Hey all, recently upgraded to a 2-PC setup but I'm having trouble establishing a network for MAME games
Got Model 2, Supermodel and Flycast all networking smoothly, and I can get MAME games to connect over a single PC - but when I try over 2 PCs, I just get a black screen followed by the .exes not responding
I've made an exception for MAME in the windows defender firewall on both PCs, and just disabled the firewalls altogether.
Made sure to include the m1comm file
Got 1 game set as master and the other slave in service menus
My understanding is that for networking on the same PC, the ports go in a ring, but the IP address stays the same. For multiple PC's, the IPs form the ring and the ports stay the same. I have tried making a ring with the ports as well though, just as I've seen other people do that here, and it didn't seem to change anything.
Here's my working .bat for single PC:
mame f1lap -window -cfg_directory cfg1 -nvram_directory nvram1 -comm_localport 15111 -comm_remoteport 15112 -comm_localhost 0.0.0.0 -comm_remotehost 127.0.0.1
mame f1lap -window -cfg_directory cfg2 -nvram_directory nvram2 -comm_localport 15112 -comm_remoteport 15111 -comm_localhost 0.0.0.0 -comm_remotehost 127.0.0.1
And the non-working multi PC .bat files I settled on were:
Master:
mame f1lap -window -comm_remotehost *slave's IP*
Slave:
mame f1lap -window -comm_remotehost *master's IP*
haven't touched the networking stuff in mame.ini, defaults are the defaults
Would really appreciate any help