Raspberry Pi MAME rom limit?

[Finhead]

Ran into a bit of a issue today. I have AM working great on my Pi3, I am only using it for Mame no other emulators.
It works perfectly fine with a small set of roms, 65 is what I sarted with so it was easier to setup and scraping.
Today I tried to upload my full rebuilt rom set which comes out to 645 files, when I rebooted it gives a blank screen after loading AM.
Pressing TAB or ESC or any other key does not show anything, but esc is working to exit AM. I can press ESC and togle down then type sudo reboot and will reboot.

So it seems to be a issue with the display when I have full rom set loaded, anyone have any idea where I can start looking to find the issue? I am sure I could go through and delete a 3-400 roms off the rebuilt set but I would rather not have to take the time to manually go throught them.

[nitrogen_widget]

did you expand your file system?
i'm trying to think, i'm pretty sure i've had up to 300 roms on my rpi1 without issue.

I ran into issues when I forgot to expand the file system on the card & only had a few mb of free space.

[Finhead]

Lol yes just found that was the issue, thanks for the reply. I feel so stupid for not checking that first.
So 1244 Roms now and scraping is going fine.

[nitrogen_widget]

sweet!
glad I could help.

[Finhead]

sweet!
glad I could help.

You've been a big help in getting this going for me, thank you again for all you have shared.

One more question for anyone that might know. On the Pi3 the only directory I can find for Layouts is  /home/pi/develop/attract/config/layouts
I have tried coping a few different layouts to this directory but AM doesn't seem to see them. I did multiple reboots, even tried removing the stock layouts to see if it actually made a diference and to my suprise it didn't they were still selectable and working without even being in this directory.
Is there another location they may be installed?

[bionictoothpick]

Try this path Finhead:

/home/pi/.attract/layouts

[Finhead]

Try this path Finhead:

/home/pi/.attract/layouts

That was the first thing I tried to find since that is what it's supposed to be.
Only ones listed in the home directory is
/home/pi/RetroPie
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup
/home/pi/develop

And the only directory out of those that has attract is develop. Seems it installs differently on RetroPie and a Raspberry Pi 3?
I'm logged in as Root so I should be able to see all directories correct?


EDIT: Got it, another rookie mistake I am brand new to Linux didn't realize the . means the directory is hidden. Just had to set WinSCP to show the folder. lol

[omegaman]

Fin-

Clean out your message box, dude.

[Finhead]

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Clean out your message box, dude.

Sorry got it cleaned out.