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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: jeepdon on February 11, 2026, 12:06:18 PM
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Running AM on macOS (Tahoe).
Works GREAT if I use Terminal to run attract.
MAME works GREAT if I run, say, "Mame dkong3" from Terminal.
Double-clicking AM's icon in the Applications folder, selecting Donkey Kong 3, and hitting Return just blinks "Loading" (I'm using the Reflect theme and that's part of it), and does nothing.
Modified the launch.sh script in the app's folder to include debug logging. I get:
*** Running: mame dkong3
execvp(): file='mame', argv=[mame][dkong3]
Error executing: mame dkong3
Updating stats: increment play count by 1 and play time by 0 seconds.
Resuming frontend after game launch
[Transition] type=FromGame, var=0
FFmpeg: Reinit context to 480x640, pix_fmt: yuv420p
Handling command: select
[Transition] type=ToGame, var=0
End Video Thread - /Users/jeepdon/mame/video/dkong3.mp4
- bit_rate=306163, width=480, height=640
- displayed=83
- average qscore=15
- Working directory: /Users/jeepdon/mame/
*** Running: mame dkong3
execvp(): file='mame', argv=[mame][dkong3]
Error executing: mame dkong3
Updating stats: increment play count by 1 and play time by 0 seconds.
Resuming frontend after game launch
[Transition] type=FromGame, var=0
FFmpeg: Reinit context to 480x640, pix_fmt: yuv420p
Handling command: exit
End Video Thread - /Users/jeepdon/mame/video/dkong3.mp4
- bit_rate=306163, width=480, height=640
(That's from hitting Return twice in AM.)
Is there anyplace else I can look to see what the error is? I'm vaguely wondering if it's something permissions-related, but I don't know where to actually look.