cant get GameLauncher to work

[hunky_artist]

Hi guys... Im in the planning stages of my cab, and Im thinking about front ends

mmm... front ends....

*shakes his head* anyway..... I saw the GameLauncher one at an arcade exhibition in London a while back and thought it was great. nice and simple looking. Si i tried it recently

no matter what i do I cant get it to load games... ive gone through all the configuration files and everything, and i can get it to list the gamesl.. but it goes blank and back to the list when i select one... any ideas?  

[maraxle]

Turn on the debug mode in the config file.  I forget what the setting is called, but it's in the documentation.  It'll show you exactly what's being run.

[Buddabing]

Hi guys... Im in the planning stages of my cab, and Im thinking about front ends

mmm... front ends....

*shakes his head* anyway..... I saw the GameLauncher one at an arcade exhibition in London a while back and thought it was great. nice and simple looking. Si i tried it recently

no matter what i do I cant get it to load games... ive gone through all the configuration files and everything, and i can get it to list the gamesl.. but it goes blank and back to the list when i select one... any ideas?  

GameLauncher will go back to the menu if there is an error in the emulator (MAME, I presume).

This happened to me on some games, not all, when I had flaky drivers for my sound card.

Turn on the log file, and try turning off sound and see if it works without sound.

What OS?

[hunky_artist]

xp.. although it did it as well when i had 98 on my old pc.

should I be using the dos version of mame? im using mame32 at the moment (havent 'done' DOS since i was about 14 in school....)