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help setting up game launcher??
Jakobud:
Bill, I would go into your mame.cfg and make use_rom_directory = no and then do the following directions:
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There is a way to get both the mame.map and mame.rom manually....
1. Open a dos window
2. Goto your mame directory
3. type in this command:
mame -listfull > mame.map
(this makes a file called mame.map in your mame folder)
There you go...copy that mame.map file to your glaunch/config folder...
Now for the mame.rom...
1. Goto your mame roms folder (in Dos again)
2. type in this:
dir *.zip /b /on > mame.rom
(this makes a file called mame.rom in your roms folder)
3. Open this new mame.rom in Wordpad
4. EDIT > Replace
5. In the replace window replace:
.zip with <nothing> (just leave the second box blank)
This will get rid of all the .zip extensions in the file.
Copy this mame.rom to your glaunch/config folder
You are done. No need for Mamescan...
Now I have this theory that perhaps GameLauncher has a problem with the roms being a different drive (D instead of C). So I would make a new roms folder on your C drive and copy 5 or 6 roms to it and setup your mame.cfg so that it is looking at that folder on your C drive. If it sees the roms, then you know that the problem lies with the roms being on another drive...
We are slowly narrowing this down. We will figure it out.
Jakobud
Bill_S:
I think we just about have it here.
I followed your instructions to make mame.map and mame.rom files. And set use_rom_directory to no. I also set the use_rom_file to yes.
Now glaunch lists all my roms and the games load. That is great news. The only problem now is that the rom names are the zip file names, and not the long, understandable name.
Any ideas on how to fix that?
Thanks big time for all the help so far!
Dave Dribin:
--- Quote from: Bill_S on August 06, 2002, 09:15:43 pm ---
I think we just about have it here.
I followed your instructions to make mame.map and mame.rom files. And set use_rom_directory to no. I also set the use_rom_file to yes.
Now glaunch lists all my roms and the games load. That is great news. The only problem now is that the rom names are the zip file names, and not the long, understandable name.
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That's what "mame.map" is for: to map the short names to the full names. Did you run this command that Jakobud mentioned:
mame -listfull > mame.map
-Dave
Jakobud:
Yes, sounds like you didnt make the mame.map file correctly. Make sure that after you make it you move it to the glaunch/config folder too. See if you open the mame.map file in your favorite text editor (like wordpad) it will look something like this:
dkong "Donkey Kong (World)"
mk2 "Mortal Kombat II rev3.1"
ninjaw "Ninja Warriors (World)"
tempest "Tempest (Set 1)"
etc....
it has the names of the zip files on the left, and the actual romset name on the right in quotes. So in glaunch, when it looks at the list of rom zip file names, it looks at the mame.map file to determine what name to display for it.
and the very nice thing about using the mame.map and mame.rom files is that you can open them in a text editor and choose which games you don't want to display. All you have to do is remove the filename from the mame.rom file and it won't show up in the game list. Because, who needs to choose from 5 different versions of Donkey Kong or 10 different Mortal Kombats or something...
Sounds like you just about got it. Game Launcher can be a pain to figure out how to set it up correctly, but once you figure out it's workflow it's very easy to setup all sorts of emulators on it.
Jakobud
Bill_S:
hmm. I did make the mame.map file and put in into the config directory. I don't know why glaunch isn't using it.
Tonight after work I'll try to copy and paste in the first few lines so you can make sure it is ok.