[RESOLVED] Missing Games with MAME 0185

[GoPenguins]

Has anyone noticed any missing roms.  For example tempest does not show up in my list.  When I launch the game with mame alone it works fine, but doesn't show up in GameEx.  

I have also downloaded the MAME 0185 rom set from archive and am using that.

[Draco1962]

Can you please attach copies of your gameex.ini and log.txt files in reply to this thread for us to review?

I have an idea or two what may be happening but we need these files to avoid second guessing. Thanks!

[GoPenguins]

GameEx.ini

log.txt

[Draco1962]

My guess is that you have Game Filter enabled. You will need to load the Setup Wizard after you identify the ROM names of the missing games and add them in to your Advanced MAME section under Dont Filter these ROMS separated by a semi-colon ; . As an alternative, you can add them manually to the following line in your gameex.ini file as follows:

DoNotFilterROMS=aburner;pacman;redbaron;redbarona;splatter;qbert;qbertqub;jungleby;jungleh;junglehbr;junglek; junglekas;junglekj2

This is, of course, from my setup. For yours, you will probably add tempest1r;tempest2;tempest3 depending on the ROM names you have in your collection.

Let me know if this helps.

[GoPenguins]

That of course worked.   Not sure why I should have to do that, but thank you very much for your assistance. 

[Adultery]

You don't have to do that if you disable the filtering, as Draco mentioned.

[dschulpius]

I have 0185 romset (Split) and also using Mame 0.185. I can confirm that any of the revisions of Tempest will not show up in GameEx. I noted this when I updated to .185 because it's one of my faves and couldn't find it. Adding the rom names to the Dont Filter these ROMS line does make them reappear but like GoPenguins. I'm wondering why I'd have to do this? 

[Draco1962]

As was noted by me and @Adultery, if you enable filtering, there will be some ROMs that get caught up in the process if ther filtering. Could be imperfect or some other flag in the dat file for the ROM.

So your choices are disable filtering, or occasionally put some ROM names in the Don't Filter section as instructed. This is going to happen and this option is here for that purpose.