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[RESOLVED] Wrong List Of Games Presented For Emulators

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gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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I've got a weird situation that seems to have happened fairly recently. When I go to some of my systems (TG-16, PCE, Supergrafx, etc.) I'm presented with lists of games from other systems. For example, when I go to Supergrafx, it pulls up a list of games for the TG-16. When I go to TG-16, it pulls up a list of games for TG-16 CD. And the oddest of all, when I go to PC Engine, it pulls up a list of N64 games. I dbl checked and all my mappings for ROM folders are still correct. Any thoughts on what may be going wrong here? I've included the GameEx ini file in case that might help. Thanks in advance!

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fRequEnCy GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Hmmmm. Try deleting the map files for those emulators and see if the rom lists are rebuilt correctly. These files are called EMU_#.map (# being the emulator slot number used by Setup Wizard to setup emulator) and are located in the DATA folder of your GameEx install.

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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Hi Frequency. I deleted the MAP files that belonged to the impacted emulators and now I just see "No Games Found" when I navigate to each one. So it would seem that GameEx did not automatically rebuild the rom lists. Might there be a way to trigger GameEx to do so?

fRequEnCy GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Hi Frequency. I deleted the MAP files that belonged to the impacted emulators and now I just see "No Games Found" when I navigate to each one. So it would seem that GameEx did not automatically rebuild the rom lists. Might there be a way to trigger GameEx to do so?

If no games are found then GameEx is not triggering it to do so. It should do it when that system is launched. There may be a bug and will have to look into it. Only other time it would build an empty list is if the rom paths was changed which you previously said you had verified.

Adultery GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Just for the sake of argument...

When you deleted the MAP file, you removed the reference to it too in GameEx's Advanced Emulator Setup, right?

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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Hi Adultery. There actually is no reference to MAP files in the Advanced Emulator Setup screen for any of my emulators. I'm assuming that if this field isn't populated GameEx just looks for default MAP files with numbers that match the emulators in the DATA folder?

fRequEnCy GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Hi Adultery. There actually is no reference to MAP files in the Advanced Emulator Setup screen for any of my emulators. I'm assuming that if this field isn't populated GameEx just looks for default MAP files with numbers that match the emulators in the DATA folder?

That is correct!

Adultery GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Wow cool! I didn't know that. :)

You can try and delete any files that have the word cache in them from the data folder and force another rebuild if you haven't already, or just move the emu to a different spot via setup wizard.

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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Ok. I tried to add PC Engine again to a new spot via the setup wizard. The system did not create the MAP file for this "new" emulator. I think the newest version of GameEx might have a bug in this regard. Any thoughts on how to proceed?

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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Should I consider uninstalling GameEx and reinstalling an older version until this issue is resolved in a future release?

fRequEnCy GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Should I consider uninstalling GameEx and reinstalling an older version until this issue is resolved in a future release?

If you have one. I will direct Tom to this thread in hopes he can get a fix out. Stay tuned.

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

gamepimp

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Hi Tom. Here's a copy of my last log file. GameEx is on my primary drive (C:) and the games are on a secondary drive (F:). The drives are both connected to the same motherboard.

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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Tom, would it be possible to get version 12.55 of the "GameEx.exe" so that I could just replace version 12.56 to see if the older version restores the creation of the MAP file functionality? LMK. Thx!

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I've had this problem before as well. I am pretty sure the fix was restoring an older version of some files that Game Ex backs up prior to updating to a new version. Does that ring a bell at all Tom?

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

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GameEx.7z

Tom, would it be possible to get version 12.55 of the "GameEx.exe" so that I could just replace version 12.56 to see if the older version restores the creation of the MAP file functionality? LMK. Thx!

Yes as it may help troubleshoot. Although I can't think what could have changed.

Here is 12.55

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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Tried 12.55. The bad MAP files I deleted did not get rebuilt when I selected the emulator from the menu. I'm thinking a fresh install of GameEx might be the best option. If I did that, could I keep my old .ini file and just throw it back in the "config" folder so I don't have to set everything up again?

gamepimp Ultimate GameEx Guru!

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I discovered the reason why the system wasn't rebuilding the MAP files the other night. It was what I like to refer to as an "id10t" error. LOL! Basically, I had enabled the Zip/7-Zip/GoodMerge option for all these emulators but did not have the roms in Zip or 7-Zip archives. They were all just bare roms that had not been compressed. So by disabling that option, GameEx rebuilt the MAP files and I could see the games in the list once again. For the sake of consistency (and to save disk space), I went ahead and added the games to their own individual archives in Zip format and then enabled the setting once again. So this issue can be marked as "resolved". One thing that might be considered for a future release would be to have the system still recognize the games and build the MAP file if they are uncompressed and this setting is enabled. It is entirely possible that a user might have some compressed and some non-compressed files in the same folder. It would at least save someone like me who enables that option erroneously. :wacko:

Draco1962 GameEx God (Top Rank)

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LOL! I put the IT in id10t myself some times! Thanks for being confident enough to share your discovery so that others will know where to look should they run into the same error.

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