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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: Punkey on March 27, 2019, 05:13:25 PM

Title: (Solved) Attract Mode fails to start MAME ROMs
Post by: Punkey on March 27, 2019, 05:13:25 PM

Hello all, I've been beating my head against this one for the last couple of days and my Google-fu has failed me, so I'm asking for a bit of help.

So, I have Attract More all installed and set up with MAME, both running 32 bit versions on Windows 10. I can get ROMs to start all day long with MAME, but when I try to start any ROM at all in Attract Mode, it just briefly shows the MAME "Initializing..." screen before closing out back to Attract Mode. I ran the console version of AM from the command line, but all it says is that the game started with the ROM for the game itself, no other ROMs, and then it just acts as if nothing has happened. I followed the setup guide pinned above as best I could, but since it has done this on two different systems now, I figure it must be something simple and stupid I'm missing. So, if anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong, please help a new guy out. :D Thanks.

Title: Re: [Support] Attract Mode fails to start MAME ROMs
Post by: progets on March 27, 2019, 05:50:03 PM

Do you have the "rompath" set in your mame.ini?

Title: Re: [Support] Attract Mode fails to start MAME ROMs
Post by: Punkey on March 27, 2019, 06:33:49 PM

I have it set to "D:\MAME\roms" in mame.ini in the MAME folder and the default "d:\mame\roms/" in Attract Mode, problem persists.

Title: Re: [Support] Attract Mode fails to start MAME ROMs
Post by: progets on March 27, 2019, 06:46:50 PM

Post your /attractmode/emulators/mame.cfg file.

Title: Re: [Support] Attract Mode fails to start MAME ROMs
Post by: Punkey on March 27, 2019, 06:54:10 PM

# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.5.1
#
executable           D:\mame\mame.exe
args                 [name]
workdir              D:\Attract Mode\.
rompath              D:\mame\roms/
romext               .zip;.7z
system               Arcade
info_source          listxml
artwork    marquee         $HOME/mame/marquee
artwork    snap            $HOME/mame/video;$HOME/mame/snap

Title: Re: [Support] Attract Mode fails to start MAME ROMs
Post by: progets on March 27, 2019, 07:43:09 PM

Quote from: Punkey on March 27, 2019, 06:54:10 PM

# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.5.1
#
executable           D:\mame\mame.exe
args                 [name]
workdir              D:\Attract Mode\.
rompath              D:\mame\roms/
romext               .zip;.7z
system               Arcade
info_source          listxml
artwork    marquee         $HOME/mame/marquee
artwork    snap            $HOME/mame/video;$HOME/mame/snap

Try this instead

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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.5.1
#
executable           D:\mame\mame.exe
args                 [name]
rompath              D:\mame\roms
romext               .zip;.7z
system               Arcade
info_source          listxml
artwork    marquee         $HOME/mame/marquee
artwork    snap            $HOME/mame/video;$HOME/mame/snap


Title: Re: [Support] Attract Mode fails to start MAME ROMs
Post by: Punkey on March 27, 2019, 07:50:59 PM

Awesome, got it working. What was the change that fixed it? (Or rather, what did the removal of that one line fix?)

Title: Re: [Support] Attract Mode fails to start MAME ROMs
Post by: progets on March 27, 2019, 09:46:16 PM

I'm glad it's working for you.

Your "workdir" was wrong. The working directory is for the emulator, not Attract-Mode. It's not needed for MAME but if you want to use it yours would be "D:\mame". Your "rompath" might have been an issue with the trailing "/" too. I'm not sure about that so I just adjusted both to give you the best chance at success.