MAME pointing to wrong folder

[CLee]

Hi, so I'm having an issue where everything was imported fine onto my LB/Big Box except the arcade games don't load (it just says "Initializing..." and then quickly goes back to Big Box screen) because I had moved the roms to my HDD. The ROMs are so huge that I needed to store them elsewhere so I moved them to my HDD while my MAME sits in my smaller SDD.

The problem is that now the filepaths for all my arcade games are messed up. I know this is the problem because I tested it by copying a game folder into the default roms folder in MAME and it now loads fine.

I know there's a bulk file path change for Launchbox for emulator-directing, but how about the reverse?

I really don't want to re-import everything because it took me nearly a day to import everything.

Is there an easy solution for this? Thanks in advance.

[neil9000]

Launchbox itself doesnt care where your roms are, but MAME absolutely does. You need to tell MAME itself where your rom folder is, either via it's UI or via the mame.ini which is in the root of the emulators folder.

[CLee]

Ah I see!  This is great because I've been looking for this file to remove the splash screen whenever a game loads.  But how do I access this mame.ini file?! I don't see it anywhere in my MAME folder.  All I see is a "ini" folder but this has two additional folders "examples" and "presets" which I don't think is what I'm looking for.

  

[neil9000]

Its just in the main folder next to the .exe.

[CLee]

I literally do not have that file lol.  I have everything else in your image.  I tried unhiding the folder and it's still not in there.

[neil9000]

Just now, CLee said:

I literally do not have that file lol.  I have everything else in your image.  I tried unhiding the folder and it's still not in there.

Open MAME via its .exe, double click "configure options", then double click "save configuration", then exit MAME, it should of created the mame.ini.

[CLee]

Thanks Neil, appreciate all your help!  

So I changed the rompath.

Now I'm looking to add three lines to skip some unnecessary screens when loading a game:

skip_disclaimer 1
skip_gameinfo 1
skip_validitychecks 1

Where do I add these 3 lines? Under "CORE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS"?

[JoeViking245]

skip_gameinfo is under  "CORE MISC OPTIONS".  ("1" to turn it on)

You won't find a skip_disclaimer setting.  You need a special build of mame64.exe for that.

Myself, never heard of the the skip_validitychecks.

Edited June 12, 2020 by JoeViking245

[MadK9]

Pretty sure skip_validitychecks was removed from mame a long time ago. Also you can't skip the screens when loading a rom, you need to use a NoNag mame for that.

Also skip_disclaimer is not an option either.

 

Edited June 12, 2020 by MadK9