mame roms not found

[sama666]

Hi!sorry for my bad english.

i've a problem, i set my gameex but it still say me that no roms are founded. I don't now why, i set all the paths correctly and i removed all the filter...any ideas?thanks a lot

Marko

[bkenobi]

Did you update your list after setting up paths and filters?

[sama666]

  bkenobi said:

Did you update your list after setting up paths and filters?

Hi!!thanx for your reply!i solve the problem but to do this i musto to reinstall gameex and use the mame32 of the wizard installing guide...i don't know if there is possible some problems with others mame32 version!Anyway thanks a lot for your help!bye see you soon!

[bkenobi]

The version of MAME32 that's listed in the Setup Wizard is an old version AFAIK. If that fixed your problems, then it's likely that your rom set is pretty old. My suggestion would be to use a version of MAME (command line, not MAME32 GUI version) that matches your rom set. If you have it working, don't worry about it I suppose, but I think you would be better in the long run using the non-GUI version.

Anyway, glad to hear you got it going!

[sWampy]

I was having the same kind of problem, turned out to be some of the mame paths that didn't exist. The config utility defaults some directories to something like emulators\mame32\pcb. All seems to go fine the first time you run gameex, but the next time you run it, no mame roms show up, and you see the error message mame roms not found.

[bkenobi]

Your best bet is to go through the setup in the Setup Wizard and then run "Validate Setup". It will tell you if any paths are invalid/don't exist. I know that if you have an invalid path in an emulator for your roms for example, that GameEx will crash. This won't happen if you fix the red items the validation tool shows you.

[sWampy]

I didn't know if Tom realized that some paths give you good messages like c:\mame\roms not found, while others display a much less meaning full error message that can leave you scratching your head. I didn't realize there was a tool to validate paths. ;-)