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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: rloxley on February 22, 2019, 06:49:21 AM

Title: Each & every "PC Games.cfg" immediately freezes AM while creating romlist 0% ...
Post by: rloxley on February 22, 2019, 06:49:21 AM

Hi :-)

I literally tried every PC Games.cfg (with my system paths) i could find around attractmode.org & google, but each and every one freezes AM immediately at "creating romlist 0%"

If you ask me to post my config, i can post every single config i found, They're all ending up in the same result...

So i would bet this isn't a config issue at all, it's a windows 10 "rights management" or "file owner" problem or something like this sh.. (sorry)
I'm quiet shure i already did it right several times, but something else in the background is blocking it anyway...

My structure is as following:

Windows Game Installation goes to: H:\PC Games
Attract Mode path: H:\Vintage Collection\Attract\attract.exe
Game Roms (*.lnk & *.bat) for AM path: H:\Vintage Collection\Games\PC Games\roms

There's no 3rd party antivirus or firewall installed yet, that may could block something, just Windows Defender.

Any guess?

[UPDATE]
Tried AGAIN the other day, worked fine immediately without any problems at all... :o
Really don't have a clue what went wrong before AND don't want to think about it again ever!  8) :)

Title: Re: Each & every "PC Games.cfg" immediately freezes AM while creating romlist 0% ...
Post by: myriadgamers on February 27, 2019, 11:56:34 AM

So I dont know if this will help, but recently I converted all my PC games to run on AHK scripts and when I go to generate a rom list it appears to be frozen at 0%. When I go back to the desk top I can see that AHK has thrown an error and as soon as I hit OK to confirm the error and it closes the screen my list finishes its generate process.

You might have to close out of the program of what you are trying to generate from. I often have to close out bizhawk when I am generating a list cause attract mode will open it during the initial part of the generation with out proceeding till I close bizhawk.

Title: Re: Each & every "PC Games.cfg" immediately freezes AM while creating romlist 0% ...
Post by: iOtero on March 03, 2019, 02:25:27 AM

This should work for you:

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executable           cmd
args                 /c "[romfilename]"
rompath              H:\Vintage Collection\Games\PC Games\roms
romext               .lnk;.bat
system               PC Games
info_source         
# exit_hotkey        Escape
artwork flyer        H:\Vintage Collection\Games\PC Games\flyer
artwork marquee      H:\Vintage Collection\Games\PC Games\marquee
artwork snap         H:\Vintage Collection\Games\PC Games\snap
artwork wheel        H:\Vintage Collection\Games\PC Games\wheel