Neogeo Mame issues: Cannot play games/load them in gameex

[aldub516]

hello all and thank you beforehand as always. I am basically down to the last touches of my machine, and realized im missing all the neogeo games. I thought maybe it was a gameex filter issue, but now realize i cannot open them in mame either. Mame gives me a missing chd error. So my question is, what am i doing wrong? I have the neogeo.zip bios in my rom folder, and the only chd i can see that might relate to king of fighters, or anything neogeo is kof98um.chd. I cant seem to find anything else im missing, or any chds or parent roms. Is there a common issue with getting these neo geo games going? Thank you for help. Thus far scanning through old forum threads has got me nowhere.

[Draco1962]

Take a look at this thread. You may want to install the gameex.exe from the .zip file Tom provided and see if this works for you. Be sure to have the latest GameEx version 13.31 installed first.

[B2K24]

Another option is to browse by the "By Publisher" option then choose SNK to get 226 games listed.

http://imgur.com/sWnBcB4

[aldub516]

Well, my main problem is, i cannot get these games to load up in regular mame. Meaning i open plain old mame.exe, the games and roms are there, but are telling me im missing roms or chds.. as i said i have the neo geo bios zip, and anything else i can think of. I assume they are not showing up in gameex since they are read as "non playable" due to this chd issue.. So before i even trouble shoot gameex, why am i having problems playing these games even in mame?

[B2K24]

What build and version of MAME are you using? NeoGeo games do not require any CHDs?

kof98um is Taito Type-X hardware which is marked NOT WORKING in MAME. It's very preliminary at this point and would not work even if all your files are correct.

You need the hacked Taito Type-X stuff which uses a loader (Arcade for PC) it's completely different from MAME

[aldub516]

i have resolved this issue somewhat. It seems my mame64.exe is not finding or playing neo geo, where as mame.exe is.. Is the new build known to have this issue? Or am i losing some performance for not running mame64. For now, i redirected gameex to mame.exe and the mentioned games are mostly showing up. ill do some tweaking

[Draco1962]

Not sure that it matters, so long as your ROMs match your version of MAME. The 64 builds are just meant to be optimized for use with a 64-bit OS, nothing else.

[aldub516]

well, then i got some tinkering to do. mame64 is not showing neo geo games, and who knows what else.. mame.exe is. they are both in the same directory, they have never been moved or anything..