Mame4All enter/exit slowness after taking ownership...

casiokid

Hi all,

This may be more of an issue for Mame4All, but I figured it might be worth asking in case anyone has experienced a similar problem.

When first installed, Mame4All started up games and exited games quite swiftly. However, I noticed that the game settings, high scores, and coin in were not being remembered. So after,

chown pi /home/pi/emulators/mame4all-pi
chmod 770 /home/pi/emulators/mame4all-pi

everything was working as expected. Game volume settings, high scores, coin in and any other changes I had made inside of an idividual game were being remembered.

But now there is a much longer lag between loading up a game and exiting out of a game. It's not unbearable, but it's definitely noticeable.

Has anyone had these issues, or can anyone think of what might be going on to cause the delay?

Thank you!

casiokid

So, it seems that after some tooling around, the permissions are the definite cause for the lag in entering/exiting the games. It seems like this is a necessary evil because the only way to get Mame4All to remember your keyboard maps or high scores is for the "pi" account to have write access to "cfg/", and "hi/" folders. As soon as the permissions on these folders are changed, the games take longer to exit.

Originally, I changed the ownership of the entire "mame4all-pi" folder to the "pi" account which resulted in a very noticeable lag. But, when I only changed the permissions of the "cfg/" and "hi/" folders, there was still a lag, but a lot more bearable.

I hope this helps, but if anyone else has a better solution, I'd love to hear it!

SSilver2k2

thanks for the info.

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