Success in Running ROMS from NAS but no mame roms?

dudleydes

@haris1977 For non-RetroArch MAME emulators, mame4all and AdvMAME, the rom paths need to be included in their respective config files. Try placing a rom in a sub-folder in the mame4all rom folder and running it mame4all-pi.

Haris1977

@dudleydes

Would this work? Or do i need a special syntax?

https://pastebin.com/0nGNQcBe

dudleydes

@haris1977 Yes, that should do. You may need to update the sample path as well if you are storing them on your NAS.

Haris1977

@dudleydes nope same problem here. Missing roms. I guess this problem may be related to this:

https://github.com/libretro/Lakka-LibreELEC/issues/115

dudleydes

@haris1977 Try the following rompath in mame.cfg. Note the two forward slashes at the beginning.

rompath=//192.168.1.110/Share/RetroPie/roms/mame-mame4all

BuZz

@dudleydes mame won't understand a network location. mame4all does work on my system with the roms on the network via a network mount (mount -t cifs etc).

Might be a permissions issue - in case it wants read write access to the roms folder, make sure it's writable from the RPI.

Haris1977

@buzz @dudleydes well check this out. Here is a snapshot of my server pc. I just seen this: Every time i uncheck the "Read only" attribute of my RetroPie folder while it does it's thing, when i check it again the "Read only" is still there..

This should be off right?

BuZz

@haris1977 Might be a setting on the NAS to change it. I'm no windows expert I'm afraid. Can you create files/folders in the mame4all roms folder over the network ?

Haris1977

@buzz yes..I ve created one folder from a client pc

BuZz

@haris1977 Then I'm not sure. It could be due to some unsupported samba / filesystem operation on the nas.

Haris1977

@buzz yes but..if it is a "permission matter" then why i can play all the other roms ??

mitu

@haris1977 Can you try and mount the network folder with the options specified in the docs, especially adding nounix,noserverino,rw to the mount options ?

Haris1977

@mitu you mean option 2? I preffered option 1 as it was very handy..

My command in autostart file is this

Haris1977

Well i have tried everything to no avail. I think it is either a bug of mame core or a matter of permissions on my windows pc side:(

Has anyone managed to play any mame rom from a nas?

BuZz

@haris1977 It's not a bug in mame4all. There is no need to open a ticket on the issue tracker. It's an issue with the network share / nas (or compatibility with it and the cifs mount), or the mount options etc.

Haris1977

@buzz well i made it work!!:)

I used the method of fstab (option 2 in here) and i added the appropriate line from the how to.
Thank you all for your help here :)

2 more questions

How do i mount it (sudo mount -a) on every Retropie boot? Every time i have to do it manually from ssh:( I added sudo mount -a in fstab but it didnt work. When i use sudo mount -a from ssh it works. Maybe the issue is that fstab drives are mounted even before the network is up?
I also want to execute these commands before the cifs fstab long line command takes place. How can i do that?? (I have already installed wake on lan through wget). I tried to add those commands in the fstab file (before the cifs command) but it didnt work..

Haris1977

I ve managed to do it through some commands. Thanks anyway! :)