xmame works, gxmame can't find roms

[Refund]

I can load roms into xmame fine, but I want gxmame to work for obvious reasons

it detects xmame fine, but when I point it towards the roms, it fails to see anything (and put it into the list)

I've looked everywhere, and I can't find the problem, I've tried extracting the .zip's moving directories all over the place, and nothing works.

[lol]

I had exactly the same problem, but to be honest, I tried so many things I don't really remember what solved the issue... :(
If I am not mistaken though, it may be a bug with your current version of gxmame. I am currently using the version 0.35beta2 (which is not available from gxmame home page... try google).

[atilasendil]

It's working, it's working :-)
I had tried the .34b as .deb from the original site;
then the source of the same;
no directory recognition;
at last I also googled for .35beta2 and installed directly from the .deb and am so happy;

I guess it just will take some time for me to unrar 700MB*15 CD archives of ROMS to /usr/share/games/xmame/roms/ :-)

[andlinux21]

THANKS I cant wait to get home and test this. I can play roms fine with xmame but it wont play from the hard drive only for a CD a made i wish i could drop the roms to the laptop hard drive and play them from there

[8bit]

It's working, it's working :-)
I had tried the .34b as .deb from the original site;
then the source of the same;
no directory recognition;
at last I also googled for .35beta2 and installed directly from the .deb and am so happy;

I guess it just will take some time for me to unrar 700MB*15 CD archives of ROMS to /usr/share/games/xmame/roms/ :-)


I had the same problem and followed your instructions and now it's working.

[ringmaster]

I don't know if this helps anybody, in my case the frontend was kxmame (I installed xmame and xmame-common from ubuntu repositories previously) and the roms were capitalized (from winbugs) so I tested to change one game to small letters and IT WORKED! (I did audit all games on the menu) so in terminal I went to the roms directory and I did:

for i in *.*; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done

windows doesn't have this possibilities!! I love those powerfull commands!!

After this I audit again and voilá! +1000 games detected!!

I don't now if the problem is the coding of my filesystem (reiserfs) as I am spanish (excuse me my gramathical errors) and I have problems with locales (I tried to resolve them with how-tos without success).

[gregory_]

:))))Yes gxmame 0.35beta2 worked
(had the same problem)