Noob ?: Can't see mame games

[Ishtumba]

I'm having a real difficult time getting the mame32 games list to build inside of GameEx.

As suggested in the F.A.Q., I disabled all of the filters, flags, etc. that might be sifting some out. I even tried unzipping some to see if that would do it.. no avail.

I have the folder pathing correct and I can play the games just fine in the MAME32 client.

I got the other emulators working great! This is just the last step.

I've tried many different combinations of settings, but when I rebuild the list.. no games are found.

Sorry for such a dumb question... the solution is probably right in my face.

Thanks,

Marc

[MameDownUnder]

have you updated the games in gameex (make sure you didnt disable the update games option

then wehn go into mame, there should be an update games option

Neil

http://www.mamedownunder.com.au/

[Ishtumba]

have you updated the games in gameex (make sure you didnt disable the update games option

then wehn go into mame, there should be an update games option

Neil

http://www.mamedownunder.com.au/

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Thanks for your reply Neil.

Are you talking about the "Update Games List" menu option? I do have that, and execute it after every configuration change. It goes throught the update, builds the game list, etc.. but then no games are found.

Marc

[vuduman67]

You must have the config looking at the wrong place. Since the games work if you only run mame32. Double check the config. Hope that helps.

[Ishtumba]

You must have the config looking at the wrong place. Since  the games work if you only run mame32. Double check the config. Hope that helps. 

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Thanks for the response.

I've double and tripple checked the pathing, and everything is pointing to the right directory. If I were to attach my gameex.ini, would someone mind looking at it for me?

[ziggy73701]

Thanks for the response.

I've double and tripple checked the pathing, and everything is pointing to the right directory. If I were to attach my gameex.ini, would someone mind looking at it for me?

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Go for it... am sure someone will help!

[danh]

Thanks for the response.

I've double and tripple checked the pathing, and everything is pointing to the right directory. If I were to attach my gameex.ini, would someone mind looking at it for me?

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don't know if its relevant, but i had a hell of a time getting mame working on my second install.

Seems it doesn't seem to like running from the root of a drive?

just my tuppence worth..

[Ishtumba]

don't know if its relevant, but i had a hell of a time getting mame working on my second install.

Seems it doesn't seem to like running from the root of a drive?

just my tuppence worth..

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Very interesting.. I am in fact running it from the root (C:\mame32\).

I'll try to move it around and see what happens and I'll post my ini here if it doesn't work.

Marc

[Ishtumba]

Still nothing.. moved it from C:\mame32\* to C:\games\mame32\* and changed the gameex.ini to match.

I have attached both my gameex.txt (renamed for attachment) and structure.txt (listing of my mame32 directory and contents).

I hope someone can help with this.. it's just boggling my mind why it's not finding anything.

Assumptions:

1. I can view and play all the games that are located in my mame32\roms\ directory from mame32 without a problem.

2. The other emulators are working fine (snes and nes)

3. I have selected "Update Game List" after each attempt to modify the gameex.ini

4. I have disabled all the filters that I've been able to find in the config.

Thanks for all the help thus far.. it's so close! Btw.. I did donate, this program is definately worth it.

Marc

structure.txt

GameEx.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Still nothing.. moved it from C:\mame32\* to C:\games\mame32\* and changed the gameex.ini to match.

I have attached both my gameex.txt (renamed for attachment) and structure.txt (listing of my mame32 directory and contents).

I hope someone can help with this.. it's just boggling my mind why it's not finding anything.

Assumptions:

1. I can view and play all the games that are located in my mame32\roms\ directory from mame32 without a problem.

2. The other emulators are working fine (snes and nes)

3. I have selected "Update Game List" after each attempt to modify the gameex.ini

4. I have disabled all the filters that I've been able to find in the config.

Thanks for all the help thus far.. it's so close! Btw.. I did donate, this program is definately worth it.

Marc

The version of MAME32 your using is over 3 years old and not supported by GameEx. Get a newer version.

[Ishtumba]

The version of MAME32 your using is over 3 years old and not supported by GameEx. Get a newer version.

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Good to know.. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks!

Marc

[Ishtumba]

That solved the problem.. I guess that should teach me for pulling down a way outdated version.

Sorry for all the trouble and thanks for the help!

Marc

[Ricci]

That solved the problem.. I guess that should teach me for pulling down a way outdated version.

Sorry for all the trouble and thanks for the help!

Marc

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Everyone has been there once before! Just keep asking questions and the good folks here will help you out!