[RESOLVED] MAME Artwork Missing

[zoopcrewkid]

One more thing just curious how is the artpath "artworkgameex" created? Is that something I can modify. The reason I ask is if I let the screen saver in GameEx run. Mame automatically generates .ini files. It will set the artpath to "artworkgameex"  instead of "artwork".

[Draco1962]

My apologies for not responding sooner. To be honest I never noticed this and @Tom Speirsmay be the one to address.

If I were to guess, and probably incorrectly, when the screensaver "launches" the game, it is substituting the line to point to the GameEx default bezel for display.

My question for you is does this have any negatve impacts upon the games when you launch them after this is modified? I am thinking that when launched, your command line settings in GameEx should override what shows in the ROM's MAME generated .ini file.

[zoopcrewkid]

It's not a big deal basically i just do a bulk edit on the ini files and change artworkgameex to artwork. I suppose I can just move all my artwork files to artworkgameex instead. If I don't edit the files the bezels don't display on the games.

[Draco1962]

I will check it out on my rig. Would you mind attaching a copy of your MAME.ini? Thanks.

[Tom Speirs]

Im still not sure why your system is creating ini files but that path is normal. When GameEx is in the screensaver it creates a custom bezel to show the game name, logo etc.

[zoopcrewkid]

Here is a copy of my mame.ini.

 

I'm not sure with it might have to do with MAMEUI64. If I launch a game in MAMEUI it will create an ini file in the ini folder.

mame.ini

[Draco1962]

2 hours ago, Tom Speirs said:

Im still not sure why your system is creating ini files but that path is normal. When GameEx is in the screensaver it creates a custom bezel to show the game name, logo etc.

When I was looking at my settings a few months ago I noted that, as the games launched, the .ini for each ROM launched, whether via GameEx or directly via MAME. This is essential for saving your controller settings and bezels selected.

[Draco1962]

I didn't see anything in your mame.ini file that stood out as unusual I, too, use MAMEUI64 and current ROM version is 0.222. I let the screensaver run for several hours and I did not find any additional .ini files created.  Wish I could replicate what you are reporting but I am not certain I can.

[zoopcrewkid]

I'll do some more troubleshooting. Looks like it's replicating the mame.ini and appending the rom name to it.

[zoopcrewkid]

I fixed it. It was my mame.ini file writeconfig was set to 1 instead of zero. I also moved my mame.ini file to the root directory instead of the ini folder. Now when the screensave runs it does not create a new .ini file.

 

"Changing the write config to on (make it a 1) will tell mame to write a new config or ini file every time a game is started (Thus it makes a "game.ini" file..If you turn that on and start frogger mame will make a frogger.ini file.)"

http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=329.0