I've been reading the thread since day one practically and do you really think i'm naive enough to not set the rompath!? I did say I have it running in kawaks 1.45 because the games in the.dat file show up in 1.45 in the list even when you don't have the roms. Like I said, kawaks 1.46 loader isn't showing games from the.dat file in the game list. For me both the hacked loader and the original winkawaks.exe display identical game lists. This isn't a problem with the rom itself, ive checked all crc entries in the.dat file alongside the rom and they are identical, but the rom won't run unless it appears in the gamelist. It has to be a problem with the hacked loader somewhere, what a lot of people don't realise is there are around 5 versions of it going around in different 1.46 hacks, but the build of the loader is the same in each so theres no point trying different loaders. Someone suggest something besides renaming roms and setting rom paths plz Just a quick note, setting the rompath will only result in displaying games that you have in your roms dir when you select the Only Available option in kawaks, it doesn't change the default gamelist that is displayed when you select Only Missing which is the problem i'm having, SNK Vs Capcom should show up in the missing list but it doesnt, so its not gonna appear even if i have it coz the emulator doesnt actually know it exists