GroovyUME 0.146u4 - Combined MAME/MESS binary with modeline generation engine

[Dr.Venom]

That sounds great, keeping fingers crossed

[robneal81]

I've just discovered GroovyMAME and have been using it with my MAME setup.  It works really perfect and I'm impressed at how much better some of my games look when using it (as opposed to just MAME).

I'd love to do the same with MESS, but I'm having issues getting GroovyUME to work with MESS:  It always crashes before loading.  I'm sure it's my fault, but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction:

I never "installed" GroovyMAME...all I did was extract the exe to my MAME folder and replace "mame.exe" with "GroovyMAME.exe" in all my launch commands.  Literally, that's it, nothing else.  It works perfect.  I tried doing the same with GroovyUME and MESS, but it wouldn't work.  I even tried manually running it from a command line and all I get is the following.  Can anyone suggest a fix:

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Exception at EIP=01C1003E (not found): ACCESS VIOLATION
While attempting to write memory at 0005B6C8
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EAX=00000000 EBX=00000003 ECX=772E6500 EDX=00000004
ESI=00000000 EDI=00000000 EBP=0000003C ESP=001CEFE0
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Stack crawl:
  001CEFDC: 01C1003E (not found)

[Calamity]

Hi robneal81,

It's a miracle that GroovyMAME worked fine without creating its specific ini. What you have to do is place their executables (GroovyMAME/UME) in an empty folder, then from command line run:

>groovymame.exe -cc
>groovyume.exe -cc

This will create both mame.ini and ume.ini as required by the 'Groovy' builds. Then edit the usual options for rompaths, etc.

[robneal81]

Hi robneal81,

It's a miracle that GroovyMAME worked fine without creating its specific ini. What you have to do is place their executables (GroovyMAME/UME) in an empty folder, then from command line run:

>groovymame.exe -cc
>groovyume.exe -cc

This will create both mame.ini and ume.ini as required by the 'Groovy' builds. Then edit the usual options for rompaths, etc.

I JUST noticed your response!  I'm so sorry, I never got an auto-notification!

Anyway, I actually just tried that again to make sure I didn't do anything wrong the first time and I still get the same error I posted above.  I feel like I'm missing something simple.  I'm not a total amateur though, as my setup is working fine otherwise:

I have MAME working perfectly, using GroovyMAME. 

I have MESS working fine as well.  For testing, I extracted UME to my MESS directory and changed my launch command to "ume.exe", instead of "mess.exe".  That works perfect too.  Then, if I extract GroovyUME to the same directory and switch my launch command to it, nothing happens.  If I run the command manually in DOS, I get the error I posted.

Am I just making a silly mistake?

[Calamity]

So you created the ume.ini file using groovyume.exe -cc as explained above?

[robneal81]

So you created the ume.ini file using groovyume.exe -cc as explained above?

Yes.  I even started from scratch in a new folder and did the same.

[Calamity]

That's odd. Try disabling -multithreading in ume.ini.

[robneal81]

That's odd. Try disabling -multithreading in ume.ini.

That didn't seem to make a difference.  Here's a screenshot

[Calamity]

Man, that version is ancient. Grab the newer one (0.149) here: https://code.google.com/p/groovyarcade/downloads/list

[robneal81]

That seemed to do the trick!  I'll test on my arcade machine when I get home and see if it makes a difference.  Mame to GroovyMame was a HUGE difference in video quality and I'm hoping for the same results with mess.