MAME Setup

[plowtruck]

If you are like me you probably do not keep your ROMS in the same folder as MAME. This will cause an issue of your games not loading through HyperSpin!

If your using the command line binary then you need to create a mame.ini file that points to your ROM folder!

To do this simply open a command line session and navigate to your MAME directory. Once there, type mame -createconfig

Now close the command line session and open up your MAME folder. You will now see a mame.ini file.

Open the file and the first few line will look like this:

<UNADORNED0>

#
# CORE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
#
readconfig 1

#
# CORE SEARCH PATH OPTIONS
#
rompath roms
samplepath samples
artpath artwork
ctrlrpath ctrlr
inipath .;ini
fontpath .
cheatpath cheat
crosshairpath crosshair


Enter the path for you roms in the rompath field. For example:

<UNADORNED0>

#
# CORE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
#
readconfig 1

#
# CORE SEARCH PATH OPTIONS
#
rompath C:\EMULATION\MAME FILES\137ROMS
samplepath samples
artpath artwork
ctrlrpath ctrlr
inipath .;ini
fontpath .
cheatpath cheat
crosshairpath crosshair


Continue if you keep your artwork elsewhere etc.. Save and done. HyperSpin should open your games now.