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MartyNg:
I am building a cabinet and for now, I only have a spare laptop with not much hard drive space free. I thought I could load mame on it and run ROMS that were on a network share on my media server. I have configured the .ini, and it tries to start the roms, but then shows an error that it can't find a bunch of file names (the files that it can't find are right inside the .zip files, and these same zip files run fine when loading from my local machine.)

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I'm wondering if it's because they are zip files, they don't like to be uncompressed and run from a different machine. Thanks for any help!

Also, are there any special considerations I must make in my MAME configuration since I will be using a laptop through my arcade monitor (with a J-PAC).

Brad:
Have you mapped the drive to a letter? Do that and then make sure that the drive letter itself is the path rather than a full UNC path. I know it works that way though it may be a little slower to load at first.

Brad

MartyNg:

--- Quote from: Brad on July 24, 2006, 12:55:56 am ---Have you mapped the drive to a letter? Do that and then make sure that the drive letter itself is the path rather than a full UNC path. I know it works that way though it may be a little slower to load at first.

Brad

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Yes, I have it mapped to a letter, so in my mame.ini file, the ROM location is  "Z:\"  MameWAH is able to populate the games list from there, but cannot actually load any of the games.  (Both of my machines are WinXP Home)

MartyNg:
The exact error is "ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run."

fatfingers:

Can you run the games from the command line (no mamewah)???

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