sac1000 Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 Hi, I've spent the evening configuring the launchbox and struggling with bios, bins and cues...The thing is, I only want to play with my neogeo cd games but neither mame nor mess, nor raine work for me tonight. I tried half a dozen tutos but I just can't make it work. Can anybody help me here with up to date infos? i could play the neogeo of course but I miss the amazing soundtrack that only can be found on the cd version. thanks Quote
sac1000 Posted January 3, 2019 Author Posted January 3, 2019 error message popping for a tenth of a second here is what i get Quote
Lordmonkus Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 That image is way too small to read and you can post images directly into posts without uploading them to an image hosting site. Quote
sac1000 Posted January 4, 2019 Author Posted January 4, 2019 I am sorry about that. Here is the original one, can you see it now? Quote
Lordmonkus Posted January 4, 2019 Posted January 4, 2019 Same small size. Here is a guide I wrote up on emulating NeoGeo CD with Mame: 1 Quote
sac1000 Posted January 4, 2019 Author Posted January 4, 2019 (edited) Hi Thanks again. I found the 2 zip files you are talking about but i don t know how to get to my folder through the command prompt, i could display the directories but anything else i tried I get the error of syntax message. My I: hdd contains a LaunchBox folder at the root, in which there is a Emulator folder, and inside the Mess folder. what should I type??" . thanks again for your help lordmonkus Edited January 4, 2019 by sac1000 Quote
Lordmonkus Posted January 4, 2019 Posted January 4, 2019 You don't need to move any files via the command line, just copy them to your Mame / Mess /roms folder using your normal Windows file manager. Quote
sac1000 Posted January 4, 2019 Author Posted January 4, 2019 The files are in the folder as you mentioned in the Tuto but I cannot manage to create the necessary Ini file. There s a ini folder in the mess folder but no .ini file. I tried to launch both mess and messui but it didn’t create any ini file... Quote
sac1000 Posted January 5, 2019 Author Posted January 5, 2019 Thank you for the Mamefornoobs link, I get most of it because I could already install ps1,go,genesis etc. on LaunchBox. My concern is I cannot navigate through mess with the command prompt and as I wrote above command prompts keeps on telling my syntax is incorrect . Can you explain me how to navigate through the mess folder with this prompt command? I’m sure it’s a simple thing and sorry for being dumb but I appreciate your help. Quote
DOS76 Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 I don't understand why anyone is using MESS builds at this point instead of just using MAME if you want to navigate through cmd window you just use the cd command. You can see the example there of how to move from the point where you start a command prompt to changing a directory to then listing everything in the directory. Quote
Lordmonkus Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 I just use Mess and Mame interchangeably at this point, they function identically. Quote
sac1000 Posted January 5, 2019 Author Posted January 5, 2019 I’ll try again and paste the screen capture if it doesn’t work it maybe easier To be understood than through words. Personally Mess Mame, whatever allows me to play on NEOCD with LaunchBox will make me happy...thanks both of you Quote
Lordmonkus Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 Just put the bios in the /roms folder of your Mame / Mess folder, set your command line for the associated platform in LB to: neocdz -cdrm Import the cue file for your games into LB and they will work if your bios are correct and your disk image is correct. Quote
sac1000 Posted January 5, 2019 Author Posted January 5, 2019 I put manually the bios file into the mess rom folder, but It wasn't recognized...see the picture. I also tried the cmd window but again, I can 't make it to the mess folder. This is driving me crazy, all the other emulators are ok, but the neocd one, the one I need the most! please help me out Quote
Lordmonkus Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 What do you have set for your rompath in your mame.ini file ? Quote
sac1000 Posted January 6, 2019 Author Posted January 6, 2019 In the mess folder I have a mess_g ini file, a messui ini file and a ui ini file , but none mention the rompath. Here are screenshots of the mess and mame folder. Quote
Lordmonkus Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 I dont know what the Mess_g file is, you should have mess.ini file in the main folder with the mess executable. Quote
sac1000 Posted January 6, 2019 Author Posted January 6, 2019 I know It should be a mess.ini , but as a matter of fact it just isn't.I'm going to erase and try reinstall but is there another easy way to create the .ini file? I posted the cmd prompt picture to show you the message I got. I: works to get inside the hdd but any other thing I write isn't correct ... Quote
sac1000 Posted January 6, 2019 Author Posted January 6, 2019 This time I really thought It was ok. I could use the command prompt to create a ini file, copied pasted the location of my rom in rompath and I believe my roms are ok. But the games doesn t launch Quote
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