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Thank you Tom - neogeo list is working again.

thank you for this one

hey there, - text - scrolling for long rom-names would be a nice feature

since 0178 set is out - i will check if the problem still persists

Thank you @RedDog - did change the title as mentioned

Hi all, I checked the versions - it stopped working from 0.174 onward (where the neodriv.hxx was introduced). With the 0.173 mame.exe it lists all the neogeo games in the neogeo frontpage section. I double checked the neogeo.zip file - it is the one from the 0.177 set. So maybe the problem is the changed neogeo driver. A look inside the gamelist.txt on 0.177 shows, that the neogeo roms are listed with the neodriv.hxx at the end. The gamelist.txt from the 0.173 exe lists them with neogeo_noslot.cpp at the end. I don´t know where the category file which creates these entries for the gameex menu is located at (if it isn´t hardcoded into the gameex.exe itsellf) maybe a look inside that file could resolve the problem (Do a scan for neodriv.hxx instead of neogeo_noslot.cpp bios for example) Side-Note: With the 0.173 version, I performed the scan with the 0.173 romset (still had it on another hdd) - for the 0.174 scan i used the 0.173 romset with the update files for 0.174 - so every "update-list" process was performed on its specific romset.

Thanks for the response. I already tried a fresh install - even on another computer. I will test if the problem persists with an older mame version - going down by version numbers step by step. Will post my findings soon.

Hi all, I recently upgraded my "mame-machine" with a new mobo and a new cpu. I wanted to get everything fresh from the start but now i ran into a little problem. The NeoGeo Category on the main page is only showing "Action Fighter". I got the complete 0.177 Romset, I can see all the neogeo games in the full list. I got the latest mame binary and updated to most recent GameEx version. CPS Games are just working fine. The set ran through crtlMame without any errors. I already tried turning off the "verify roms" options - no luck. I already checked the mame -listinfo > list.xml command - neogeo games are in there... Could not find a solution on the forums. Anyone else got this Problem or a workaround? Edit: Found a changes document from another loader - maybe this is the same issue? It states: "Oopsie! Neo-Geo games filtering was not showing all games due to new driver name neodriv in MAME v0.174." The gamelist.txt from the gameex folder do have all the neogeo games listed with the neodriv.hxx driver at the end...

Hi all, after two days of fiddling around with the displayed names for my mess games - mostly SNES and Genesis - I found no solution to get the game names shown in a readable style, only the rom filenames so far. - I´m using the Mess 0.155 software list set - the Emulator itself is Groovyume (tried it with the mess.exe too) - the games do work and load from within the frontend but as soon as i try the map file for the specific machine it wont load the games. Problem here is that it also replaced the rom filename ex. contra3.zip turns into Contra III - The Alien Wars (USA).zip -which the *.bat file cant find. - I tried renaming the roms to the filename as they are stated in the map file but ume/mess wouldn´t load them as they need to be in the mess-specific filename (plus it would take a hughe amount of time to rename all the games by hand). - i also tried to switch-on the use database option with no luck. To get to the point - i would like to have my mess games (which are seperatly configured in different emulator slots per machine) shown in a readable way ex. contra3.zip -> Contra III - The Alien Wars So my question here is, is there a way to quickly generate a map file out of the *.xml files stored in umes/mess` hash file? Did i miss a option containing the software-list support? I searched different threads already but couldn´t find an answer to my problem here - any help is appreciated. --edit 1st -- Come to think about it - maybe a xml parser would be the way to go - looking into the snes.xml files from mess hash folder the format is like: <software name="contra3" cloneof="sprobot"><description>Contra III - The Alien Wars (USA)</description> so would it be possible to script something that 1. read out the value of "software name" 2. add *.zip extension and a "|" 3. add the value of "description" next to it 4. and finally write it all in a single *.map file ? attached is a smaller *.xml file out of the mess hash folder --- edit 2nd --- after asking a friend of mine who is comfy with programming he wrote me a little python script which solved the problem. He gladly gave me permission to post the code here for people who may suffer from the same problem Python 3 required !!! howto: 1. copy the needed *.xml files from the mess hash folder into python folder (in my case c:\python34) 2. run the script via "python.exe romsetxmlparser.py xyz.xml" (xyz for the needed machine) 3. script should run through the xml list, creating the needed map file for gameex. script (just copy paste script into empty textfile and name it romsetxmlparser.py): from xml.dom import minidomimport sysprint("input: " + sys.argv[1])#fin = open('xyz.xml', 'r', encoding="latin-1")fin = open(sys.argv[1], 'r', encoding="latin-1")raw = fin.read()print('magic happens')doc = minidom.parseString(raw)fin.close()#fout = open('romlist.txt', 'w', encoding="latin-1")fout = open(sys.argv[1]+'.map', 'w', encoding="latin-1")softwareNodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("software")counter = 0for game in softwareNodes: name = game.getAttribute("name") description = game.getElementsByTagName("description")[0] output = name + ".zip|" + description.firstChild.nodeValue +'\n' #print(description.firstChild.nodeValue + "|" +name) try: fout.write(output) counter += 1 except: e = sys.exc_info()[0] print (name) print (e) fout.close()print("games in list: " + str(len(softwareNodes)) + ", games written to file " + sys.argv[1]+'.map' + ": " + str(counter))#print counterAll games are now shown in the correct way plus they load via the frontend as the internal *.bat now loads the correct *.zip file