[RESOLVED] Multiple MAME games not showing up in list with MAME 0.163 or newer.

Hi guys!

 

I think this is my first post here. I've been using GameEx for some years and have spent countless hours making my own theme, databases, artwork, tweaks and customizations  etc. It's a great software, and i'm eagerly looking forward to GameEx Evolution where i plan on putting much effort into updating and redesigning my theme and possibly release it here.

 

But regarding my post:

 

Starting with MAME 0.163 i've had problems with multiple MAME games (about 10-15 of the 500+ in my collection) not showing up in GameEx. I spent some time going though my GameEx setup to figure out why, but ended up waiting to see if a new version of MAME and/or GameEx would fix it. There has been a few GameEx updates since MAME 0.163, and last week MAME 0.164 was released. The missing games problem still persists with 0.164. I was at that time running Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit. Last week i upgraded to Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.

 

 

Since my GameEx setup is heavily customized i figured i'd try a clean standard installation at my workcomputer to keep it simple.

 

- System is Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.

 

- Installed GameEx 14.33 and MAME 0.164 64-bit.

 

- To replicate the problem i used the game "Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder (World)" - ga2.zip, which is one of the roms i'm missing in GameEx.
I also tried with the clones ("Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder (US)" - ga2u.zip and "Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder (Japan)" - ga2j.zip) to see if they were affected to.

 

- Put a few romsets in the roms folder of MAME (some i knew showed up, and some i knew didn't), and checked with RomCenter that they verified correctly with 0.164.

 

- Started mame64.exe and ran the different games to confirm that they started.

 

- In the clean GameEx installation i changed a few of the default settings. Changed the path to my MAME folder and a few settings like "VerifyRoms=False" and "OnlyRoms=True" and made sure "OnlyWorking=False", "AllowImperfect=True" and "NoClones=False".

 

- Booted up GameEx and ran the "Update List" function for MAME.

 

 

 

I got the same results on this setup. The same games didn't show up in the GameEx mame list.

 

Checking the log file i noticed that the XML export (listinfo.dat) correctly lists the romset in question. The "[Arcade] MAME.mdb" database created during this update does not contain these games/romsets.

 

I've also tried with the "Only Existing Roms" turned off to get a full listing in GameEx, but the specific roms are still not showing.

 

I've attached the GameEx.ini and log.txt files as requested in the forum policies.

 

Thanks in advance