Lazarus Support Needed

[Superdude]

Hello, I am having problems starting up Lazarus with Mame. After I run the parse and try to do a scan for my roms it gives me a message: Cannot find path error 7.  Here is my dir.ini file.

[Dirs]
roms=C:\Arcade\mame32\roms\

Primary Artwork Dir=C:\Arcade\mame32\
Additional AW Dirs=

[startvd]
[path]
logo=
caption=Mame
useclones=0
searchstrings:
[/path]
[/startvd]

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What did I do wrong?  I checked and double checked my paths here.

Thanks for you help.  I did read the manuals on the site but I dont know what I setup wrong.  Please help.

[Superdude]

BTW my MAME.CFG is:

extension=.zip
path=c:\Arcade\mame32\
exe=Mame.exe
send rom path=1
send exit keys=0
command line options;

[Howard_Casto]

Well for one thing you didn't put in a search string. If you don't put in a search string then it searches for nothing and thus gets confused.  

Try

searchstrings:5=MAME

That should do ya.  

Also a path not found error means just that... you are pointing to a path that doesn't exist.  Although you want to correct the other error first and see if it fixes it.    

[Jungle]

OK, I guess I'm not the only one having trouble.

This FE looks really nice so I'd like to get it working.

I'm running Win98 if it matters.

Here's what I have done so far:

1 - Read the documentation (many times)
2 - Extracted the Lazarus zip into C:\Mame\Lazarus
3 - Ran the runme.bat file
4 - Downloaded the catver.ini and put it in the correct folder
5 - Created a dat file for mame using -listinfo
6 - Put the correct directories in dirs.ini and the Mame CFG file
7 - Ran Lazarus
8 - Selected Generate Gamelist

Here's where I ran into problems.  The parse of the Mame .dat file went fine and created my master list.  Then it gets to the part where it says "Checking Vdir:0" and a few seconds later I get a Run Time Error '76' - Path Not Found.

What path does this refer to?  I've checked and rechecked the paths in my ini and they do exist.  Here are my dirs.and mame.cfg files:

 [Dirs]
roms=c:\mame\roms\
Primary Artwork Dir=c:\mame\
Additional AW Dirs=

[startvd]
[path]
logo=
caption=Mame
useclones=0
searchstrings:5=MAME
[/path]

[/startvd]


extension=.zip
path=C:\mame\
exe=lzMame.exe
send rom path=1
send exit keys=0
command line options;


Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

[Howard_Casto]

It refers to your rom path.  I know this because I put the error message in myself.

Here's something that's dumb that might work.... Try to put in two rom paths....

roms=c:\windows\;c:\mame\roms\

It doesn't matter that there isn't anything there this is just for debug pruposes.  All that matters is that the folder actually exists.

If it gets through the first vdir fine then we know for some reason it isn't liking the folder you have your roms in.  It could be that it's compressed or some other such nonsense.    

[Superdude]

Tried the 2 paths and didnt work.  I did exactly what Jungle did.  Jungle, are you using Windows XP?  Maybe its not XP compatable or I have to create a new directory.  Any other debugging hints?

[Jungle]

I'm using Windows 98.  I haven't had a chance to try the two paths test yet, but I have had the same problem on two different computers (both running Win 98).

I'll play around with it some more tonight, since I'd really like to get Lazarus up and running.

[Howard_Casto]

It's programmed in xp, so it works the best in it.  That much I can confirm.  

I would consider making a fresh install and also moving some of your roms to a special directory just for testing.