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Title: mame won't create config files ????
Post by: rmcelwee on December 23, 2015, 11:05:16 am

I redid my mame computer/cab and was trying to change the "inputs this game" for Tron. My changes weren't taking so I did some looking around. My mame/cfg directory only has three files in it. It used to be chocked full of changes that I made over the years. I notice that there is not a tron.cfg in there. I use a front end so I loaded mame tron in a command line and tried to change the inputs again. Still, no changes made and no cfg file created. I copied my old tron.cfg from another install (would have been the changes I wanted to make) but yet the changes still don't take effect. I don't see any problems with the attributes on the directory or files. Any ideas???


Oh yeah, I tried another game (time pilot 84) and had the same results. It will not create cfg files or save changes.

Title: Re: mame won't create config files ????
Post by: BadMouth on December 23, 2015, 11:22:03 am

It might be a windows permissions thing.
Are you logged in or running mame as administrator?

Title: Re: mame won't create config files ????
Post by: rmcelwee on December 23, 2015, 11:27:39 am

I'm running mame 0.62 under win98 dos mode with arcadeos as a front end. I just did a DOS shell from inside arcadeos and changed to the mame/cfg directory. I used dos edit and created test.cfg . I think this would indicate that there are no permission or attribute problems.

Thanks for the suggestion though!

Title: Re: mame won't create config files ????
Post by: Thenasty on December 24, 2015, 08:31:55 pm

check mame.cfg/ini file and see if it's directing the right path/folder to CFG.

Title: Re: mame won't create config files ????
Post by: rmcelwee on December 25, 2015, 07:51:07 am

Quote from: Thenasty on December 24, 2015, 08:31:55 pm

check mame.cfg/ini file and see if it's directing the right path/folder to CFG.

Will do! Thanks....

Title: Re: mame won't create config files ????
Post by: rmcelwee on December 25, 2015, 09:36:04 pm

Quote from: Thenasty on December 24, 2015, 08:31:55 pm

check mame.cfg/ini file and see if it's directing the right path/folder to CFG.

Wow, I have no idea why it was like that but NO, it was not set up to the correct path. I'm not sure why it would make a difference in saving the settings since it should have just used the cfg files it was creating in the other directory. In any event, it is fixed (and I feel stupid - shouldn't have to check mame.cfg after 15 years of not looking at it).

Thanks for making me look at the simple stuff!