Romset trouble (Mame)

[Gryzor]

Hi all,

Really enjoying Attract Mode, but I have recently run into a problem that have stumpled me.

I have downloaded Mame 0.162 (NoNag) and the 0.162 romset, and everything is working peachy when run through MamearcedeUI64. However when I try to set it up as straight forward as possible in Attract Mode (with "[romfilename]" and the correct paths) the games refuse to load, and tells me that I have the wrong romset. Aliens for example gives me a "875... NOT FOUND - tried in aliens aliens".

From looking at that I figured it somehow searched for the romfile twice (aliens aliens) and I therefore tried deleting the romlist from the Attract Mode-library, but it still gives me the same error.

It should be said that I have tried with several different versions of Mame, before the current one that I am using.

Thanks for any help in advance

[omegaman]

Gryzor-

Try using [name] args in your mame.cfg. This works with the standalone mame emulator from mame.net. Rule of thump, if it works on the command line it should work in am.   

# Generated by Attract-Mode 1.0.2
#
executable           C:\Emulators\Mame\mame.exe
args                 [name]
rompath              C:\Emulators\Mame32\roms
romext               .zip;.chd;<DIR>
listxml              mame
artwork    marquee         C:\media\mame\marquee
artwork    snap            C:\media\mame\video
artwork    flyer           C:\media\mame\flyers
artwork    wheel           C:\media\mame\wheel

[Gryzor]

I am not sure that I understand what you mean with "Try using [name] args in your mame.cfg" - correcting the paths in mame.cfg?

[tomek]

[name] is a special tag/place holder in AM which is replaced at run time with the name of the ROM. You can try to configure AM to use this tag explicitly to pass it as argument to your MAME executable. See if it helps resolve your problem.

[akafox]

Gyrzor what omegaman and tomek are saying is:

1. start attract mode
2. press the TAB button
3. goto emulators
4. where it says args erase everything there and type:

Code: [Select]

[name]
Correct:

# Generated by Attract-Mode 1.5.2
#
executable           mame
args                 [name]                   <- it should look like this
rompath              $HOME/.mame/roms/
romext               .zip
system               Arcade
info_source          mame

Incorrect:
# Generated by Attract-Mode 1.5.2
#
executable           mame
args                 [romfilename] or "[romfilename]" <-- it should not look like this
rompath              $HOME/.mame/roms/
romext               .zip
system               Arcade
info_source          mame

5. goto the bottom where it says back..back out and then back out again to the list screen
6. try to load a game

Anymore problems or even if it works let us know.

[Gryzor]

First: thank you for trying to help me solve this problem.

I did try the [name] solution, but it gave me the same result.

I did however end up making it work, by using Mamearcade64 instead of Mamearcadeui64 and following this guide http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=320.0 (thank you Akafox).

I am planning on using the same version of Mame for NeoGeo (have not set it up yet) the same way, and therefore now just need to familiarise myself with the Filter-options.

Anywho, thanks again for help (what an awesome forum) - appriciated

[akafox]

Glad you got it fixed. When you say neo-geo...do you mean that you are going to make a dedicated neogeo cab? (if so i envy you ) If you are wanting to run neo-geo as i home console set up you might want to use mess instead. (it can be tricky to set up though.)

[Gryzor]

Actually I just meant that I want NeoGeo-games to have their own category in my setup of Attract Mode - trying to seperate everything by platform (and waiting for an update of the awesome Robospin-layout where showing of the chosen platform is included).

As for a dedicated NeoGeo-machine, it might happen in the future, though I first want to complete the last few details on this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4f887ng9vrjr13g/Billede%2003-08-15%2022.21.09.jpg?dl=0

[akafox]

Ahh. OK easy one there. You just need to filter them.

1. Go to the config menu (press TAB key)
2. Goto dosplays (press enter)
3. Choose emulator (mame here)
4. Goto filter.
5. name the filter (ex.neogeo)
6. make target show alt romname
7. make comparison show equals
8. make filter value show (type this one) neogeo

that will filter all the neogeo games into their own list

it might make your main list disappear (at least it did for me) so make another filter name it all and leave it all blank. Or you can filter the neogeo games out.

1. Go to the config menu (press TAB key)
2. Goto dosplays (press enter)
3. Choose emulator (mame here)
4. Goto filter.
5. name the filter (ex.all)
6. make target show altromname
7. make comparison show does not contain/equal
8. make filter value show (type this one) neogeo

make sure that you you set up your controls to get to your filters