ZephDiggs Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 For some reason I have to type in the name of the rom file when i open the mame exe file. So opening from launchbox doesn't work. Tried changing command line parameters but no luck. Please help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Hi and welcome. First of all that is a very old version of MAME, any reason why you are still using it? Secondly, you only need to type the name of the rom if you are opening mame itself, that's not needed at all if your games are imported into Launchbox as that tells mame what game to load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Mame 161 will work just fine though, I have used in the past with Launchbox without issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZephDiggs Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Thanks for the quick reply. Ya I guess I'll have to try another version. Have used mame with launchbox before and worked like a charm but that computer died and I forgot where I got the mames from lol! So I just tried to find the roms and emulator that matched. Usually I can just click on the mame exe and then it's a totally different interface, but with this one I didn't even know how to play at first until i realized typing worked. Launchbox just does nothing now. Also I used to use the exe file that was square, orange, and blue. Not the baby blue M. Long story short I'll try another emulator romset I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 You could just have a wrong setting in your Launchbox edit emulator window or your associated platform isn't setup properly. Also if you are using a UI version of Mame copy your mame.ini file from the \ini folder out to the main Mame directory where your Mame executable is located. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZephDiggs Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Tried that setting didn't work. Will try the mame.ini thingy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZephDiggs Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 no ini folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZephDiggs Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 what's my associated platform? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Look for a mame.ini file and see where it is, it needs to be placed in the main Mame install folder where the executable is. Your associated platform is whatever you called yours if you didn't use the default which is AracdeLike I said, I know Mame 161 works because it was a version I have used in the past with Launchbox. It could be possible you are using some oddball offshoot build of Mame that functions differently but if you are using a version compiled by the Mame devs themselves and uploaded to their download site it should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZephDiggs Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 ya no mame.ini file or folder. Okay, just set it to default arcade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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