Maximus Arcade and Romlister problems (or my stupidity)

[korbitz]

Trying out MA in my new cab and attempting to use romlister to strip unwanted roms from my list in MA. I have used romlister with MameWAH without any issues, but when i try to save the list to my desktop in MA format, nothing appears, it wont even let me view the list before saving. I am not even getting an error file. Has anyone else had any issues? or is it just me.....

[Hogie1418]

I had the same problem and never figured it out... would be interested as well.

[Encryptor]

Did you post this question in the MA forum? If not you might get more results there.


Encryptor

[NOP]

either you're the same person emailing me personally, or this is coming up a lot lately.

Here's the deal:

1) RL won't let you preview the list because the list itself is a binary/compressed file and viewing it would be a little ugly.

2) since maximus lists are compressed, and thus are actually created with that "convert.exe" file that is included in the distribution.  what romlister does is generate a temporary text file, then shells out to DOS and runs the convert.exe program to make your final list.  this is where the problem comes in:

3) convert.exe has issues.  It seems that it cannot generate a list in a different folder than where convert.exe physically resides on your hard drive. 


possible fixes:
1) make sure convert.exe is in the same folder as romlister.
2) save your final .lst file in the same folder as romlister and convert.exe, then move it to where you need.

that's apparently not working for the person emailing me, but it is working for me on my test setup.
we're digging into it, but would love additional feedback and error reporting since I can't reproduce the issue personally. 
once we figure it out, I'm going to release another romlister which will help solve this for future users.  since i didn't write convert.exe, i can't fix the actual problem, but I can band-aid around it fairly well I think.

standby...

[korbitz]

either you're the same person emailing me personally, or this is coming up a lot lately.

Nope, not me thats been emailing you, only started using romlister on MA yesterday, came across the error, made a post here and moved onto another emulator (slowly working my way through them)

FYI though, the instructions you gave worked for me, so many thanks 

[spookplayaz]

either you're the same person emailing me personally, or this is coming up a lot lately.

Here's the deal:

1) RL won't let you preview the list because the list itself is a binary/compressed file and viewing it would be a little ugly.

2) since maximus lists are compressed, and thus are actually created with that "convert.exe" file that is included in the distribution.  what romlister does is generate a temporary text file, then shells out to DOS and runs the convert.exe program to make your final list.  this is where the problem comes in:

3) convert.exe has issues.  It seems that it cannot generate a list in a different folder than where convert.exe physically resides on your hard drive. 


possible fixes:
1) make sure convert.exe is in the same folder as romlister.
2) save your final .lst file in the same folder as romlister and convert.exe, then move it to where you need.

that's apparently not working for the person emailing me, but it is working for me on my test setup.
we're digging into it, but would love additional feedback and error reporting since I can't reproduce the issue personally. 
once we figure it out, I'm going to release another romlister which will help solve this for future users.  since i didn't write convert.exe, i can't fix the actual problem, but I can band-aid around it fairly well I think.

standby...

These instructions have worked for me..... i can now get a generated .lst file
from here on in i am stuck. do i replace the MAME.lst in my MA preference's folder... Or in MA preference Game list's can i create a new list then import the new generated list..... if i do either of these i still dont get the new generated game list.... please help 

[yardos1225]

I'm having the exact same problems myself. I can't get the list to generate, will try the above solution tonight, but I'm also curious as to how to get that new list to show up in Maximus??? I have just posted a new post to see if anyone can help us out....

[boogieman]

Same problem here, but the work around fixed it.

[NOP]

glad you're able to find some kind of working solution.  In my todo list for romlister work (I really need to find some free time in my life to work on it) is to generate the list locally, thus avoiding the problem, then just move the file that convert.exe spits out to where you actually tried to save it-all in the background so it looks like it just worked properly.  That's pretty simple to do in the code. 

someone once gave me some clues as to what convert.exe actually does to the file (it's just a type of compression) so in a really nice, full of rainbows and puppy dogs sort of world, romlister would be able to do the compression itself and convert.exe wouldn't be used at all.  My time might be better spent elsewhere though.

[DeLuSioNal29]

There's also a utility on the freebies section of the Maximus Arcade website called Game List Converter that converts the proprietary .lst files and converts them to .txt and back.

Here's the description:  "Drag and drop Maximus Arcade game list files (.LST) into the utility window to convert it to a text file for high level editing. Drop the text file back into the window again to convert it back into a Maximus Arcade game list format file.  System requirements:  WIN 98/2K/XP/Vista"

You can grab it here:  http://www.maximusarcade.com/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=file&Itemid=88&task=download&id=35

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[NOP]

ok, that's super cool.

Currently, RL creates the text file, runs convert.exe, then deletes the text file, as I assumed you wouldn't need it anymore. 
My life would be much simpler if I didn't delete the file and told you to go run the GLC program.

I'd have to check to make sure that GLC uses the same text formatting as the file RL creates, but this really sounds like a winning solution.  Removing code from RL is a job I think I can handle.

[UFO8MyCow]

I am having the same problem. I have been at this for two nights now and still no luckI am able to save the lists as a lst file and see them in windows explorer but when i import them with maximus they dont show up.

[UFO8MyCow]

Can someone please help me out with this? I really like MAximus but If I cant get this figured out soon then I will have to find another frontend

[DeLuSioNal29]

Can you attach your .lst file to this topic?  Rename it to .txt first before attaching.  Then we can rename it back.

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[UFO8MyCow]

I finally figured it out. I was saving the files as "Fighter.lst" the files need to be saved as "MAME_Fighter.lst".