myklejay Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Hello all, I'm fairly new to Launchbox, but have been using MAME since 2000. I'm not at all an expert with MAME, but understand the basics. I have a complete 0.78 (2013) romset and am using the corresponding MAME 0.78 executable. I am using MAME as the emulator in LB. To be clear, the 0.78 romset that I am using in LB, launches correctly outside of LB when using the same 0.78 MAME executable, but when attempting to launch a MAME rom within LB, nothing happens... I followed along with the LB tutorial for the MAME install, and it appears that everything is pointing to the correct paths, though I'm not sure I'm checking all the correct places. I am also using an older romset and MAME executable than used the tutorial, though this shouldn't be an issue as everything is confirmed to work properly outside of LB... That said, all rooms and artwork for the 0.78 romset have uploaded to LB without issue, and I can see the games within the LB frontend. Details: - Following along with the MAME/LB tutorial: I have placed the MAME folder within the root of the LB folder, (not in the "Emulators" folder like the rest of the emulators that I've installed in LB) - The MAME rom files have been placed within the "roms" folder, that is in the root of the "MAME" folder, that is in the root of the LB folder. - Regarding the LB setup for MAME, it's my understanding that I have pointed to the "MAME" executable (within the above mentioned "MAME" folder) and have pointed to the "roms" folder within the above mentioned "MAME" folder. - As stated earlier, when I attempt to execute a game in LB, nothing happens. I don't even get a brief black screen that would be expected when a rom fails to load... - When I right click on a game title within LB, and click "open MAME" I get a brief flash of the usual black MAME window, but it's very fast, and nothing happens beyond that... I hope that I have described the details of my issue sufficiently, please let me know if you need any other specifics. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks all! . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, myklejay said: Hello all, I'm fairly new to Launchbox, but have been using MAME since 2000. I'm not at all an expert with MAME, but understand the basics. I have a complete 0.78 (2013) romset and am using the corresponding MAME 0.78 executable. I am using MAME as the emulator in LB. To be clear, the 0.78 romset that I am using in LB, launches correctly outside of LB when using the same 0.78 MAME executable, but when attempting to launch a MAME rom within LB, nothing happens... I followed along with the LB tutorial for the MAME install, and it appears that everything is pointing to the correct paths, though I'm not sure I'm checking all the correct places. I am also using an older romset and MAME executable than used the tutorial, though this shouldn't be an issue as everything is confirmed to work properly outside of LB... That said, all rooms and artwork for the 0.78 romset have uploaded to LB without issue, and I can see the games within the LB frontend. Details: - Following along with the MAME/LB tutorial: I have placed the MAME folder within the root of the LB folder, (not in the "Emulators" folder like the rest of the emulators that I've installed in LB) - The MAME rom files have been placed within the "roms" folder, that is in the root of the "MAME" folder, that is in the root of the LB folder. - Regarding the LB setup for MAME, it's my understanding that I have pointed to the "MAME" executable (within the above mentioned "MAME" folder) and have pointed to the "roms" folder within the above mentioned "MAME" folder. - As stated earlier, when I attempt to execute a game in LB, nothing happens. I don't even get a brief black screen that would be expected when a rom fails to load... - When I right click on a game title within LB, and click "open MAME" I get a brief flash of the usual black MAME window, but it's very fast, and nothing happens beyond that... I hope that I have described the details of my issue sufficiently, please let me know if you need any other specifics. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks all! . In the Manage Emulator section of the tools menu double click your MAME entry, and look near t he middle of the window for a section called Custom command-line, it will have a reference to keyboard input there, just delete that whole line and OK out of the window, games should now launch. That specific command is needed for our pause screens, but is not a known command-line term for emulator versions that old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myklejay Posted February 10, 2021 Author Share Posted February 10, 2021 Thank you, that did the trick!! You know, only enough, I actually tried doing that already, after remembering seeing something about this in another post, regarding older MAME executables... the odd thing is, on that 1st attempt, for whatever reason, I wasn't able to edit that field in the editor... but just tried again after your recommendation, and a fresh startup of LB, and it worked a charm! Cheers and thanks again for the quick and helpful response! m 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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