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Game logs are empty Why?
« on: November 01, 2019, 10:28:03 pm »
I can go in cmd line and type Mame64.exe dkong-v>dkong.txt and the log is empty  tried Mame64.exe -v dkong>dkong.txt  still empty

what am I doing wrong

I can type mame64.exe dkong and the game launches so I know it is working. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

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Re: Game logs are empty Why?
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2019, 12:42:17 am »
Make sure that your current directory is your mame directory (cd c:\mame or wherever)
Run it first without the >dkong.txt and confirm that you see the verbose output. Then add the >dkong.txt and run it again.

After, do a DIR dkong.txt to see the size of the dkong.txt file.

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Re: Game logs are empty Why?
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2019, 09:03:14 am »
Make sure that your current directory is your mame directory (cd c:\mame or wherever)
Run it first without the >dkong.txt and confirm that you see the verbose output. Then add the >dkong.txt and run it again.

After, do a DIR dkong.txt to see the size of the dkong.txt file.
. I see it open a window runs dome script then closes very fast. Still no info in long

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Re: Game logs are empty Why?
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2019, 11:45:21 am »
I've always used it like this:
Mame64 dkong -v > dkong.txt

Tried your way too and it worked, so not sure what's going on.
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Re: Game logs are empty Why?
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2019, 01:11:27 pm »
I see it open a window runs dome script then closes very fast. Still no info in long
Mame doesn't open another window for its text output. Are you sure you've opened a command prompt, that stays open, like Win+R, Open: CMD, ENTER?

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Re: Game logs are empty Why?
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2019, 05:05:40 pm »
I've always used it like this:
Mame64 dkong -v > dkong.txt

Tried your way too and it worked, so not sure what's going on.

I see a new window and script running but the txt is empty

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Re: Game logs are empty Why?
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2019, 11:27:37 pm »
I can go in cmd line and type Mame64.exe dkong-v>dkong.txt and the log is empty  tried Mame64.exe -v dkong>dkong.txt  still empty

what am I doing wrong

I can type mame64.exe dkong and the game launches so I know it is working. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

You likely need spaces between your parameters.