I recently ran into an unexpected issue I was hoping someone could help me with.
I am at the point where I am end-to-end testing all the games I put on my cabinet... making sure they launch properly from the front end, the controls are configured properly, and that the games exit back to the front end.
While I was doing this I repeatedly encountered a problem where -- after going through several games -- AM would suddenly stop launching any games. I could navigate the front end like normal, but every game -- no matter what emulator it relied on -- would fail. The console provided no clues, because it appeared the instructions it was sending were correct. (I have not yet tried issuing the commands from the command line, just to be sure the issue isn't deeper than AM.)
The only "fix" is to completely reboot the machine. I can't just close out of AM and restart.
Maybe there is some game or emulator that is triggering a bad attract.cfg change that resets on system restart? I have no idea.
Anyone else run into a problem like this?
It might have been a dormant issue I only noticed now because I'm systematically working through every game.