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Title: Problems running ROMs with ARCADEOS
Post by: liche on November 11, 2002, 09:01:01 am

First, my current set-up.  ArcadeOS running DMAME on pure DOS.

My problem is that I cannot get ArcadeOS to run roms that DMAME can run perfectly fine on my machine.  I checked the paths in the arcadeos.cfg file and everything seems okay, and ArcadeOS does find the romsets and lists them, but everytime i go to launch a game, it comes up with errors.

Am I missing something else?  Do I need to make Merged Romsets = YES???

Any help appreciated.
Thanks

Title: Re:Problems running ROMs with ARCADEOS
Post by: Superdude on November 11, 2002, 12:58:07 pm

What is the errors you get?
Can you run in dos something like:
dmame pacman
?

Title: Re:Problems running ROMs with ARCADEOS
Post by: liche on November 11, 2002, 01:33:58 pm

Its come up with the standard errors typical when you run a romset that is corrupt or not valid - about 4-5 different error messages.

However, when running DMAME directly it works . . .

For example,

dmame mspacman -soundcard 1

or

dmame gyruss

My DOSMAME is loaded into directory C:\DOSMAME while AdvMAME is loaded into directory C:\MAME

The arcadeos.cfg file directs everything to c:\DOSMAME, but maybe there is something else it doesn't like about that directory.

Title: Re:Problems running ROMs with ARCADEOS
Post by: Superdude on November 11, 2002, 03:03:33 pm

Quote from: liche on November 11, 2002, 01:33:58 pm

My DOSMAME is loaded into directory C:\DOSMAME while AdvMAME is loaded into directory C:\MAME

The arcadeos.cfg file directs everything to c:\DOSMAME, but maybe there is something else it doesn't like about that directory.

You just answered your question right there.  Arcadeos must have a directory called c:\mame with all your mame software and advance mame.  For some reason, (I expect hardcoding), Arcadeos cannot run mame without it being in this directory.  I had problems with this before and decided not to fight it anymore.  Make a Mame directory and copy everything there and reinstall Arcadeos.  

Title: Re:Problems running ROMs with ARCADEOS
Post by: liche on November 11, 2002, 09:30:35 pm

Thanks.  When I originally installed the Fraggal Boot CD, it installed ArcadeOs and AdvMame in C:\MAME.  I then installed regular DOS Mame into a directory called C:|DOSMAME and configured arcadeos.cfg file to run everything from there.  But i guess as you say, it doesn't like it.  I'll re-install everyting tomorrow and install Dos Mame into C:\MAME

Yeah, the errors I get are:

ROMS not found, etc.... even though they are there.

Thanks again

Title: Re:Problems running ROMs with ARCADEOS
Post by: Superdude on November 12, 2002, 10:56:56 am

I notice that 61.4 of advmame also has a small bug in the cfg file.  Make sure it is pointing to ROMS and not ROM for the directory name.