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MAME on Linux Mint: Game opens and then closes
#391789 - 09/04/21 04:39 AM
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I'm using Mame on Linux Mint and have 4 games here: Double Dragon, Daimakaimura, Gradius and Pac Man. All of them work fine except for Daimakaimura which now opens and closes automatically. I made a quick video showing it off:
https://i.imgur.com/ZYo5Gbd.mp4
It's strange because the game used to work, but I changed something I don't remember in the configurations and now this happens, making it impossible to play. What should I do to fix it so the game will work again?
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Re: MAME on Linux Mint: Game opens and then closes
[Re: Shiro]
#391790 - 09/04/21 06:16 AM
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> I'm using Mame on Linux Mint and have 4 games here: Double Dragon, Daimakaimura,
> Gradius and Pac Man. All of them work fine except for Daimakaimura which now opens
> and closes automatically. I made a quick video showing it off:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/ZYo5Gbd.mp4
>
> It's strange because the game used to work, but I changed something I don't remember
> in the configurations and now this happens, making it impossible to play. What should
> I do to fix it so the game will work again?
Try running it from a command prompt, output there may give some clues as to what has changed or is missing.
Also, that Daimakaimura doesn't start up with a maximised window like the others suggest there is a daimakai.ini or similar with different settings than in mame.ini. Running from the command prompt with the -verbose switch will list the INIs read.
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Re: MAME on Linux Mint: Game opens and then closes
[Re: mahlemiut]
#391797 - 09/05/21 01:43 AM
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Thanks for trying to help. I searched for that daimakai.ini but couldn't find it anywhere. What I did find was a mame.ini, so I deleted that but it screwed the emulator up, making it unable to create .ini's anymore. I didn't know how to fix that so ended up reinstalling the whole OS.
Then after recovering things, I did some testing and found out what was the culprit. Seems like changing anything in a game's "Configure Machine" kills it and then it never runs again. Not sure why this only happens in Linux, you can do it on Windows just fine. So I ultimately had to reinstall the system twice in the same day (lol). Good thing I have a SSD and Linux is lightweight.
Lesson learned: never mess with "Configure Machine" on Linux ever again.
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Re: MAME on Linux Mint: Game opens and then closes
[Re: Shiro]
#391801 - 09/05/21 02:40 AM
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You reinstalled the entire OS, when you all you had to do was type "mame -cc"? I can and do change settings in Configure Machine all the time on Ubuntu. There's nothing about that that breaks anything in Linux.
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