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Leo Lagos
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help migration INI from mameui to mame.ini to IV-Play
01/13/23 06:52 PM


Hi All.
I'm migrating to IV-Play from MameUI. In previous MameUI, no need to touch mame.ini, since all config was directly done in mameui.ini. Now, IV-Play uses mame.ini so I' stuck with that one.
I downloaded mame64bit into l:\g\mame, and in there, I also unzipped ivplay. Then I moved my roms into the "roms" folder of mame. I have 3 separated roms directories
- std - for "standard" games
- b - for BIOS games
- sw - for software games
STD games run ok, in both, mame and iv-play (puckman, frogger).
BIOS don't work. SW don't work. It reports "missing files". However, I do have the right config, I think:

L:\g\mame>findstr roms mame.ini
rompath L:\g\mame\roms\b;L:\g\mame\roms\std;L:\g\mame\roms\sw

As You can see, all 3 directories are configured in the "rompath" variable.

Now, if I try to run MetalSlug, it says not available, but the neogeo folder and the mslug folder are both under the "sw" folder, so if I understand correctly the logic in the doc:

https://docs.mamedev.org/usingmame/assetsearch.html#system-roms

It should work:

L:\g\mame>dir roms\sw\neogeo\mslug*
Volume in drive L is LLAGOS WDE4T
Volume Serial Number is 38F4-7659

Directory of L:\g\mame\roms\sw\neogeo

06/15/2019 02:59 PM 12,958,458 mslug.zip
06/15/2019 03:00 PM 17,215,264 mslug2.zip
10/25/2019 05:34 PM 61,159,610 mslug3.7z
10/02/2020 08:38 PM 2,358,869 mslug3a.7z
10/02/2020 08:39 PM 1,174,498 mslug3b6.7z
10/02/2020 08:39 PM 1,146,147 mslug3h.7z
10/25/2019 05:36 PM 47,365,941 mslug4.7z
10/02/2020 08:39 PM 2,538,927 mslug4h.7z
10/25/2019 05:34 PM 60,196,534 mslug5.7z
05/23/2020 07:46 PM 25,829,303 mslug5b.7z
10/02/2020 08:39 PM 1,620,610 mslug5h.7z
06/15/2019 03:01 PM 28,048,630 mslugx.zip
12 File(s) 261,612,791 bytes

Same thing for BIOS, like Naomi (not found):

L:\g\mame>dir roms\b\naomi*
Volume in drive L is LLAGOS WDE4T
Volume Serial Number is 38F4-7659

Directory of L:\g\mame\roms\b

12/21/2022 09:29 AM naomi
12/20/2022 07:14 PM naomi2
12/20/2022 07:13 PM naomigd
0 File(s) 0 bytes

I'd appreciate any hint.

Thanks a lot,

Edited by Leo Lagos (01/13/23 06:54 PM)






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* help migration INI from mameui to mame.ini to IV-Play Leo Lagos 01/13/23 06:52 PM
. * Re: help migration INI from mameui to mame.ini to IV-Play John IVModerator  01/13/23 07:51 PM
. * Re: help migration INI from mameui to mame.ini to IV-Play Leo Lagos  01/13/23 10:24 PM
. * Re: help migration INI from mameui to mame.ini to IV-Play John IVModerator  01/13/23 10:55 PM

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