Need Help with MAME4ALL

slashsd1000

Hi, I'm making a raspberry arcade cabinet for a school project and I ran into a problem. Im using piplay 0.8.0 beta 3 and I ran into a problem. I got the 0.37b5 roms into the MAME4ALL folder through the web frontend. But when I try to play the roms it says rom not found required files are missing. I don't know what I did wrong. please tell me what I did wrong.

Chad

Check out this link and see if it helps.

http://www.pimame.org/forum/discussion/comment/2569#Comment_2569

slashsd1000

Thanks. I know that the roms are going to ~/pimame/roms/mame4all folder and not ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms folder. The problem is that im new to the raspberry pi and linux thing. Is there any way i can get the rom into the right folder through the ftp?

Chad

That is the right folder. Well it's considered the right folder. From what I understand there's just a small percentage of people with this issue but there's definitely something that doesn't work for us. I also have the same issue.

In that link you'll need to remove the folder and create a symbolic link to where you upload the ROMS and it should work. Unless you want to use a 3rd party FTP and upload it to both locations and it will work also but the recommended method and steps to do it are located in that link above.

dubstylee

I had the same issue when I first started using PiPlay, and the symbolic link as described in the above link worked for me. Thanks again everyone for all of your hard work!

Chad

It was your original post that I figured out what was happening. It's confusing at first until you know what it's doing. I can start with a fresh image and that's the norm for me so I have no idea what I am doing to cause it.

slashsd1000

I get that i have to link the folders but how? Im new to linux and raspberry pi. I tried putting in
rm ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms
ln -s ~/pimame/roms/mame4all ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms
in the terminal but nothing happened. What am i doing wrong?

mholgatem

There is usually a file in ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms that needs to be deleted. so you need to use

rm -r ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms

the -r recursively removes the files and then the directory. then make your symbolic link (think of it as a shortcut, like in windows and mac)

ln -s ~/pimame/roms/mame4all ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms

slashsd1000

I deleted the file but when i try to create the symbolic it says "failed to create symbolic link". What am i doing wrong now!?

mholgatem

did you delete the folder as well?

Lazzarusbr

i´ve tryed it and it works as said by mholgatem

slashsd1000

I don't know. I just typed in rm -r ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms and
ln -s ~/pimame/roms/mame4all ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms and said failed to create symbolic link.

Lazzarusbr

double check the comand:
first command is ln = LN not In=IN make shure you are type it correct.

slashsd1000

I made sure I typed in Ln and not in

Lazzarusbr

check if original roms directory was removed! I did it by my ftp filezilla and removed it by them, so I not needed the first part: rm -r ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms
other possibility is you can not get permissions to write to card. write protect?

Lazzarusbr

try sudo then ln -s ~/pimame/roms/mame4all ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms

slashsd1000

K i will do that

Lazzarusbr

the command will be:
sudo ln -s ~/pimame/roms/mame4all ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms

slashsd1000

still does not work.

Lazzarusbr

Some shots in the dark.
Do you had expanded filesystem to use all space in your sd card (sudo raspi-config)?
No more clues here... Sorry.

slashsd1000

I have gave up and downloaded an older version and it works now. Thanks for the help anyway.

Lazzarusbr

its great! With this idea I consolidate only one directory for mame4all and pifba, no more need duplicated roms just only one folder for both emulatos, as mutipleroms are shared by both! GREAT!

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