Mame Help

[Disney Rob]

I am having a heck of a time with Mame

The arcade section works well, As do some of the other sections

But things like Gamemate, Bally Astrocade, Mega Duck, and a few others just boot me out.

It says files are not found. However I have the proper files in my rom folder, but it doesn't seem like Mame is finding them

Any help would be appreciated.

[sundogak]

9 hours ago, Disney Rob said:

I am having a heck of a time with Mame

The arcade section works well, As do some of the other sections

But things like Gamemate, Bally Astrocade, Mega Duck, and a few others just boot me out.

It says files are not found. However I have the proper files in my rom folder, but it doesn't seem like Mame is finding them

Any help would be appreciated.

That is because those are not arcade but part of the software list MAME setup (former MESS).  Thus, they require additional commands to run vs MAME arcade as there are two parts: 1) the emulator files for MAME 2) the software file that is launched within that emulator.   An example below for MAME and Bally Astrocade tells MAME this is astrocade emulator and using a cartridge and then within LB you point the to the actual "software" or in this case the cartridge zip file. 

For a standard MAME setup that is merged (can be split as well) these are the two file sets:

1. MAME 0.267 ROMs (merged) << this set contains the arcade and emulator systems files for software sets (i.e., Bally Astrocade emulator).  Typically this is your "ROMS" folder in MAME.
2. MAME 0.267 Software List ROMs (merged)    << this set contains the carts/software. Typically this is your "Software" folder in MAME. 

These will be in separate folders similar to this and in the astrocade example are in folder atrocde:

 

LB as part of the base "MAME Importer" features will not automatically import MAME software lists.  However, you can get a plugin to do so. You will have to manually update your MAME emulator setup to use the appropriate commands for that emulator as each differs.