LordDangerMouse Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 If they worked yesterday through Launchbox and not today then something must have changed. Did you do anything to make changes ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 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. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordDangerMouse Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 @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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonamer66 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonamer66 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Thank you Lordmonkus. That is what I originally tried, but it still comes back with the same result Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonamer66 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esko918 Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 @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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 @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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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