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[Truz]

my roms are fine, i think that maybe it cant find them on my computer. I pointed the xmamerc.dist to where my rom folder is so i dont know what the problem is.

[SirPeale]

He forgot to state the path.

$xmame.x11 dkong -rp /path/to/your/roms

You have to state the -rp (or -rompath) or it won't work.

Also, check your .xmamerc file in /$HOME/.xmame to see if the ROM path is stated there.

[Truz]

ok i scrapped everything an decided to start over from step one. I encounter a problem once again when trying to copy over the xmamerc.dist over to the home/.xmame directory. The .xmame folder shows up in the home dir as an invisible folder first of all.... is it supposed to be like that.

Anyway i encountered someone online who seems to be having the same problem as i did, here check it out.

http://www.beemulated.net/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=286&t=286


He says that xmame was looking for the xmamrc.dist file in the home/xmame directory. So he just copied the file over, and it worked. This is my problem, the file will not copy over. I dont know why. I run the cp command in a terminal and copy the file over and it seems as if it copied over as no errors were reported. Granted it told me there was no such file a few times but i think they were just typo errors.

So basically right now i think i have the same problem as this guy did, but i cannot for the life of me get the xmamerc.dist to copy to the /home/.xmame folder. I dont get what the problem is and why it just wont transfer over when i run the copy command.

[SirPeale]

all folders (or files) that begin with "." are invisible.  You can see them with this:

$ ls -a

or if you want to just display your hidden files:

$ ls .* -a

Did you try what I suggested before you scrapped it?

[jerryjanis]

ok i scrapped everything an decided to start over from step one. I encounter a problem once again when trying to copy over the xmamerc.dist over to the home/.xmame directory. The .xmame folder shows up in the home dir as an invisible folder first of all.... is it supposed to be like that.

Are you sure that you renamed xmamerc properly?

I have never done anything with the xmamerc.dist file before, so I tried it out just now.  Here's what I did:

1) I copied xmamerc.dist from my src directory to "/home/jstookey/.xmame":
  $cd downloads/src/xmame-0.81.1
  $cp xmamerc.dist ~/.xmame/
2) I renamed it to "xmamerc":
  $cd /home/jstookey/.xmame/
  $mv xmamerc.dist xmamerc
3) Edited the rompath line in xmamerc:
rompath                 /home/jstookey/downloads/emu/roms
4) run xmame
  $cd /home/jstookey/downloads/src/xmame-0.81.1/
  $./xmame.x11 dkong

[SirPeale]

The first time I ran xmame, it created both the dir .xmame and .xmame/xmamerc for me.  Using generic options, of course, to be edited by the user.

[Truz]

hahahah yes!!! triumph. I got it thanks guys, i followed what jerry said in his last post and it worked. tried out a couple more roms and they worked as well. Woohooo! You guys rock



But one quick question, how do i get it to go full screen all the games run i really tiny windows, how do i fix that?


My next task will be getting a frontend going like advancemenu or gxmame... hope i dont have as much trouble with that.

[jerryjanis]

Press ctrl-alt-end while playing in a window to go into full-screen mode.

Or, you can set the following value in xmamerc:

x11-mode                3