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General / Re: Setting up Attract Mode to run Atari 2600 games with Mame .181

« on: February 04, 2017, 11:55:57 PM »

yes it finally works thank you progets, the -cart in the arguments was all it needed.    something that easy caused me hours of frustration.

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General / Re: Setting up Attract Mode to run Atari 2600 games with Mame .181

« on: February 04, 2017, 08:02:01 PM »

Thankyou akafox, I have now set up the Executable and the args and now it brings up the mame rom list and wants me to choose a game from the list and not the game I chose from the AM wheel, ie I click on space invaders on my AM wheel and it opens the mame rom list and wants me to choose a game from A to Z.

Not able to afford the raspberry pi at this time, would love to get one but maybe one day

I thought the new version of mame would run Atari 2600 games now that mess has been integrated but it just seems difficult to setup, I thought I would persist before going down the Stella route. Thanks for helping.

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General / Setting up Attract Mode to run Atari 2600 games with Mame .181

« on: February 04, 2017, 07:09:58 PM »

Hello everyone, I am trying to run Atari 2600 games using Mame .181 with Attract Mode as the front end, the games work fine using Mame from a command prompt using mame a2600 and selecting my game from the list but when I try and run it through AM nothing happens. I can see all the games in AM along with my cover art and videos so I have the paths set ok, my executable is c:\emulators\mame\mame a2600

I am running this on a PC running windows 7 pro
any help would be appreciated.