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has anyone had this problem with mame


djwar

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i got this weird problem, for instance Asteroids arcade rom, when I try to launch it through launchbox it does not find the rom files, it won't launch the game, but if I do it through mameui it does it fine with no problem...

this has happened to me  with 3 different games so far..

and to make sure I go to edit, browse the rom file again, just in case, but still the same..

and btw I got 2 mame emulators added, .167 and .175, I got .175 as a default one, but only .167 launch the game through launchbox, I know is not the rom path, cause the problem is with 3 games only

mameui launch the game but launchbox won t do it.... what could it be...

 

 

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The only time I have run into this issue is when I have 2 different folders for roms. I have a "full" set and a "favourites" set of games I have pulled out. I don't have a full Mame list set up in Launchbox I just import games from my favourites folder to keep things from getting too crazy.

Sometimes when I pull a game from the full set into the favourites I forget to pull in a "parent" rom with it.

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I only have 1 rom folder and the problem is with the same parent called "asteroid       Asteroids (rev 4)"

well the problem so far is with only 3 roms of all my rom set, but what if find strange or a coincidence is that all this 3 games are Vector games

Below you can compare and see for yourself that the rom path is the same

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Hmm I didn't have the original Asteroids pulled into Launchbox but just for testing I pulled the rom over into my mame favourites rom folder and imported it into Launchbox. I use Mame 0.174 command line version and my Asteroids is revision 4 just like yours. The game loads just fine so there is something weird going on for you.

If the game is loading just fine when going through MameUI itself it should work. Usually when a game isn't loading it is either a missing parent / bios or a rompath issue but it doesn' appear to be the issue since the game is green in MameUI.

You mentioned that you have 3 games including Asteroids with this problem, what are the other games ?

 

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Like I said I am completely stumped at the moment. Everything I can think of off the top of my head right now I don't think it is. I thought maybe you had a different emulator set for those games but I can see in your first pic it's set to 0.175. Your second pic is showing the rom is green in MameUI so your roms are correct. My first post I said whenever I have run into this problem it was a rompath issue or I didn't have a parent rom copied over but you only have the one rom folder.

Sorry I am stumped, hopefully someone else sees this and can think of what the problem would be.

I really don't think this would cause or fix the problem but I don't use MameUI, I use the command line version.

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Here is what is inside my astdelux.7z file. It matches what is missing in your picture.

That message usually means it cannot find those rom files so your rom path is wrong or your rom file is wrong. But everything you are saying and showing says your path and rom is correct. I am really stumped but I can almost guarantee at this point once you figure it out it is going to be something really stupid and simple.

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Now that we are talkin.. is there a way to refresh your roms games through launchbox?

for instance, you put more roms in your rom folder, refresh through launchbox to look for new files and add em..

if there isnt, that would be helpful

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