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Hildy_42:
Tried setting up Mala last night and was able to get it to create a game list.  But as soon as I hit 1 to start a game a dos box comes up and then disappears and nothing happens.  I did some searching and found this thread:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=58629.0

Seems he had the same problem I am having.  I don't really understand what he meant by:

"What I had to do was go to Mame Config -> Mame Executiable/Config -> Folder -> Roms and also set  the path there.  I don't know the difference between those two settings."

Is there something in Mame that I have to set up as well?  I am using Command Line version of Mame version 110.
I am assuming I have to set the ROM path in Mame as well and wasn't sure how to do that.

Thanks for any help.  Sorry for such a noob question but I usually use Mame32 and wanted to do something different on this cabinet.

shock_:
Under "Mame Config" Tab, "Basics" subtab, make sure your ROM path is set properly.  Mine is in a completely different place to MAME's executable so don't worry about that.

Also under "Mame Config" Tab, "Additional", make sure you have Command Line set to %rom%

Incidentally, on that same tab, choose "hidden" to avoid seeing that dos box appear - once you've got it all working, of course :)

If it still doesn't work, make sure MAME is working properly first outside of MaLa.


* Open a command prompt (Start button > Run > "cmd" and hit enter)
* type cd \mame\ (or wherever you have MAME installed) and hit enter
* type mame galaga (or some ROM you have available in the default roms directory) and hit enter
If you get another error that doesn't make sense to you, tell us about it here.  The fact that you're doing this in an already-opened command prompt window means it won't disappear and it'll give you a chance to read it.

If your ROMs are saved in some other location, change that last step to mame "c:\my-roms\directory\galaga.zip"

loadman:

--- Quote from: shock_ on June 20, 2007, 10:42:42 am ---Mak sure MAME is working properly first outside of MaLa.


* Open a command prompt (Start button > Run > "cmd" and hit enter)
* type cd \mame\ (or wherever you have MAME installed) and hit enter
* type mame galaga (or some ROM you have available in the default roms directory) and hit enter

--- End quote ---

Ditto that!  ;)

Hildy_42:
Okay I tried running Mame by itself and here is the error I am getting.

Proposed video mode not supported on device \\.\Display1
Unable to initialize Direct3D
osd_init failed

The computer I am using is not connected to the internet so I had a CD with DirectX 9.0 on it that I tried installing.  It worked on the last computer but it didn't seem to fix this problem.  The last time I was using Mame version .95, would that make a difference?

Hildy_42:
Well it isn't a Mala problem so that means I at least installed it correctly.  I ran dxdiag and it says DirectX 9.0c is installed and running fine on the computer.  Do the newer versions of Mame need something more than DirectX 9.0?  Any help is greatly appreciated.  Again thanks to Shock for helping me narrow it down to not being a Mala issue.

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