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Unable to launch MAME from GameEx Arcade

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Hi.  I'm building an arcade cabinet with MAME and I just want a very simple GUI to launch into to select the games so that nobody can accidentally mess up the MAME settings.  I would gladly pay the $50 lifetime membership for GameEx Arcade if I could get it to work.  I already have MAME 0.222 working with my ~200 favorite ROMs.

I installed GameEx Arcade and when I go into the game list there are thousands of games listed.  If I pick one of the games that I have installed, it flashes mame momentarily and then exits back into the GameEx Arcade GUI.  All I want is a GUI that launches my ~200 games.

I have spent many hours trying to get a frontend working and GameEx Arcade is my latest attempt.  I'm probably 10 hours of frustration into this.  Does any solution exist where I can just download something and have it work?  There's a youtube video from 2016 of some guy installing GameEx and getting it working right away.  I'm willing to start from scratch if there's a "just become a lifetime member and download/install this" option.

My log file and ini are attached.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

John

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Draco1962 GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Sorry you are experiencing so much trouble getting GameEx Arcade to work. It is not normally very difficult to stand up and get running with just MAME as you noted.

 I reviewed your log.txt file and nothing obvious stood out to me as a cause. 

Please be patient as we review your gameex.ini and log.txt further and be prepared for some questions and instruction as we attempt to triage this issue with you.

Thanks.

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Oh, so embarrassing!  Stupid mistake on my part.  While transferring data from my test PC to my cabinet's PC I accidentally left the ROM .zip files out of my MAME directory.  Did that right before trying GameEx for the first time, so I thought my issue was with GameEx.  GameEx works beautifully once I got the ROM .zips back in the right spot.

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