on Retropie3 try running advancemame from the command line and seeing if you get any error message
/opt/retropie/emulators/advmame/1.2/bin/advmame romname
the romsets for 0.94 and 1.2 are different though, so I’d guess that’s your problem
one is made 0.94 roms the other is made 0.106 roms
if you search you usual disreputable software supplier website there is normally a seeded 0.106 available which is mostly right.