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Linking the emulators/mame4all/roms directory to roms/mame4all #3

Closed 0x646e78 closed 9 years ago

0x646e78 commented 10 years ago

Without doing so all ROMs were failing to load with "ERROR: The required files are missing, the game cannot be run'"

I've added steps to mv any contents already within the roms/mame4all directory in-case a user had already placed ROMs there.

Not sure if this is the best way to tackle it, but it works for me.

Another option could be to update the path to the roms in the menu config.yaml? I'm still yet to get my head around the intricacies of the menu and as such am not sure exactly why this was failing to begin with.

ssilverm commented 10 years ago

Awesome. Thanks! Will merge soon.

ssilverm commented 10 years ago

Question, while this will work, why did you want a symbolic link to the mame4all roms folder rather than an actual folder in the main roms area?

Are you having an issue with games playing?

0x646e78 commented 10 years ago

With installing from pymame_installer branch '8', as found here:

https://github.com/ssilverm/pimame_installer/blob/8/8installer.sh

There is no roms/mame4all created.

The install of mam4all looks for roms at /home/pi/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms yet PiPlay web upload etc expects roms in '/home/pi/pimame/roms/mame4all' but yeah, more importantly games won't play.

Adding the link from roms/mame4all to emulators/mame4all-pi/roms keeps the convention of all roms in roms/.