A few config questions

[zeenon]

1) After GameEx loads and is on the home screen highlighted on MAME, video snaps play in the bottom left of the screen. What determines which ones play? The reason I ask is because I went through all 3600+ games, hitting delete on anything porn/mahjong related which added them to the exclude list. I had the No Porn Please and No Mahjong Games options selected but they still showed up in the main MAME list. Now I see the video snaps that play show a Mahjong game every so often.

2) Zip/7-zip/goodmerge/rar setting. So I have a few *.fpt files in my FP directory and have no issues loading them in GameEx. A friend gave me about 30 more tables in zip format (some zips contain more then one version of the table). I placed these in the same roms dir as the *.fpt files and turned on the Zip/7-zip/goodmerge/rar setting. With the zip setting on, it ignores the *.fpt files and only lists the *.zip tables. Is this the way it works?

Z

[Draco1962]

Did you "Update List" in GameEx under All Mame Games after your made your changes/deletes?

[zeenon]

Anytime I make any changes to the MAME Games yes, for other emulators no (SNES, N64, pinball, etc)

[zeenon]

Just incase these are needed.

GameEx.ini

log.txt

[zeenon]

I think I figured out #1. There are a few QUIZ games (Japan) that play/look like Mahjong. I excluded those and they are out. As a follow up.....even if you exclude a title, it still shows up in the seach?

#2 is the bigger issue, since I'm not sure which format I should stick with.

Z

[celly]

Hey Z. Just a shot in the dark here but, for your #2, have you set the rom filter to *.fpt;*.zip?

[zeenon]

celly,

It has to be a bug with the Zip/7-Zip/Goodmerge/RAR setting, as soon as I turn that to yes it only shows the zipped tables.

If I set Zip/7-Zip/Goodmerge/RAR=No and set the ROM Filter = *.fpt;*.zip it picks up the fpt and zip files, but hangs because it can't extract the zip file. (The Zip/7-Zip/Goodmerge/RAR setting works because if I turn that on I can play zipped table)

Z

[hansolo77]

Why don't you just unzip the tables so they're already in the fpt format and good to go? They shouldn't be that big.

[zeenon]

I could do that but Gameex has this awesome feature (well I think it's awesome) in that, if the zip contain more then one version of the table it lists them on the next sub menu. So instead of having 600 tables under the emulator it may have only 200 listed with the other 400 as sub tables under the main tables.

Since I have only a few unzipped tables, i may just zip those up (individually) and let Gameex just unzip them internally. It would be really cool to have this function working.

Is there a bug reporting forum that Tom looks at?

Z

[hansolo77]

I had tried that once as well, but it all boils down to the fact that you really only play 1 table out of the set as it is. I went through and just kept all the most recent versions from each maker; ie..when there was 1 author I kept his most recent, if there were more than 1 i kept the most recent from each author. My list may be a little long because of some dupes, but you don't really need 12 copies of the same table when they're all the same except for some minor (or major) bug fixes and new features.

This is the dilema a lot of people have when they're getting setup for the first time with other emulators as well. They think the GoodMerge set is the best way to go because they get EVERYTHING with it. While thats true, most of the stuff are older versions of the ROMs that are buggy, or in a different language and you can't play, or hacks and mods to the original that while may be fun aren't the original game you're looking for. That's why most of us upgraded from GoodMerge to a NoIntro set. It has all the games without all the extra crap nobody wants.

I think if you did a little pruning on the weekend, you could clear up a lot of junk in the tables like older versions you don't need, and your list won't be nearly as bad as you think.

As for a bug forum; there's not really anything in place. There is a place for requests and ideas, but if its an all out BUG, we generally just post it in the main forum using [bUG] in the topic and Tom can look at it and figure out what went wrong.