Reply To: Solution MAME Missing files

[kendamachamp]

Hey guys, I’ve been lurking on this forum for a while and got my arcade cabinets almost 100% exactly as I want them. I just can’t get the mame roms working. I have the same missing files error as this thread, but I’ve confirmed everything points to the right place. I confirmed that the roms work on my pc when I open them with the mame32 emulator, so I know they are valid. I’ve tried dropping them in all the various locations for the mame emulators, but I can’t get past that error. I’m ready for help. I even tried unzipping them to see if that helped.

It’s retropie 2.6 on RPi2. Both ES config and MAME config point to ~/RetroPie/roms/mame.

Is there a way to capture more info about the missing file? Like where is it looking for them exactly? Then I could search the config files to see what variables are pointing to that location.

Or maybe the internal utility is having trouble unzipping the mame rom, and that’s why it can’t find the required files? I noticed that I have to use “unzip” instead of “gunzip” if I want to extract the files. So that got me wondering if ES is also using gunzip in the background to unpack the files to a temp location? Can I force ES to use “unzip” when it unpacks the roms for play?