wrd1972 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Okay I am trying to use PBX, for MAME. SO I have checked, and I have the latest version of MAME. And all of the games can be directly launched through the MAME.exe I have set up a second PBX, in a different folsed for MAME ONLY. Hopefully there is no issue running one PBX for VP10, and abother for MAME (arcade games). I have configured MAME PBX as far as I can tell. Abd I have exported the XML from Gameex, and added it to MAME PBX. But the ROMS wont start. I can however see all of the various games in the scrolling, when PBX starts. SO I think the XML is right. Attachments below: Feels like there is some very minor thing I am missing. Thanks ALL.XML MAME.xml PinballX.ini log.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Is C:\MAME32 .205 a valid path on your system? Maybe try renaming it and remove the space and the . in the folder name and rename it MAME32_205 or similar. Also, try running from the same PinballX as your Vp10 as running to versions may be what is hinking things up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_da_Spike Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 I agree with Drago that the path name is a bit odd and that you rename it. I should also recomment to install the 32bit version of pbx instead of 64bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B2K24 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Yes, i would just keep the folder MAME. You also don't need 2 instances of PBX because you can have a MAME.xml and MAME ONLY.xml which then you can isolate only those in the game listing of PBX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrd1972 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 " Is C:\MAME32 .205 a valid path on your system? Maybe try renaming it and remove the space and the . in the folder name and rename it MAME32_205 or similar. Also, try running from the same PinballX as your Vp10 as running to versions may be what is hinking things up. " Probelm remains. "I agree with Drago that the path name is a bit odd and that you rename it. I should also recomment to install the 32bit version of pbx instead of 64bit" Okay, I renamed it. Problem remains. Stuck on "loading" So I should run 32bit PBX, on my 64Bit system? Just want to be clear. " Yes, i would just keep the folder MAME. You also don't need 2 instances of PBX because you can have a MAME.xml and MAME ONLY.xml which then you can isolate only those in the game listing of PBX " I would really prefer to have the VP PBX, and the MAME PBX separated if possible. I can only play one, or the other, at a given time. When I play MAME on the pincab. I remove the lockbar, and install an arcade control panel, rendering pinball pretty mnuch useless. In short, I want to PBX's. One for Pinball. And one for arcade games if possible. Ive got Gameex arcade edition running fine, with the same settings as being used in PBX. But I would prefer the simplicity of PBX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_da_Spike Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 I have indeed pbx32 bit running on my windowd 10 64 bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrd1972 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 ok. I will give that a try. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Did you configure MAME.ini with your rom path? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrd1972 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 1 minute ago, Tom Speirs said: Did you configure MAME.ini with your rom path? Thanks for the reply Tom. Could you please be a bit more specific on how to do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Edit MAME,ini in your mame folder with a text editor and edit the rom path. Otherwise add the following to the command line after [tablefile]: -ROMPATH "Your Rom path in quotes" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrd1972 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 Like this: rompath c:\Mame32\roms hashpath hash samplepath samples artpath artwork ctrlrpath ctrlr inipath .;ini;ini/presets fontpath . cheatpath cheat crosshairpath crosshair pluginspath plugins languagepath language swpath software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Sorry, that's not the issue. I documented it before but the issue is with PinballX you should not specify the table path as the rom path as it detects the zips. Change the table path to something else with no roms in and you should be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrd1972 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 The above did not work. Would this be the correct parameter: [TABLEFILE]-ROMPATH "c:\mame32\roms" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrd1972 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 " Sorry, that's not the issue. I documented it before but the issue is with PinballX you should not specify the table path as the rom path as it detects the zips. Change the table path to something else with no roms in and you should be good. " So do I revert back to Rompath Roms in the mame.ini? And table path should point to some bogus folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Again, that's not the issue and you may have broke things in the process. Please post the log again if its still not working. Thanks. Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 1 minute ago, wrd1972 said: " Sorry, that's not the issue. I documented it before but the issue is with PinballX you should not specify the table path as the rom path as it detects the zips. Change the table path to something else with no roms in and you should be good. " So do I revert back to Rompath Roms in the mame.ini? And table path should point to some bogus folder? yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrd1972 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 Still not working. Here is the log. Many thanks again for the help. log.txt [SETTINGS].log Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Not sure but the command line in the log looks correct now where it wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrd1972 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 Can having two PBX's installed be the issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Not that I know of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 So mame64.exe is in c:\mame32 and your games are in c:\mame32\roms and mame.ini rompath has roms and you have the correct set and all the games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrd1972 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 Any other ideas? Again mame runs perfectly through the mame interface. Must be some small thing thats off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrd1972 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 Just now, Tom Speirs said: So mame64.exe is in c:\mame32 and your games are in c:\mame32\roms and mame.ini rompath has roms and you have the correct set and all the games? Precisely. ROMs are likely dated. But they run through the mame interface just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 no but like I said we fixed one problem you had, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 What happens when you run that exact command line in windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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