode: Off Difficulty: Normal Bonus Life: 100k Only Lives: 3 Invulnerability: Off Allow Continue: No Special Rules: This is a Single Player ONLY Variation! Continues are NOT allowed! Notes: Region and Allow Continue need to be changed, all other settings are default presets. Countdown Link Please submit your hi-score before the deadline to have a shot at winning this month's title and be awarded with a champion banner to add to your signature * GOTM Contest Over! * After each month the previous "Game of the Month" will become a regular hi-score game and can be played constantly and will still earn you points for our Leaderboard ! # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide > link # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide > link # general rules for submitting you hi-score > link # the above settings are the default Twin Galaxies settings > pending -Han

November 2014 GOTM Winner: Yung-Jedi - 437,300 (link) Jackal Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 Yung-Jedi 437,300 2 Mame Offender 413,300 3 Fallout_002 181,000 4 ExedExes 152,100 5 Floyd Turbo 106,100 6 rtkiii 87,100 7 GimmeClassics 74,200 8 hansolo77 53,100 9 millerbrad 26,900 10 wolfman24 24,500 Last Updated by hansolo77: 08-23-2020 Luigimaker - 13,700 (link) Buzzin69 - 13,300 (link) Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Jackal: ROMSet: jackal Flip Screen: Off Lives: 3 Bonus Life: 30K, 150K Difficulty: Normal Special Rules: Continues are not allowed The green coloured default values match the Twin Galaxies settings. The red coloured values need to be changed! # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide: # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide: # general rules for submitting you hi-score:

Choplifter Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 Yung-Jedi 548,750 2 ExedExes 500,800 3 Mame Offender 427,050 4 jedah 139,400 5 GimmeClassics 89,550 6 Luigimaker 66,550 7 rtkiii 49,350 8 millerbrad 43,000 Last Updated by hansolo77: 07-24-2020 Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Choplifter: ROMSet: chopliftbl Cabinet: Upright Lives: 3 Unknown / Unused: Off [All] Bonus Life: 20,000 70,000 120,000 170,000 Difficulty: Easy Special Rules: None --> Note: Make sure to change the difficulty setting to Easy and to use the correct ROMSet. The other settings match the default game settings. # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide > link # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide > link # general rules for submitting you hi-score > link # the above settings are the default Twin Galaxies settings ~ GC

Tutankham Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 ExedExes 57,760 2 Mame Offender 45.500 3 wolfman24 37,900 4 Cynicaster 32,120 5 Fallout_002 30,300 6 Floyd Turbo 21,180 7 Luigimaker 20,920 8 GimmeClassics 12,460 9 millerbrad 4,000 Last Updated by hansolo77: 07-24-2020 Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Tutankham: ROMSet: Tutankhm Lives: 3 Cabinet: Upright Bonus Life: 30000 Difficulty: Hardest Flash Bomb: 1 Per Life Special Rules: None NOTE: * Please make sure to change the Difficulty setting to "HARDEST". The green coloured default values match the Twin Galaxies settings. # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide: # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide: # general rules for submitting you hi-score:

Hello everybody, As suggested by DazzleHP, I am creating now a specific thread for hi2txt utility. I started back in 2014 from the hashes of HiToText brilliant utility, providing full flexibility to describe how to extract hiscores without hard-coding anything in the program itself. Everything is here: http://greatstone.fr...txt/hi2txt.html Feedback is welcome as well as game support request or help Last release: v1.11 (2020-04-12) [Overview][Command-Line usage][XML format][All supported games] Cheers! GreatStone

cannot get this working, any ideas? mouse works within game ex, not in mame

Mame MegaDocKlets Pack 2 View File This integrating other 200 games MAME in PinballX. It's almost ready, the moment I bring 200 new MegaDocklets, well, 195 new and 5 which already had downloaded from FTP. As you can see, almost all are horizontal. -------------------------------------------------- Esto integrando otros 200 juegos de MAME en PinballX. Ya está casi listo, de momento os traigo 200 nuevos MegaDocklets, bueno, 195 nuevos y 5 que ya tenía descargados del FTP. Como veís, casi todos son horizontales. Submitter PcTeknic Submitted 08/12/2016 Category Wheel Images  

Hi. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but i´m having a little trouble on unsderstanding how the filters work. ex: no clones - yes/no? yes, i don`t want any clones? no, no clones listed? Shouldn`t the question be like - clones - yes/no? Thanks.

Hey everyone, I am currently trying to build a Cocktail gaming machine with Windows 10 and Mame. The machine is currently running Mame 0.16b with the GameEx Arcade Frontend. I have about 30 roms installed, but on the GameEx Arcade it shows that I have 1000 games with the artworks and sometimes videos. I have checked the "Only Working Games" under MAME setting in the Setup Wizard but it did not do anything. Is there anyway I can only show the names of the games I have?

How to enable Cheats within MAME: 1. When you download the cheat(version #).zip file you have to unzip that and place the cheat.zip file within the same directory as your MAME emulator folder. 2. Next start MAME, or the MAME64 application, near the bottom center you go to options, then Miscellaneous options, then turn Cheats to ON(Off is the default setting).....Remember to Save Configuration! Then your good to go. When you hit Tab in MAME the Cheat(s) option will be there.

Hi, I have all the necessary ROMs for the latest version of MAME and should have setup MAME properly through the GameEX Wizard. When I'm updating the list in the GameEX software, not every ROM is being shown in the list. Mainly only light gun games instead of all the ROMs that I should have in my list. Any help please? I'm completely lost. Thanks

City Connection Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 Mame Offender 402,800 2 ExedExes 330,400 3 Cynicaster 275,700 4 millerbrad 198,900 5 rtkiii 157,100 6 wolfman24 109,200 7 Luigimaker 72,800 8 GimmeClassics 60,300 9 Floyd Turbo 60,200 Last Updated by hansolo77: 09-22-2019 Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for City Connection: ROMSet: citycon Lives: 3 Difficulty: easy * Unknown: Off [All] Cabinet: Upright Special Rules: You may freely use the Balloons to warp to a different level. An Extra Life is awarded at 100,000 Points and every 200,000 Points there after. Special Note: due to a bug in the game's implementation, all scores above 900,000 MUST be monitored carefully for your correct score due to a bug which gives infinite lives. [if you pass the extra life threshhold after exceeding 900k, you may freely use that extra life from 900k and every 200k [1.1m, 1.3m, 1.5m, etc.] thereafter until you die and no longer would normally have any lives if this glitch did not occur.] * Note: Twin Galaxies doesn't have a difficulty setting published so we've decided to use the default setting. The green coloured default values match the Twin Galaxies settings. Please make sure to submit your score before the deadline to have a shot at winning this month's banner # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide: # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide: # general rules for submitting you hi-score:

When updating the MAME roms and mame64.exe from 0.211 to 0.212 I noticed that some games would not launch from GameEx Arcade Edition but they were still able to be launched from MAME by pressing tab from a launchable rom and using "select new machine". After many rollbacks and forward, I think that the problem is with the bezel setting. If "don't use bezel' is selected, everything is fine. If "use bezel for vertical games" is selected, vertical games will fail to launch. Thanks for your attention.

April 2015 GOTM Winner: Garetmax - 154,585 (link) Spy Hunter Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 garetmax 154,585 2 ExedExes 142,140 3 wolfman24 22,020 4 Floyd Turbo 20,345 5 rtkiii 15,105 6 murve33 12,780 Last Updated by hansolo77: 05-30-2019 Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Spy Hunter: ROM Set: spyhunt Service Mode: Off Game Timer: 1:30 Internal Defaults Difficulty Level: 3 1st Extra Base Awarded At: 30000 Points Extra Base Awarded Every: 30000 Points Up To A Maximum of 3 NOTE: * The above are the default internal settings for this title and need not be changed. It is possible to obtain an extra car at 14K and 18K if accomplished within the initial time limit. IMPORTANT: This game has more complex controls than the average MAME title. Please use the following information we have gathered to your advantage. If you have any configs/setups that you feel would help the community then please post them in this thread, we will add them to the list. Wheel/Pedals Setup - Detailed info on how to setup a genuine Arcade Wheel. SNES USB Legacy Pad - Used by one of our top players. Xbox 360 Pad - Including downloadable MAME config. # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide: # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide: # general rules for submitting you hi-score:

Gauntlet Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 Luigimaker 33,525 2 ExedExes 32,303 3 wolfman24 24,805 4 patrickfx 21,690 5 millerbrad 15,070 6 Floyd Turbo 13,340 7 rtkiii 13,170 8 Yung-Jedi 12,375 9 garetmax 11,720 10 Cynicaster 8,030 Last Updated by hansolo77: 04-25-2019 GimmeClassics - 5,705 (link) Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Gauntlet: ROMSet: gauntlet Service Mode: Off Multiplier: 1 Bonus Adder: None Game Difficulty: 4 - Moderate Health Per Coin: 700 Coins to Start: 1 Disable Speech: No Reduce Text: No The above are the default internal settings for this title and need not be changed. *IMPORTANT* You must use revision 14 of the game (Gauntlet [rev 14]) as this version is different to previous versions. This is a Single Player, Single Credit ONLY Variation! You may freely choose your character. Continues are NOT allowed! # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide: # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide: # general rules for submitting you hi-score:

I use GameEx for my MAME frontend. Generally it is great. However, my MAME Gauntlet only plays in Spanish. (ver 15). I have obtained a new version and put into the MAME ROM folder. I click 'Update List' in MAME folder in GameEX, but after the lengthy update, the only version of Gauntlet displayed is still the (ver 15) Spanish game. Any ideas? (I know it's probably something very simple!)

I, Robot Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 ExedExes 87,664 2 murve33 83,340 3 millerbrad 75,627 4 wolfman24 52,089 5 GimmeClassics 51,967 6 Luigimaker 35,780 7 Floyd Turbo 4,344 Last Updated by hansolo77: 03-30-2019 Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for I, Robot: ROMSet: irobot Service Mode: Off Language: English Min Game Time: None Bonus Life: 20000 Lives: 3 Difficulty: Medium Demo Mode: On Bonus Adder: None Special Rules: You are freely permitted to warp when and where possible. NOTE: * Please make sure to change the Demo Mode setting to "On". The green coloured default values match the Twin Galaxies settings. # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide: # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide: # general rules for submitting you hi-score: