The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Webbdog on March 14, 2019, 12:45:28 pm
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Can you guys help point a noob in the right direction?... I have an older cabinet with a CRT monitor and old PC hardware running Windows XP (32 bit). It has MAME and MAMEWAH as a front end. It was probably built around 2011. The cabinet is awesome, but the video card went out and threw it into a loop. The card was an old ArcadeVGA card from Ultimarc which is no longer available. I got the new card, an ArcadeVGA 5000, but it doesn't work with the old PC hardware (from what I can tell). I have a spare PC to dedicate to the cab, running Windows 7 (64 bit). I transferred all the MAME files and the old ROMS to an external drive connected to the newer PC, but the MAME won't run, I assume because it is for a 32 bit PC. I tried the latest MAME version, but I couldn't find the new ROMS to go with it. Any thoughts on how to get this cabinet running again? Thanks for any help!
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If you can find an older romset, you can download the mame version for that. I'm running mame .149 and .161 with Win7 64bit.
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The MAME version that worked with all the games is version .129. Will a MAME version this old work with the newer Windows 7? The newer PC is 64 bit. The old PC in the cabinet is running Win XP was 32 bit. I don't know if this is a dumb question or not but, thanks for any help!
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Go to https://www.mamedev.org/oldrel.html. There is a 64 bit version of mame .129. That should hopefully work.
edit: That version might be for Win XP 64 bit. If it doesn't work on Win 7, try downloading mame .149 64 bit and test if your .129 roms work with that. You might get lucky.
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"Mame won't run" is a possibly ambiguous description. I've seen lots of different things described as "it won't run". You mentioned you had a front-end in the old machine, but it's not clear whether or not you are using it in the new one yet. So does "Mame won't run" mean that you select a Mame rom from your front-end and the game doesn't launch, or does it mean that you are double-clicking Mame in Windows Explorer and nothing happens, or does it mean something else?
Didn't older versions of Mame not have a GUI? You might need to supply a rom argument to get Mame to do anything (which the front-end was doing for you), and you might have to change the rompath in mame.ini. It sounds like the external drive is a new for this machine, and even if it was used in the old machine, there's no guarantee the new one is using the same drive letter for it.
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I am still running Mame v .130 on windows 7
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Adding to what others have already mentioned. 32 bit programs run just fine on 64 bit windows. That is not your issue. Try to run a game via command line and see what you get. If it is immediately closing out from a frontend, many times you won't get to see an error message.
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Adding to what others have already mentioned. 32 bit programs run just fine on 64 bit windows. That is not your issue. Try to run a game via command line and see what you get. If it is immediately closing out from a frontend, many times you won't get to see an error message.
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I used to use an arcade vga 5000 with XP32 and several old versions of mame too.
Have you updated the drivers for the newer version of the arcade vga?
Have you checked that mame is set to output a resolution the card will allow? I.e. One that is 15khz or 15, 24, or 31khz if you have it set up for a tri-sync?
I suggest ditching the arcade vga and using crt emu with Groovymame instead. A compatible card is $10 and the rest is free. It's sooooooooo much better.
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Check your mamewah.ini for drive letter and folder changes.
### Misc Settings ###
emulator_root_path C:\Program Files\MAME
### Misc Settings ###
emulator_root_path [new_drive]:\Program Files (x86)\MAME
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Under .\config edit layout.lay
C:\Program Files\[mamewah_folder]\config\[background_name].png
[new_drive]:\Program Files (x86)\[mamewah_folder]\config\[background_name].png
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Your mamewah startup may be found here.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
If you don't see one, you'll need to create a new String Value to start mamewah.exe