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Game launcher question
« on: April 02, 2003, 06:04:46 pm »
I've been trying to get Game Launcher to work, but I haven't had any luck.  When I try to run mame scan to get the .rom .map files, nothing generates in the files?  Can someone help?


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Re:Game launcher question
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2003, 07:24:41 pm »
I've been trying to get Game Launcher to work, but I haven't had any luck.  When I try to run mame scan to get the .rom .map files, nothing generates in the files?  Can someone help?


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Make sure you have the \glaunch\mame.cfg file configured properly with the proper directories.  I had the same problem twice, and this ended up being the problem both times :)

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Re:Game launcher question
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2003, 12:50:45 pm »
When I try to run mame scan to get the .rom .map files, nothing generates in the files?

Had this problem for a LONG time (was tearing my heair out).  two things come to mind:

1) Make sure that the roms (.zip format) are in the directory that you say they are in.  Doesnt hurt to double and triple-check this.  I simple stupid typo and the whole thing is kaput.  Also, make sure of the CaSe of the directories.  Upper or lowercase DOES make a difference to mamescan.

2) My problem was:  My .zip files were all uppercase, and mamescan doesnt like that.  I changed them all to lowercase, and now it works like a dream.  Found a little shareware proggy called "ChangeCase" or something and it made this quite simple.

Let me know if this helps ya,
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Re:Game launcher question
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2003, 01:48:05 pm »
Mamescan rarely works.  This thread will answer your questions:

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=1127;start=0

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Re:Game launcher question
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2003, 06:32:45 pm »
Thanks for the info!