Some MAME games not launching in GameEx

[JamminJ]

I have MAME v0.108, and some games will not launch now. They used to, but not anymore.

Here's a clip of my GameEx log:

16:00:56.2 9/23/2006: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully

16:01:55.4 9/23/2006: Running: cmd.exe /c F: F:\MAME\MAME32 v0.108 COMPLETE!\MAME32\Mame32.exe astdelu1 -rompath F:\MAME\MAME32 v0.108 COMPLETE!\MAME32\roms -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy

16:02:24.9 9/23/2006: Running: cmd.exe /c F: F:\MAME\MAME32 v0.108 COMPLETE!\MAME32\Mame32.exe astdelu2 -rompath F:\MAME\MAME32 v0.108 COMPLETE!\MAME32\roms -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy

16:04:27.9 9/23/2006: Running: cmd.exe /c F: F:\MAME\MAME32 v0.108 COMPLETE!\MAME32\Mame32.exe dkong -rompath F:\MAME\MAME32 v0.108 COMPLETE!\MAME32\roms -triplebuffer -nowindow -joy -artwork -artwork_directory artwork

16:04:40.9 9/23/2006: Exiting GameEx!

16:04:40.9 9/23/2006: Saving Settings

16:04:43.8 9/23/2006: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit

Asteroids deluxe ran fine, but donkey kong won't launch. Neither will Pac Man, but this log doesn't show it. Is there something with the new type of artwork that may be messing this up? I see from the log that the -artwork -artwork_directory artwork is whats different from when asteroids was launched.I can launch Donkey Kong straight from MAME32 with no problems.

Thanks!

[TX_TRINITY]

That has happened to me as well in the past, it always seemed to happen after me altering mame.ini and any command-line parameters such as artwork, d3d set_res etc.

Try resetting your mame command line commands to the bare minimum and maybe dupe your mame.ini to a mame.old and generate a new one by running mame.exe

Then see if there is any old-non-booting games start up then. From there on you can re-integrate your params and ini settings one or two at a time and see which one triggered the drop back to Mame.

My Tuppence.

[JamminJ]

Thanks for the advice TX_Trinity, but that didn't work. I did get it to work by changing(in the basic MAME settings) Use Bezel=Don't Use Bezel I never changed that setting, just updated my MAME to v0.108 from 0.107.

[TX_TRINITY]

Ah no probs, I see that the 0.108 problem has been mentioned before, (Not a bevel user myself tho).

Glad all is working for you now.

[lingpanda]

Thanks for the advice TX_Trinity, but that didn't work. I did get it to work by changing(in the basic MAME settings) Use Bezel=Don't Use Bezel I never changed that setting, just updated my MAME to v0.108 from 0.107.

This has been mentioned in one of the other mame sites I visit. It has to do with the artwork change in the new core for mame.