I cannot seem to get joust to work! It stops at "Factory Settings Restored"! Also I have 3156 ROMS for the desktop version and not many work with MameCE?

You may have 40 million roms but what version are they ? Are they .36 ?? If they are then they should all work. If they are not (and it sounds 100% like they are not all version .36) then they wont.

MameCE only works with .36 roms as you should be able to tell on many of the other threads here.

with the regular (Windows Mame32) version of MAME, Joust (and Defender, Stargate, Joust2, etc) loads up with a grainy graphics screen, then the "Factory Setting restored" screen. At this point, you need to press the F3 key to reset the game & go to the regular title screen (Joust logo + high scores). Since the Pocket PC does not have a dedicated F3 key, you can assign it, but BEWARE, you may screw up your other settings and this is a PERMANENT key assignment...........you have been warned.....

> with the regular (Windows Mame32) version of MAME, Joust (and Defender,
> Stargate, Joust2, etc) loads up with a grainy graphics screen, then the "Factory
> Setting restored" screen. At this point, you need to press the F3 key to reset
> the game & go to the regular title screen (Joust logo + high scores). Since the
> Pocket PC does not have a dedicated F3 key, you can assign it, but BEWARE, you
> may screw up your other settings and this is a PERMANENT key
> assignment...........you have been warned.....
>
There is another way.

Once it gets to "factory settings restored" go into the OSD and reset the game.