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elcalen

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From: Finland

Registered: 2005-04-16

Posts: 30

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Unable to start XMame

EDIT: Well, I tried a frontend (KXMame) from AUR, and with that the games work fine. Still can't get XMame to run from the command line, though, but it's not a problem anymore...

Hi,

I can't get XMame to start, and I can't figure out why... The roms I've tried should not be faulty, since they work fine with Mame32.

Here's a sample output:

info: trying to parse: /usr/share/xmame/xmamerc
info: trying to parse: /home/ben/.xmame/xmamerc
info: trying to parse: /usr/share/xmame/xmame-SDLrc
info: trying to parse: /home/ben/.xmame/xmame-SDLrc
info: trying to parse: /usr/share/xmame/rc/robbyrc
info: trying to parse: /home/ben/.xmame/rc/robbyrc
loading rom 0: rotox1.bin                      
loading rom 1: rotox2.bin                      
loading rom 2: rotox3.bin                      
loading rom 3: rotox4.bin                      
loading rom 4: rotox5.bin                      
loading rom 5: rotox6.bin                      
loading rom 6: rotox7.bin                      
loading rom 7: rotox8.bin                      
loading rom 8: rotox9.bin                      
loading rom 9: rotox10.bin                     
done
rotox1.bin   NOT FOUND
rotox2.bin   NOT FOUND
rotox3.bin   NOT FOUND
rotox4.bin   NOT FOUND
rotox5.bin   NOT FOUND
rotox6.bin   NOT FOUND
rotox7.bin   NOT FOUND
rotox8.bin   NOT FOUND
rotox9.bin   NOT FOUND
rotox10.bin  NOT FOUND
ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.

It's basically the same for any rom I try, except the .bin files are different, of course... The ~/.xmame folder exists, but contains no config files...

fdac

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2005-06-19

Posts: 96

Re: Unable to start XMame

Hi,

I tried xmame a couple of years ago with no success either, so can't really help, sorry!

I found the best (ie fastest) way to run MAME was using the pure DOS version, as the system overheads were lowest.  That introduces a few tricky things though with sound blaster settings, networking, etc.

Let me know if you do get it working!

Cheers
Francis

kpiche

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From: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Registered: 2004-03-30

Posts: 246

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Re: Unable to start XMame

Maybe you need to create an xmame config file (eg /home/ben/.xmame/xmamerc) since it will not check the current directory.  Then edit it to point to the location of your ROM and other files.

xmame -sc >~/.xmame/xmamerc
vi ~/.xmame/xmamerc

elcalen

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From: Finland

Registered: 2005-04-16

Posts: 30

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Re: Unable to start XMame

Let me know if you do get it working!

As I said, I got it working using the KXMame frontend from AUR... But of course that has the additional baggage of needing kdelibs installed. Meaning it's more of a workaround than a solution... (I already had kdelibs because of other programs that require it, so it wasn't an issue for me...)

And yeah, it may well be that config files are the root of the problem. But, since I have it working now by other means, I just can't be bothered to check into it...

LiFo2

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From: France

Registered: 2007-03-29

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Re: Unable to start XMame

It looks like kpiche is right, you don't have configuration files, and mame can't find your roms. You should try to create the config file as said before, and modify the "rompath" option.

You can also try to launch xmame with the -rp option followed by the path where roms are.