Topic: Can't Run Roms - Mameox 128 (Read 65 times)

Cutriss · « **Reply #15 on:** August 18, 2006, 10:34:00 AM »

When loading sfa3, MAMEoX reports the following missing ROMs:

sz3u.03c
sz3u.04c
sz3.05c
sz3.06c
sz3.07c
sz3.08c
sz3.09c
sz3.10b
sz3ux.03c
sz3ux.04c
sz3.13m
sz3.15m
sz3.17m
sz3.19m
sz3.14m
sz3.16m
sz3.18m

There are likely more, but this is where the screen stops.

The ZIP contains 57 files, and every single one of those listed is in it, and Romcenter identifies the checksum as being good against the MAMEoX DAT. Also, FBAx plays the ROM without a problem, as does MAME32.

Thraxen · « **Reply #16 on:** August 18, 2006, 04:13:00 PM »

Have you tried running a ROM from the default location (d:\roms\) just to see if it does the same thing?

Cutriss · « **Reply #17 on:** August 18, 2006, 04:21:00 PM »

No, that'd be rather messy to do, involving burning a CD and all (and my oh-so-wonderful Thompson probably wouldn't give it the time of day anyway).

Thraxen · « **Reply #18 on:** August 18, 2006, 04:41:00 PM »

No, you don't have to burn anything. "D:" is a relative path that is defined as the directory from which the default.xbe files was launched. This applies to almost every XBox app in existence. That's why almost all XBox apps have paths that say "d:" by default in their ini files.

So if you have MAMEoX installed here:

F:\Emulators\MAMEoX\default.xbe

then d:\roms\ means the same thing as this:

F:\Emulators\MAMEoX\roms\

So make a "roms" folder in the install directory and move SFA3 there. Make sure one of the 4 ROM paths says "d:\roms\" and then have the emulator re-scan for ROMS. Then try to load SFA3 again and see what happens.

Cutriss · « **Reply #19 on:** August 18, 2006, 04:59:00 PM »

Yeah, SFA3 runs if I put it there and add D:\roms to the last of the config directories.

It's weird that they'll run from there but not from a non-subordinate folder. I was kinda trying to abstract the ROM storage itself away from the emulators so that I could put all the ROMs in one place and have a variety of emulators access them as one surpasses another.

nes6502 · « **Reply #20 on:** August 18, 2006, 05:11:00 PM »

QUOTE(Cutriss @ Aug 19 2006, 12:06 AM)

Yeah, SFA3 runs if I put it there and add D:\roms to the last of the config directories.

It's weird that they'll run from there but not from a non-subordinate folder. I was kinda trying to abstract the ROM storage itself away from the emulators so that I could put all the ROMs in one place and have a variety of emulators access them as one surpasses another.

Are you adding a "\" to the end of your rom paths? I don't know if this affects MAME or not, but in ZsnexBox the Xbox will easily scan and show all the roms in the path with or without the ending "\". However, if the "\" is there it will throw off my rom loading code.

nes6502 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 19, 2006, 11:35:00 AM »

QUOTE(Cutriss @ Aug 19 2006, 05:30 PM)

I have been, but I'll take it off and see if it changes anything. I didn't think it was a problem since the ROMs scanned fine, but I'll check that out now.

Edit: Ahmigawd. You nailed it. Apparently MAME will scan the directories and read the ROMs, but it can't load them if there's a trailing '\', like I always stick at the end of my folder names.

Well, thanks a *ton*, and I'm glad we were able to figure out such a remote issue like this.

Yeah, it happened so many times for users that I finally added it to my FAQ. Apparently the file scanning capabilities will work with or without it. So it is very misleading. All the roms show up but none will load.

xX_Virus_Xx · « **Reply #22 on:** January 28, 2007, 12:05:00 PM »

I don't have a D: drive so how do I get mine to work? My D drive has no space on it. I have C, E, F, and G drives. I'm using MameoX 128 Plus. When it says insert coin I push start, then my screen goes black and nothing happens.

Ash123 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 28, 2007, 01:19:00 PM »

QUOTE(Thraxen @ Aug 19 2006, 12:48 AM)

No, you don't have to burn anything. "D:" is a relative path that is defined as the directory from which the default.xbe files was launched. This applies to almost every XBox app in existence. That's why almost all XBox apps have paths that say "d:" by default in their ini files.

So if you have MAMEoX installed here:

F:\Emulators\MAMEoX\default.xbe

then d:\roms\ means the same thing as this:

F:\Emulators\MAMEoX\roms\

So make a "roms" folder in the install directory and move SFA3 there. Make sure one of the 4 ROM paths says "d:\roms\" and then have the emulator re-scan for ROMS. Then try to load SFA3 again and see what happens.

xX_Virus_Xx · « **Reply #24 on:** January 28, 2007, 01:25:00 PM »

I got it figured out.

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