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Title: Game Launcher and mamescan
Post by: turboc on July 23, 2002, 06:14:27 pm

Mamescan returns both a blank mame.rom and mame.map file.  Mame is located in c:\mame and roms are in c:\mame\roms.  Any ideas?  Here is my config:

[Main]

mame_executable = c:\mame\mame.exe
mame_rom_directory = c:\mame\roms
base_configuration_path = config\mame

[Constraint]

Title: Re:Game Launcher and mamescan
Post by: Andy Skipp on July 24, 2002, 09:47:56 am

Try to make sure that your rom path is set ok in the mamescan.cfg, also make sure that all your roms are lowercase or mamescan will not see them, that what happened to me.

Another thing you can try is in the mame.cfg which is in the config folder there is an option to allow glaunch to scan for roms, I have never tried it for mame but it works for zsnes.

here is the option you are looking for

use_rom_file = yes, just put no instead of yes.


Hope this helps :)

Title: Re:Game Launcher and mamescan
Post by: Jakobud on July 29, 2002, 10:33:47 pm

I have honestly never gotten Mamescan to work correctly for me...but you don't really need it.  There is a way to get both the mame.map and mame.rom manually....

1. Open a dos window
2. Goto your mame directory
3. type in this command:

mame -listfull > mame.map

(this makes a file called mame.map in your mame folder)

There you go...copy that mame.map file to your glaunch/config folder...

Now for the mame.rom...

1. Goto your mame roms folder (in Dos again)
2. type in this:

dir *.zip /b /on > mame.rom

(this makes a file called mame.rom in your roms folder)

3. Open this new mame.rom in Wordpad
4. EDIT > Replace
5. In the replace window replace:

  .zip     with      <nothing>   (just leave the second box blank)

This will get rid of all the .zip extensions in the file.

Copy this mame.rom to your glaunch/config folder

You are done.  No need for Mamescan...  

:)

Jakobud