GameEx not showing all my MAME flyers:-(

[empireguitar]

One thing I'm realy enjoying about GameEx at the mo' is being able to look at the flyers (although I would like it to show the flyers and a screen shot when scrolling through the game list, rather than having to click into (show flyer).

The problem which I'm having is that not all my game flyers are registering with GameEx.

For example, a lot of the games have the "show flyer" option, hower games which I definatelty have a flyer for (e.g "FinalFight") are not giving me the option to view the flyer which I have in the "flyers folder".

Are there any commons reasons for this? I downloaded flyer packs and teh flyers haev worked previously.

Many thanks in advacne for any help:-)

[bkenobi]

GameEx will only display a flyer option (or any media for that matter) in MAME if there is an exact match for the rom. So, if you are looking at ffight.zip, then you must have ffight.jpg or ffight.png in the flyers folder. If you are using a different version of the rom like ffightu.zip, then you need ffightu.jpg. Basically, since there are so many versions of each game, you will need to make sure you have the content for each version and not just each title.

That's about all I can think of right now. Good luck!

[Tempest]

I could write a script to create a child flyer from the parent if one doesn't exist. (Or Vice Versa)

Do you think that there is a need for this BK?

[bkenobi]

I'd say empire needs to verify that's what the problem is first. It's possible that he's got something else that might be causing his issues but we won't know until he responds. If that's the issue, then it would be fairly simple to do this via romlister or clrmame, wouldn't it (generating the list of roms with parents)? But, I would think a quick and dirty script to parse that list would be useful.

Either way, I'd wait till empire gets back first.

[empireguitar]

  bkenobi said:

I'd say empire needs to verify that's what the problem is first. It's possible that he's got something else that might be causing his issues but we won't know until he responds. If that's the issue, then it would be fairly simple to do this via romlister or clrmame, wouldn't it (generating the list of roms with parents)? But, I would think a quick and dirty script to parse that list would be useful.

Either way, I'd wait till empire gets back first.

Thanks for your help guys, however I think this was just a silly mistake of mine; not all my flers copied over to my cab for some reason. Over teh weekend I DL all the marqees, cab pic and flyers etc; I will copy them over tonight and hopefully they'l work:-). I just now wish i could finds a skin/theme which would show; Screen shot,flyer,artwork,cab pic and marque when scrolling through the games selection. I am using teh default theme (wich is nice), however to view flyers etc I have to first click into the game and then "view flyer" - it's great being able to view the flyer in full screen, but would be great if Game Ex would show all the stuff I mentioned when scrolling through the games list (rather than just a screen shot of each game).

Also, for some reason GameEx is not showing all my games in the games list (I will create a new topic for this). In the GameEx setup, I have slected (show clones and show not working - I even have show adult games and show Majong games (although I will soon be deleting all the Majong roms and filtering out the crappy adult games). For example, the Japanese version of Aliens is not showing up in the list and also, Streetfighter 3 (No CD is not showing up). They do all show up when I use MAMEWah though - so i definately have the correct Romset/names.

[Tempest]

  empireguitar said:

Thanks for your help guys, however I think this was just a silly mistake of mine; not all my flers copied over to my cab for some reason. Over teh weekend I DL all the marqees, cab pic and flyers etc; I will copy them over tonight and hopefully they'l work:-). I just now wish i could finds a skin/theme which would show; Screen shot,flyer,artwork,cab pic and marque when scrolling through the games selection. I am using teh default theme (wich is nice), however to view flyers etc I have to first click into the game and then "view flyer" - it's great being able to view the flyer in full screen, but would be great if Game Ex would show all the stuff I mentioned when scrolling through the games list (rather than just a screen shot of each game).

The only way I know to display 5 images in GameEx is to use Marquee Magician to create composite images.

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=6911

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Also, for some reason GameEx is not showing all my games in the games list (I will create a new topic for this). In the GameEx setup, I have slected (show clones and show not working - I even have show adult games and show Majong games (although I will soon be deleting all the Majong roms and filtering out the crappy adult games). For example, the Japanese version of Aliens is not showing up in the list and also, Streetfighter 3 (No CD is not showing up). They do all show up when I use MAMEWah though - so i definately have the correct Romset/names.

You probably need to turn "Verify Roms" off. Also, anytime you change the filters, you have to "Udate List".

There is more information here: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...amp;#entry34705

[empireguitar]

  Tempest said:

The only way I know to display 5 images in GameEx is to use Marquee Magician to create composite images.

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=6911

I think i would be happy just being able to display a screenshot(at the default size), the flyer and maybee the marquee without having to click into anything; is there an easy way that I can do this?

You probably need to turn "Verify Roms" off. Also, anytime you change the filters, you have to "Udate List".

There is more information here: http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...amp;#entry34705

- Going to try this tonight - thanks.