Galga is not displaying in my game list?

[IMBerzerk]

I found this last night while finishing up the last details in my cabinet. Thanks for posting that Shell program Chriss.. it's great.

Anyhow, Galaga works fine in MAME, no issues... but I cannot get it to list on the Gamelist, no matter what I choose. Anyone else have the same issue, and if not, what do you have it set to.

I have active...

All MAME games

Vertical

Horizontal

Vector

Atari

No porn

No Majong

No clones

No verify roms

only working

only present roms

maybe a few more, but that's really the bulk of them.

IMBerzerk

[Palmore]

Have you validated you have the ROM in your roms folder?

Have you tried turning off ALL filters and updating the games list?

Start there, turn off al filters, then update and see if you have it, then turn on your filters one by one and see what filter takes it off the list.

Also, does GameEX read from mameinfo.dat? (or whatever info file MAME uses, I'm new to alot of this myself)

[bkenobi]

Galaga is imperfect last I checked, so it will be filtered out by "only working". You need to add the rom to the "do not filter" list.

[IMBerzerk]

Galaga is imperfect last I checked, so it will be filtered out by "only working". You need to add the rom to the "do not filter" list.

Yes, I tried that thinking it was imperfect. I think the color is off or something? But adding it to the 'do not filter' still did not remove it.

Does it display on your cabinet? And yes, I have the ROM, and it's a good one.

Thanks for the help. It's an old favorite I'd like to have working. Funny, I had a similar problem with Pacman not coming up, but it did once I selected 'All MAME Games'

[fRequEnCy]

Yes, I tried that thinking it was imperfect. I think the color is off or something? But adding it to the 'do not filter' still did not remove it.

Does it display on your cabinet? And yes, I have the ROM, and it's a good one.

Thanks for the help. It's an old favorite I'd like to have working. Funny, I had a similar problem with Pacman not coming up, but it did once I selected 'All MAME Games'

Galaga displays fine on my setup. Instead of adding the rom name to Don't Filter these ROMS I just have Allow Imperfect Games set to Yes and all is well on my end.

[bkenobi]

If "Allow Imperfect Games" doesn't fix it (it should), then you might want to check what version of GameEx you are running. Tom fixed a bug where games were still being filtered off even when added to the "do not filter" list. I don't remember what version that was, but it was a few months back.

[IMBerzerk]

If "Allow Imperfect Games" doesn't fix it (it should), then you might want to check what version of GameEx you are running. Tom fixed a bug where games were still being filtered off even when added to the "do not filter" list. I don't remember what version that was, but it was a few months back.

I think I am running 9.60... so I'll load the latest, then turn all filters off and see what happens when I turn each on 1 by 1.

[bkenobi]

9.60 should have the fix, so checking the filters like you suggested would be a good way to go.

[IMBerzerk]

9.60 should have the fix, so checking the filters like you suggested would be a good way to go.

I loaded the latest version. No change. I then turned off all the filters, except 'no porn' and 'present roms'. No change.

Then I updated the list, and it appeared. So I'm getting there. But why would it do that? I then started turning off all the other stuff like 'no bracketed text', but there is no change. Is that normal? I would think it would make these changes on the fly? It's not which explains why I could not get Galaga to display until I refreshed the list.

Any thoughts as it takes forever for me to refresh the list everytime to check one little thing.

Thanks for all your help,

IMBerzerk

[Tempest]

GameEX Caches the information so that it doesn't have to check everytime it starts up, so yes, you have to update the list anytime you change the options. Look here for a quick guide on how to set up the mame rom filters:

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...amp;#entry34705

[IMBerzerk]

GameEX Caches the information so that it doesn't have to check everytime it starts up, so yes, you have to update the list anytime you change the options. Look here for a quick guide on how to set up the mame rom filters:

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...amp;#entry34705

Thanks Tempest,

Like you said, rebuilding the game list is the key. I'll mess with the filters until I have what I want tonight.

IMBerzerk

[Tempest]

Your Welcome IMBerzerk!

Flash,

Do you want to chew me out for being right again?

[greatflash]

Your Welcome IMBerzerk!

Flash,

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