MAME Roms wont start
  • englischdudeenglischdude
    hi all, just got my first Pi2, Piplay is up and running ok, but no mame roms will start. when I try to start a mame rom it goes to the command line screen, runs very quickly through some lines, and then returns to the Piplay emulator selector screen. this is the same with both advmame and mame4all.
    can anyone please give me some tips how I can go about troubleshooting this problem. I tried a sega master rom and it ran without issue!

    Thanks for your help
    Martin
  • englischdudeenglischdude
    ps: running 0.8 beta8
  • beta_tester
    i guess the current mame install script is broken (it downloads the mame4all zip file, but it does not unzip its content to its destinationfolder).
    you can take a look, if you find a mame4all_pi.zip file in the folder below
    /home/pi/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/ and unzip all files into the
    /home/pi/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/ by hand.
  • englischdudeenglischdude
    many thanks. im off to hit the slopes for probably the last time this year, when I get back this afternoon ill check the folder you suggested and report my findings.
  • englischdudeenglischdude
    thanks beta tester, that was the issue with mame4all. now I have a similar issue with advmame. This is missing completely from the pi/pimame/emulators folder, however it IS available for selection in the gui and I can copy files through the web interface to the advmame folder. when I try to start a game it runs through a number of command lines "erf_variousnumbers" not found. I have had a look through the file structure but cant seem to identify the problem.
  • englischdudeenglischdude
    Can someone help me please getting advmame up and running. I have tested mame4all but a number of the games my kids like to play are not running well at all, scrolling very choppy etc.

    Thanks in advance for your help.
    Martin
  • beta_tester
    AdvMAME normally should work. only MAME4ALL was not installed correctly.
    so it must be an other issue with that on your system...
    (an error message in PiPLAY sometimes dosen't mean anything)

    are the roms in the correct folder for advmame?
    /home/pi/pimame/roms/advmame

    are the romsets the correct ones?
    for advmame, you need roms from romset 0.106
    (for mame4all, you need roms from romset 0.37b5)

    and maybe you should overclock your system to get better performance
    (900MHz or 1000MHz will give best results on my system)
  • englischdudeenglischdude
    Hi.roms are the right version and in the right place, i am using the pi2 which should be fast enough.
  • beta_tester
    the speed of a game very depends on, what you try to play...
    (even simple looking games can pain the CPU a lot)
    some roms will give better performance on MAME4ALL others are better on AdvMAME or FBA (e.g. neogeo)

    BTW.: there was an announcement, that a new image/update will be available soon, that hopefully will fix several issues with the new RPi2 Raspbian + PiPLAY

    but it will not give more performance.
  • englischdudeenglischdude
    This issue has nothing to do with performance. Advm simply wont start. Mark has been a great help try to get it up and running but all i hav3 been doing for a week is chasing gremlins. One issue is solver another comes up.
    I have now knocked it on the head in anticipation on beta9. Hopefully all the setup issues will be solved.
    Standing by.................
  • mholgatemmholgatem
    @englischdude - I know we've been saying it for like a week now, but beta9 should be out any time now. There are just a couple last tweaks to make and bugs to track down.
  • englischdudeenglischdude
    @mholgatem thanks m8. looking Forward to installing. perfect Timing also, now I have something to do this Weekend.
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