[RESOLVED] (installed 13.32) Can't get MAME going

[jonathancarty]

HI,

I've resisted posting for 3 nights now as felt sure I could find the answers here somewhere but have to admit defeat. I'm probably getting something very basic wrong but can't figure it out at all.

I bought a second hand Cocktail Table earlier this year which was running GameEx on XP with only 1Gb of RAM and an old celeron CPU. It was running the MAME games perfectly.

I wanted to try some of the other emulators, PSCX2 etc so decided to upgrade the system. I installed a new CPU, upgraded the RAM and PSU and installed Windows 7, now kind of wishing I hadn't......

I have downloaded GameEx direct from the website and gone through the set up Wizard, I was a bit unsure when I got to the download emulators section but downloaded MAME and left everything in the MAME setup to defaults. When I came to the section in the Setup Wizard to select which emulator to use I moved MAME from the R hand list to the L hand list but when asked to download the emulator and database I clicked NO after reading this

thread

http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/16603-mame-list-showing-more-roms-than-i-have/.

I've put a few ROMS in C: Roms/Emulators/MAME/Roms and there showing up in GameEx but when I try to load them I just get a black screen which I then have to Esc out of to get back to GameEx. I'm confident the ROMS are the same version of MAME as I have installed

The most frustrating thing in all this is that I have done exactly the same setup on my Laptop and everything works fine.

Please please put me out of my misery,

Thanks

Jon

GameEx.ini

Arcade Arcade (MAME).ini

log.txt

[tthurman]

Welcome to the GameEx forums

13.32?

I see you marked this as resolved, did ya grab the latest release, and are all fixed up?

If not, just a quick once over of your GameEx.ini leads me to believe that perhaps you have GameEx integrated MAME configured, as well as an emulator slot for MAME. If so, that's probably what's holding you back. That being the case you can check this post for links to what I'm talking about in the config wizard.

Let us know!

[jonathancarty]

Thanks for the reply,

I was thinking of the integrated MAME as an emulator and so was populating the L hand table on this page of the Setup Wizard with MAME and then getting confused when it asked me to download it all over again. I see my mistake now.....

13.32 is running perfectly. I chose it after finding this video on YouTube (interestingly in the basic Setup Wizard of 13.32 I didn't get the option of populating the emulator slots and so it saved me from myself).

I'm a bit nervous now about updating as it's all running beautifully (I've disabled auto update)

Are there any significant advantages for a basic new user like me to updating?

thanks

Jon

[tthurman]

Basically it will be hard to offer any support for such an old version, but if you have a basic setup, say MAME and Daphne only, i.e. not some elaborate "every emulator known to man" type setup, you can probably get by if it suits you.

Tom adds features frequently, and obviously support, such as has been especially the case with recent releases from the mame developers.

This is of course not to even mention the soon to be advantage of having a shiny new frontend, when Evolution launches.

Good luck, and happy gaming!