Move MAME (or other emulator) into Emulator Directory?

[AdamL]

I have Launchbox working with MAME, but I want to move the whole MAME folder inside the Emulators folder.

Is there an easy wa to do this (without breaking Launchbox)?  I don't want to reinstall MAME because I've setup a bunch of Playlists that I don't want to have to redo.

Thanks!

Edited Wednesday at 02:08 PM by AdamL

[JoeViking245]

1 hour ago, AdamL said:

I want to move the whole MAME folder inside the Emulators folder

Then do it.   

• D:\My Emulators\MAME\
• D:\LaunchBox\Emualtors\MAME\

Then in LaunchBox, edit your MAME emulator (Tools - Manage Emulators) and change the Application Path for mame.exe to the new location. (Best to use the Browse button rather than manually typing it.)

Actually, COPY it first [change the app path] and test it before deleting it from the original location.  It should work fine. Consider it cheap insurance.

 

This should work as well for other emulators.  But always do the copy/test thing first.

[AdamL]

2 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

Then do it.   

• D:\My Emulators\MAME\
• D:\LaunchBox\Emualtors\MAME\

Then in LaunchBox, edit your MAME emulator (Tools - Manage Emulators) and change the Application Path for mame.exe to the new location. (Best to use the Browse button rather than manually typing it.)

Actually, COPY it first [change the app path] and test it before deleting it from the original location.  It should work fine. Consider it cheap insurance.

 

This should work as well for other emulators.  But always do the copy/test thing first.

Thanks!

How do I change the rompath?  

[JoeViking245]

18 minutes ago, AdamL said:

How do I change the rompath?  

Depends on how you have MAME setup.

Where are (were?) the ROMs located?  Did they get moved also?

When you edit your MAME emulator (in LaunchBox), does the Default Command-line Parameters have -rompath %romlocation% in it?

[AdamL]

28 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

When you edit your MAME emulator (in LaunchBox), does the Default Command-line Parameters have -rompath %romlocation% in it?

It did.  I removed it, and it makes the path relative — so all is working now.

Where does the %romlocation% get defined?

[JoeViking245]

9 minutes ago, AdamL said:

It did.  I removed it, and it makes the path relative — so all is working now.

Where does the %romlocation% get defined?

It's a built-in LaunchBox variable.  LaunchBox inserts (replaces it with) the full path to the ROM with quotes.  e.g.  "C:\Path\To\Rom"

Here, MAME sees it as the parameter -rompath "C:\Path\To\Rom"

Which makes it real nice, so you don't have to set any of the ROM paths in MAME itself.