i cant get my mame games to launch

[thunder2]

i hit 1 key i was wondering im using mame 32 will that work

[billpa]

HS by default uses the enter key for the start command. If you changed it to the 1 key (remember to use flash code...see sticky at the top of this thread) in your settins config, than the problem is most likely that you have not set up the proper path to find your MAME exe as well as your roms. Have you set it up in Hyperspin/Settings/mame?

You need to change the path and rompath to match where you have MAME and the roms. Make sense?

[thunder2]

can i use mame 32

[CABBAGES]

Im having the same problem. I have tryed Mame32 and the the normal one. Ivealso tryed to get some megadrive games to start and they wont either. I have set the rompath and exe paths and still no games will start. the only thing im wondering is do my roms need to be in for example Hyperspin/emulators/Mame/Roms ? As i have my roms in a totally different place but since i change dhte rompath in the settings ini i thought that would be ok ?

[Captain Flint]

I use mame32 just fine. I just hit enter and that launches the game.

[thunder2]

can you send how yor rompath is set up and does user compile need to be set to true or false

Dont mess with usercompile.

[BadBoyBill]

What does your log file say? Paste it here.

[brian_hoffman]

Dont mess with usercompile.

If you have your ROMS in any other folder thean the ROMS folder in the mame directory you have to add the mame switch after the EXE
eg... Mame.exe -rom_directory "C:\mygames\mameroms\"

The above switch is incorrect but read the mame documentation and it will give you the EXACT verbage.
I'll be able to provide that later today if you wish.. Im at work now.

[joebells]

I think the correct command is -rp If you have your rompath pointing to the right spot what you'll want to do is change the exe line in your mame.ini file to read

exe = mame.exe -rp <whatever the rompath happens to be needs to be copied here to like C:\roms\mame or whatever you have. If you have a space in the path then you'll probably need quotes around it, don't include the < and > >

I don't know what your actual mame file is called if its mame32 then maybe mame32.exe or maybe mamepp.exe but whatever your exe is called it needs to say it on that line.

I hope that isn't too confusing, let us know if it works

edit: I think the reason that it needs the -rp and the path is that mame needs other files for some games so it needs to know the location of all the roms