GameEx messing all the icons up.

[Judgelord]

Hello there fellas!

GameEx is acting strange when showing MAME icons.

It shows the 10 first icons correctly, but just scroll down the list and it confuses a lot of icons, showing, for instance, Alien Vs Predator icon on the Ajax game, or 3 Wonders icon on 1941 game.

The very fist time I updated the list everything was working great. I just updated the list twice again and now the icons are related to a wrong game.

I am using MAMU's icon pack and GameEx 5.46

Strange thing, it's not happening anymore, but I had to re-install GameEx in order to have the icons back to normal.

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But one odd thing is that I can't see my videogame emulators on GameEX, although I configurated 'em and when hitting play a random game some games are from the videogame emulators but they don't show on the start page.

Probably I hided something or forgot to enable an option here or there.

Back to GameEx config file....

[Judgelord]

The mapping "issue" is gone for good. In fact it was not an issue but a lack of knowledge of mine, now it's working perfectly well.

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But one odd thing is that I can't see my videogame emulators on GameEX, although I configurated 'em and when hitting play a random game some games are from the videogame emulators but they don't show on the start page.

What am I doing wrong? I just went over and over the config file and found nothing wrong. I was using this very same emu configuration with GameEx 5.45 and they were working as a charm...

Probably I hided something or forgot to enable an option here or there.

Back to GameEx config file....

Edited January 29, 2006 by Judgelord

[DjLizard]

I'm having the same problem, and it starts in 5.46 for me, too. I couldn't even get 5.45 to scan subdirectories of ROMs for my emulators, and now in 5.46 the emulators don't even appear.

[headkaze]

When you do an update, as far as I know, the icons won't update unless you exit GameEx and run it again.

What I am saying is that your icons will be messed up because the icon cache is not remade until you start up GameEx again. Meaning if you do an update your icons might be messed up (or in my experience icons missing if you don't have a full set). If you quit GameEx, run it again, it should re-build the icon cache. Which is probably why it seemed like installing another version worked.

[Judgelord]

Headkaze, I launch GameEx, go to MAME list and everything is fine, do an update and all the icons are changed and messed up, right after the update, no need to quit gameexe, just look at the list and it's all wrong (related to the icons).

That's what happened, but now I did 3 updates without happening it. Don't know why because I did not change a thing that would be related to it.

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At least it seems that someone else is suffering from the same problem as I am.

DJLizard and I are having the same problem regarding to emulators not appearing, although they are configurated and you can launch emulators games when hitting "play a random game".

I tryed the whole dawn to make 'em appear, but without any sucess, man I went to sleep 5 am. Now, after a good night of sleep I hope I can solve it.

DJLizard, I am thinking in donwgrading to version 5.45, but before that I will give some more time on this, If I have any sucess I send you a message.

Thanks!!

[Judgelord]

Downgraded to GameEX 5.45 and all the Emulators are working fine!

Did not changed the configurations, just installed 5.45 over 5.46 and the emulators are appearing.

So, maybe there's a problem with version 5.46. Or maybe is something here on my side, who knows....

[The incredible boss]

I have the same problem with emulators, they don't appear anymore. Also after upgrading to 5.46

[Tom Speirs]

I have the same problem with emulators, they don't appear anymore. Also after upgrading to 5.46

The emulator issue is now fixed in 5.47. Go grab it.

Thanks for reporting it

[headkaze]

Headkaze, I launch GameEx, go to MAME list and everything is fine, do an update and all the icons are changed and messed up, right after the update, no need to quit gameexe, just look at the list and it's all wrong (related to the icons).

That's what happened, but now I did 3 updates without happening it. Don't know why because I did not change a thing that would be related to it.

What I was trying to say is that after you do an update the icon cache isn't rebuilt. It only rebuilds after you exit GameEx and go back in. This may cause missing icons and the wrong icons being displayed. Which is why installing a different version probably seemed like it fixed the problem.