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Rom list problem with ARCADEOS
CarlitoBrigante:
Hi from a total newbie looking for some simple guidance.
Am setting up a PC with Arcadeos (2.51) and dos mame 37b16b (so I can run it on an arcade monitor). I have Arcadeos configured so that it picks up mame from the correct directory and I have roms in the rom directory of mame but when I run Arcadeos it's not showing any games. I try and update Arcadeos and it says it's updating with the games I have in the rom directory of mame but then it doesn't show them as available on screen.
Anybody got any ideas what I could be doing wrong please?
lokki:
Check the configuration and make sure you have mame legacy to yes.
There's a new tag in arcadeos.cfg for legacy support:
#Legacy List Generation
legacygen=1
Set to '1' for Mame versions < .84 and '0' for versions > .84
CarlitoBrigante:
Thanks for responding so quickly - do have that flag set to 1 but still nothing happens.
Any more suggestions please?
lokki:
--- Quote from: CarlitoBrigante on July 21, 2004, 07:21:50 pm ---Thanks for responding so quickly - do have that flag set to 1 but still nothing happens.
Any more suggestions please?
--- End quote ---
Delete the .lst files.
When arcadeOS starts it should tell you how its generating the list...
You should see something like
-listinfo %
For old versions of mame. For 84 and greater you should see
-xmlinfo | xml2info
If you don't see either then you probably don't have arcade OS 2.5.1
If you do see these and still the list is empty.... The you probably dont have the ROMS in the right place.
CarlitoBrigante2:
Thanks lokki, have tried this and note two 'interesting' things - seems to be coming up with the second message, though I definately have version 37 of mame on the machine (well before version .84) also , the file path after the message (though it is not on screen for me to make it out accurately) seems to be something like C:\ $cls .tmp (though I definately have the roms in C:\mame\roms and arcadeos.cfg pointing to mame.cfg and the rom path in mame.cfg configured to .;roms
Cheers