[Solved] On Lubuntu 15.10 attractmode doesn't launch roms

[Paperinik]

Hi everyone!

I installed attractmode 1.6.2 on Lubuntu 15.10 （very long to do due to some dependency missing), but now even if attractmode show roms in main view, nothing happen selecting them.

Snapshots in attractmode are showed and if I launch mame directly from terminal (mame romname), rom was loaded correctly.
I filled in attractmode executable path in $HOME/usr/game/mame but nothing change

Can someone help me？

[verion]

I've had the same problem.

I've assumed that entering the rom path into AM is enough for mame to find the roms.
But it's not - you have to provide rom path in mame.ini (mame config file)

If you don't have one - just create empty txt file (in the same folder where your mame executable is) and paste

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rompath                   /users/VERION/mame/roms
of course the path should be pointing to your rom folder.


alternatively you can just add this command to the command arguments (in AM)

PRESS TAB > EMULATORS > EDIT EMULATORS > MAME > COMMAND ARGUMENTS

and ADD here this:

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-rompath [rompath]
so your COMMAND ARGUMENTS should look like this:

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[name] -rompath [rompath]

I'm on OSX but this should work on linux too

[akafox]

First I'd like to know how you got it to work on 15.10! I had so much trouble I gave up and went back to 14.04.

my rom path looks like this $HOME/.mame/roms (I'm on lbuntu linux as well)

I filled in attractmode executable path in $HOME/usr/game/mame but nothing change

if that is your executable path it's wrong...

make your executable just mame..

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executable  mame
or you can use

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/usr/games/mame
either way it's the same to the os if you used apt-get or a package manger to install it....if you are using a "uninstalled" binary you need to cd to the folder it is in an type

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./mame (notice the dot!)

or for AM it would be

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$HOME/pathtofolder/./mame (again the dot)

Try these...if not post your ini file and we can help better...I am assuming you are trying to start mame (arcade) games?

[Paperinik]

First thanks both for help!

I finally solved, as you suggest, path to executable was wrong.
I used

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lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ which mame
/usr/games/mame
to find the correct one...I missed one "s" 

once inserted in AM everything works!

P.S. about Lubuntu 15.10
I want to build an arcade stand alone box using lubuntu live on USB pen drive on netbook acer aspire one.
AttractMode seem to be the best frontend to do it.
I download from Lubuntu home page and I installed on usb pen drive as boot device.
It works like a charm, also using the usb pen on a different computer.