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Issue with MESSUI


Dave S Cramer

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Please forgive me for the stupid question and thank you to anyone who can help in advance. I have using MAMEUI for about 15 years and MESSUI for about 10. I have used MESUI off and on during this time and not spent a lot of time with it. I upgrade MAMEUI every release and lapse on MESSUI. I decided to update both with .224. But I'm having an issue I don't think I've ever experienced before. I tried playing games on Genesis and SNES. I can play the first game on each just fine but if I quit and select a new game, the first game I selected is the one that plays. I tried unmounting the cart, then reselecting a new game, but just get a blank screen. Deleting the NVRAM and INI files is the only thing that seems to work. I am 100% I have looked through all the settings in the UI and 'in game' for both systems (as well as the ini files for both and for MESS) and cannot find anything related to 'play first/last selected game'. There are also no 'read only' permission issues. I even tried a clean 'install'. I mean I could play MESS on MAME but I prefer to keep them separate. Anyone have any clue what my issue might be?

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Did it create ini files for those 2 consoles?   I only use mame64, but neither of those 2 created ini's.  But if yours did, and assuming they're like other console ini's, maybe try...

at the top, change writeconfig to 0.   Then at the bottom, delete the section  IMAGE DEVICES.  Or just delete the parameter shown for 'cartridge'.

You may also look at their cfg files.  Though I doubt there's anything enlightening there.

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Well, it was worth a shot. :D

One other thing I like to do is remove the 1st . (dot) on the inipath and then move mame.ini and ui.ini (and any other ini files MAME may have created) into the ../MAME/ini/ folder.

image.png.11cc9479873b2228f8ce20ef89987c61.pngThat way, any MAME created ini file will be placed in that folder.  Also if you create/doctor your own softlist ini file in the ../ini/ folder, it won't also [re]create it in the root folder. And (for me at least) keeps things a little more tidy. ;) 

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Glad that helped and that you're 'back in business'! 

BTW, are you able to open snes directly through the emulator?  I can't get the MAME UI (regular MAME 0.224 [but doesn't matter. MAME is MAME/MESS]) to open snes.  I get a file missing error.  But the games run from the command line and through LB just fine.  Obviously snes.zip is in the rom path. Otherwise they wouldn't launch from the command line.  It's not that big of a deal as I only use the UI to 1st see if it works.  But seems odd.

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