mame categories .... and my dented forehead

[mediaguy]

Newbie Alert ..... I apologize if this has been discussed before ... no real solutions found (yet) on the net or in the forum search ...

I can not seem, for the life of me, to get mame categories to work. I've used the default catver.ini file that come with GameEx and downloaded seemingly every other suggested catever.ini and catlist.ini files that I could find and nothing has worked thus far. I've deleted the gamelist and updated my mame game list dozens of times with no luck .... each time I select mame, then all mame games, I see my list of games (8000 or so), then if select any of the <By> categories (year, category, manufacturer) .... I get "No Games Found". I've pointed to various catver.ini files in the advanced setup. Is there another setting that has to be set for this work?

I'm not sure what else I can do. If it's supposed to be working, could someone provide a link to a confirmed catver.ini file -or- just email it to me?.

GameEx 10.12 registered. I'm using mameui32fx as my emulator ... which is a beautful thing. My theme is Default - Default - New.

Absolutely any help would be beneficial. I love GameEx but the defunct category function is driving me nuts.

Oh also .... where does one add the option to show info stored about a game in history.dat file?

[Lawrence]

I had the same experience recently. It's a problem within Mame 0.131u2 itself. Use an older version of Mameui32fx based on Mame 0.131 and catver will start working properly.

[mediaguy]

  JellyBelly said:

I had the same experience recently. It's a problem within Mame 0.131u2 itself. Use an older version of Mameui32fx based on Mame 0.131 and catver will start working properly.

OMG .... that solved it. I downloaded mameui32fx .131 and .. voila .... it worked. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Now all mame game list shows just 4404 instead of 8000 games in the list but it's a start .... I appreciate the assistance.