Gamebase problems

[sprudel]

Hi all!

I have a running gamebase v1.3 system (currently only with GBC v07) and try to integrate it in Gameex.

I have enabled the gamebase support in config.

Next, because I am using custom menus, I added a new menu for GBC and chose "Gamebase System" as Item Type and

"Gamebase System 1" as Emu/Group/App.

First question: When I add new gamebase systems how do I know the number to be chosen?

But that's not the important one:

My biggest problem is that I am not able to start the games from Gameex.

I can see all the games in the gamebase system including the screenshots. Choosing a game will switch the screen

to a nearly blank one with only option "Start game" which doesn't work (sometime Gameex even hangs up, but there's nothing in the log).

Does anybody have a hint for this?

Thanks in advance,

Tom

[AlphaUMi]

Hello,

I'm a Gamebase user but maybe I don't understand exactly what you mean, since the only thing that is necessary to do is enable Gamebase support in the Setup Wizard (as I did): GameEx will recognize the database and roms and will launch the game automatically. I don't use custom menus so I can't say if this screws GameEx up or not. You could try to delete GBC from custom menus and see if it works.

First, make sure Gamebase has been setup correctly and verify that it works well outside GameEx.

Second, post as an attachment your log file which is located in GameEx\LOGS directory and your GameEx.ini which can be found in GamEx\CONFIG. Upload them as txt files due to the fact that the forum doesn't allow to upload ini file.

Cheers,

Alpha.

[sprudel]

Thanks for your fast reply.

In the meanwhile I have recognize the following:

The problem not to be able to start the game occurs only the very first start...I just have to go back to the main menu and enter again the emu menu entry I have for GBC...when I open a game I am able to start it. Also, stuff like descriptions are loaded and I see also an option to add the game to my favorites which I hadn't before.

Very strange indeed..maybe a general problem concerning initializing the gamebase db?

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks for your fast reply.

In the meanwhile I have recognize the following:

The problem not to be able to start the game occurs only the very first start...I just have to go back to the main menu and enter again the emu menu entry I have for GBC...when I open a game I am able to start it. Also, stuff like descriptions are loaded and I see also an option to add the game to my favorites which I hadn't before.

Very strange indeed..maybe a general problem concerning initializing the gamebase db?

Please upload the files as requested and Ill take a look.

Just to help troubleshoot do you get the issue if you turn off Custom Menus?

[sprudel]

By the way, why do I online see one screenshot whereas I can see in Gamebase multiple?

[sprudel]

Sorry for the late reply...I have attached both log.txt and GameEx Config.

By the way I worked with a clean installation of the latest Gameex version.

So I didn't use custom menus and only enabled Gamebase (with some more databases as before) and the demo emulators.

But the problem stays: I enter a game of the Gamebase and don't see further details and cannot start the game...I have to go back to the main menu and back to any gamebase game again to play it.

Where can I enable the second screenshot of all gamebase games?

Thanks a lot in advance.

log.txt

GameEx.txt

[AlphaUMi]

I've just tested my Gamebase setup and I have the latest version of both GB and GameEx, just to be sure, and I can confirm that GameEx works as expected with no problems. I looked your files and noticed nothing bad. More important, your GameEx.ini shows that your GB should be up and running, as indeed is, as long as GameEx sees roms and other things. So, please wait for Tom and the other more experienced users to have a look into this.

But in the meantime, I can give a couple of suggestions and questions:

1) Are you sure your Gamebase setup works fine outside of GameEX?

2) You say you are using more than one database. Does this mean that you have set up more that 1 system in Gamebase? Which systems are they? Actually, I configured Gamebase to work only with GBC_07 (Commodore 64 collection). I don't know if this is relevant, but maybe GameEx get confused if it finds other system than GBC. Try with GBC only, using the default database.

Where can I enable the second screenshot of all gamebase games?

Actually you can't. GameEx shows only the first one.

Alpha.

[sprudel]

Ok, I think I have detected the problem:

It was a very good hint from your side to test it with one gamebase db only.

There was one gamebase db which didn't work properly...after having moved the folder out of gamebase I deleted also all the cached files and rerun Gameex...and it works like a charm from the very beginning!

Thanks a lot for your help, so I am very happy with my setup now...

[AlphaUMi]

I'm glad you are ok now! Play a lot with C64 (you know.. I'm a C64 addicted... eheehe ).