I was wondering if maybe I have some bad roms. I have been getting this msg a lot. Either " game not supported" or "missing files". So far I only have donkey kong, berzerk,donkey kong jr,congo working. My error msg has come on centipede,crystal castles, golden tee golf. Is there a list of working romds? And whats the difference between advmame and mame4all?
Also, when I do play a game and I want to exit, I push esc, but then it takes me to terminal and I have to type in exit to get back to the menu. Is this right or do I have to configure something? Thanks guys
I have tried the correct roms for ADVMame, nothing seems to work. It says it has missing files for roms that are there; is there a troubleshooting FAQ for the ADVMame emulator?
I went around in circles on this until I tried placing the roms in both the roms folder and the emulators/mame4all/roms folder. Also make sure that your permissions are full open.
It seems that when you place a rom file into /home/pi/pimame/roms/mame4all , although the icon you press is mame4all the emulator really launched is advmame.
I notice this because when you press TAB the config/setup menu that appears is for advmame...but when you place the rom in /home/pi/pimame/emulators/mame4all/roms then the emulator launched is mame4all and the game start without problem.... (different config/setup menu)
I solved it deleting one of the directories an creating a symbolic link to the other with the very same name of the deleted directory.
I had to link ~/pimame/roms/mame4all to ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms and then ran mame4all from the command line and it worked. Something's up with the menu.
@pgcudahy solution fixed my problem as well. It looks like the menu is listing any games that are in the ~/pimame/roms/mame4all folder, but the mame4all emulator is only working for roms that are in the ~/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms folder. I just tested it by dropping some roms in the emulator folder that were complaining about missing files. As soon as I placed them there, the games started working no problem. A symbolic link will solve the problem and not require having the roms in two different places.
This is correct dubstylee, There are a few emulators that need this, and I'm not sure why it affects only a few people (i had to do it for fba). In the case of mame4all type: