[RESOLVED] MAME, Does GameEX prefer unmerged Sets?

[RIP-Felix]

I have a full 0.149 Rom set but GameEX refuses to see all the games I have. I made sure it's not filtering them out and added some of the roms in question to the do not filter list. No success.

I'm now wondering if my set is merged? I'll take for example 1941. The Rom is named "1941.7z". When opened in MAMEUI64 v0.149 the parent folder 1941 is seen and there are 3 sub versions (US, world and Japan). When selected the US version plays perfectly fine from the MAME GUI. However Gameex refuses to even list 1941. My question is does mean that I need to un merge my sets for GameEX to properly list my games? Or maybe it is pulling the wrong list info and I need to pull the database from the MAMEUI64 directly?

Any ideas?

EDIT:

I set 0.149 as an emulator and it sees absolutely every file and loads them the same as MAME would. Of course this is not ideal because it take GameEX much longer to load. So this is proof that the default MAME setup is doing something.

[Tom Speirs]

Normally this depends on filters selected. If you have only if roms exists it will just list the 7z, if you have verify on it will verify and list everything that works. Otherwise you can turn all the filters off and list everything.

[RIP-Felix]

[Tom Speirs]

Can you attach it so I can check it in the setup wizard?

[RIP-Felix]

sure. Here it is (as it is now). I've made some changes, most notably I reduced the size of the rom folder to hold just the Games I most often play and GameEX builds that list fine. But with the same settings it will not see everything in the full set. Maybe it's just too big.

GameEx.ini

[Tom Speirs]

Yeah, you have only existing roms turned on which will not work with merged sets.

[RIP-Felix]

Thanks, that was it. I I must have thought it would show games I didn't actually have in the HDD. You might add a line in the info next to that entry to make it more clear for first timers.

[RIP-Felix]

Well, unfortunatly my cabinet is having this problem again and the "existing roms" field does not rectify the situation. Basicly the list does not show games I know are there, and that are showing on another computer (HTPC) with the same mame config and a copy of the same rom list..

EDIT:

what Im currently trying: I will cross them off if they don't work.

• I'm replacing GameEX.exe with the one from here:http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/13566-resolved-gameex-not-listing-mame-roms-past-carnevil-since-last-update/page-5 in case this is related to the carnevil bug.
• I'll try deleating the cache filetypes within the data folder of gameex.
• Replace the history.dat with DazzleHP's history.dat from the download section..

• Allow Imperfect Games = Yes

  Verify ROMS = No

  Only Existing Roms = No

  Use Game Filter = No

  No Clones = I want Clones

EDIT:

Ok, none of the above worked. Now what? I've updated the Log and config to reflect the above attempts. I'm officially out of ideas, except a complete uninstall and fresh install. I really don't want to go back through all that setup again.

EDIT:

Ok I solved it! Along with the above I did the following to solve the problem:

• Show Vert/Horiz = Show all Games
• Do not filter these ROMs = pacman;splatter;1941;1943

If you have a game that doesn't show up after all this add it to the "do not filter these roms" field. Beyond that I bid you good luck.