[RESOLVED] Neo Geo List Empty

[tandafan]

Hi, the issue from this thread appears to have resurfaced in recent updates.

http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/13566-resolved-gameex-not-listing-mame-roms-past-carnevil-since-last-update/page-5

The Neo Geo list is empty. The games appear properly in other lists such as GameEx Favorites. I have a backup of my GameEx folder from June which does not have this problem if I copy it over. The games launch fine from this backup version using Mame .154. However, the problem with the Neo Geo list becoming empty occurs if I allow it to update. Does anyone know of a solution? A new executable was provided by Tom in the afformentioned thread. Thanks!

[nullPointer]

Hi tandafan, and Welcome to the GameEx forums!

Just for the sake of clarity, are you also experiencing the issue in which your MAME list doesn't list anything past CarnEvil? Or is it simply that your Neo Geo games are not being listed? If it's just the Neo Geo games that aren't listing please try turning off the Verify ROMs setting found on the MAME Settings screen in the Setup Wizard (and update your MAME list after doing so). GameEx runs mame.exe to verify ROMs by default and apparently some MAME builds report Neo-Geo games as being bad.

If your issue is something else entirely, some combination of the above, or if the suggested fix doesn't help the matter, please post your applicable support files, and we can investigate the matter further. Good luck man!

[Adultery]

Can you run a verify in the command-line for your Neo-Geo bios?

"C:\YourMameLocation\mame.exe" -verifyroms neogeo

There was a change in the Neo-Geo bios a few versions ago, just verify that the bios is right for me please.

[tandafan]

Thank you for the quick reply! It's just the empty Neo Geo list. I've got the settings configured the way you describe already. I did a bit more research. The first line below from my old gamelist.txt works, but the second one from my newest updated gamelist.txt doesn't. Perhaps this is related to the Neo Geo multi-slot changes in Mame .154? I tried renaming "neogeo_noslot.c" to "neogeo.c" in the new file and it made no difference.

2020bbh|2020 Super Baseball|SNK|1991|True|Sports / Baseball|True|H|320|224|2020bb||18[-LF-]173[-LF-]224[-LF-]233[-LF-]362[-LF-]228[-LF-]227[-LF-]429[-LF-]464[-LF-]473[-LF-]519[-LF-]3237[-LF-]609[-LF-]2845[-LF-]820[-LF-]745[-LF-]768[-LF-]870[-LF-]858[-LF-]884[-LF-]983[-LF-]985[-LF-]1153[-LF-]1152[-LF-]1267[-LF-]1372[-LF-]57[-LF-]3132[-LF-]1501[-LF-]1633[-LF-]1912[-LF-]226[-LF-]229[-LF-]2856[-LF-]2076[-LF-]3439[-LF-]2320[-LF-]1834[-LF-]2741[-LF-]2822[-LF-]2890[-LF-]2961[-LF-]2962[-LF-]2964[-LF-]2966[-LF-]2967[-LF-]2968[-LF-]2969[-LF-]2970[-LF-]2971[-LF-]3238[-LF-]2145[-LF-]2131[-LF-]3399[-LF-]3441[-LF-]3563[-LF-]3584[-LF-]3582|2P sim|0|False|False|joy8way||neogeo.c

2020bbh|2020 Super Baseball|SNK|1991|True|Sports / Baseball|True|H|320|224|2020bb||18[-LF-]173[-LF-]224[-LF-]235[-LF-]378[-LF-]228[-LF-]227[-LF-]447[-LF-]483[-LF-]492[-LF-]538[-LF-]3297[-LF-]629[-LF-]2906[-LF-]854[-LF-]777[-LF-]801[-LF-]905[-LF-]893[-LF-]920[-LF-]1021[-LF-]1023[-LF-]1193[-LF-]1192[-LF-]1308[-LF-]1420[-LF-]55[-LF-]3194[-LF-]1550[-LF-]1686[-LF-]1968[-LF-]226[-LF-]229[-LF-]2917[-LF-]2130[-LF-]3506[-LF-]2377[-LF-]1886[-LF-]2802[-LF-]2883[-LF-]2952[-LF-]3021[-LF-]3022[-LF-]3024[-LF-]3026[-LF-]3027[-LF-]3028[-LF-]3029[-LF-]3030[-LF-]3031[-LF-]3298[-LF-]2198[-LF-]2184[-LF-]3466[-LF-]3508[-LF-]3632[-LF-]3653[-LF-]3651|2P sim|1000|False|False|joy8way||neogeo_noslot.c

For clarity, all roms and the BIOS are verified with clrMAMEPro using the same mame executable as I'm using in GameEx.

[tandafan]

Adultery, here are the results:

romset neogeo is good

1 romsets were found, 1 were OK

[Tom Speirs]

Please zip and post verify.dat in your MAME folder. GameEx makes MAME create this file and uses it to verify the ROMs.

[tandafan]

Thanks. I've attached the file.

verify.zip

[Tom Speirs]

Can someone please give me some example Neo-Geo rom names? Ill take a look.

[tandafan]

2020bbh is the example I gave above with the gamelist.txt excerpts. And here are a few others: garou, samsho, blazstar. Thanks again.

[Tom Speirs]

I think I just need to check for no slot. Working on it now.

[Tom Speirs]

Fixed. Will be in next release but here is an updated gameex.exe. You will need to update the list again.

GameEx.zip

[tandafan]

Wow, that was fast! It works perfectly. Thanks so much!

[Adultery]

That's our dawg...

[jedah]

Thanks Tom. This worked for me also.