Mame32 folders not working

[ReFleX]

I've got Gameex up and running under Vista x64 and am using it with the new Mame64 build. Everything so far is great, except for one thing. I can't get the Mame32 folders to work. I have the folders setup in the same way as the tutorial says on this board and nothing.

Some quick things...

1. Yes I have done a rebuild of the list. I've done one each time I try something new.

2. Yes I have the option "Custom List Path" pointing to the folder where the .ini files are.

3. I have a new mameinfo.dat and history.dat that are both working and populating into the game list.

Is there an option I'm missing that says to use these custom folders?

Also, the manufacture, genre, and year tabs on the left don't work with the full Mame list. Is this because I'm using a "non-standard" build?

ReFleX

[lingpanda]

I've got Gameex up and running under Vista x64 and am using it with the new Mame64 build. Everything so far is great, except for one thing. I can't get the Mame32 folders to work. I have the folders setup in the same way as the tutorial says on this board and nothing.

Some quick things...

1. Yes I have done a rebuild of the list. I've done one each time I try something new.

2. Yes I have the option "Custom List Path" pointing to the folder where the .ini files are.

3. I have a new mameinfo.dat and history.dat that are both working and populating into the game list.

Is there an option I'm missing that says to use these custom folders?

Also, the manufacture, genre, and year tabs on the left don't work with the full Mame list. Is this because I'm using a "non-standard" build?

ReFleX

Post your log file.

[ReFleX]

Here it is

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: GameEx: Version 8.88: Starting Log

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Operating System Platform: Win32NT

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Operating System Name: Windows Vista

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Operating System Version: 6.0.6000

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Vista Aero running

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Initializing Vista volume control

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: .net Framework 2.0 Installed

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+, 1022MB

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: 2.2Ghz

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Running Randomize()

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Loading PlugIns

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Running Misc startup tasks

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Setting Menu types

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Opening Configuration File

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Getting Configuration Values

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Using Theme: Default - Default

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Default

12:25:59.8 10/21/2007: Launching HideOS.exe

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Hiding Taskbar

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Is Media Center running?

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Media Center Mode 2

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Custom Keyboard Input enabled: Getting custom codes

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Snap Delay set to: 2

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Get other settings

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: SlikStik support enabled

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Using DirectInput for keyboard input

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Start work for Form

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Getting Original Screen Size

12:25:59.9 10/21/2007: Opening Database Connection

12:26:00.1 10/21/2007: Initializing Component

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Retrieving resolution setting

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: MAME Path is: D:\Mame

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: MAME EXE file is: v64mame.exe

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: ROM Path is: D:\Mame\roms

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Catver.ini Not Found

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: History.dat is located at: C:\Program Files (x86)\GameEx\DATA\history.dat

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: nplayers.ini Not Found

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\Program Files (x86)\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Loading Controls.ini map file

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Snap Path is: D:\Mame\snap

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: AVI Snap Path: Not Found

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Flyer Path is: D:\Mame\flyers

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Cabinet Path is: D:\Mame\cabinets

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Title Path is: D:\Mame\titles

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: PCB Path: Not Found

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Artwork Preview Path: Not Found

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Panel Path is: D:\Mame\cpanel

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Manual Path: Not Found

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Icon Path is: D:\Mame\icons

12:26:00.2 10/21/2007: Marquee Path is: D:\Mame\marquees

12:26:00.3 10/21/2007: Loading Custom Emulators

12:26:00.5 10/21/2007: Using 2D Animations

12:26:00.5 10/21/2007: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS

12:26:00.5 10/21/2007: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS

12:26:00.5 10/21/2007: Attempting to load game list

12:26:00.9 10/21/2007: Initialising DirectDraw

12:26:00.9 10/21/2007: Creating DirectDraw Device

12:26:00.9 10/21/2007: Using Device: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

12:26:01.2 10/21/2007: 503mb video memory available

12:26:01.5 10/21/2007: Setting Resolution to 800x600 32 bit color

12:26:01.5 10/21/2007: Creating DirectDraw Surfaces

12:26:01.5 10/21/2007: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode

12:26:01.6 10/21/2007: Creating Back Buffer

12:26:01.7 10/21/2007: Loading graphic Surfaces

12:26:01.7 10/21/2007: Display is running at: 800x600 32bit color, 75hz

12:26:01.7 10/21/2007: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs

12:26:01.7 10/21/2007: Creating Surfaces Volume

12:26:01.7 10/21/2007: Creating Surfaces Arrows

12:26:01.7 10/21/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text

12:26:01.7 10/21/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar

12:26:01.8 10/21/2007: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds

12:26:02.1 10/21/2007: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls

12:26:02.1 10/21/2007: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo

12:26:02.1 10/21/2007: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit

12:26:02.1 10/21/2007: Creating Surfaces Snaps

12:26:02.1 10/21/2007: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars

12:26:02.2 10/21/2007: Creating Fonts

12:26:02.2 10/21/2007: Creating Menu Font

12:26:02.2 10/21/2007: Restoring Menu Font From Cache

12:26:02.3 10/21/2007: Creating Game Font

12:26:02.3 10/21/2007: Creating Font Black

12:26:02.4 10/21/2007: Creating Font Black Small

12:26:02.5 10/21/2007: Creating Game Font Faded

12:26:02.6 10/21/2007: Creating Title Font

12:26:02.6 10/21/2007: Restoring Title Font From Cache

12:26:02.7 10/21/2007: Fonts Created Succesfully

12:26:02.7 10/21/2007: 461mb video memory left available

12:26:02.7 10/21/2007: Creating instance of global keyboard hook

12:26:26.1 10/21/2007: Text/Language: English

12:26:26.1 10/21/2007: Applying Language/Text

12:26:26.1 10/21/2007: Initialising Bass Audio Library

12:26:26.2 10/21/2007: MAME CMD options:

12:26:26.2 10/21/2007: Loading last used Game List

12:26:26.2 10/21/2007: Setting Music Volume

12:26:26.2 10/21/2007: Cannot Load Play List. Check Path and filename

12:26:26.2 10/21/2007: Creating DirectSound Device

12:26:26.2 10/21/2007: Trying: Primary Sound Driver

12:26:26.2 10/21/2007: Loading Sound Files

12:26:26.3 10/21/2007: DirectSound Device Created Successfully

12:26:26.3 10/21/2007: Creating ICONS

12:26:26.3 10/21/2007: Recreating ICONS

12:26:26.8 10/21/2007: Gamepad/Joystick disabled

12:26:26.8 10/21/2007: Initialising DirectInput for Keyboard support

12:26:26.8 10/21/2007: Playing intro sound file

12:26:26.9 10/21/2007: Initializing MCE Remote

12:26:26.9 10/21/2007: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx!

12:26:26.9 10/21/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame

12:26:27.3 10/21/2007: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully

12:26:42.5 10/21/2007: Writing Game List to disk

12:26:43.0 10/21/2007: Updating MAME Game List

12:26:43.0 10/21/2007: Running: D: D:\Mame\v64mame.exe -listxml > D:\Mame\listinfo.dat

12:26:49.7 10/21/2007: Opening Listinfo.dat

12:26:51.2 10/21/2007: Reading ListInfo.dat

12:27:29.8 10/21/2007: Reading ListInfo.dat - DONE

12:27:29.8 10/21/2007: Processing ListInfo.dat

12:27:33.7 10/21/2007: Listinfo.dat Processing Complete

12:27:33.7 10/21/2007: Sorting MAME Game List

12:27:34.0 10/21/2007: Writing MAME Game List To File

12:27:34.9 10/21/2007: Adding History.dat info to gamelist

12:28:18.2 10/21/2007: Adding History.dat Series info to gamelist

12:45:33.3 10/21/2007: Adding MAMEInfo.dat info to gamelist

12:54:49.5 10/21/2007: Writing MAME Game List To File

12:55:04.9 10/21/2007: Updating Year List

12:55:05.0 10/21/2007: Attract Mode Re-Enabled

12:57:17.5 10/21/2007: Exiting GameEx!

12:57:17.5 10/21/2007: Saving Settings

12:57:19.0 10/21/2007: Disposing Plugins

12:57:19.0 10/21/2007: Closing database connection

12:57:19.1 10/21/2007: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit

Post your log file.

[bkenobi]

The first thing I notice is that GameEx is detecting you are running "Operating System Platform: Win32NT". I suspect this is just because GameEx doesn't take advantage of the 64bit stuff, so it doesn't worry about it. This shouldn't affect MAME though.

[ReFleX]

If the program isn't written in 64bit then windows makes it look like its a 32bit system... but you're right, this shouldn't affect Mame. But this also doesn't explain why it just seems to be ignoring the folders with the .ini files in it completely

The first thing I notice is that GameEx is detecting you are running "Operating System Platform: Win32NT". I suspect this is just because GameEx doesn't take advantage of the 64bit stuff, so it doesn't worry about it. This shouldn't affect MAME though.

[bkenobi]

Genre and version won't show up because GameEx can't find CatVer.ini. It also can't locate nplayer.ini, so you won't have info about the number of players for your games. Here's a section of my log file where I ran update. You can see that it's detecting catver and such just fine.

19:23:01.7 10/19/2007: Adding Catver.ini info to gamelist

19:23:17.5 10/19/2007: Writing MAME Game List To File

19:23:18.4 10/19/2007: Adding History.dat info to gamelist

19:23:39.0 10/19/2007: Adding Nplayers.ini info to gamelist

19:23:47.4 10/19/2007: Adding History.dat Series info to gamelist

19:28:27.2 10/19/2007: Adding MAMEInfo.dat info to gamelist

19:31:13.3 10/19/2007: Writing MAME Game List To File

19:31:22.5 10/19/2007: Updating Year List

19:31:22.5 10/19/2007: Updating Manufacturer List

19:31:22.7 10/19/2007: Updating Category List

19:31:22.7 10/19/2007: Updating Custom Folders

19:31:22.7 10/19/2007: Writing Year List To File

19:31:22.7 10/19/2007: Writing Manufacturer List To File

19:31:22.7 10/19/2007: Writing Category List To File

19:31:22.7 10/19/2007: Loading Game List

19:31:23.2 10/19/2007: Importing MAME32 Favorites

19:31:23.2 10/19/2007: Recreating ICONS

I wonder if it will process the custom folders if the prerequisites are missing? Also, did you try updating your list? I don't see that in this log, so I can't be sure.

[ReFleX]

I got rid of those files because it wasn't working (kinda dumb reason )

The thing I notice though is possibly because I don't have it saying it updated year, manufacture, and category... maybe then it just doesn't do the custom folders.

Where are your folders located and how are you pointing to them in the options? Just want to make sure i'm not doing something stupid. Mines is at d:\Mame\folders and thats where I have the options pointing to.

[bkenobi]

That should work. You just need to put your MAME32 formatted lists in the d:\Mame\folders directory, too. Then, verify that GameEx is pointing to that directory and you should be good to go! Just for kicks, have you tried a standard 32 bit version of MAME (either vanilla MAME or MAME32)? I don't think that's the problem, but it wouldn't hurt to eliminate your build as the problem.

[headkaze]

1. Set folders

2. Make sure you do a list update

[ReFleX]

Ok I just tried the 32bit version and same thing. I have verified that I have all the right stuff in all the right places... but the log file still says its adding the nplayers stuff, the mameinfo stuff, and so on... then just stops where its supposed to be doing the genre stuff and never gets to the custom folders stuff.

I'm starting to think its something with Windows 64bit but I'm not sure. I would like to stick with it because according to Aaron Giles the 64bit version is supposed to be quite a bit faster. I might just use a different front end But if I go back to 32bit I'll test out Gameex again and let everyone know if its just me (probably) or windows (also very possible )

That should work. You just need to put your MAME32 formatted lists in the d:\Mame\folders directory, too. Then, verify that GameEx is pointing to that directory and you should be good to go! Just for kicks, have you tried a standard 32 bit version of MAME (either vanilla MAME or MAME32)? I don't think that's the problem, but it wouldn't hurt to eliminate your build as the problem.

[ReFleX]

I tried it with Windows XP and got the same problem... so its gotta be something I'm doing. I have all the folders in the right places but every time I do an update it just doesn't do the custom folder part. I check the log file and it just stops and goes back to attract mode after it gets done updating the year information.

By the way... the manufacture, genre, and year information still don't work. Any other ideas?

Some other things I have tried to eliminate possibilities:

1. Tried it on d: and c:

2. Tried mame on d: and c:

3. Made sure I had an icon file in the icon folder that corresponded to what the favorite.ini file has

with each test I made sure to do an update and check the log file

[headkaze]

I would probably start from scratch with a fresh install of GameEx. Back up the current GameEx folder though before you do the fresh install.