Rom list problem with ARCADEOS

[CarlitoBrigante]

Hi from a total newbie looking for some simple guidance.

Am setting up a PC with Arcadeos (2.51) and dos mame 37b16b (so I can run it on an arcade monitor).  I have Arcadeos configured so that it picks up mame from the correct directory and I have roms in the rom directory of mame but when I run Arcadeos it's not showing any games.  I try and update Arcadeos and it says it's updating with the games I have in the rom directory of mame but then it doesn't show them as available on screen.

Anybody got any ideas what I could be doing wrong please?

[lokki]

Check the configuration and make sure you have mame legacy to yes.

There's a new tag in arcadeos.cfg for legacy support:

#Legacy List Generation
legacygen=1

Set to '1' for Mame versions < .84 and '0' for versions > .84

[CarlitoBrigante]

Thanks for responding so quickly - do have that flag set to 1 but still nothing happens.

Any more suggestions please?

[lokki]

Thanks for responding so quickly - do have that flag set to 1 but still nothing happens.

Any more suggestions please?

Delete the .lst files.
When arcadeOS starts it should tell you how its generating the list...
You should see something like

-listinfo %

For old versions of mame. For 84 and greater you should see

-xmlinfo | xml2info

If you don't see either then you probably don't have arcade OS 2.5.1

If you do see these and still the list is empty.... The you probably dont have the ROMS in the right place.

[CarlitoBrigante2]

Thanks lokki, have tried this and note two 'interesting' things - seems to be coming up with the second message, though I definately have version 37 of mame on the machine (well before version .84) also , the file path after the message (though it is not on screen for me to make it out accurately) seems to be something like C:\ $cls .tmp (though I definately have the roms in C:\mame\roms and arcadeos.cfg pointing to mame.cfg and the rom path in mame.cfg configured to .;roms

Cheers  

[SirPeale]

Don't delete just the .lst files, delete the .rm* files too.

Actually, sort the dir by date and delete *any* newly created files and try again.  Well, except arcadeos.cfg

[lokki]

Thanks lokki, have tried this and note two 'interesting' things - seems to be coming up with the second message, though I definately have version 37 of mame on the machine (well before version .84) also , the file path after the message (though it is not on screen for me to make it out accurately) seems to be something like C:\ $cls .tmp (though I definately have the roms in C:\mame\roms and arcadeos.cfg pointing to mame.cfg and the rom path in mame.cfg configured to .;roms

Cheers  

Hi the $cls.tmp file is normal. Arcade OS creates a temporary file, and from there creates the .lst files..

I think the problem is that using the xmlinfo which is not supported in MAME 37.

Not sure you have the mame legacy configured correctly

[CarlitoBrigante]

Have deleted all new files in the arcadeos directory created since I installed it on C drive and tried again but still nothing

[lokki]

Have deleted all new files in the arcadeos directory created since I installed it on C drive and tried again but still nothing

Do you still see -xmlinfo or -listinfo?

[CarlitoBrigante]

The message I get, reads exactly:

. Getting information list from MAME
- listxml | xml2info >C:\xl$.tmp

[SirPeale]

The message I get, reads exactly:

. Getting information list from MAME
- listxml | xml2info >C:\xl$.tmp

That's why, right there.  Change the legacy option from whatever you have it as, to it's opposite.

[CarlitoBrigante]

Thanks for the help guys have finally got Aracdeos to recognise the roms.  Tried both legacy flag options '1 and '0', to no avail.  Problem was the rompath in the mame.cfg - changed it from .;roms which it was showing previously to the full path i.e. C:\mame\roms and now Arcadeos is picking up the roms (also changed the samplepath while I was at it).

Only problem now is sound isn't working!  I only changed the rompath and samplepath in the mame.cfg and now it can't initialize the soundcard (though previously it was working when I was loading up the Arcadeos screen that didn't recognise the roms).  Arcadeos is running in a window so it shouldn't be anything to do with the dos drivers for the soundcard should it?

Sorry to be a pest.

[CarlitoBrigante]

 Have cracked it - reinstalled the lot and corrected the rompath and samplepath in mae.cfg and everyhting's working fine and dandy.

Thanks for all your suggestions - it's nice to know you still have some time for us fumbling in the dark newbies.

Cheers

CarliBrigante