Why cant it see the Rom

[GoTheBunnies]

Pretty much finished setting up my emulators in GameEx today, and pretty pleased with myself, until I found a problem in my Mame emulator that I hadn't noticed before.....

Went to play an old favourite in Galaxian - on the menu, so far so good. The video plays, the artwork is there etc, but when I select to play the game, GameEx shows me the controls, and the next action is to take me back to the menu (the menu where I can select Play Game). Missing rom I thought, but it's definitely there, and the Rom path is set correctly. I can play the game in the Mame Emulator itself. What could I have possibly done that GameEx is not finding it? I have the Roms filtered a bit to stop faulty games etc, and I've run the update list. Any thoughts?

Thanks

[fRequEnCy]

Please troubleshoot by using the Runitgame.bat file following the instructions on step 4 by Tempest found here.

[GoTheBunnies]

Please troubleshoot by using the Runitgame.bat file following the instructions on step 4 by Tempest found here.

Ok done - thanks. Here's the output - any problems in here?

@ECHO OFF

C:

CD "C:\Emulators\Mame32\Mame_133"

mame.exe galaxian -rompath "C:\Emulators\Mame32\Mame_133\roms;C:\Emulators\Mame32\Mame_133\roms" -nowindow -hwstretch -ddraw -joy -skip_gameinfo -bezel -artwork_directory artworkgameex

[fRequEnCy]

Ok done - thanks. Here's the output - any problems in here?

@ECHO OFF

C:

CD "C:\Emulators\Mame32\Mame_133"

mame.exe galaxian -rompath "C:\Emulators\Mame32\Mame_133\roms;C:\Emulators\Mame32\Mame_133\roms" -nowindow -hwstretch -ddraw -joy -skip_gameinfo -bezel -artwork_directory artworkgameex

Try step B of that part and see if there's anything useful in the output.

[GoTheBunnies]

Try step B of that part and see if there's anything useful in the output.

Thanks - it said that -ddraw wasn't a valid function or something, so I took it out of the command line and now the game works! I'm assuming I didn't remove anything particularly important?

Thanks again.

[fRequEnCy]

Thanks - it said that -ddraw wasn't a valid function or something, so I took it out of the command line and now the game works! I'm assuming I didn't remove anything particularly important?

Thanks again.

Well that depends on you desired video option. If you wanted to use DirectDraw for rendering then the following would be the correct switch:

-video ddraw

Not:

-ddraw

Sorry! I should have picked that up when you posted your command-line. But if anything you learned to troubleshoot yourself.

[GoTheBunnies]

Well that depends on you desired video option. If you wanted to use DirectDraw for rendering then the following would be the correct switch:

-video ddraw

Not:

-ddraw

Sorry! I should have picked that up when you posted your command-line. But if anything you learned to troubleshoot yourself.

I did - and that's a great feature!

So back to the Direct Draw thing - should I be using it?

[bkenobi]

Some people prefer ddraw. I use D3D personally. I think the main difference is the available video filters.