Mame does not show up on startpage

[LordDamo]

Hi all - I am a long time user of gameEX and have had little if any problems configuring or using gameEX.

I have recentally upgraded my mame PC in my arcade cab and hence did a reinstall of everything.

I tested the cab with another frontend and it works fine, and now I want to reinstall gameEX to get my cab back to where it was before the upgrade.

After installing gameEX and configuring it, once I load it up the only things that show up on the start page is the exit, shut down, log off, etc options. Mame or any related options donot appear.

I havent set it up as pure media center pc and have enabled games/ mame to be shown. I am a registered user and running v8.88, using mame 0119b_i686

I have attached my ini file if needed. If anyone can help with this major problem, i'll be eternally grateful.

Thanks in advance.

GameEx.txt

[Brian Hoffman]

Hi all - I am a long time user of gmaeEX and have had little if any problems configuring or using gameEX.

I have recentally upgraded my mame PC in my arcade cab and hence did a reinstall of everything.

I tested the cab with another frontend and it works fine, and now I want to reinstall gameEX to get my cab back to where it was before the upgrade.

After installing gameEX and configuring it, once I load it up the only things that show up on the start page is the exit, shut down, log off, etc options. Mame or any related options donot appear.

I havent set it up as pure media center pc and have enabled games/ mame to be shown. I am a registered user and running v8.88, using mame 0119b_i686

I have attached my ini file if needed. If anyone can help with this major problem, i'll be eternally grateful.

Thanks in advance.

If you have a mouse attached try scrolling up... Ive seen this hide menus before.. It looks like everything is okay in the config you posted

[LordDamo]

Tried your suggestion, unfortunately didn't work. Still only shows 5 items (also thats the number listed, with no task bar at the top, or buttons).

Is there anywhere I can get an older version to try? Also, I ran game EX under win98 before - but now I'm using win2kSP3 (MDAC is installed).

Can't for the life of me work out whats going wrong . . .

[headkaze]

Hmm strange one. Maybe a button is stuck which makes it go straight to the shutdown menu. I would try downloading "Virtual key code lookup" from the Wrappers & Utils section of the official GameEx website. It might show a key being stuck. If you have wires touching in your CP it can make a key press.

If worse comes to worse, try uninstalling GameEx and trying again.

[Brian Hoffman]

Hmm strange one. Maybe a button is stuck which makes it go straight to the shutdown menu. I would try downloading "Virtual key code lookup" from the Wrappers & Utils section of the official GameEx website. It might show a key being stuck. If you have wires touching in your CP it can make a key press.

If worse comes to worse, try uninstalling GameEx and trying again.

Gameex also keeps a default config... Its in the installation folder.. Just rename it accordingly. Back up your existing just for luck

[LordDamo]

Thanks for the reply.

Tried all your seggestions with no luck. No keys were indicated as being pressed by the ketcodes wrapper.

I un-installed then re-installed in simple-game only lite mode to see if it would help, with the same result.

Went into the install folder and deleted everything except the themes folder, re-installed and now it starts on the start page, but with only 4 options, and MAME isn't one of them.

I have verifyed my setup, mame works fine under Game Launcher.

I've attached my current ini file so you can se the changes.

Sorry for all this - I am really stumped as to whats going on . . .

[Brian Hoffman]

Thanks for the reply.

Tried all your seggestions with no luck. No keys were indicated as being pressed by the ketcodes wrapper.

I un-installed then re-installed in simple-game only lite mode to see if it would help, with the same result.

Went into the install folder and deleted everything except the themes folder, re-installed and now it starts on the start page, but with only 4 options, and MAME isn't one of them.

I have verifyed my setup, mame works fine under Game Launcher.

I've attached my current ini file so you can se the changes.

Sorry for all this - I am really stumped as to whats going on . . .

Im sure your mame install is fine... Is game launcher a gameex setting? or Another FE..

Did you verify your paths in gameex advanced config? Is MAME enabled under enable and disabled features?

[LordDamo]

Game lanucher is another FE - Tom wrote the config tools for it, thats what let me to gameEX.

Anyway, I just worked out the problem; and found a small bug.

After much searching I found an old mame disk backup that had gameEX v 0.70 on it and installed that, using the same install of mame. Tried to run it and the error log popped up saying that "d:\ is an invalid mame directory". I thought "Hmmm, why's that invalid?" and moved everything to a 'mame' subdirectory. Then reconfig and it worked!!!

I used d:\ as my mame dir cause I had it installed in the root dir of my secondary drive. So, it was a small bug in gameEX not allowing the root dir of a drive to be the mame directory.

Thanks to everyone for the help and looking in on the thread. Hope it helps development and others in the furure!!!