Fygee Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Having a quirky issue where any game that uses MAME won't load anymore. When attempting to load, I'll get the Windows spinny load circle for a couple seconds, then nothing. LaunchBox will correctly see the game its pathway, and will load MAME if I right click and tell it to. I can then run the game once MAME is open. This wasn't occurring with MAME 0.183. I deleted the MAME entry under platforms and re-added it, no luck. I deleted the whole Arcade category and reimported all of my games. Still no luck. As far as I can tell, of my directory and other settings look good. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Can you post a screenshot of your emulator settings in Launchbox for Mame along with the Associated Platforms window for Mame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Yea, screenshots will help please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fygee Posted April 15, 2017 Author Share Posted April 15, 2017 Apologies for the late response. Here are the requested picture attachments. Note that the MAME directory differs from the rest as I attempted to test it outside of the directory it was in previously. No luck there either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Turn off "Dont use quotes" and "Use file name only" in first screenshot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fygee Posted April 15, 2017 Author Share Posted April 15, 2017 Done. No change unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Hmm, you say your games are loading in Mame outside of Launchbox. I haven't upgraded my Mame from 182 so I am not sure if something got changed or not. Hopefully Brad has an answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fygee Posted April 15, 2017 Author Share Posted April 15, 2017 Yup, I can right click on a game, Open Mame, and then run it within MAME and all is well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 where are your roms located? Has the location changed since 0.183 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Also just tested 0.184 working fine through LB here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fygee Posted April 16, 2017 Author Share Posted April 16, 2017 ROMs are in the same location as they were before when it was working. They're under the default import directory for LaunchBox. I also made sure that pathway was added to the ROM directory settings in MAME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Okay hate to ask stupid questions but when you updated MAME did you add the path again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 .184 should work just fine. By, "Under the default rom directory", does that mean you imported your games then let LB move them to it's games folder? If so, LB only moved the files it was importing and not the rest of the split or non-merged rom set. You'll need to move the rest of the rom sets files to the game folder location and tell MAME where to look in it's settings. If not, sticking the roms in the mame/rom folder is totally sufficient. Otherwise, with your emulator path the same, and the check boxes set properly it should be just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 (edited) Actually if you move just what is imported and when you edit the MAME.ini to add the LB games folder as long as you don't delete the path to the ROMs folder in the root of MAME (assuming that is where the games where originally) they should still work because MAME utilizes multiple folder paths. Edited April 16, 2017 by DOS76 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fygee Posted April 17, 2017 Author Share Posted April 17, 2017 I did the import filtering out most of the games I don't need. Those ROMs were then moved to the LaunchBox Games folder per defaults. ROM paths within MAME are correct as far as I can tell. All the games it detects are the ones that were imported. Should I just delete the Arcade entry in LaunchBox and re-add it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Patrick34 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 On 17-4-2017 at 4:00 AM, Fygee said: I did the import filtering out most of the games I don't need. Those ROMs were then moved to the LaunchBox Games folder per defaults. ROM paths within MAME are correct as far as I can tell. All the games it detects are the ones that were imported. Should I just delete the Arcade entry in LaunchBox and re-add it? Did you update your romfiles to 0.184? Some roms won't work after updating Mame, and you have to update your romfiles to 0.184. Maby it helps. When you start Mame without Launchbox all the roms work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fygee Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 ROMs were a full .0184 romset that I downloaded from scratch. I was able to resolve the issue by completely nuking the Arcade entry and MAME under the emulators, and readding them. Took a while to get everything back to where it was, but my games are working normally again. Thanks to everyone here for their help and advice here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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