Some MAME Games Not Showing Up

[Sunstealer]

I am finishing up a custom MAME cabinet and would like to use GameEx as the frontend. The problem I am having is that some of my MAME games do not show up in the list. I have gone through the Advanced MAME configuration and turned off Working Games Only, turned on Allow Imperfect, turned on Allow Clones, and set all the other options to show everything. I rebuilt the list, but some still do not show up. The one that I really notice is the Ms. Pac-Man (with Speedup Hack). I played that machine all the time growing up. It shows up and works fine in the Mame32 interface, but not in GameEx. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[bkenobi]

There is a tutorial on the homepage that shows exactly what needs to be changed to get everything to display. Here's a quick link. If you are looking to get just specific games rather than EVERY game, there is another option. You can add the rom name to the do not filter list. You probably already have pacman in that list (since it's a clone of puckman).

[Sunstealer]

Everything seems to be set correctly, but they still do not show up after rebuilding the games list. Does it matter than many of the clones are in the main game's ROM zip? For example, the Ms. Pac-Man Speed-Up Hack game does not have it's own zip file, the files for it are in the main zip for Ms. Pac-Man. MAME32 seems to find them okay that way.

Thanks.

[Brian Hoffman]

Everything seems to be set correctly, but they still do not show up after rebuilding the games list. Does it matter than many of the clones are in the main game's ROM zip? For example, the Ms. Pac-Man Speed-Up Hack game does not have it's own zip file, the files for it are in the main zip for Ms. Pac-Man. MAME32 seems to find them okay that way.

Thanks.

I belive you may be confused about the way mame works. The Ms pacman with speed up hack is its own rom ( a clone). But it requres the parent rom.

The game your looking for is. "MSPACMNF" add this game to the do not filter list. Then update your game list again.

BTW: you dont need the quotes

[Sunstealer]

I belive you may be confused about the way mame works. The Ms pacman with speed up hack is its own rom ( a clone). But it requres the parent rom.

The game your looking for is. "MSPACMNF" add this game to the do not filter list. Then update your game list again.

BTW: you dont need the quotes

Actually, mine are setup the way I described. I do not have a mspacmnf.zip, but the game runs fine. From what I could determine, MAME calls these Merged ROMs. I was able to get GameEx working tonight after searching back through the forums. I had to turn on the Verify ROMs option and then update the games list. From what I read in the forums, that option makes GameEx actually look to see what is in each zip. Whatever it does, it did seem to fix my problem.