AdvMAME 1.4 ROM Set 106 - Not Found

caver01

@raspy are you using advmame 1.4? If so, the .rc file path you listed is a different one.

raspy+

Sorry I should have mentioned that I tried using both Advmame and Advmame 1.4 since both emulators use the same ROM set 0.106 as per Retropie wiki.

EDIT:
I looked at both advmame.rc and advmame-1.4.rc as well as advmame-0.94.rc. All 3 are showing:

dir_rom /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame:/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade

mitu

What's the content of your 1942.zip file ? Does it match the output of the missing .bin files ?

caver01

@raspy and something you have not share but must be asked, where are your rom files located, specifically the path to 1942.zip?

raspy+

@mitu

Yes the contents in "1942.zip" for example does match the files that are said to be missing from the runcommand.log file.

@caver01

I just follow the retropie wiki and I have the file "1942.zip" located at "./Retropie/roms/mame-advmame".

pi@arcade1up:/dev/shm $ cat runcommand.log
Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/advmame-1.4/bin/advmame "1942"
AdvanceMAME - Copyright (C) 1999-2003 by Andrea Mazzoleni
MAME - Copyright (C) 1997-2003 by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME Team
1-n3a.bin    NOT FOUND
1-n4.bin     NOT FOUND
1-n5.bin     NOT FOUND
1-n6.bin     NOT FOUND
1-n7.bin     NOT FOUND
1-c11.bin    NOT FOUND
1-f2.bin     NOT FOUND
2-a1.bin     NOT FOUND
2-a2.bin     NOT FOUND
2-a3.bin     NOT FOUND
2-a4.bin     NOT FOUND
2-a5.bin     NOT FOUND
2-a6.bin     NOT FOUND
2-l1.bin     NOT FOUND
2-l2.bin     NOT FOUND
2-n1.bin     NOT FOUND
2-n2.bin     NOT FOUND
08e_sb-5.bin NOT FOUND
09e_sb-6.bin NOT FOUND
10e_sb-7.bin NOT FOUND
f01_sb-0.bin NOT FOUND
06d_sb-4.bin NOT FOUND
03k_sb-8.bin NOT FOUND
01d_sb-2.bin NOT FOUND
02d_sb-3.bin NOT FOUND
k06_sb-1.bin NOT FOUND
01m_sb-9.bin NOT FOUND
ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.

pi@arcade1up:~/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame $ unzip -l 1942.zip
Archive:  1942.zip
TORRENTZIPPED-EC24370D
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
      256  1996-12-24 23:32   01d_sb-2.bin
      256  1996-12-24 23:32   01m_sb-9.bin
      256  1996-12-24 23:32   02d_sb-3.bin
      256  1996-12-24 23:32   03k_sb-8.bin
      256  1996-12-24 23:32   06d_sb-4.bin
      256  1996-12-24 23:32   08e_sb-5.bin
      256  1996-12-24 23:32   09e_sb-6.bin
    16384  1996-12-24 23:32   1-c11.bin
     8192  1996-12-24 23:32   1-f2.bin
    16384  1996-12-24 23:32   1-n3a.bin
    16384  1996-12-24 23:32   1-n4.bin
    16384  1996-12-24 23:32   1-n5.bin
     8192  1996-12-24 23:32   1-n6.bin
    16384  1996-12-24 23:32   1-n7.bin
      256  1996-12-24 23:32   10e_sb-7.bin
     8192  1996-12-24 23:32   2-a1.bin
     8192  1996-12-24 23:32   2-a2.bin
     8192  1996-12-24 23:32   2-a3.bin
     8192  1996-12-24 23:32   2-a4.bin
     8192  1996-12-24 23:32   2-a5.bin
     8192  1996-12-24 23:32   2-a6.bin
    16384  1996-12-24 23:32   2-l1.bin
    16384  1996-12-24 23:32   2-l2.bin
    16384  1996-12-24 23:32   2-n1.bin
    16384  1996-12-24 23:32   2-n2.bin
      256  1996-12-24 23:32   f01_sb-0.bin
      256  1996-12-24 23:32   k06_sb-1.bin
---------                     -------
   215552                     27 files
pi@arcade1up:~/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame $

caver01

@raspy hmmm. Head scratcher for sure. Might need to see a pastebin of your .rc files. Is this failure the same with any rom or just 1942? What about other emulators? Are you trying any other versions of MAME for example?

Could it be a permissions issue?

mitu

@raspy Can you run

ls -l $HOME/.advance

and post the output ? The configuration file is ok, but it might not be interpreted by advmame. Normally the output of the command should be somethine like

lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 34 Jan  3 16:14 /home/pi/.advance -> /opt/retropie/configs/mame-advmame

raspy+

@mitu

I type the command and this shows up:

pi@arcade1up:~ $ ls -l $HOME/.advance
total 96
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 17643 Jan  6 01:55 advmame-1.4.rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 29214 Jan  6 01:55 advmame.rc
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jan  3 13:15 artwork
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jan  3 13:15 diff
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jan  3 13:15 hi
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jan  3 13:15 image
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jan  3 13:15 inp
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jan  3 13:15 memcard
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jan  3 13:15 nvram
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jan  3 13:15 rom
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jan  3 13:15 sample
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jan  3 13:15 snap
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi  4096 Jan  3 13:15 sta
pi@arcade1up:~ $

mitu

That's might be the problem. The $HOME/.advance should be a symbolic link to the /opt/retropie/configs/mame-advmame - from where you posted your .rc files.
Can you try renaming the folder (mv $HOME/.advance $HOME/.advance.orig) and re-installing the advmame package (the 3.x one, without any version) ?

raspy+

@mitu

Okay I will try that later tonight (been working 12 hour shifts...). It's weird because I don't know why it wasn't a symbolic link to start with when I started off with a fresh install of retropie 4.4 and all I did was remove all the emulator packages so that I could choose only the emulators that I wanted to install from source.

raspy+

@mitu

Okay I tried reinstalling "advmame" from the source again as you suggested and now the permissions look like this:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 34 Jan  9 08:01 /home/pi/.advance -> /opt/retropie/configs/mame-advmame

First run with "1942.zip" is now working! Thank you!