Unable to generate MAME games list

[kcm3]

Hi, I'm new to using GameEX, it looks like a nice FE, but I'm having some trouble getting it to work. I can't seem to generate the games list. I've configured the proper location for mame and my roms and whatnot, but when I select update list in the UI, it gets to "creating Verify.dat (55%)", and hangs indefinitely. I thought maybe it was just slow, but I've let it run for half an hour. When it hangs like this, background music will continue playing, until the end of the song. It doesn't load another song after that, and I can't seem to interact with it at all. Even ctrl-alt-del doesn't get me a response.

I'm using GameEx 4.03 on Win98SE, with DX9.0c and .Net FW 1.1

I checked the log, but it doesn't appear to show any errors. The last thing that shows up is that it's calling 'mame -verifysets', which is what I would expect.

Any ideas?

[Tom Speirs]

  kcm3 said:

Hi, I'm new to using GameEX, it looks like a nice FE, but I'm having some trouble getting it to work. I can't seem to generate the games list. I've configured the proper location for mame and my roms and whatnot, but when I select update list in the UI, it gets to "creating Verify.dat (55%)", and hangs indefinitely. I thought maybe it was just slow, but I've let it run for half an hour. When it hangs like this, background music will continue playing, until the end of the song. It doesn't load another song after that, and I can't seem to interact with it at all. Even ctrl-alt-del doesn't get me a response.

I'm using GameEx 4.03 on Win98SE, with DX9.0c and .Net FW 1.1

I checked the log, but it doesn't appear to show any errors. The last thing that shows up is that it's calling 'mame -verifysets', which is what I would expect.

Any ideas?

Hi, it may well be a problem that we can fix (see below). However if you have an older machine and a lot of ROMS, the Verify can take longer than half an hour to run.

You can turn off Verify Roms though in the config under advanced mame options.

Turn it off and then turn on Only ROMS that exist.

You should be happy with that.

[kcm3]

  TSpeirs said:

Hi, it may well be a problem that we can fix (see below). However if you have an older machine and a lot of ROMS, the Verify can take longer than half an hour to run.

You can turn off Verify Roms though in the config under advanced mame options.

Turn it off and then turn on Only ROMS that exist.

You should be happy with that.

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Thanks for the reply. That may well be the case. I've got a full set of ROMs from MAME 0.86, and only a 1.1Ghz duron. I'll just let it keep running and see if it does in fact finish. I think what led me to believe nothing was happening is that the progress indicator stayed at 55%. Is it not an actual, updatig percentage?