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Rawker:

thanks Marlaxle i'm sure alot of people appreciate you taking the time even though they don't say they do, i'm sure you'll update it again later  ;)

chrisindfw:

I got my panel off of ebay. Looks good. Quick questions..

1) All I need to connect it is a 9 pin serial cable? Is power supplied through that?

2) I tried using the software to create the lcd files but it is not working. I created both the xml files. I click generate and it pauses for 2 seconds and then returns. Nothing happens.

Any ideas?


maraxle:


--- Quote from: chrisindfw on April 21, 2004, 10:15:24 am ---I got my panel off of ebay. Looks good. Quick questions..

1) All I need to connect it is a 9 pin serial cable? Is power supplied through that?

--- End quote ---
You need a straight through 9 pin serial cable if you're using XP for communications.  You need to connect a 5v power source per the instructions the seller (if it's the same guy I got mine from) will email to you.  It's hooked to the left side of the 4-pin-header that's on the right hand side of the unit.


--- Quote ---2) I tried using the software to create the lcd files but it is not working. I created both the xml files. I click generate and it pauses for 2 seconds and then returns. Nothing happens.

--- End quote ---
Are you putting in the correct rom directory?  Also, did you check your output directory to see if there's files there?  Finally, are your roms in zip files?  It doesn't work with unzipped roms.

chrisindfw:

If you can, shoot me an email please. There were no instructions given.

Also, I had some files that were not zip files in my roms directory, I removed them and tried again and still nothing. I checked all the folders and nothing. I am sure I have all the VB runtime objects as I do nothing but VB programming at work.


maraxle:


--- Quote from: chrisindfw on April 21, 2004, 11:16:06 am ---If you can, shoot me an email please. There were no instructions given.

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You'll have to get the instructions from the guy you bought it from.  I didn't keep a copy of the email once I got it hooked up.


--- Quote ---Also, I had some files that were not zip files in my roms directory, I removed them and tried again and still nothing. I checked all the folders and nothing. I am sure I have all the VB runtime objects as I do nothing but VB programming at work.

--- End quote ---
Is the output directory you specified writeable, and already existing?  Or maybe the version of MAME you're using makes different xmlinfo files than the one I used (AdvanceMAME).  

Other than that, I don't know what to tell you.  It's an alpha build, untested, etc.  It was only meant for my system, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was incompatible with someone else's machine.

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