MAME games stop directly after startup following move from KB+M to Ipac-4

[Arcade's Revenge]

I had an issue regarding MAME running after moving from Maximus Arcade to Launchbox. I installed a Radeon HD5450 to help a bit with load times ( I was using the onboard graphics previously) The original issue had to do with dinput not being compatible with my MAME 1.61. Too old, they said. It was a great fix. I then plugged the PC back into my cabinet and reconnected my ipac-4 control board and had an issue where, once I run a game, it immediately backs out of the game and BigBox just says "Game Over." Same with LaunchBox. I can run the games just fine through mame64 which I use as the emulator file. So I am assuming there is something going on with the ipac-4 controls and I have some screenshots I am posting to provide insight but I am lost.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

I also went into MAME and configured the controls through there. Admittedly I took a lot of time away from this due to a variety of family issues as well as the crippling anxiety of 2020+ But I woke up one day and said screw it, if I can't get off my butt and fix my arcade, then what am I?

[sundogak]

If using for MAME arcade games vs software list (formerly MESS software), I would try unchecking remove quotes and remove file extension box and see if that is issue.  Would also disable startup screens while troubleshooting.  

Edited April 3, 2022 by sundogak

[JoeViking245]

On 4/1/2022 at 10:08 AM, Arcade's Revenge said:

The original issue had to do with dinput not being compatible with my MAME 1.61.

If you can run it directly through mame64 but not via LaunchBox, that's probably still the issue.  You'll need to remove -keyboardprovider dinput from the Default Command-Line Parameters.  Assuming you're still using MAME revision 0.161.  Per @dragon57 in this post, dinput support didn't become available until revision 0.173

Note, if unchecking those boxes as @sundogak suggests doesn't work (definitely try that 1st) but removing that part from the Default Command-Line Parameters does (try that 2nd), you'll want (need) to turn off Pause Screens for MAME. (Hint: uncheck the box ) 

[Arcade's Revenge]

I tried these before work this morning. I got about 65% of the games I tried to work, so it is trending in the right direction. I will keep tweaking it as I get time. Thank you for the help on that!

 

Btw I cannot believe I didn't realize dinput was on the command line again. It asks by default if I want to add it every time I save the settings, so I must have missed it.