Hello, all!
I'm hoping this isn't a dumb question, I've tried searching these forums and good old Google, but haven't found a solution just yet. Basically, in a fit of jealousy after seeing a coworker's machine, I bought an xarcade tankstick, and I'm trying to get a rom up and running before it arrives. A little research convinced me that Mame was probably what I wanted, software wise, and I headed over to the official site and grabbed the emulator, and a couple of the roms that they offered there with the copyright holder's permissions. I went through the instructions, and I thought I had everything set up right, but aparently not. After a little more searching, I installed MameUIFX, which demonstrates the same problem.
I'm able to get the Mame interface up and running every time, and I can select my game, and I think it's loading the rom. Whatever it's doing, I get to that copyright screen that asks me to confirm that I have permission to use the rom by either typing "OK" or moving a joystick left then right. It also says to hit escape if I don't have permission. Fine, I type OK, nothing happens. Tried arrow keys and mouse in a left right motion, nothing. Escape does nothing, the program just hangs there.
When I tried with MameUIFX, same effect. When I run in windowed mode, sometimes it does the same thing, sometimes it doesn't display the copyright screen at all, but rather shows general game info and hangs there. It's the same type of grey box on a black background screen, and it happens with every rom I've tried.
Several google searches and a bit of frustration later, I've tried running everything as an administrator, I've tried compatibility modes, but I'm beginning to be convinced that I've set something up wrong.
Could anyone point me in the right direction? Does hanging in this particular spot indicate what I've done wrong? If it helps, I'm running on Windows 7, with reasonably good hardware.
Thanks, all! Any help is highly appreciated!
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