First time using GameEx and Mame

[rewen]

Hi, I'm new to the arcade gaming scene and have recently bought a Mame arcade machine with Gameex as the frontend. I already have some games in GameEx which were previously downloaded but I am having problems with getting the games to copy into Gameex from my Mame32.

Do I need to update anything??? Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

[Tom Speirs]

Im sure yourll get plenty of help from someone kind enough to spare a little time but would you mind sharing where you bought the machine from?

Thanks.

Tom.

[Brian Hoffman]

Hi, I'm new to the arcade gaming scene and have recently bought a Mame arcade machine with Gameex as the frontend. I already have some games in GameEx which were previously downloaded but I am having problems with getting the games to copy into Gameex from my Mame32.

Do I need to update anything??? Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

Congratulations on your purchase,

Mame32 is OLD, it isn't called that anymore so I can say with most certainty that you need to upgrade MAME.

With that said, when you do major upgrades to MAME, you need to acquire a ROMSET for that version. Eg. Mame 140.

You should note that a complete romset (recommended) is 24gig (about)for the ROMS and CHD is over 100 gig.

Some very good games need CHD's, like StreetFighter3,nflblitz,KillerInstinct 1&2

Lets also keep in mind that you will need a powerfull machine to run the newest mame builds.

Also, you do not copy ROMS into Gameex persay. You upgrade your MAME and ROMS and either overwrite your old ones or create a new directory. You configure Gameex to look for the new paths and executable and choose UPDATE LIST option form GAMEEX, it will create a new gamelist for you and allow you to access your newgames from the frontend.

Can you give us any other information as to the PC specs, MAME version, Gameex Version and supplier?

Brian

[mesk]

MAME romset 0141---->26.1gb

MAME chdset 0141---->125.93gb (this is without the Laserdisc CHD's that do not run anyway,they are another 76.82gb)