Problem with newest MESS version running from GameEx

[IMBerzerk]

Hi Guys. I decided to upgrade MESS today to version 143. Well, not touching anything else in GameEx, now MESS will not run anything from GameEx. I made sure MESS is still setup correctly, and all directories match. It works fine outside of GameEx. I even played around with the command line... for example...

mess.exe nes -cart "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]" -joy -now -nonewui -skip_gameinfo

I dumped all the extras after the ROM statements, nothing. All the directories list in my config for GameEx are correct as nothing has changed. All I did was update the MESS executable.

Anyone else seeing this issue? I run a lot of old skool emulation from MESS, so I need it working. Not sure what to do now.

Thanks.

IMB

[hansolo77]

Are you using the 64 bit version of Mess? The command-line is different between 32x and 64x.

Also, are you using the latest version of the system roms with your version of MESS? There may be some changes, so you'll have to grab the lastest rom set for your version. You could probably use clrmame or something to weed out the differences, but I never could figure out how to use it.

[DJoneK]

I ran into a similar problem recently, and removing "-nonewui" seemed to cure my issue. I know you tried clearing all options except rom, but try the command below.

mess.exe system -cart "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]" -joy -now

[IMBerzerk]

I ran into a similar problem recently, and removing "-nonewui" seemed to cure my issue. I know you tried clearing all options except rom, but try the command below.

mess.exe system -cart "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]" -joy -now

Thanks, I'll try this. At least you are/were seeing the same issue as I am.

Hansolo... I have the 32bit. It works without issue outside of GameEx. Alos, MESS roms are different than MAME. MAME roms have that problem because the roms carry core/driver information for the machine they are emulating in MAME. MESS doesn't do that. They are just ROMS for the most part, while the MESS BIOS files carry the core info and get updated once in a very long while. Even though MESS uses the core of MAME, it thankfully does not carry the annoyances of MAME ROM sets when you upgrade it. Thanks anyway though.

[IMBerzerk]

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[Draco1962]

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[IMBerzerk]

I ran into a similar problem recently, and removing "-nonewui" seemed to cure my issue. I know you tried clearing all options except rom, but try the command below.

mess.exe system -cart "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]" -joy -now

Well after reading the new Wiki for MESS, I can see they have changed a lot in the command line options. All the options I have listed are gone/changed other than the 'skip_gameinfo' option. Man, I hate when they do that!!!! So I have to reconfig all my Emus to use the new option set for 143.

Grrrrrrr!

[fRequEnCy]

Just use your favorite text editor and do a search and replace to your GameEx.ini and can make the changes in a matter of seconds.

[mesk]

all you need to do is remove the skip game info,no new ui,and remove -now from the CL.

As of 143,there is no more messui

[IMBerzerk]

all you need to do is remove the skip game info,no new ui,and remove -now from the CL.

As of 143,there is no more messui

Does it work for you? I did just that and left it at a simple mess.exe -system -cart [ROMxxxx] and it still won't work.

But it works fine outside of GameEx. Not sure why... but I fall back to 138 and all is good.

Thanks,

IMB

[Adultery]

I'll stick to 0.128 since all I use it for anyways is Colecovision and Atari 7800, and it's not like there has been any changes there.

Too many changes for no real results.

@IMB: can you hear the game? Do you ned to change the renderer to D3D?

[fRequEnCy]

Please export your config so that we can see exactly what you're doing in your setup.

[mesk]

Does it work for you? I did just that and left it at a simple mess.exe -system -cart [ROMxxxx] and it still won't work.

But it works fine outside of GameEx. Not sure why... but I fall back to 138 and all is good.

Thanks,

IMB

mess64.exe a7800 -cart "[Rompath]\[Romfile]"

[IMBerzerk]

Ok, it's working now. I had to manually enter the changes into the gameex.ini file for each incident of MESS. Not sure why it would not work though the AdvanceConfig application, but it certainly worked the manual way.

All good and working now. Thanks for the help.

IMB