[RESOLVED] MAME 188

[morgoth32]

Hi, I don't know if something has been updated from MAME or GameEX.

I stull run the GameEX 14.79 and with the new MAME 188 after refreshing my list shows 5288 available instead of + or - 1200.

Does someone updated to MAME 188 today or it's because of the old GameEx version ?

I've also noticed now the category list shows console, computers and some more now.

[Draco1962]

First thing I will tell you is to download 14.82 and install it as some fixes have been made to both GameEx and AE since 14.79. 

[morgoth32]

Thanks for your reply, I updated GameEX and refreshed the list but sadly the issue is still present.

Ah the log says "Total verifyable roms: 0".

I updated my set this morning and all my roms match.

edit: I use the official MAME build.

log.txt

GameEx.ini

[tthurman]

By refreshed, you do mean "update", correct?

[morgoth32]

I did update GameEX then used the "update list" tool within GameEX. (40 minutes to build the list).

[Draco1962]

Something is not adding up. You mentioned MAME 0.188 but, look at the following from the log.txt and tell me what you see:

15:49:52.6  26/07/2017:  Updating MAME Game List
15:49:52.6  26/07/2017:  Running: I: I:\mame 179\mame64.exe -listxml > C:\Users\titou\AppData\Local\Temp\listinfo.dat
15:50:30.1  26/07/2017:  Opening Listinfo.dat
15:50:31.6  26/07/2017:  Reading ListInfo.dat
15:51:03.4  26/07/2017:  Reading ListInfo.dat - DONE
15:51:03.4  26/07/2017:  Total verifyable roms: 0
15:51:03.4  26/07/2017:  Processing ListInfo.dat
15:51:47.9  26/07/2017:  Listinfo.dat Processing Complete

GameEx.ini shows:

MAMEPath=I:\mame 179
MAMEEXE=mame64.exe
ROMPath=I:\mame 179\Roms
StartWait=False

 

I know when I update my MAME and ROMS that I change the paths to the new MAME in GameEx as well. Are you sure that you are pointing to the correct mame.exe and ROM paths?

[morgoth32]

My folder is named MAME 179 since the 179 release. Nothing is wrong with the paths.

[RedDog]

How did you go about upgrading your romset from 0.179 to 0.188? Perhaps something happened there.

[Adultery]

What does the listinfo.dat look like if you generate your own directly from MAME using that command line?

I:\mame 179\mame64.exe -listxml > C:\ListInfo.dat

Mine takes longer than 30 seconds to generate, that seems suspect to me but may not be.

[B2K24]

I'm not seeing anything wrong using GameEX with MAME 0.188

I got almost 10K games in my listing, but I favor showing the clones. Categories and everything else is working as it should.

[morgoth32]

11 hours ago, Adultery said:

What does the listinfo.dat look like if you generate your own directly from MAME using that command line?

 

I:\mame 179\mame64.exe -listxml > C:\ListInfo.dat

 

 

Mine takes longer than 30 seconds to generate, that seems suspect to me but may not be.

 

 

 

I'm unable to generate a listinfo.dat in the "C" (my windows) hdd. The CMD always says access denied. However I have no problem to create one in my others hdds. The file generated weights 194 mb.

Seems windows and me are more problematic than GameEX.

[Draco1962]

Is your MAME.exe set to "Run as administrator" in the file properties?

Based upon your response, you were able to create the listinfo.dat file on your I:\ drive or other drives, correct?

[Adultery]

Maybe also try changing the output path to the one GameEx is trying to write to and see if it works?

[morgoth32]

4 hours ago, Draco1962 said:

Is your MAME.exe set to "Run as administrator" in the file properties?

Based upon your response, you were able to create the listinfo.dat file on your I:\ drive or other drives, correct?

Yes I tried as Admin. All UAC prompts are disabled on this pc.

And I can create a listinfo.dat into GameEX directory.

1 hour ago, Adultery said:

Maybe also try changing the output path to the one GameEx is trying to write to and see if it works?

I just did a bat with "mame64.exe -listxml > C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Temp\listinfo.dat" (same path as the log) and the access isn't denied this time but it runs since 30 minutes and didn't finish yet.

But look at the log:

15:50:30.1  26/07/2017:  Opening Listinfo.dat
15:50:31.6  26/07/2017:  Reading ListInfo.dat
15:51:03.4  26/07/2017:  Reading ListInfo.dat - DONE
15:51:03.4  26/07/2017:  Total verifyable roms: 0

And this:

15:51:48.4  26/07/2017:  Adding History.dat info to gamelist
15:52:07.5  26/07/2017:  Writing MAME Game List To File
15:53:10.4  26/07/2017:  Writing MAME Game List To File
15:53:33.1  26/07/2017:  Adding History.dat Series info to gamelist
15:53:50.9  26/07/2017:  Adding MAMEInfo.dat info to gamelist
16:57:19.6  26/07/2017:  Adding History.dat Series info to gamelist 2
16:57:19.7  26/07/2017:  Adding MAMEInfo.dat info to gamelist 2

I don't have any gamelist 2 in the data folder.

 

edit: I don't understand why but the listinfo.dat in the app data folder is 0kb...

[Adultery]

Did you compile MAME yourself? If so can you try the vanilla exe?

[morgoth32]

No I download it from MAME official site.

The mame64.exe md5 is f1a9bba619eacfa7bb280abac74bd081

[B2K24]

In your GameEX.ini find options it's sending to MAME

MameOptions=-skip_gameinfo -priority 1 -numprocessors 8

I'd remove all of that and see if it helps anything. By default -numprocessors is set to auto in mame.ini and default option for priority is already 1

 

Also, I notice you have nothing listed for X/Y resolution

Xresolution=
Yresolution=

 

Mine is set to 800X600

 

I prefer to have all the .dat and .ini stuff dumped in the same location as mame64.exe

J:\MAME

inside MAME folder

listinfo.dat

history.dat

mameinfo.dat

all the ini files ...

[DazzleHP]

4 hours ago, B2K24 said:

In your GameEX.ini find options it's sending to MAME

MameOptions=-skip_gameinfo -priority 1 -numprocessors 8

I'd remove all of that and see if it helps anything. By default -numprocessors is set to auto in mame.ini and default option for priority is already 1

 

Also, I notice you have nothing listed for X/Y resolution

Xresolution=
Yresolution=

 

Mine is set to 800X600

 

I prefer to have all the .dat and .ini stuff dumped in the same location as mame64.exe

J:\MAME

inside MAME folder

listinfo.dat

history.dat

mameinfo.dat

all the ini files ...

Not detrimental, but good practice, agreed.

[morgoth32]

Thanks @B2K24 for your advices but MAME is only launched once within the frontend with the command line to create the listinfo.dat.

The games I have in my ROMS folder launch without issues. I won't launch my roms at 800x600 as I have the widescreen artworks packs, leaving this empty let me run games through my desktop resolution.

The MAME option with numprocessor actually help when I launch some 3d games whose actually don't run fullspeed.

These settings are optionals preferences and don't interfere with the roms audits.

However I agree with you about the dats. There's probably a conflict here.

[morgoth32]

Finally, my roms are correctly audited when I remove this option:

genre.ini

[tthurman]

Are you using custom lists, or is this just default?

[B2K24]

8 hours ago, morgoth32 said:

 I won't launch my roms at 800x600 as I have the widescreen artworks packs, leaving this empty let me run games through my desktop resolution.

 

I believe that option is what GameEX runs at and you can always maximize into full screen. It has nothing to do with MAME or how it launches games.

[Adultery]

Are you using custom lists, or is this just default?

That's a default path for sure.

[morgoth32]

Hi, some months ago I tried to use a custom list, in this case the genre.ini from progetto snaps however It didn't work because I didn't know I had to refresh my roms within GameEX.

I can now confirm the genre.ini works with GameEx but caused this roms audit trouble.

So I audited my roms without the custom list first to get a correct gamelist.txt and saved it on my desktop. Then I had to do a second audit with the genre.ini and replaced the wrong gamelist.txt.

Headache is over.

[tthurman]

Glad you got things all sorted out.

Thanks for reporting back!