Not using any keyboard emulation software or anything. The I-pac runs as a keyboard without any drivers. I don't have any background applications running, and I don't use any scripts.

For me it happens totally randomly, seems to happen in every game on occasion.

For me the cursor actually works ...

Sometimes, when I exit a MAME game, mGalaxy doesn't respond to keystrokes. It happens like 1 in 10 times or so.

What happens is, that I can't move the cursor selecting games. I can open the "top 10" menu, but I can't move the cursor there either. I can also run games, even though the cursor isn't ...

I haven't tried yet but the line

<description>Name without tag</description>

isn't enought to display a short name ?


Yes, this is what I've done. But when doing it this way, the additional information is lost forever. With an additional field, you can keep the full name with revision and ...

Could it also be an idea to add a "display name"-tag in the main xml? This way you can keep the original long name with additional information, and you can have mGalaxy display your own custom short name. This could even be toggled, whether to display "full name" or "short name".

I feel bad about ...

I tried Romcenter and started the "fix" tool. It ran for two days without completing, so I gave up. Probably another evidence that my romset wasn't all that good... Ended up downloading a complete new romset which wasn't merged in the first place. It solved everything.

Yep. As I've read a bit more about this now, I definately have a merged rom-set. It's updated for 0.149 and it's been working perfectly everywhere, including previous versions of mGalaxy as far as I can remember, so I've been a bit fooled by that.

I wasn't aware of this until now!

I'll just take ...

Did a complete reinstall of Windows, MAME 0.149 and mGalaxy. The database now generates correctly, and everything works perfectly. BUT, it still refuses to start clones...

I noticed, if I disable the database, only the "short" rom names are shown in the list. And clones don't show at all, even if I ...

Already tried a fresh install of Mame, mGalaxy, nplayers.ini and catver.ini.

This sounds like the right time for me to install a fresh copy of Windows and start completely from scratch... Something's obviously not right, and now that you've confirmed that everything else works, the problem is most ...

Installed 0.145 and tested.

Those files work correctly when generating database with 0.145, but not with 0.149.

The database generated with 0.145 works fine with 0.149, but the clones still don't work. And I can't test the clones with 0.145 because my rom collection is only working in 0.149.

Hm. It still doesn't work. I don't get it. Everything else is working perfectly.

When I generate a new xmlout.xml the way you described, all seems good - the file ends up where it's supposed to, and mGalaxy reads the list without problems.

It doesn't tag the <genre> though, even though both ...

Yep, it was working perfectly before I upgraded, so It's probably something I messed up when upgrading. Will try this tonight and see how it works out. Thanks.

And as far as I can see, this applies to all clones. Doesn't matter if I generate the xml-file by myself or use the function in mGalaxy Runway...

I've run into a problem with the newest version of mGalaxy: I can't seem to run clones, for example "pacman", which is a clone of "puckman", as far as I know. It runs fine in MAME with "mame64 pacman", and it ran fine on earlier versions of mGalaxy. But now nothing happens when I try to start it. I ...