making slow progress...
got the folder structure sorted thanks to your last post, but now i have a new, unrelated problem...
i have a tri-sync monitor, but when i select d9200 or d9800, the front end is displayed in a split screen. the roms seem to launch ok and most of them sync up and run fine...
when i select h9110 from the video setup, the front end displays normally, full screen, but when i flick between different games, it sometimes has problems re-syncing back at the front end, and then some games have problems syncing when launched. randomly, if i escape back to the front end, sometimes it syncs, sometimes it doesn't, and likewise, when i launch a game, sometimes it syncs up and sometimes it doesn't... but if i remove the vga from the j-pac and re-connect it, it re-syncs itself...
also, completely unrelated - the controls for player 1 don't seem right. i haven't adjusted anything here, but 'up' doesn't respond, and when i launch a game, left doesn't work. i had a look in the general controls within mame, and it seems to be setup correctly...
i haven't touched my controls at all, which is why i'm baffled...
edit: ignore the control problems... i went into universal controls and even though they were set to up, down, left, right, there was also a joy1, 2, 3, 4 in there. i reset them to only up, down, left, right and now all is working control-wise...