Mame v.55 Issues

[battletoads]

Hey all, I'm new to GameEx, I just downloaded and configured it on my MAME machine over the past few days. GameEx works great with Mame32 v.95, but because my rig is older, Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam don't run well at all. I've found (with help) that running those games in Mame v.55 works flawlessly.

However, when I set Mame v.55 as my mame emulator in GameEx instead of Mame32 v.95, all my roms that previously showed up in my GameEx mame list now disappear when I update my list.

Any ideas? If v.55 (or another old version of mame) is my only option to get all the game that I like running, I'd like it to be my mame emulator in GameEx, because I want GameEx to be my primary frontend on this MAME machine.

[Brian Hoffman]

Hey all, I'm new to GameEx, I just downloaded and configured it on my MAME machine over the past few days. GameEx works great with Mame32 v.95, but because my rig is older, Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam don't run well at all. I've found (with help) that running those games in Mame v.55 works flawlessly.

However, when I set Mame v.55 as my mame emulator in GameEx instead of Mame32 v.95, all my roms that previously showed up in my GameEx mame list now disappear when I update my list.

Any ideas? If v.55 (or another old version of mame) is my only option to get all the game that I like running, I'd like it to be my mame emulator in GameEx, because I want GameEx to be my primary frontend on this MAME machine.

Gameex reads a gamelist.xml generated by mame using your romset. So Either your version of mame doesnt support generating the list.xml or the command has changed in laterbuilds.. If thats the case youll have to manually create it.. just run the mame.exe to get the config. it may be -showusage cannot remember off hand.

or

Your romset is for a newerbuild. You can use a rommanger like clrmamepro to be sure your set is accurate againsed your build of mame.

or

Maybe gameex has cached your list and is now utterly confused... (doubtfull) goto into advanced config of gameex.

goto admin and delete all game data.. Be sure to backup your gameex.ini first.

[battletoads]

Well, clrmamepro won't even accept mame v55 as a valid exe apparently. The command -listxml isn't possible in v55. Are early versions of mame like v55 not compatible with GameEx? If they're ot then I don't want to waste my time messing with over the next few days.

At this point it seems v55 (or another early version) is the only way I'll be able to play MK or NBAJam w/out forking over the money for a new MAME PC. Is anybody running an early version of MAME in GameEx?

[Brian Hoffman]

I got an idea.. I seems you went from .95 to 55 right?

So Use 95 and once in gameex remove the Unplayable roms like MK , Nbajam etc.

goto you mame rom directoy and copy out those roms.

Make a new directory for mame 55 and copy the wanted roms in it.

Make a bat file for each mame game.. Like

@echo off

Mame.exe MK -joy -skip_gameinfo -skip_disclaimer

Sounds to me like there are only a few roms anyway.

Then is up as an emulator in gameex

romfilter=*.bat

command= "[rompath]/[romfile]"

Depending on your skill level this may make no sence at all.. If you have any questions just ask

[battletoads]

It works perfectly, thanks! That was a really good idea. One question for you -- the bat files only execute in GameEx if their filename has no spaces -- for example, mk.bat will open, but Mortal Kombat.bat won't open at all. Is using underscores my only option?

[Brian Hoffman]

Make sure to use quotes "[rompath]/[romfile]"

The quote will tell DOS the space is not the end of the command.

[bkenobi]

If you don't like how things appear in GameEx, you can always build a map file. So you could have "mk.bat" and with the map file GameEx would display it as "Mortal Kombat".