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    MAME won't run games with USB soundcard?

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      kraken0667
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      Hello

      I'm on a Pi Zero and a small 3.5" composite display and I would like to have decent sound in my small setup.

      I just got a USB soundcard, and everything works great. All emulators run perfect, except for MAME. The games just won't launch.

      When I disable the soundcard (by removing the text in my asound.conf), all my MAME games run perfect.

      ... but as soon as I add

      pcm.!default {
      type hw
      card 1
      device 0
      }

      to my asound.conf again, MAME games won't work.

      I'm guessing this is a mame4all issue, but there are no other decent MAME emulators for the Zero board.

      This is bumping a very old thread I guess, but I was wondering if anyone had found a solution to this issue?

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        kraken0667 @kraken0667
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        @kraken0667

        I think mame4all is looking for a PCM soundcard, and won't work other soundcards. Could there be some kind of workaround?

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          kraken0667
          last edited by

          Anyone?

          Sorry for the bump

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            kraken0667
            last edited by

            I also tried with the Adafruit DAC bonnet, same issue, can't launch any MAME games

            I just get

            lvl0: volumecontrol::init() - failed to find mixer elements

            ... and then it goes straight back to ES menu

            I would really like a solution!

            /Thanx

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