resolved [RESOLVED] Games crash back to GameEx

[SpicyMan222]

I am able to load games through the front end, but they crash after I hit player 1 or player 2 start. I get kicked back to the GameEx page for whatever game I was trying to play. It then disallows me from leaving this page. On said page, the “play game” option is replaced with “resume game”. Upon resuming the game, one of two things happens. For a game like Defender, the game resumes and plays like nothing happened. For a game like The Simpsons, the video does not appear on screen while the audio continues to play. Some games like Pac-Man and Q*bert do not encounter these issues whatsoever and start fine through GameEx. I have no idea what is going on here, and I did not see anyone with the same issue. I’d appreciate any and all help.

NOTE: This only happens when playing games through GameEx. The ROMs run perfectly through MAME.

[Draco1962]

Please attach copies of your gameex.ini and log.txt files when reporting any issues with GameEx. 

These files are located within the \gameex\config and \gameex\log folders respectively.

As there have been reported compatibility issues with older MAME builds, we need for you to tell us the version of MAME you are using. 

Thanks

[Tom Speirs]

Thus is the in game pause feature. The key/gamepad combinations to access it are under input settings.

[SpicyMan222]

Got it. The in game pause feature was mapped to the player one and player two start buttons for some reason. After clearing the fields in the input settings, everything ran smoothly. Thanks for the help!