wagyan

Well, I took last night's Mame update as a sign to see if that side was the culprit, so I downloaded the new 0203 version of MameUI64, installed it in a new place on the drive, cut'n'pasted the roms from the 0201 set and redid the ini file from scratch. I then deleted the old Mame install and renamed the new one in its place, booted up BB and it worked straight off! Not entirely sure what happened with the old build - I'm guessing something got corrupted along the way, perhaps? Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you @Lordmonkus and @Jason Carr for your help - it was much appreciated!

Thanks for getting in touch! Sadly, everything is up to date and running fine, so it excludes that aspect. My video card is a GTX970 so I'm guessing that memory isn't too much of an issue. I'm in the process of building up a dedicated emulation PC so hopefully the anomaly will prove to be just that. I would like to get it working on this PC though. Maybe I'll do a clean install of everything.

Yeah I completely understand the bizarre nature of it - there is no real logical explanation for it as far as I can see. Is there any debug mode or log that would allow me to provide more details?

Intriguing - if, via the BB interface, I open MameUI64 and try to run a rom from the mame interface, the same failure happens; black screen for a moment, then the instance of Mame closes without booting the game, spitting me back into BB. However, if I shut down BB after using it to open Mame, I am able to run the games. It seems like BB is interfering with Mame in some way that LB does not.

Sadly no dice. I might grit my teeth and reimport the mame set, but hmmm... really not sure.

Thanks a lot - I'll give it a try

Indeed, that's what's so preplexing. Perhaps something got messed up in the update to 8.9 on my end? Is there a way to reinstall LB but preserving all the emulators and roms? For example when 9.0 is released, is there a way to do the update manually?

I'm not entirely sure what has happened here, but for some reason the only games that aren't working are my Mame games. I'm sure they worked before, but perhaps I've managed to get them knocked off-kilter via some renaming of playlists etc. I'm stumped as I can't find any config files to point anywhere, and in BB I can open the directory for the roms as well as open MameUI64 correctly. Running MameUI64 for 201 with the matching split set. As posted in the title, all the games work perfectly through LB, but for some reason they try to load in BB before returning to the game select screen after a few seconds. I get the "loading game" message, then a black screen with the windows 10 hourglass disk thingy, then back to the game screen. If I click "Open MameUI64" it does so, so BB is pointing to the right places for the roms and Mame, but it's just not working. Every other platform is working fine (Demul, Dolphin, Retroarch etc) - just this one and only in BB mode. Oh and a quick edit to say hello and thank you for a wonderful piece of software!