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mGalaxy version 9 and 10 do not work in Win11 with Mame

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 4:46 pm
by dashingw
I have mention a couple times before that Mame and mGalaxy version 9 and 10 are not working in windows 11. I though I would give this one more try before switching to a new front end. Mame works fine by itself so I know it's not the main problem. With mGalaxy version 9 you can launch a game but when you ESC back out of it it freezes with the screen split. The only way out is CTRL ALT DELETE. With mGalaxy 10 a game wont launch at all, it says launching but nothing happens.... I have even private messaged mGalaxy with no respone in about a month...

Anybody ???

Thanks,
Darryl

Re: mGalaxy version 9 and 10 do not work in Win11 with Mame

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2024 10:25 am
by mgalaxy
I can't reproduce what you're explaining.
Could you please download this portable version of mGalaxy.
It's configured and contains a few internal roms for testing.
...and let me know if you have the same problem, please.

https://mgalaxy.com/downloads/mGalaxy%20v9.0%20-%20%20dashingw.zip


Re: mGalaxy version 9 and 10 do not work in Win11 with Mame

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 11:30 pm
by dashingw
Ok Weird, your version works in my downloads folder so I thought maybe i'de take my 2 versions and plop them in the download folder and see what happens. but they still don't work. I though maybe it was something with my external drive that I had them on was screwing them up but I guess not... So why does yours work and mine doesn't ?? lol

Can you send me a download link like that for Version 10 and if it works fine I will get the premium so I can have the themes again...

Also I see in the coming updates we are supposed to be able to launch a game from the screensaver. I wonder how hard it would be to use a key to add a game from the screensaver to our like mame favorites within mGalaxy. A number of times i have walked past my screen and seen a game that looked good but I had already missed the title and had to go looking for it..lol. it would be handy to just see a game on the screen saver and just press a key to add it directly to the favorites for Mame

Just a thought, like i said I dont know if it would be hard or even impossible but it would be nice....

Thanks and PLMK on the version 10


Re: mGalaxy version 9 and 10 do not work in Win11 with Mame

Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2024 1:38 pm
by mgalaxy
dashingw wrote: Ok Weird, your version works in my downloads folder so I thought maybe i'de take my 2 versions and plop them in the download folder and see what happens. but they still don't work. I though maybe it was something with my external drive that I had them on was screwing them up but I guess not... So why does yours work and mine doesn't ??
Before going further with v10, may you please do this on the versions installed on your hard drive that a causing problem:

Open "mGalaxy\DataDefinition\Emulators.xml" with a text editor.
With the search tool, search for this line:<Emulator name="MAME" hidden="false">
...and in this line, replace "false" with "true"
Save, Test and Report here please

Re: mGalaxy version 9 and 10 do not work in Win11 with Mame

Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2024 2:25 pm
by dashingw
Ok I changed it, but it did not make a difference. Still says launching game and does nothing other than the video preview of the game shifts a bit for a splitn second and then all is the same

Re: mGalaxy version 9 and 10 do not work in Win11 with Mame

Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2024 1:28 pm
by dashingw
ok so everything is good now, Thanks for trying to help. I got both version 8 and 10 working perfect it seems...

is there any possibility of an "Add Favorites" key working with the screen saver in the near future