Dave S Cramer Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave S Cramer Posted September 2, 2020 Author Share Posted September 2, 2020 It did create inis. 2 for each in fact, which I found odd. One was created in the main directory and one in the ini folder. I will definitely try your suggestion and let you know if it works! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave S Cramer Posted September 2, 2020 Author Share Posted September 2, 2020 I tried both. No dice. I'm going to try other things, and will still try your suggestions. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 Well, it was worth a shot. 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. That 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave S Cramer Posted September 2, 2020 Author Share Posted September 2, 2020 I tried removing the dot from homepath like you suggested and it looks like that fixed my issue! Thanks! You are a genius! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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