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Title: Mala "all games" list not finding half my roms!
Post by: jcroach on November 09, 2006, 09:00:30 am

Ok, I'm having problems with Mala.  When I install it and refresh my main game list, it doesn't find half of my roms.  I have amostly complete Mame 0.110 set and Mala only lists like 2500 or my nearly 5000 roms.  When I check "Only games with roms" in Mala, this gets bumped down to like 1500 and when I check "Only working games" it drops to 799!   I know the roms are there and they show up and work in Mamewah.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Oh, I'm using Mala 1.0 RC8.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Title: Re: Mala "all games" list not finding half my roms!
Post by: swindus on November 09, 2006, 09:31:06 am

Hmm, did a test here with MAME 0.110 and MaLa RC8 collects 6283 roms overall without any collection options activated. If you enable the debug log on the help tab in the options dialog you can watch the rom collection process of MaLa. Maybe this helps and you can find a hint in the log.

Or try to recreate the MAME XML file. There was another user which I have sent my XML file and  with this file it worked for him. The file size of my MAME XML file is 26.236KB. Do you have games from A to Z in your MaLa list?

Title: Re: Mala "all games" list not finding half my roms!
Post by: jcroach on November 09, 2006, 10:04:30 am

Quote from: swindus on November 09, 2006, 09:31:06 am

Hmm, did a test here with MAME 0.110 and MaLa RC8 collects 6283 roms overall without any collection options activated. If you enable the debug log on the help tab in the options dialog you can watch the rom collection process of MaLa. Maybe this helps and you can find a hint in the log.

Or try to recreate the MAME XML file. There was another user which I have sent my XML file and  with this file it worked for him. The file size of my MAME XML file is 26.236KB. Do you have games from A to Z in your MaLa list?

Thanks for the reply swindus.  Yes, the missing roms are random across the alphabet.  I tried to create a new mame.xml file last night and got some weird errors.  I believe my mame.xml file is about 26kb.  I'll have to double check.

does it make a difference if I create the mame.xml file through the command line (mame -listxml) or through Mala with the create button?

I'll try the debug log idea tonight.
   

Title: Re: Mala "all games" list not finding half my roms!
Post by: swindus on November 09, 2006, 10:24:57 am

Quote from: jcroach on November 09, 2006, 10:04:30 am

does it make a difference if I create the mame.xml file through the command line (mame -listxml) or through Mala with the create button?

No, its exactly the same.

Title: Re: Mala "all games" list not finding half my roms!
Post by: jcroach on November 09, 2006, 11:52:49 am

swindus, after futher thought, would you be willing to send me your mame.xml file also? Maybe that will do the trick for me too. 

jcroach AT yahoo DOT com

Title: Re: Mala "all games" list not finding half my roms!
Post by: swindus on November 09, 2006, 12:40:59 pm

On the way ...

Title: Re: Mala "all games" list not finding half my roms!
Post by: jcroach on November 10, 2006, 09:21:42 am

Thanks for the file, swindus.   That did the trick.  After everything was working, I tried to recreate the mame.xml file directly for the command line in mame.  That worked fine!  Before, I was creating the mame.xml file through Mala and the final file was only about 5MB, instead ofthe 26MB that it should have been. 

I haven't done the debug log yet.  Would you still like me to?

jcroach