Purchased arcade cab running gameex

[Adultery]

In all honesty there are cleaner ways to do some things, so we'll be glad to help you get the most out of GameEx.

[technium]

OK ive been playing with it this morning and I have ran znes and loaded a rom (it recognises smc files only) and up pops Mario Kart in a window, I messed about with the config and got it to go full screen then messed about with the input and set up the keys and the game plays fine

I extracted all the zip files so all I have is smc files and I deleted the zip files from the rom directory.

I then think I setup Gameex but although I get the menu and have "nintendo snes games" when I click on it I just then get a blank page with nothing there not one rom is listed, so ive obviously done something wrong....but what. Does gameex maybe not see the smc files as when there was zip files it seemed to see them.

looking forward to your help.

thanks

Colin

[Draco1962]

Have you checked the ROM filter in the emulator to make sure that .smc is shown?

[technium]

yep it was on *.* which should show everything but got nothing so changed to *.smc and still nothing .

Wife playing the cab now but will try putting a zip file back in after and see if that shows.

[Draco1962]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it! I prefer to keep things zipped whenever possible to save on space and since GameEx provides ZIP support it generally works out well!

[technium]

But thats the thing it IS broke LOL

OK bit of an update, I put the zip file back in and went to "nintendo snes games" and the 1 zipped file shows under gameex but none fof the other smc files. If I select the zipped file then gameex creates a folder called "unzipped" in the roms directory and then goes back to the gameex screen with again the name of the zipped file and then a list of all the roms within that zipped archive but there is no way to select them so now what??

thanks again.

[Draco1962]

Possible you may need to delete the cached files. They are located under \gameex\data\. Try deleting all files that contain the word cache in them, then restart GameEx. The files will rebuild. Let's see if this resolves the issue.

[technium]

Right done that but still no joy. Get the snes games menu and only thing listed is zip file, if I click on that the screen changes which again says mario kart but also underneath says "add to favourites" which you cant select and then under that is a list of all the roms within that zipped file.

[Brian Hoffman]

Right done that but still no joy. Get the snes games menu and only thing listed is zip file, if I click on that the screen changes which again says mario kart but also underneath says "add to favourites" which you cant select and then under that is a list of all the roms within that zipped file.

Your probably using 7zip or that type of setting. Can we meet in Gameex chat?

[fRequEnCy]

Right done that but still no joy. Get the snes games menu and only thing listed is zip file, if I click on that the screen changes which again says mario kart but also underneath says "add to favourites" which you cant select and then under that is a list of all the roms within that zipped file.

If you didn't catch Brian in chat then please Post Your Config so that we can see your settings. It will help us see what exactly is going on and will be easier to troubleshoot for us. Instructions on how to do so can by found in the How to ask for Help pinned topic by Tempest.

[technium]

I just wanted to update this post.

This is now working so thanks for all your help but I wanted to give Brian a special mention as he has been a big help doing work behind the scenes. Top Man Brian!!!!

thanks again everyone.

Colin