Importing Mame with CHDs issues

[drtechnolust]

I'm having trouble getting mame roms with chds to launch. I've tried lightspeed but I get an error with lightspeed that "rom cannot be found" I've tried with launchbox importer with an error that it's looking in the rom.7z for the chd folder. 

Rom Folder Structure: Mame > Games > rom.7z 

CHD Folder Structure: Mame > Games > "Foldername of CHD" > example.chd

 

Edited November 17, 2016 by drtechnolust

[DOS76]

In the MAME.ini file did you specify your paths. MAME is by default looking for your games to be located in a folder called ROMs in the root directory if you have it in a different folder but you didn't specify the change in the .ini that will be the issue.

[drtechnolust]

11 hours ago, DOS76 said:

In the MAME.ini file did you specify your paths. MAME is by default looking for your games to be located in a folder called ROMs in the root directory if you have it in a different folder but you didn't specify the change in the .ini that will be the issue.

The path was specified in the mame.ini. For some odd reason lightspeed was not creating roms paths for over 5000+ files in a 12000 rom pack. I went back to mameui64 set the rom path again to double check loaded a chd based rom and that worked. Then I used the launchbox rom importer and did a file import of each 7z file. I tested after the import and the games load successfully. Thankyou @DOS76. 

 

Edited November 18, 2016 by drtechnolust

[DOS76]

Yeah I may be mistaken but I didn't think that LightSpeed was functional since the XML split so that could be the issue.

[cleverest]

Hi everyone,

Is Lightspeed working now? (where do I look at progress/acquire latest version?) - or is there any alternative that works better than the default Launchbox MAME import process?  Thanks.