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Use MAME with roms from archive.org
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Windows: ERROR: No writable path to write roms into #7

Closed martiniturbide closed 7 years ago

martiniturbide commented 7 years ago

Hi

If I run the Windows version on the MAME (0178b) directory I get this message: "ERROR: No writable path to write roms into"

I'm running a command prompt with administration rights.

Regards

TiBeN commented 7 years ago

Hi, can you make sure you have a "roms" directory on your Mame path ? This is the default root roms path and should be created.

TiBeN commented 7 years ago

I close this one because of no activity. Please reopen if you are still concerned.

jadasse commented 3 years ago

I'm getting the same error, the folder is titled "roms" btw

TiBeN commented 3 years ago

The rompath specified needs to be created. ia-rcade will not create it. If it exists, make sure you have the rights to write into.

jadasse commented 3 years ago

It worked before, why is it not working now? By the way, if the roms folder already exists, how do I get ia-rcade to recognize it?

TiBeN commented 3 years ago

You can set your rompath using "-rompath " in the command line (see readme) or on mame.ini If you are in trouble, i suggest you first trying to execute plain mame (with some roms put in the rom folder manually) to make sure your mame is correctly configured. (simply use "mame64.exe" instead of "ia-rcade.exe"). You can also execute "mame64.exe -showconfig" and examine the "rompath" option to see where mame is searching for the roms.

jadasse commented 3 years ago

Thanks, ill try it soon