Verify Rom popup

[falkensmaze]

When I update my game list this window pops up about 6 times, it happens during the verify roms process which without I lose some games so i need it on. i need to win/tab to access the popups and "ok" them to resume the update and I get there in the end but its a pesky little thing i could do without.

[RedDog]

I just reran an Update List on my setup and did not get any popups. I use an official 1.61 build from mamedev.org with GameEx 15.09.

I've not seen this sort of thing before myself. Since the popups say 'MAME' in the dialog, I am almost certain that it is the Mame executable that is generating those message boxes and not GameEx. I could not find any mention about these message boxes in the mamedev.org docs. There are also no switches for the verifyroms command other than gamenames or wildcards, so I don't see an obvious way to suppress them..

Are you using an official release of Mame or precompiled custom build or one you compiled yourself? You could try downloading a fresh official build from http://www.mamedev.org.

 

Your GameEx.ini and log.txt files would provide some helpful background about your setup, so you should post them if further discussion is needed.

[falkensmaze]

OK so i tried turning verify roms off just to compare game count and it seems it is the same? but no popups so im good for now but the same windows were popping up in my test machine both running latest version of GE and Mameui by the mame team ( I couldn't compile a salad!!) version 0.193 and matching merged rom set, also i did notice when the verify was on and when I exited GE , mame had a "mame program stopped running" window so there is something in the verify switch that MameUI does not like but like I said i'm good for now a thousand thanks! 

[falkensmaze]

Out of curiosity what are the pros and cons of verify roms. What is it’s purpose? 

[RedDog]

For Mame, GameEx uses a bunch of settings in the Mame area of the Setup Wizard to generate a list of games that will be displayed. One of these is to verify the roms. If you use the verify option, GameEx will use the verifyroms command from within Mame to filter out non-working games. If you leave out the verification, you may try a game that just doesn't work yet.

If you only have 1027 roms in your folder, then you definitely do not have a full rom set. You may have a 'working' romset specific to .193 that non-working roms were removed. If that is the case, setting the option to verify roms in the Setup Wizard is may not be necessary for you.

[falkensmaze]

No that 1027 was just one of the 6-8 pop ups it displayed i have a full rom set im sure, 58.6GB merged set  (0.193) showing over 4000 games with all filters (casino adult clones etc), on so only working games showing, like I said it seems to be having no effect no turning it off on my game count so i will be leaving it off now. Thanks again 

[RedDog]

OK, I guess I could be wrong...

[Tom Speirs]

This is almost certainly due to the MAME build you are using.

Why not just use the normal MAME exe with GameEx? You can place it in the same folder.