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Title: Mame 0.124 + 0.124 Roms Problems? Pacman and Burger Time don't work?
Post by: Cero21 on April 05, 2008, 02:31:10 am

Anybody else having problems getting Mame 0.124 + a complete 0.124 rom set?

At least both pacman.zip and burger time are saying they are missing files?

C:\Arcade\Emulators\Mame>mamepp c:\arcade\roms\mame\pacman.zip
pacman.6e NOT FOUND
pacman.6f NOT FOUND
pacman.6h NOT FOUND
pacman.6j NOT FOUND
pacman.5e NOT FOUND
pacman.5f NOT FOUND
82s123.7f NOT FOUND
82s126.4a NOT FOUND
82s126.1m NOT FOUND
82s126.3m NOT FOUND
ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.

Title: Re: Mame 0.124 + 0.124 Roms Problems? Pacman and Burger Time don't work?
Post by: Yarb on April 06, 2008, 12:32:05 am

Have you run ClrMamePro to see what files are missing?

Yarb

Title: Re: Mame 0.124 + 0.124 Roms Problems? Pacman and Burger Time don't work?
Post by: Cero21 on April 06, 2008, 03:09:42 am

This is what clrmamepro tells me.

Missing Sets:             0 of 6996
Wrong SetName Case:       0 [0 fixed]
Wrong Named Sets:         0 [0 fixed]

Missing Roms:             4 of 97657
Missing Bytes:            80kb of 54gb
Missing BIOS Roms:        0 of 107
Wrong Named Roms:         0 [0 fixed]
Wrong RomName Case:       0 [0 fixed]
Wrong Sized Roms:         0 [0 fixed]
Wrong Date/Time Roms:     0 [0 fixed]
Wrong CRC32s:             0
Wrong MD5s:               <n/a>
Wrong SHA1s:              <n/a>

 You are missing 0 of 7031 known Mame sets (+ BIOS sets)


Any ideas?

Title: Re: Mame 0.124 + 0.124 Roms Problems? Pacman and Burger Time don't work?
Post by: SGT on April 06, 2008, 12:32:30 pm

If I were you, I would first verify that the path to your roms is correct.  Any slight spelling variations?

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c:\arcade\roms\mame

If no problems there, I would then open that roms folder, and actually open pacman.zip to see if you get an error and to verify that you see the files in pacman.zip that your error message is saying is missing.  You will not see all the files in pacman.zip because some of the missing files it is reporting is also (usually) contained in puckman.zip.   So in pacman.zip and puckman.zip, you should be able to see all the reported missing files. 

*UPDATE
I notice that if the path to your roms is wrong in MAME.INI, then it doesn't matter if you specify the correct path to the roms on the command line.  Therefore my guess is that you need to make sure that the mame.ini rom parameter is set to:

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rompath                   c:\arcade\roms\mame
If you don't have a mame.ini file, you can create one from the command line by typing:

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mame -cc

Title: Re: Mame 0.124 + 0.124 Roms Problems? Pacman and Burger Time don't work?
Post by: Cero21 on April 06, 2008, 09:32:12 pm

SGT, you rock!

You were right.  It was the rompath in the mame.ini file.  Turns out I didn't have a .ini file either so you instructions worked perfectly.  Thanks so much!

Title: Re: Mame 0.124 + 0.124 Roms Problems? Pacman and Burger Time don't work?
Post by: SGT on April 06, 2008, 09:37:17 pm

Good deal!  :cheers:

You probably already know this, but now that you've specified the rompath in mame.ini, you only need to use the following to start up pacman for example (the path and the .zip isn't necessary).

mamepp pacman