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General / Re: Bear with me and this bug report please (AM not launching emulator).
« on: November 07, 2018, 05:23:37 PM »I'm assuming you've done the basics? Like re-installing AM from scratch? I would do that. Then setup Mame with the default arguments that AM provides then test it again. This way you can rule out the code, or any lingering funky AM settings as the cause. If that doesn't work, then try downloading a different version of Mame--preferably the most recent (0.78 seems ancient and it's recommended to use something more recent because the jump and advances in emulation fixes are massive and well worth it). Just grab a single test rom from somewhere and try it out. This way you can rule out the version of Mame as the cause. If it still doesn't work, then test it out on a different computer so you can rule out if it's your rig or not.
It's very new AM installation. Just a few days ago actually that I installed AM for the very first time. But of course I will try reinstall after I try new mame version. The reason I chose old mame (0.78) is because it's remarkably less demanding than newer ones. While I do not know for certain whether the higher demand of newer MAMEs is mostly due to simpler (and less efficient) code, or due to more accurate emulation, I'm assuming that there is a remarkably higher accuracy which has a role in the performance demand. For example, this system did not run bsnes/higan (most accurate SNES emulator) well 2-3 years ago that I tested, so I continued with SNES9X which I have no problems with.
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Oh and one other thing. Make sure in your mame.ini that's found in your Mame executable folder, that for "rompath", you have all your directories to your Mame roms listed.
I have mame.ini's rompath set to the same location as MAME.cfg's rompath. And as I wrote earlier, if there was anything wrong with the rompath or the args then MAME should fail everytime, and not fail depending on window manager related stuff (no window set "always on top") or explorer shell not running etc..