no artwork files showing in advmame

[thelevin8r]

Is there a trick to get these to show?

[jimlab]

Make sure that your artwork files are in the "artwork" subfolder of your Mame folder and are in .zip format.

Check your advmame.rc file for the presence of the two following lines:

dir_artwork artwork
...
display_artwork yes

If you don't have artwork files yet (I'm assuming you do, but if you don't) then you need to go here... http://www.mame.net/downart.html

Hope that helps.

[thelevin8r]

That is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

[thelevin8r]

Wierd. I check and I seem to be in complience. I have these two lines in my advmame.rc, and I do have an artwork folder in my mame directory with all of my artwork zips.

[jimlab]

Sorry, that's the best advice I can offer. Not sure why your artwork isn't appearing. Here's the section of advmame.txt that describes the use of artwork...

7.5 Display Artwork Configuration Options
-----------------------------------------

---- 7.5.1 display_artwork ----
Enables or disables the artwork display.

display_artwork yes | no

Options:
    yes - Enables the artwork (default).
    no - Doesn't display the artwork.

---- 7.5.2 display_artwork_crop ----
Crops the artwork at the game size.

display_artwork_crop yes | no

Options:
    yes - Crops the artwork.
    no - Doesn't crop the artwork (default).

There's no mention of defining the artwork directory in advmenu, but you might try sticking in a line that looks like this...

emulator_artwork "advmame" "C:\MAME\ARTWORK"

I haven't really tried to see if it's working on my machine yet, so I'm just going off what the documentation says to do.