MAME - "Extract to" 7zip prompt when trying to launch games

[calgarite]

Hi all, just done a thorough search for this issue and I can't find anyone else with this problem on the forums.

I have the following issue: whenever I try to play an Arcade rom with MAME, I get the following prompt instead of the game launching:

I have my MAME roms set up as per this guide:

I've also checked that my MAME copy runs fine, following this guide. No problem running SF2 :

Here's a screenshot of the MAME emulator folder:

And this is the roms folder (mame.ini rompath points to here):

This is how MAME has been set up in Launchbox. If you see any mistakes please point them out for me:I'm at a loss here. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

[ckp]

looks to me like you pointed your LB emulator to launch the mame self extracting zip instead of mame.exe

 

[neil9000]

Yep, I concur in your MAME folder in your first shot you have a MAME0192b_32bit.exe I think you are pointing Launchbox to that when you should actually be pointing it to your mame.exe which is above your zipped file in your image.

[calgarite]

Indeed that was the error. I changed the Emulator application path to mame.exe, now it works just fine. Thank you for your time

[Space Ace]

hi i have the same problem , i changed the emulator application path to the mame64.exe & it says "an emulator allready exists with the name youve specified.please chose a different name" ??