designone Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 Hi I am setting up a pincab and I have downloaded some mame videos from the ftp site (what a great resource that is, this site is so fortunate that so many members have made so many things available. I loved the way mame games look on the pinball setup. and want to include about 50 mame games but I can't seem to get it running on my mame set up. It was able to just be enabled and even populated with a few tables I didn't even have? but thetable videos looked great and spurred me to put some tables I like to play on my Pinballx setup. However I moved the directory to the d: drive and the mame folder on that drive and now it won't see the roms or populate in any way. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong in the settings. Thank-you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_da_Spike Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 Should you not change [tablepath] to [tablefile] in the parameter section ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designone Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 I tried that as well and it didn't find the roms either way. I think its likely something simple like that. The other items were easy to set up. VISUAL PINBALL AND FUTURE PINBALL and Fx3 all went without any trouble. But mame is not seeing the roms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B2K24 Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 PBX doesn't scan your roms folder to generate a game listing, it reads an XML file to generate that listing. If you have the games listed in GameEX that you want shown in PBX then it's a simple mater of copying over the XML at location *GameEx\DATA\PINBALLX* VERTICAL.XML or w/e you want to use. In the setup wizard of PBX it must be [TABLEFILE] and are you sure your executable is named mame.exe? It's usually mame64.exe due to 64-bit being the best these days. Is MAME working and launching games outside of PBX? You might need to adjust rompath option in mame.ini 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designone Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 I have not used Gameex. In future pinball and Visual pinball I just need to run the game manager for pinball and it populates itself with whatever files it sees in the table folder. I assume it would be the same in the mame option. MAME runs fine outside of pinball and I have named the MAME executable as mame.exe I don't understand why it is not behaving the same as visual and future pinball and Fx3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 Download GameEx, configure the integrated MAME settings for the location of your MAME executible and ROMS, run GameEx and update list when prompted. Once completed, several XML files are created. Setup MAME as another program in PinballX. This is very high level and a little time consuming, but not difficult. Of course, if you look more in the forums, you may find an MAME XML file already created. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designone Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 Thank-you All for your help. I think I am getting closer to the answer. I am going with installing Gameex and making an xml. So far Im ok but Gameex finds 11000 games. I have set it to D: mame How do I tell it to make an xml from that directory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 When you "Update List" after booting GameEx, it will generate the XML files. There will be one each for all, horizontal, and vertical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyco Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 this works for me.hope it helps.make a dummy folder and name it DUMMYROMS for table path 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyco Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 i can play horizontal games on the back glass and vertical games on the main screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B2K24 Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 31 minutes ago, andyco said: i can play horizontal games on the back glass and vertical games on the main screen. That's really awesome. Nice setup there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designone Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 Got it, I used andyco settings in Gameex I ran Gameex , updated list and transfered the files that were all generated as Draco1962 said Found the files at *GameEx\DATA\PINBALLX* and transford files to Pinballx as B2K24 suggested and its all good now Thank-you all very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designone Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 B2K24 That is a great pincab. I like how you have handled the MAME aspect. I will definitely have some questions when I get that far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designone Posted December 2, 2018 Author Share Posted December 2, 2018 Sorry, about that. had a busy day yesterday andyco I'm I like that setup you have. I will have some questions about how you handled mame on that cabinet. I'm thinking about it now but I get my cabinet in a week or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyco Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 ok glad i could help let us no if u need help with setup for mame on ur pincab and i will do wot i can to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyco Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 one thing make sure ur monitor for main screen as a wide viewing angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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