Games Work in MAME but not in LaunchBox

[LordDangerMouse]

Hi I am new to LaunchBox and such so I am hoping that i have just missed something simple.  Yesterday my Arcade games were working fine but now they will not play in Launch Box.  They all still launch and play fine in MAME but when I try to play them in LaunchBox I get "NOT FOUND" errors.  The games are all stored in LaunchBox\Games\Arcade and close launch box and open MAMEUI64 to play them from there and all works fine.

Thanks, 

-DM

[Lordmonkus]

If they worked yesterday through Launchbox and not today then something must have changed. Did you do anything to make changes ?

[Retro808]

Try the following: But first backup your Mame folder in case it does not work than you can delete it an recover your original settings from the back up. 

MameUI has had issues loading the configs stored in the ini folder. It will try to load from the main folder. So make a back up first of your files. Then once you did that in the original MameUI folder copy the contents of your ini folder and paste it into the main folder (the root folder that MameUI.exe is in). Then try to load a game through LB box.

[LordDangerMouse]

8 hours ago, Retro808 said:

Try the following: But first backup your Mame folder in case it does not work than you can delete it an recover your original settings from the back up. 

MameUI has had issues loading the configs stored in the ini folder. It will try to load from the main folder. So make a back up first of your files. Then once you did that in the original MameUI folder copy the contents of your ini folder and paste it into the main folder (the root folder that MameUI.exe is in). Then try to load a game through LB box.

That worked! Thank you so much your my hero

 

-DM

[Retro808]

@LordDangerMouse No worries. Glad your working again. Keep in mind with MameUI it has been pretty finicky lately and if you update make sure you remember to do these steps again. If you use the command line version of Mame and not MameUI it does not have these issues. 

[Nonamer66]

On ‎11‎/‎2‎/‎2017 at 10:49 PM, Retro808 said:

Try the following: But first backup your Mame folder in case it does not work than you can delete it an recover your original settings from the back up. 

MameUI has had issues loading the configs stored in the ini folder. It will try to load from the main folder. So make a back up first of your files. Then once you did that in the original MameUI folder copy the contents of your ini folder and paste it into the main folder (the root folder that MameUI.exe is in). Then try to load a game through LB box.

I have this same issue. Can you please explain the solution again, as I'm having a hard time following your instructions. 

[Lordmonkus]

Copy the ini files from the \ini folder to the root folder of your Mame install, the ini files need to be in the same folder as your Mame executable.

For some strange reason the GUI versions of Mame has problems loading games using the command line if you don't do this.

[Nonamer66]

Thank you Lordmonkus. That is what I originally tried, but it still comes back with the same result  

[Lordmonkus]

May I suggest switching over to the command line version of Mame (it has it's own UI if you need it). It's really not difficult to use as all and I even find it less time consuming to set it up and reconfigure when I update.

You can check out my guide on getting it setup and running here.

 

[Nonamer66]

2 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said:

May I suggest switching over to the command line version of Mame (it has it's own UI if you need it). It's really not difficult to use as all and I even find it less time consuming to set it up and reconfigure when I update.

You can check out my guide on getting it setup and running here.

 

excellent guide!! thank you. I will get right on it now.

[esko918]

@Nonamer66 did you ever figure out how to fix the ini issue? I also copied the files in the ini folder to the main folder and it didnt work. Any idea?

[Retro808]

@esko918 You can also edit the Mame.ini file and add .; in the section for the ini path. This will tell Mame to look also in the root folder for the ini file. Otherwise if neither of the options work you may have something else wrong.