[RESOLVED] Mame List Showing More Roms Than I Have

[djelric]

Hi All,

So Ive spent the better part of the week setting up GameEx and ive gotten SNES working but MAME is another story. I only have around 300 roms for mame and my list is showing over 2000. Ive tried numerous tweaks to resolve this but I am lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ive spent a ton of time searching for a solution but have yet to find one.

Edited August 2, 2015 by tthurman
Seems the crashing problem is being handled in the other thread. Marking as resolved

[tthurman]

That's a new one, it's usually filtering options trimming down the number of available games.

Please provide your gameex.ini, and a log, one after launching gameex and experiencing the problem, for review.

If you need help locating this follow the links in my sig.

[tthurman]

Oh and yeah, welcome to the GameEx forums BTW!

[djelric]

[djelric]

Loving this program otherwise. Running SNES on a 55inch off my htpc. Showing my 7 year old the classics.

[tthurman]

I believe what you have going on is that you have configured integrated mame , and also down in the configure emulators section, have a secondary mame config.

You need to pick one or the other, I prefer integrated due to the features it brings with it, but you may have entirely different preferences based on your setup.

[DazzleHP]

Hi djelric and welcome to the forum

Using the integrated MAME Settings (recommended) you will need to change a couple of options to get an accurate list. Change "Only Existing Roms" to Yes, and "Verify Roms" to No. There are two ways to do this:

1: Load the Setup Wizard. Go to MAME Settings (scroll down) and change:

Verify Roms=No
Only Existing Roms=Yes

OR

2: Open your GameEx.ini and find these two lines (press CTRL+F):

VerifyRoms=TrueOnlyRoms=False

Change them to:

VerifyRoms=FalseOnlyRoms=True

Then File> Save, or press CTRL+S on your keyboard.

The next step is the same regardless of which method you used previously:

Boot GameEx,
Go to MAME,
Scroll to bottom,
Hit/Click "Update List",
Wait a bit.

Once done you should now have a more accurate list.

[tthurman]

The devil is in the details.

Nice coherent post Dazzle!

[djelric]

Thanks for the help guys. This cut the list down to 127 and many of the ROMS are working. But many of the mid ninties capcom titles are crashing. Down with one problem and on to the next.

[Draco1962]

OIf you require help with the other issue, please start a new thread. Thanks and welcome to the forums!

[tthurman]

If you went with integrated MAME support, In the filter options, try removing "Japan" from the list of names, it has a nasty habit of taking out games you want.

As for the crashing, it could be several things. Since you seem to have a rather hand selected set of roms, I'm going to take a guess that perhaps they are not all the most current versions. If you are mixing and matching roms that do not coincide with your MAME executable version, this could explain the crashing. This can be especially troublesome if you have some really old sets, and are running a new MAME release.

Any time you make changes to he config, we can't really do much more that guess without updated support files, and so I suggest you post undated log and .ini if you don't end up showing all of them.