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Cannot get Arcadia 2001 to launch with MAME 0.243


poodadoo

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Arcade games work fine... Arcadia 2001 doesn't.

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Attaching the mame.ini as well... When I run it manually via command prompt, no issues...

The only thing I can think of is that my roms directory is empty because I have all my roms under a F:\Launchbox\Games heirarchy while the emulator is F:\Launchbox\Emulators\Mame

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51 minutes ago, poodadoo said:

When I run it manually via command prompt, no issues

I'm guessing when you run it from the command prompt, your full command line has "the/full/path/to/the/romname.zip" at the end?  (vs. just romname itself with no path and no quotes)

Even if my assumption is wrong, try editing the Default Command-Line Parameters for Emerson Arcadia 2001 and add 

-rompath %romlocation%

Also, you should be able to remove "-cart".  So you'd have:

arcadia -nowindow -skip_gameinfo -rompath %romlocation%
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7 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

Where those 2 boxes checked before?  They should have been.  My last comment was probably misleading.  When using "-rompath %romlocation%" in the command line, you DO want them checked.

They were checked initially.

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Well, here's an interesting development:

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I was running RomVault organizing some other directories and noticed this... Apparently it's setting my "ROMS" directory as the default directory for mame because it's creating a arcadia.cfg and default.cfg under \cfg as if ..\launchbox\games\consoles\emerson\arcadia 2001 would be where mame.exe is located so I clearly have some pathing issue not correct.

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The command line (in which you've added "-rompath %romlocation%") will supersede the rompath in an ini file.  Be it mame.ini or arcadia.ini.  I don't think console.cfg files even store the rompath location.  But for MAME to read that particular cfg file, you have to set the cfg_directory in mame.ini (or arcadia.ini [if you have one]) to include the path you show in the image.  But I really don't think you want to (need to) do that.  

The only reason you'd want to setup a cfg file for a console is if you're going to create save states for the game(s).

Did you re-check those 2 boxes and try it again?  Because it should just work.  (assuming you still have the same command line you show a couple posts up)

Here's what I have

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So I'm going to post what I did to fix this... whether it's right or not is subjective....

1. Unchecked "Remove Quotes" and "Remove file extension and folder path."

2. Used the default command line parameters "arcadia -skip_gameinfo -cart"

Those parameters, combined with passing the fully quoted, full path to the rom seemed to fix it for me.

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