lr-mame2003 not seeing any ROMs

[kapteinknutsen]

Hi,

I’m new to RetroPie, but have played with it for a couple of weeks now, trying to learn it (and linux) through videos and the wiki. Great documentation all around!

There is one issue I have not been able to solve, which is that lr-mame2003 doesn’t seem to find any roms at all. I read some good stuff about mame2003, and would love to have it work. I have copied the roms into the roms/Arcade folder, and also into the roms/mame-libretro folder (just to be sure). The rom files have been built using clrmame, and have been reported to be OK. I’ve looked into the zips too, and all files are present. EmulationStation sees the roms fine, but trying to run any rom in lr-mame2003 just bounces back to ES. I’ve tried around 20 now. The runcommand.log report all the files are not found, which is weird since they’re all there in the .zip and the most compatible games run fine in lr-FBA and lr-mame4all.

I am wondering if this could be a paths issue with lr-mame2003? Is there somewhere I can check or edit where this libretro emu looks for ROM files?

I’m running RetroPie 3.6 on Pi3. Almost vanilla install, only added Daphne.

[kapteinknutsen]

I just realized I can do a verbose output from RetroArch, here’s the output I get trying to run Alien Syndrome:

RetroArch [INFO] :: === Build =======================================RetroArch [INFO] :: [CPUID]: Features:
Built: Feb 21 2016
RetroArch [INFO] :: Version: 1.3.0
RetroArch [INFO] :: Git: ccb3f73
RetroArch [INFO] :: =================================================
RetroArch [INFO] :: [CPUID]: Features:
RetroArch [INFO] :: Looking for config in: "/root/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg".
RetroArch [WARN] :: screenshot_directory is not an existing directory, ignoring ...
RetroArch [WARN] :: SYSTEM DIR is empty, assume CONTENT DIR
RetroArch [INFO] :: Config: loading config from: /root/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg.
11083.a4     NOT FOUND
11080.a1     NOT FOUND
11084.a5     NOT FOUND
11081.a2     NOT FOUND
11085.a6     NOT FOUND
11082.a3     NOT FOUND
10702.b9     NOT FOUND
10703.b10    NOT FOUND
10704.b11    NOT FOUND
10709.b1     NOT FOUND
10713.b5     NOT FOUND
10710.b2     NOT FOUND
10714.b6     NOT FOUND
10711.b3     NOT FOUND
10715.b7     NOT FOUND
10712.b4     NOT FOUND
10716.b8     NOT FOUND
10723.a7     NOT FOUND
10724.a8     NOT FOUND
10726.a10    NOT FOUND
10725.a9     NOT FOUND
ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.
[INFO] :: Config: loading config from: /root/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg.
RetroArch [INFO] :: Loading dynamic libretro core from: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so"
RetroArch [INFO] :: Overrides: no core-specific overrides found at /root/.config/retroarch/MAME 2003/MAME 2003.cfg
RetroArch [INFO] :: Overrides: no game-specific overrides found at /root/.config/retroarch/MAME 2003/aliensyn.cfg
RetroArch [INFO] :: Environ SET_VARIABLES.
RetroArch [INFO] :: Remaps: core name: MAME 2003
RetroArch [INFO] :: Remaps: game name: aliensyn
RetroArch [INFO] :: Remaps: remap directory: /root/.config/retroarch/remap
RetroArch [INFO] :: Remaps: no game-specific remap found at /root/.config/retroarch/remap/MAME 2003/aliensyn.rmp
RetroArch [INFO] :: Remaps: no core-specific remap found at /root/.config/retroarch/remap/MAME 2003/MAME 2003.rmp
RetroArch [INFO] :: Environ GET_LOG_INTERFACE.
RetroArch [INFO] :: Environ GET_VARIABLE mame2003-frameskip:
RetroArch [INFO] :: 	0
RetroArch [INFO] :: Environ GET_VARIABLE mame2003-dcs-speedhack:
RetroArch [INFO] :: 	enabled
RetroArch [INFO] :: Environ GET_VARIABLE mame2003-skip_disclaimer:
RetroArch [INFO] :: 	disabled
RetroArch [INFO] :: Environ PERFORMANCE_LEVEL: 10.
RetroArch [INFO] :: Content loading skipped. Implementation will load it on its own.
RetroArch [libretro INFO] :: Found game: aliensyn [aliensyn].
RetroArch [WARN] :: SYSTEM DIR is empty, assume CONTENT DIR /home/pi/retropie/roms/arcade/aliensyn.zip
RetroArch [INFO] :: Environ SYSTEM_DIRECTORY: "/home/pi/retropie/roms/arcade/".
RetroArch [INFO] :: Environ SAVE_DIRECTORY: "".
RetroArch [INFO] :: Environ SET_ROTATION: 0
RetroArch [libretro WARN] :: Directory /home/pi/retropie/roms/mame2003 not found - creating...
RetroArch [libretro WARN] :: Error creating directory /home/pi/retropie/roms/mame2003 ERRNO 2 (No such file or directory)
RetroArch [libretro WARN] :: Directory /home/pi/retropie/roms/arcade//mame2003 not found - creating...
RetroArch [libretro WARN] :: Error creating directory /home/pi/retropie/roms/arcade//mame2003 ERRNO 2 (No such file or directory)
RetroArch [ERROR] :: Failed to load content.
RetroArch [INFO] :: Does not have enough samples for monitor refresh rate estimation. Requires to run for at least 4096 frames.

Not sure what is relevant in here, but it complains about directories not being present. But isn’t it supposed to fetch the roms from the roms/arcade folder anyway?

BTW, I tried re-installing a newer build from config, so the build of lr-mame2003 is probably more recent.

[petrockblog]

Have you recently updated lr-mame2003 ? If so you will need to update retroarch also as it has changes that require an updated retroarch.

aah you did. Update retroarch and it should work.

[kapteinknutsen]

That did the trick, thanks!!

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