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General / Re: Rom filename instead of game name?

« on: April 23, 2015, 08:31:21 AM »

This is the mame config file:

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# Generated by Attract-Mode 1.5.1
#
executable           c:\mame\mame.exe
args                 [name]
rompath              c:\mame\roms
romext               .zip;.7z
info_source          mame
import_extras        catver.ini
artwork    flyer           c:\mame\flyers
artwork    marquee         
artwork    snap            c:\mame\snap
artwork    wheel           

The strange thing is that all the games with a number at the start show their full title, games that start with letters all show rom file names.

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General / Re: Rom filename instead of game name?

« on: April 23, 2015, 06:58:25 AM »

Yep, windows xp sp3. The PC is a 2.4ghz p4 with 1gb. I'm using mame 0.84 because the romset was only £10 from a rom burner, the full set of newer mames is too expensive for the person I am doing it for and neither of us want to download something that huge, he's only really interested in stuff that runs well on 84 anyway.

I have set up mala on his machine but it's not as nice or fast as AM, scrolling through the lists is really slow and it doesn't hide the OS as well (cmd windows pop up and all that). It does show the titles and not the rom names though!

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General / Rom filename instead of game name?

« on: April 23, 2015, 06:25:55 AM »

Hi! I'm setting up a arcade machine for a friend and am using Attract Mode as the FE. My problem is this - I can't find a way to get the game names to show up in the list instead of the rom file names. The first 10 or so show up with the actual game title but the rest just show the rom file name without the .zip at the end. I have the paths and everything all set up correctly as far as I can tell, and mame makes the xml file fine. The only thing I can think of is that I am using mame 0.84 because the PC he is using is fairly old, would that make this problem?