"how to" mame beginners

[KN4THX]

@drewpie1895 Whatever program you used to transfer your MAME ROMs should let you look in the arcade folder on the Pi and see what is in there.

[rbaker]

@drewpie1895 said in "how to" name beginners:

i appreciate everyone is trying to help but this is obviously over my head

You still have not posted what you did! and "errors are logged to /dev/shm/runcommand.log" is a message NOT a file. Why do you refuse to post what you did when you have been asked over and over again? I am starting to think..........

Why? https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15572/definitive-retropie-installation-using-a-mac just read back through this.

[drewpie1895]

@rbaker im not a troll I'm just somebody who does not know what I'm doing , i told you what i did before

i followed the guide i believe , i downloaded folders from the reference set on [Link Redacted] 0.78 zip 2003 set , i copied those into the arcade folder using the go/connect option , when i turn on the raspberry pi 3 only three games show up and won't let me enter , used the run command menu also to make sure the 0.78 are with ir name 2003.

[drewpie1895]

@rbaker that was just to get the raspberry pi 3 working I've done that, I'm running nes and snes games no problem.

[KN4THX]

@drewpie1895 Where are you seeing this "go/connect" ? Is it a button in a program?

[mitu]

@drewpie1895 As people have said, you have to copy the .zip files where the rom are stored, not directly the folders. Here's a screenshot of my arcade folder (notice that I copied them in the arcade folder on the RetroPie).

Unzip the archive you downloaded, there should be a folder containing these individual zip files, just copy those .zip files over to the arcade folder and then restart Emulationstation.

[rbaker]

@drewpie1895 said in "how to" name beginners:

i told you what i did before

Yeah, thing is that is not describing what you did and you have STILL not named the files you transferred. In your "I'm preparing" thread, the video posted there shows you all you need to do. The stages for MAME are clear. As they say on Dragons Den, I'm out! But, good luck!

[drewpie1895]

@thedatacereal thats on my mac , how i connect to the pi , saw it on youtube works when I'm sending over nes roms etc

[mitu]

@thedatacereal said in "how to" name beginners:

Where are you seeing this "go/connect" ? Is it a button in a program?

It's macOs's way of connecting to a network share from the Finder (i.e. the equivalent of Windows Explorer in macOS's world) - https://users.wfu.edu/yipcw/atg/apple/smb/

[drewpie1895]

@rbaker many thanks

[drewpie1895]

@mitu ok now i have zip files in the folders but each rom has many zip files not just one for yours like "goldenaxeu.zip" for example.

[mitu]

@drewpie1895 1 ROM = 1 zip file. There is no 'ROM has multiple zip files'. Do you have the 19xx.zip file in the files you have downloaded ?

[drewpie1895]

@mitu nope.

[drewpie1895]

@mitu I'm going to try and download again from somewhere else.

[mitu]

Can you post a screenshot of you downloaded ROMs folder and one of your arcade share on the Retropie ?
How many zip files you have in the folder you downloaded there ? A typical romset should have a few thousand zip files.

[caver01]

@mitu It might be different regional clones of goldenaxe.

[mitu]

@caver01 said in "how to" name beginners:

It might be different regional clones of goldenaxe.

That surely is, I copied the US version to the arcade folder myself :).

[herb_fargus]

@drewpie1895 said in "how to" mame beginners:

if you want to earn an easy £100 come round to mine and sort it please

Unfortunately self reliance and problem solving skills cannot be purchased.

[Icomeinpeace]

I got my Pi setup and working within 40 minutes. Then i d/loaded my first ROMs for MAME and found they wouldn't work. Caver01's post was exactly what i had done wrong and I learnt very quickly to get the right ROM sets and within 2 hours I had everything working - MAME / SNES etc. I visited that very nice redacted and got the 44 gb file (that ok admin?) :)) and every game I have tried has worked since.

Bud listen to the advice, its going to help.

[Domogram Rovers]

Dunno what difference it makes but I have all my Mame roms in the mame-libretro folder not the arcade folder.