Yay! permissions were indeed the problem! Pfff.... all this time for permission issues! I took out the mgalaxy folder from Programs, ran runway...and VOILA! All the names where correctly displayed. Thanks for the help, I can now use mgalaxy as my official front end! Now...off to configure my x ...

I can try this next.

I'll will test a few things out tonight when I get home, and post back my results.

thanks for the help.

Hi, to answer the admin, your steps are exactly what I do, to the exception that when I "create database", a command promp opens...and then crash! The only exception I can think of is that I also check "use script if available" and " Check 'Use database file (if available)" (like mentionned in your ...

Hi Aeliss, I did try to point mgalaxy runway to another mame.exe...with the same problem. I have tried mameui, mame64 etc. I also tried romlister to create an xml file. When I do this and load it via runway, all seems good ( i get a confirmation from runway without any crash) , but when I load ...

Hi Again, well, after trying the steps mentionned in your link, I still can't have mgalaxy display the roms names correctly. I have tried other frontends (maximus arcade, hyperspin etc), and they display the roms correctly. when I launche mgalaxy runway and ask to build the database, it crashes ...

thnaks for the link.

I will try it out and let you know if it worked out for me.

thanks

Hi forum, I would really appreciate help with how mgalaxy displays the rom names for mame. I have followed the install instructions (Calvert.ini etc), and tried with mgalaxy runway ( creating the database). When I use runway....it crashes when I try to create the database. Everything else works ...