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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: Jerdon on July 12, 2020, 02:51:18 PM

Title: Mame + Attract Mode Games won't launch
Post by: Jerdon on July 12, 2020, 02:51:18 PM

Hello,
I am a newbie so this might be a silly question, please bear with me.
I have set up Mame and have some roms that I can play through the mame64 application. However, I wanted a pretty front end and chose Attract-Mode. When I launch attract-mode I can see all of the roms, but when I select a game it says "Initializing" then returns back to the screen where I just selected the game. Does anyone know why this is happening and why I can't play the games through attract-mode?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Title: Re: Mame + Attract Mode Games won't launch
Post by: hermine.potter on July 14, 2020, 08:48:19 AM

The "Initializing"-problem is probably a mame-problem.
Unfortunately you have not given your AM-configuration (your_AM-folder\emulators\your-emulator.txt).

Title: Re: Mame + Attract Mode Games won't launch
Post by: Jerdon on July 14, 2020, 10:57:44 AM

Quote from: hermine.potter on July 14, 2020, 08:48:19 AM

The "Initializing"-problem is probably a mame-problem.
Unfortunately you have not given your AM-configuration (your_AM-folder\emulators\your-emulator.txt).

Hi Hermine, thanks for the reply. Below is the text within that path. Also it is a .cfg not a .txt (not sure if the extension matters)

# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.6.1
#
executable           C:\Users\me\Desktop\mame\mame64.exe
args                 [name]
workdir              C:\Users\me\Desktop\attract-v2.6.1-win64\.
rompath              C:\Users\me\Desktop\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: Mame + Attract Mode Games won't launch
Post by: hermine.potter on July 14, 2020, 01:36:23 PM

>workdir:
as you can see in help file, working dir is used with emulator, relative path, and so on.

So this should do it:

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executable           C:\Users\me\Desktop\mame\mame64.exe
args                 [name] -skip_gameinfo
rompath              C:\Users\me\Desktop\mame\roms
romext               .zip;.7z
system               Arcade
info_source          listxml

Title: Re: Mame + Attract Mode Games won't launch
Post by: Jerdon on July 14, 2020, 02:39:44 PM

That worked!
THANK YOU!