Launching Retroarch - Mame

[onesojourner]

I have retroarch setup to play my few arcade games. They play fine in retroarch but I cannot figure out how to get them to launch in attractmode. I have compared my working retroarch-n64 setup to the mame setup and they are identical except for the core dll. I have tested a couple of the games in retroarch and I have had success with the 2003 core and the 2014 core. When I try to launch the games from attractmode I get no response with the 2003 core and retroarch just pops up a crash dialog with 2014. The romset is 2003.

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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.2.1
#
executable           C:\Users\Downloads\RetroArch\retroarch.exe
args                 -L cores\mame2003_libretro.dll "[romfilename]"
rompath              P:\Mame .078 2003
romext               .zip;.7z;<DIR>
system               Arcade
info_source          listsoftware+thegamesdb.net
exit_hotkey          Joy0 Button7+Joy0 Button6
artwork    flyer           
artwork    marquee         $HOME/mame/marquees
artwork    snap            $HOME/mame/videos;$HOME/mame/snap
artwork    wheel           



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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.2.1
#
executable           C:\Users\Downloads\RetroArch\retroarch.exe
args                 -L cores\mupen64plus_libretro.dll "[romfilename]"
rompath              F:\N64\Nintendo 64
romext               .zip
system               Nintendo 64
info_source          thegamesdb.net
exit_hotkey          Joy0 Button7+Joy0 Button6
artwork    flyer           C:\Users\Peter\Downloads\attract-v2.2.1-win64\system art\Nintendo 64\flyer\
artwork    marquee         C:\Users\Peter\Downloads\attract-v2.2.1-win64\system art\Nintendo 64\marquee
artwork    snap            C:\Users\Peter\Downloads\attract-v2.2.1-win64\system art\Nintendo 64\snap
artwork    wheel           C:\Users\Peter\Downloads\attract-v2.2.1-win64\system art\Nintendo 64\wheel\



[denmiclaw]

The only things that jump out at me, my args have romfilename at the beginning, not the end

args                 "[romfilename]" -L cores\mupen64plus_libretro.dll -fullscreen

for example.

Second, the rompath for your Mame, is that SUPPOSED to be P:\, since your N64 is on F:\ or is that a mistake?

[onesojourner]

Thanks I will try changing the arguments around. Maybe mame is a bit more picky.

The path is correct. I have a second drive in this machine. The roms are all scanned and showing correctly.

[onesojourner]

I switched things around with no change.

[progets]

Recently I've seen current versions of Attract-Mode and RetroArch on Windows picky about the commands it likes. You can these and one of them should work.

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executable           C:\Users\Downloads\RetroArch\retroarch.exe
args                 -L C:\Users\Downloads\RetroArch\cores\mame2003_libretro.dll "[romfilename]"
or

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executable           C:\Users\Downloads\RetroArch\retroarch.exe -L C:\Users\Downloads\RetroArch\cores\mame2003_libretro.dll
args                 "[romfilename]"
or

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executable           C:\Users\Downloads\RetroArch\retroarch.exe -L cores\mame2003_libretro.dll
args                 "[romfilename]"


[ilsiu]

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but it exactly describes my problem.  I'm trying to setup Attract Mode 2.3.0 with Retroarch 1.7.0.  Using Retroarch by itself, I can run all my NES, SNES, Genesis, and Mame (mame2010_libretro.dll core) games.

Using AM, NES, SNES, Genesis are fine, but many Mame games don't load up.  My mame.cfg file is setup almost exactly like the previously posted file, but my directories are different.  I tried all three command line arguments posted above by progets, but no luck.

Any suggestions?

My mame.cfg for reference:

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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.3.0
#
executable           C:\arcade stick\Emulators\retroarch.exe -L C:\arcade stick\Emulators\cores\mame2010_libretro.dll
args                 "[romfilename]"
rompath              C:\Games\Mame2010
romext               .zip;.7z;<DIR>
system               Classic Arcade
info_source          listxml
exit_hotkey          Escape
artwork    flyer           
artwork    marquee         
artwork    snap           
artwork    wheel   

Thanks!