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Need some serious help with MAME and MALA
« on: September 30, 2012, 09:55:08 pm »
So I'm looking to turn an old PC into a MAME box that only plays arcade games. I have been following this tutorial: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=83570.0

and whenever I get to the part about creating the MAME.ini file in command prompt I hit a brick wall. I have used CMD for tons of stuff in the past, but this just doesn't work. I enter cd C:\Emulators\Programs\mame All I get is "is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file." and this is my exact file format on my system. I'm stumped! I can't even get to the part where I enter mame -cc to get the .ini file. Someone please help me I'm going crazy here.
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Re: Need some serious help with MAME and MALA
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2012, 11:20:07 am »
I don't know much about windows but I know of "cd" as unix for change directory.

I think in Windows it's something like chdir.
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Re: Need some serious help with MAME and MALA
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Re: Need some serious help with MAME and MALA
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2012, 08:02:58 pm »
Quote from: loganm187 on September 30, 2012, 09:55:08 pm
So I'm looking to turn an old PC into a MAME box that only plays arcade games. I have been following this tutorial: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=83570.0

and whenever I get to the part about creating the MAME.ini file in command prompt I hit a brick wall. I have used CMD for tons of stuff in the past, but this just doesn't work. I enter cd C:\Emulators\Programs\mame All I get is "is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file." and this is my exact file format on my system. I'm stumped! I can't even get to the part where I enter mame -cc to get the .ini file. Someone please help me I'm going crazy here.

Assuming your going from Command Prompt:

it should default saying c:\Document and settings\username>
     type cd ..
now it should show c:\Document and settings>
    type cd ..
now you should see just c:\
   type cd emulators
   then cd programs
   then cd mame

now you will be in the mame folder and you can create your mame ini file
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