VERY WEIRD - can't play Burger Time now

[Ummon]

I'm pretty sure I've played Burger Time through MaLa since I've set it up with Advancemame. Now, suddenly, I can't. It says I'm missing roms. So I loaded the game through the same directory and with the same exe via AdvanceMenu and through cmd. Both work just fine. No missing roms.

Then I changed the exe, etc, to another Advmame directory I have lying around. Same issue. I changed it to a Mame32 directory. STILL the same issue. Runs fine on its own, though.

I really don't get it. Does anyone else?

[NOP]

maybe check the directory that it's passing down to the command line?
If you go into the mala game editor and 2x click your burgertime entry, check to see if there's a directory path in there.  It should be the same as some other games that do work.

I assume that if it's telling you roms are missing, it's likely telling you that it can't find ANY of the roms, which means it can't even find the zipfile.

[Ummon]

Actually, it's telling me rom names that aren't in the set. I then renamed them manually to what it said were missing, but then it said wrong checksums for them. I'll try what you suggested and get back to you.

[Ummon]

Well, I looked at the paths in the game editor. There aren't any - for any games. Nothing shows up in the box.

[NOP]

ok, that means it's launching mame from whatever directory you've pointed the executable at, and it is then expecting the btime.zip file to be in the roms folder directly below where mame.exe is located.

any chance your mala list is calling out btime2 or btimem or cbtime and not plain ole btime for the rom name?

It just doesn't make sense that it's telling you roms don't exist if launching "mame btime" from the command prompt is different than mala doing the same thing...

You could investigate a bit by renaming mame.exe to mame.bak, and create a mame.bat file that says this:

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echo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7
pause

and then in the mala config have the "mame executable" point to your mame.bat file instead of mame.exe
launch burger time and see what mala is passing down the pipe.

you got yourself a pretty weird one though, gotta say!

 

[Ummon]

Ah, you got me to thinking. It was looking for btimem. I'd done some rom pruning and that one had gone - but the Mame32 imported list MaLa was drawing from had btimem. Thank you.