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Please Help - Index Out of Range Error

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deepblue:
Thanks Delusional - unfortunately still no dice.

Increased it to 90 - still Index out of Range.

It's odd - it dies about 3-4 seconds into it saying "Generating Gamelist XML".

What's also strange is MAME .95 has about 5,000 roms, while MAME .134 has over 8,000 - yet .95 dies and .134 works great.

I'll try pulling some roms out of the directory by letter to see if I can narrow it down. Appreciate any and all other suggestions.

deepblue:
Ok - so I've pulled all the roms out in pieces, only to deduce that the exact same error/issue persists even if there is only one of any of the roms in there. So it isn't the roms.

For a test, I changed the Mame executable to be the .134 one, and left the .95 rom directory as it was.

Bingo - it worked.

So the question is - what does the scanning/import routine have to do with the mame executable? Am I ok to go through the import process specifying the wrong (.134) .exe and then switch it back (to .95)?

DeLuSioNal29:
Hmm, not sure about that one.  Did you try it?

deepblue:
So I tried this - and yes, it scans the games in and you can then switch the exe back to Mame 95 after the fact, and the games launch fine.

Unfortunately the same old problem is back - none of my USB devices work (Joystick, Trackball, Spinner) in any of the games that MA launches. Again, if I launch the games in Mame UI (.95), they work fine.

Any tricks you can think of to get the devices working?

Thanks.

deepblue:
For posterity's sake - I wanted to follow up here and close the loop (mostly) on this issue.

To correct the index out of range issue I specified an alternate mame.exe (v.134 instead of .95) but kept the .95 roms directory, and this allowed the scan/import to complete. I then adjusted the prefs and put the .95 mame.exe back in, and games launch perfectly.

I then had the same original issue of my trackball/spinner/joysticks not working.

Turns out this occurs in this older version of mame because I didn't have a mame.ini in my mame folder. I created one by going the the command line and executing "mame.exe -cc", and then set joystick 1, mouse 1, and adjusted a few other settings. That fixed the issue.

Unfortunately I'm now experiencing a different issue that I'll start a new thread in the main forum for - my spinner/trackball is getting interference from something (another mouse or perhaps a joystick not being in the deadzone). This is making playing Arkanoid impossible because the "Vaus" jerks left and right like crazy while I scroll it with the spinner.

Thanks Delusional for trying to help!

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