Tried everything can't get Mame working

[swandog]

Hi folks,

Followed numerous tutorials and can’t get Mame to work on Emulation station.

I’m using the correct romsets 0.37b5, and also put the roms in the correct path /home/pt/RetroPie/emulators/mame4all-pi/roms but when I load up a game I get an error message ‘/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/mame4all-pi/mame: Permission denied’

I’ve attached my es_systems file, can anyone see any mistakes I may have made?

[Floob]

The mame rom path (for retropie 2.3) is /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame

That /home/pt/ directory is odd – it should be home/pi
That implies your user is wrong hence having permission issues.

Have you got a fairly clean install like this?

Actually – your path implies you are using an older version of RetroPie – I’d be tempted to run 2.3 instead?

[swandog]

Hi Floob, thanks for your reply.

I have got 2.3 but I was trying so many things I may have copied an old path off a tutorial.

Do you know what I should change to get it back to normal?

[swandog]

heres my es_systems file as it didnt upload

[Floob]

Try replacing your mame entry in that file with this:

    <system>
        <fullname>MAME</fullname>
        <name>mame</name>
        <path>~/RetroPie/roms/mame</path>
        <extension>.zip .ZIP</extension>
        <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 4 "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all-pi/mame %BASENAME%"</command>
        <platform>arcade</platform>
        <theme>mame</theme>
    </system>

That is the entry that relates to RetroPie 2.3 setup

and make sure your roms are in:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame

[swandog]

Thanks. Will give that a whirl and let you know if it works.

[swandog]

HI Floob,

Managed to get around to trying your code (thanks) and it works but now my xbox controller wont work whilst in game.

Any ideas?

[Floob]

Have you pressed Tab and tried using that GUI?

A bit like this:

I’m afraid I dont have an Xbox controller to try it on.

[swandog]

Tried this and managed to get into the menu and change the controls but I think I’ve messed it up as my ‘enter’ button doesn’t work on the keyboard so can’t get back in to change the buttons.

Any way of resetting the controls or editing them in a file?

[swandog]

Can anyone help? Looks like I’ve messed up the ‘enter’ key so can’t get back into the mame menu to configure the controls. Is there a way of resetting the controls somehow?

[Floob]

You could try checking this file
/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all-pi/mame.cfg

Mine has this for the keyboard section:

[frontend]
#Keyboard controls for frontend only
# Get codes from /usr/include/SDL/SDL_keysym.h
K_START=13
K_SELECT=53
K_LEFT=276
K_RIGHT=275
K_UP=273
K_DOWN=274
K_A=306
K_QUIT=27
#Joystick controls for frontend only
J_START=9
J_SELECT=8
J_A=0
AXIS_LR=0
AXIS_UD=1

You can see the key here:
http://www.ascii-code.com/

13 is Enter/Return

Or maybe delete the files in here:
/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all-pi/cfg

[swandog]

Hi Floob, sorry for the late reply, things are mentla at the moment.

Deleted those cfg files and got it all working so many thanks for your help.

Are you able to point me in the direction of how I can get the Amiga emulator to work? :)

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