[RESOLVED] Need MAME transition help in GameEx 14.40..

[MNMax21]

Ok, I cannot figure out what is going wrong. I will start out by saying it has been awhile since I fired up the computer and its been multiple GameEx versions since the last.

My problem is that when I go to start a MAME game, I just get a blank screen. I compiled my own version of Mame with MAMEUI64 as the .exe. I had been using that .exe. without issue for some time. I thought maybe the issue was that .exe, so I navigated the command line to my old mame.exe. No luck. I can run both MAME and MAMEUI64 just fine outside of GameEx, I just cannot get the games to run from inside GameEx. I checked my log and saw the below:

00:50:11.2 10/18/2015: Recreating ICONS

00:50:17.0 10/18/2015: Attract Mode Re-Enabled

00:52:45.0 10/18/2015: Setting Up RawInput Hook

00:52:45.0 10/18/2015: Launching RawInputHook.exe

00:52:46.4 10/18/2015: Running: cmd.exe /c C: C:\Emulators\Mame32\mame.exe dkong -rompath C:\Emulators\Mame32\roms -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo -readconfig -mouse

00:52:46.4 10/18/2015: Shutting down display

00:52:46.6 10/18/2015: Launching CPWizard: "C:\CPWizard\CPWizard.exe" -emu mame -game dkong -timeout 9000

A few things stand out here. It says Shutting down display.... I think this may be my issue? But I've never checked the log before, so unsure if this is common. Also, I have a new GameEx Background.exe that seems to start up my CPWizard, yet I still have it set to setup at the start of MAME. Could this be the issue? and why is there a GameEx Background deal...?

A couple of other things... I had GameEx set to hide the operating system originally, but I got tired of my desktop icons being gone after I had to CTRL+ALT+DEL my way out of GameEx through the task manager. When I would change something and go back to GameEx, GameEx would not run without restarting the computer. When I restarted, I received a cmd.exe error... I see that in the log and also and mame.exe error.

I am hoping someone can help!

Here is my last runitgame.bat

@ECHO OFF

chcp 65001

C:

CD "C:\Emulators\Mame32"

mame.exe dkong -rompath "C:\Emulators\Mame32\roms" -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo -readconfig -mouse

GameEx.ini

log.txt

[MNMax21]

Ok, so I tried what Tempest said and placed pause at the end of my runitgame.bat I then clicked the icon in Utilities and it played DONKEY KONG>>>!!! WTF! It still won't play in GameEx though.

My only thoughts are that it has to be CPWizard or the command line >>> 00:52:46.4 10/18/2015: Shutting down display

[MNMax21]

I figured this out, I had to remove the CPWizard command line from the start on startup.

[tthurman]

Cool, thanks for sharing your solution!

[MNMax21]

Not a problem. I think I was duplicating the commands and thus, MAME was not starting. Glad to be back playing my arcade a little. I have to get back over to the high score comps now!