Version of MAME

[aliens8us]

I have been able to use the emulators (pcsx) for Playstation 1, (fusion) for Genesis, (RockNES) for NES. With MAME however, has been the main issue. I downloaded several versions (process of elimination)0.147 because 0.148 just lead to a black screen.

Here's a summary of versions and outcome:

0.144 - 0.148 - loads up the pictures and games in the menu fine, but when to play the game, the screen goes black and goes back to the menu.

What can be done? Please help me!

log.txt

[nullPointer]

Hi aliens8us, and welcome to the GameEx forums!

Not sure what's happening here, but this command line for starting MAME seems to be a bit out of control:

18:20:16.4 1/22/2013: Running: cmd.exe /c C: C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\mame.exe 1941 -rompath C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\roms;C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\roms;C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\roms;C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\roms;C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\roms -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo -ctrlr X-Arcade -bezel -artpath artworkgameex

I'd likely tag that as the cause of the issue you describe. Perhaps if you wouldn't mind posting a copy of your GameEx.ini we can go a bit further in determining the root cause of this issue. Here's a thread describing how to do that.

[aliens8us]

Thank you and I appreciate the help! I recently switched over from Maximus Arcade to THIS frontend; an easier and more detailed!

GameEx.ini

[nullPointer]

Your ROM path in MAME looks to be the culprit:

rompath=C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\roms;C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\roms;C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\roms;C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\roms;C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\roms

I'm guessing it should simply be this:

C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan\My Documents\PC Games\GameEx Frontend\GameEx\CONFIG\EMULATORS\Emulators\MAME\roms

Remember to rebuild your MAME list from within GameEx each time you make this type of change.

Good luck man!