jonedc Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Guys I'm going F'n crazy I followed instructions to a tee. Every time I double click game I get this zip file box coming up what the hell am I doing wrong???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Do you have Mame set up as an emulator in Launchbox and is it set to be associated with the Arcade platform ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonedc Posted March 26, 2017 Author Share Posted March 26, 2017 Yes it seem like the zip file doesn't point to the emulator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 It looks like launchbox may be trying to unzip your roms, mame needs them zipped. Have you checked if this is the case? If you go to manage emulators and double click mame there is a checkbox to unzip before loading a rom make sure that is "UNCHECKED" like in this screenshot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonedc Posted March 26, 2017 Author Share Posted March 26, 2017 I unchecked thoses boxes and even unzipped the files (4) to the same folder where the games are pointing to . still get the 7 unzip extracting box. it should be a 32bit MAME correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 32bit if you are on 32bit windows, x64 if you are on 64bit windows. Can I see a shot of your mame screen in the manage emulators box? Rather than taking shots with a phone or whatever you are using, you can hold the windows key and press the print screen key that will take a screenshot and save it to pictures/screenshots, that's how I took that shot above. Just makes it easier to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Really if you have 32bit MAME on 64bit PC it will still work but it sounds like you aren't pointing to an emulator and it is just trying to unzip the same as it would if you clicked the file in Windows Explorer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 If we could see the details for your Mame emulator in Launchbox that would be really helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 4 minutes ago, DOS76 said: Really if you have 32bit MAME on 64bit PC it will still work but it sounds like you aren't pointing to an emulator and it is just trying to unzip the same as it would if you clicked the file in Windows Explorer Yep that's exactly what I wanted to check. Hence why I asked for the screenshot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonedc Posted March 26, 2017 Author Share Posted March 26, 2017 Guys sorry for the delay here is the screen shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 do the games work outside of LB in MAME Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 I see what's going on, or at least what it looks like. You aren't pointing to Mame but rather the downloaded self extracting zip file. When you try and run the game it's running the exe and it's in turn trying to extract the program. You need to run the mame.exe to extract it to where you want it installed to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonedc Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 OK so I think I have it pointing to right MAME.exe file when I try to launch the game the screen goes black for a second then takes me right back to launchbox desktop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 You probably have not set your rompaths for Mame. Here is a tutorial I did for Mame setup for people new to Mame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonedc Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 OK THX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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