Attract-Mode Support Forum
Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: jarz on March 22, 2017, 10:56:54 AM
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Specifically with MAME. I am using the latest mame 183, I have used a couple different catver.ini files and non seem to work (all 183). The Category column is there in the romlist once I generate in Attract Mode it's just nothing is populated into the column. nplayer.ini and controls ini seem to populate fine. I have validated that the mame.ini is pointed to the catver.ini location and the Attract mode emulator config is pointed to the location of the catver.ini. I Gernerate the romlist... still no luck.
At this point I may dig in and see what about the Generate romlist process could be going wrong but it almost might be faster for me to just write a script to parse out all the catver.ini data and populate the column in the romlist. I just wanted to start up this topic to see if anyone else has hit this on the latest MAME version with catver.ini. Maybe a bug?
EDIT: Maybe worth noting I am on Ubuntu 16.04, installed AM via repo.
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Nevermind, solved it. May need to update documentation or the Generate Romlist process. Looks like you have to explicitly define the catver.ini file. Not just the location. In other words:
# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.2.0-3-dirty¬
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executable $HOME/mame/mame¬
args [name]¬
rompath $HOME/mame/roms183¬
romext .zip;.7z;<DIR>¬
system Arcade¬
info_source listxml¬
import_extras $HOME/mame/catver.ini;$HOME/.attract/mame-config¬
artwork flyer $HOME/roms/mame183extras/flyers¬
artwork marquee $HOME/roms/mame183extras/marquees¬
artwork snap $HOME/mame/videosnaps;$HOME/roms/mame183extras/snap¬
artwork wheel···········¬
Note that import_extras is $HOME/mame/catver.ini not $HOME/mame/
Looks like that is required to get it to work.