MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Odd Problem, If I save settings in MAME I can no longer play the game I save for

> It's an old Dell Optiplex 780 with an Intel Core2 Duo and an Nvidia GT730 ( I think)
> running Ubuntu 17.10 on a 2 128GB SSD on a RAID 0.
>
> Mame Version 1.88 (Is there a better version? I ended up installing from the Ubuntu
> Store because it was more stable for me)
>
> By not playing the game means I get this error:
> 262-p1-08-e0.p1 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-p2-08-e0.sp2 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 000-lo.lo NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> sfix.sfix NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> vs-bios.rom NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> sm1.sm1 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 265-262-m1.m1 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-v1-08-e0.v1 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-v2-08-e0.v2 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-v3-08-e0.v3 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-v4-08-e0.v4 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-c1-08-e0.c1 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-c2-08-e0.c2 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-c3-08-e0.c3 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-c4-08-e0.c4 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-c5-08-e0.c5 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-c6-08-e0.c6 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-c7-08-e0.c7 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> 262-c8-08-e0.c8 NOT FOUND (tried in kof2001 neogeo kof2001)
> Fatal error: Required files are missing, the machine cannot be run.

It's clearly lost your ROM path at some point then. You could probably manually edit the config file where it's stored but it shouldn't be doing that in the first place. (I know that's the mame.ini file on Windows, not sure about Linux these days) individual gamename.ini files will also override options contained in the default one.

As of this coming Wednesday 0.194 will be the current version, so you're about 6 months behind as there's a release every month.

It might be worth upgrading just to try, because there were some issues with MAME not saving settings properly, but that was to do with Video Options moreso than what you're reporting, which sounds a little odd.

It could be a frontend option if the frontend you're using is generating a fresh config file for each game with a blank rom path, overriding the global one, that would be my first suspicion.

What you're reporting isn't really normal behavior tho, and I would suspect it's something the frontend is doing incorrectly rather than MAME itself.