Arcadeos 2.52 dosmame 58 HELP!!

[Wetworks]

I have been searching and experimenting with Arcadeos 2.52 and dosmame 58 (As this is the rom set I have) to run on my cocktail cab and I can't get my roms to show I have noticed other people having this problem as well something to do with -listxml. I am running arcadeos 2.47 and dosmame 36 which runs fine but I am missing out on some favourite games so I need to upgrade. When I upgraded to dosmame 58 with arcadeos 2.47 my screen on the arcade monitor was split into three I presume this is due to 8 bit mode support been removed. Apparantly this has been fixed in Arcadeos 2.52? Can anyone please guide me on how to set up Arcadeos 2.52 with dosmame 58. I have been trying for weeks and am now posting my first thread on this forum. i have enjoyed reading other peoples threads and have an upright Mortal Kombat running with Mamewah(arcadeVGA and JPAC) thanks to other peoples posts! Thanks! Please help I seem to be missing something I tried changing legacy support in arcade.cfg and that didn't work. Thanks to anyone who knows it will be greatly appreciated.
Ben O

[SirPeale]

For your missing list, in 'arcadeos.cfg' make sure that the legacy line is the opposite of whatever it is now.  Then delete all *.lst and *.rm* files and run AOS again, it should generate your lists then.

You didn't detail what kind of monitor you were using, or your video card.

[Wetworks]

Yes thanks Peale that got arcadeos 2.52 working sweet  bleesings to you!! I thought the upgrades with arcadeos would help my graphics card but to no avail I have tried with with dos mame 53 onwards and I get a split screen three ways tried configuring everything but no go..... I am useing an ati rage xl 8mb surely this would be enoungh ommpth to do the job the last game that ran  on this monitor is captain comando I think it is a nano 19 inch (  Iam sure it is 19 inch and the guy said nano something and it is good) should i upgrade to to a ati pci 7000 would that help thing ...cheers and and thanks for your support here this forum rocks!

[SirPeale]

Did you make sure to turn on arcade monitor support in arcadeos.cfg?

[Wetworks]

Yes I changed the arcadeos cfg file to arcade monitor and the mame cfg to arcade. The Arcadeos screen works fine but when I launch a game it splits it three ways (one screen on top of the other) the resolution seems fine it is just broken up like it is displaying the game three times on the one screen. any ideas switched back to dos mame 36 and it worked fine??

[SirPeale]

Ah, now I gotcha.

Try turning vesa=0

[Wetworks]

Ok I tried changing vesamode = 0 (zero) in the mame cfg (in the mame folder) and the dmame cfg in the arcadeos cfg it still didn't work when I checked back in the cfg files it had reverted them to vesa1.
Is this the right place I should be changing them? or did you mean somewhere else ?  Thanks for replying so quickly

[Wetworks]

I had a bit more of a play with it tonight but still got the three image screen?? When I was playing dos mame 36 I noticed a game came up in the same screen weirdness as I previously explained. My default on arcadeos is vesa3 I have tried all vesa modes ( didn't work ) on mame 58 and changed screen resloutions. Has anyone had these problems with running dos mame 53 onwards with arcadeos on an arcade monitor??? Please help as I think my family and friends are starting to desert me due to compulsive behaviour hehe I love forums!!

[SirPeale]

What happens if you run Mame right from the command line, after making vesa=off?

Oh, try vesa=off, not 0 as I said before.

[JoyMonkey]

I haven't tried using regular DOS Mame with ArcadeOS since Mame 0.37, but I haven't had a problem using AdvanceMame.
My cocktail setup is using ArcadeOS 2.50 (I think) and AdvanceMame 0.66 and it works beautifully.

AdvMame can take a while to configure correctly, but if you're using an arcade monitor the results are well worth it, since it uses perfect video modes with no stretching. Also, all the video modes can be tweaked so games are diplayed exactly as you'd like. You can download older versions of it here and Las Vegas wrote an excellent guide to getting it set up right here.

[Wetworks]

Thanks that works GREAT!!! I had not bothered with advancemame before as I thought it might be to difficult to configure. After a little research I am tweaking my displays to perfection !! This is highly recommended to anyone using dos mame . I have a couple of questions but started a new thread as it doesn't really relate to this anymore. As Joymonkey said follow the links above and you can't go wrong I did finally work out that advancemame is synced with mame in it's release numbers so if you have rom set 58 download advancemame 58 I downloaded advancemame 66 and nearly every game is working. Plus I found a neat bat file which seperated all my vertical games from my horizontal wish i found this a couple of months ago when I did it manually!! Thanks for all your help guys!!!

[Halo]

For your missing list, in 'arcadeos.cfg' make sure that the legacy line is the opposite of whatever it is now.  Then delete all *.lst and *.rm* files and run AOS again, it should generate your lists then.

Can I just ask something, as I'm having the same problem? - I'm running ArcadeOS and AdvMAME 0.80, but I want to upgrade to a newer version of AdvMAME and ArcadeOS so I can use a newer MAME set.

When I upgrade AdvMAME to a newer version that 0.83, I lose all of my game list. Will the above work also for me? I've read on the forums about the xml change at .84 and I don't fully understand it - if the above will avoid needing to brave it, I'm a happy chap!

Thx!