mame not loading via launchbox but is direct

[tomkdesign]

Newbie here, I have all my roms and emulator assigned. When I click on a game it looks like mame tries to load but doesn't play. Video example here 

https://youtu.be/0lv59FzEcXI

When I go direct and load via mame64 the rom loads perfectly. Any ideas on why LaunchBox doesn't load mame64?

Attached are the emulator settings

[Retro808]

What Mame are you using? MameUI, Arcade64, command line

If your Mame.ini file is located in the ini folder copy it and paste it into the maind folder where the mame64.exe is. It is a know issue with any version of mame other than the actual command line version. 

[tomkdesign]

im using http://mamedev.org/

sorry, newbie, where do I get the mame.ini file?

[Retro808]

When you run mame64.exe with out a game and save your settings it will generate the mame.ini. But that may not be your issue since you are using the command line version. 

In the associated platforms tab of that image you shared. Do you have Arcade listed there? Whatever the name of the platform is that you imported your mame roms into needs to be listed there and it needs to be the exact name you have in Launchbox. From the video it looks like it is "Arcade" but hard to tell since it is cut off. 

[tomkdesign]

yes its "Arcade" its what the tutorial said. I tried retroarch as well and neither worked.

Im not seeing a file called mame.ini in the folder that has mame64.exe. Would it write the file somewhere else?

Does Mame64.exe have to be in the emulators folder I created within the Launchbox rood dir?

 

 

 

 

Edited August 14, 2018 by tomkdesign

[tomkdesign]

here is the screen expanded. Arcade matches

 

 

 

[tomkdesign]

i think i figured it out I had to save the settings in mame64, as you mentioned. Once saved then I had to back out and reassign the ROMs. Saved it and it worked.

Thanks for your help!

[Retro808]

@tomkdesign Glad you're all sorted.