sdlmame. an up to date sdl port of mame

**ludomatic** · March 27th, 2007

nope, never heard of it but I'll try it asap, thanks for the info

**gaspar** · March 28th, 2007

Ok, so I tried Loemu, could not make it work. Back to wah!cade then.
The problem is, when I try to load a game, it shows the progress, then, at "load complete", it goes back to the game list.
What could that be?

**ludomatic** · March 28th, 2007

hi!

I use Wah!Cade on my mamecab too, it's the the frontend I finally prefer but it doesn't like sdlmame : you have to reconfigure your mame.ini.

1/ Create a ".mame" directory in your home path and link your "/usr/share/sdlmame/mame.ini' here.

2/ Use full path (not relative) to the MAME folders. Edit those lines of your fresh "~/.mame/mame.ini" like this :

Code:

#
# CORE SEARCH PATH OPTIONS
#
rompath                   /full/path/to/roms
samplepath                /full/path/to/samples
artpath                   /full/path/to/artwork
ctrlrpath                 /full/path/to/ctrlr
inipath                   $HOME/.mame;.;ini
fontpath                  .

#
# CORE OUTPUT DIRECTORY OPTIONS
#
cfg_directory             /full/path/to/cfg
nvram_directory           /full/path/to/nvram
memcard_directory         /full/path/to/memcard
input_directory           /full/path/to/inp
state_directory           /full/path/to/sta
snapshot_directory        /full/path/to/snap
diff_directory            /full/path/to/diff
comment_directory         /full/path/to/comments

3/ Create missing directories you've just defined (cfg, nvram, memcard, ...) if they dont exist.

Wahcade should correctly lauch sdlmame now (don't forget to reload gamelist in the wahcade menu)

4/ If ever you have the same problem, don't hesitate to ask sdlmame to generate logs. In your "mame.ini", apply those values :

Code:

#
# DEBUGGING OPTIONS
#
log                       0
oslog                     1
verbose                   1

After having launched sdlmame via wahcade you should have a new "~/.wahcade/emulator.log" file with maybe those kind of errors inside :

Code:

19xu.03 NOT FOUND
19xu.04 NOT FOUND
19xu.05 NOT FOUND
19xu.06 NOT FOUND
19x.07 NOT FOUND
19x.13m NOT FOUND
19x.15m NOT FOUND
19x.17m NOT FOUND
19x.19m NOT FOUND
19x.14m NOT FOUND
19x.16m NOT FOUND
19x.18m NOT FOUND
19x.20m NOT FOUND
19x.01 NOT FOUND
19x.11m NOT FOUND
19x.12m NOT FOUND
ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.

I hope that will help to resolve your "silent" error !

**gaspar** · March 28th, 2007

Thanks a lot for the quick reply!
I´ll give it a try tonight, and let you know

**zcal** · January 16th, 2008

Originally Posted by ludomatic

you can add the repository in your sources.list

Is your repository still being maintained? I recently added it to my sources.list in Debian Etch (which is no longer numbered 3.2, by the way). Aptitude updates just fine with it, but the sdlmame package is nowhere to be found.

**ludomatic** · January 16th, 2008

not actually, I had errors with Falcon (soft used to create the debian/ubuntu repository) since they have changed their version and new one still have pbs.

another deb is available now : http://wallyweek.altervista.org/