After taking about a year off from this, I fired up my machine again and it should come as no surprise that nothing has changed Is there anyone on this forum right now that wasn't here a year ago that might be able to help me out? I miss playing Ms Pac Man and Galaga with the speedup hacks.

Yes.

Aeliss wrote: I don't know enought database to answer you.

But Are you using mGalaxy Runaway to generate it ?

Where do I start? I only understand the updates/romsets and database stuff well enough to follow the tutorials I've found, but apparently not enough to detect when something didn't work right. Do I try making the database again? Maybe I should try running a "speedup hack" version of a game from the ...

I guess I have my terminology wrong. When i only show available roms I lose things like fast ms pac man and fast galaga. I'm absolutely certain my 85gb romset includes those roms, and I like them and want to be able to play them. Did I fail when i was making the database or updating my romset?


No ...

I have a huge romset, 201 that I (hopefully!) updated to 202. I’m sure I have things like ms pac man with the speed up hack and would definitely like to play them. Won’t this turn off the clones?
Edit: Yes, it does what I expected. Does this mean my database is made wrong? That I updated my romset ...

I turned the database back on and tried this out. You’re right, Burger Time (Data East Set 1) will launch from MGalaxy. Similarly, Ms. Pac-Man will but Ms. Pac-Man (speedup hack) does not. I have apparently built my database wrong...? I followed the guide on this page but, iirc, there were some ...

Alright! This works but as you’d expect my game names are all gone now. I did my best to follow the instructions on this site for setting up a database but I must’ve screwed something up. Thanks so much for your help so far... got any more advice? :)


On the first screenshoot, there is a button ...

I’m extremely hazy on how database stuff works. Could you point me to directions on how to do exactly what you’re talking about?

D:\MAME>Mame64.exe -rompath "d:\roms" btime.zip -volume -0 -skip_gameinfo -nowindow -joystick

^^^This does launch the game.

Aeliss wrote: -rompath is just the path you need too the rom name

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mame64.exe -rompath "F:\emulateur\mame\roms" 1941.zip

Tried it. My DOS prompt was:

D:\mame>mame64 -rompath "D:\roms\btime.zip" -volume -0 -skip_gameinfo -nowindow
-joystick

It did not launch the game, it launched the Mame UI instead. Upon returning to DOS, this info from Switchres was shown:

SwitchRes: [empty] (1) horizontal (640x480@61.000000 ...

Yup. “Mame64 btime” launches burger time just fine. Picking it out of the list in MGalaxy does not launch the game. How do I add a debug parameter to mgalaxy, and then what will I need to share with you guys in order for that to help?


But it works with command line ?

Can you show the command ...

I'm having a hard time with this. I can't find anything in the forums or on Google that seems to address this specific issue. I would normally suspect that my romset hadn't updated correctly for the version of MAME I'm using, but the fact that I can still launch the problematic games from the ...

Same MAME, same romset. There’s only one copy of all that stuff on my machine so I can 100% confirm this. I’m not in front of my machine right now, but I’m fairly certain that no, it does not play the launching game sound either.


It's like it doesn't even register me hitting the launch button ...

For some reason, when I try to launch Pac-Man, Burger Time, Galaga, and probably others that I haven't found yet (are these all using Midway hardware?) from the list in mGalaxy, they don't launch. It's like it doesn't even register me hitting the launch button. Other games, like Donkey Kong, launch ...