mame2010 chds

TillmanZ

Hi there!
I have grabbed several 0139 CHDs and I wonder where I need to put them in order for mame2010 to find them.
I tried the recalbox/share/roms/mame/[game_name]/ path but that apparently does not work for me.

Is there any error log from mame2010 (or retroarch) to check if it's complaining about something else maybe?

Best,

Tillman

TillmanZ

Ok, after launching retrorarch via the command line on my ssh terminal like this:
retroarch -L /overlay/base/usr/lib/libretro/mame0139_libretro.so /path/to/rom
with the CHD saved in /path/to/rom/[romname]/
I was able to start area51 (R3000) (area51.zip).
But when I try it from EmulationStation it won't launch even though my mame core is set to mame0139.

Any ideas?

TillmanZ

And one more update - I saw that EmulationStation uses this to fire up area51 via retroarch:
/usr/bin/retroarch -L /usr/lib/libretro/mame0139_libretro.so --config /recalbox/share/system/configs/retroarch/retroarchcustom.cfg /recalbox/share/roms/mame/area51.zip

When I launch retroarch like this via the commanline then the game starts.
However when started via EmulationStation the screen just goes black and then a couple of seconds later ES is back.

Odd...

TillmanZ

I feel like spamming this forum - I am sorry 🙂
But I did one more test and it's getting even weirder.
This time I launched emulationstation via the ssh console and then started Area51 and it worked!
And trying to launch from ES after a fresh reboot (the automatically started process and not manually via ssh) it does NOT work.

I am really curious if anyone has any idea what might be going on here. 🙂