Dragon King problems

[gamecreature]

I tried to install Dragon King on my XP system today. I got through the parts where I edited the paths and then it said it was going to generate the list. It blinked and displayed an error - runtime error '53' file not found. Then DK started, my taskbar vanished and DK went away. I've double and triple checked my paths and cannot figure out what's preventing the list from being generated. The taskbar is still gone Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Howard_Casto]

File not found means just that, a file is missing. 

By "got through the parts where I edited paths" do you mean you used the wizard? 

The most likely cause is that you didn't configure the mame portion of the wizard properly and thus when it goes to call mame to generate the list it can't find it (thus file not found).  Run the wizard again or just look in cfgs/mame.cfg and make sure everything is setup properly. 

Post it here if you are confused. 


Oh... to get the taskbar back just press ctrl+alt+delete and taskmanager will restart it. 

[gamecreature]

The path to mame on my computer is c:\Mame32\mame.exe

Here's the config file:

[Config]
extension=.zip
path=c:\Mame32\
exe=mame.exe
send rom path=1
send exit keys=0
command line options=

roms=c:\Mame32\roms\;

Primary Artwork Dir=c:\Mame32\

AltElement1=\marquees\
AltElement2=\cpanel\

Everything else is default

[Howard_Casto]

Ok there's your problem right there.  Mame 32 is not supported. 

[gamecreature]

Mame32 is the folder. If you look closely you will see that Mame is the executable. Are you saying that just storing my roms in a mame32 folder causes problems?

[Howard_Casto]

No, not at all.

Looking at your cfg again:


(Of course I'm assuming that half of that stuff is in your dirs.ini as you don't put the rom and aw paths in the cfgs files.)

You have a semi colon after your rom path.  So dk is searching a null path after it searches mame32/roms.  That's bound to cause problems.

[gamecreature]

So now it reads:

roms=c:\Mame32\roms\

Still not finding it. Does it matter where DK is?

[Howard_Casto]

No it doesn't.... I need some more info here, like what version of mame you are using and waht vesion of the listgen you are using ect....

[gamecreature]

I'm using Mame 106.

Windows XP with service pack 2 installed

Listgen 5.0

It's late and I'm not sure what additional info might be relevant.

[Howard_Casto]

Well I just downloaded the 5.0 listgen and tried it on mame 106 and it worked fine, so it isn't a mame version issue. 

I tried running it through the dumba.exe and it still did fine. 

I even went as far as to to a fresh install of dk on my computer using dk.99 and the "universal listgen.exe" download available on the site.  Everything ran great the first run.

You might want to triple-check both your mame paths, and your mame install. (make sure not just the mame.exe is there, but all those nifty exes that come with a mame package as one of them does the xml2info conversion for dk).


Other than that I'm stumped.  If you want to post more info then feel free. 

[gamecreature]

You might want to triple-check both your mame paths, and your mame install. (make sure not just the mame.exe is there, but all those nifty exes that come with a mame package as one of them does the xml2info conversion for dk).

Do you happen to know which one?

[Howard_Casto]

No but you should always run a full install of mame and not a partial one.  Any time you install mame from a zip, you should always extract the entire contents to you maem folder rather than just copying the mame.exe over.  What a lot of people don't know is those external exes that come with mame are called by mame when certain command line options are ran.  I know for a fact that the xml2info conversion is done externally. 

[gamecreature]

I downloaded a fresh copy of Mame and extracted all of the files. Still no luck - I'm afraid I'm going to have to throw in the towel on this one.