Need help with Mame32 - won't start games!

[Dashman]

OK .... I'm new and thoroughly frustrated! I have both MAMEand MAME32 installed - all my ROMS work fine in MAME. I got Mame32 put the romsin the ROM folder (unzipped),and fired it up! Says it found em,and they are "working". But if I double click a game, the screen just flashes,and then back to mame32 - no windows open up at all. Checked the directories setup .. looks fine .. any thoughts?

KLM

[Naru]

The ROMs need to be zipped.
The ROM folder remains unzipped.
That's all I know.
There's a lot smarter people here
than me, so you've
got a good chance of finding out
the problem.

[Dashman]

All that is fine 

[IG-88]

Naru is right. Make sure the roms are zipped inside the ROMS folder. Then run a game audit.

[Dashman]

Ran the audit,went to "working",clicked on a game that is supposed to work, said it was fine, clicked run and it just flickered and back to mame32 again

[loadman]

.. any thoughts?

Try setting up another version of mame32 in another directory.

[Havok]

Your ROMs version has to match your Mame version. Check out this program:

ClrMamePro

If they don't, then get an older\newer version of Mame32:

JoyMonkey's Mame32 Archive

Since you have Mame and Mame32, verify you are pointing Mame32 to the correct ROM directory, under Options, Directories,

-or-

Try deleting the Mame32.ini file and re-run Mame32

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Experiment with your video modes under Options, Default Game Options, Display. Try swapping DirectDraw/Direct3D.

[ahofle]

I just had this happen yesterday.  It's not the roms because he would have gotten an error msg.  I rebooted and the problem went away. 

[SirPeale]

It's none of these things.

Link 1

Link 2

[langdoguk]

I had the very same problem . Tried loads of things but still couldn't get it to work . Downloaded Atomic FE  and hey presto I was playing games within about 2 minutes , the plug and play modules are the dogs  for people like myself who are not the best at all this .
But I am the best at WONDERBOY