Using MAME with SageTV V2

[abasu2003]

i just know mine didn't show up until i played them trhough sage. possibly, i saved the games too, but i don't think thats what caused the images to show up

[Wheemer]

I am using the ATI Remote Wonder and I've tried both Girder and the ATI application to control Mame... I can't get it to work. I read on the Girder forum that it doesn't work with mame. Any pointers or help?

Thank You

[ravenray]

Wheemer,

Your remote isn't going to work at all. I asked, and basically, it boils down to it that mame uses directdraw. Which means you have to use a direct input. I.E. keyboard, mouse, controller, etc...

[Wheemer]

Well then... That just makes this mame addition useless to me, darn. FWIW apparently over at Girder they say they'll have it working in version 4.0 whenever that'll be.

Thanks for the help.

[mjryan86]

I've been using Sage for a while now and using it to play my mame roms. Which play just fine, but in the game list menu I do not get any pictures just the games listed out. Theres a big spot under each game as if there should be an image there. I have PNG files for the games I have in the artwork dir. And in the sage properies file I have it pointing to the artwork dir. for the images.
Not a big deal but would add a nice touch to it if it would show the images.


mjryan86

[mc2wheels]

I suppose I shouldn't expect too much with an unsupported feature. But if I cannot get the pictures, I wish it would't reserve the space for them. Sort of like the view options with the import library.

How many roms do you have? I have thousands. Abasu2003 got them to display. Perhaps Sage is trying to generate the "thumbnails", but it takes a long time with so many roms. I did try leaving in on the game screen for an hour, but I still did not see them. Maybe I will try overnight.

[mjryan86]

I only have 6 roms I deleted the rest a long time ago, never played them. So I don't thing it's an issue. of loading the files.

But are there any other setting I need to set besides the 4 lines or so in the properties file. I'm sure I have thoses setup fine. Like I said MAME playes fine.

Right now I just keep the image files in the artwork directory,( which is the dicetory I have in the properties file). there .PNG images and are named the same as the ROMs I have. Is this corrected. or do I need to call them something else or use a different format?


Mike

[ravenray]

Hmmm, I have my files in the snap folder. Had you tried mame alone and see if it could see the images?

[mc2wheels]

and I can see them in Mame32. Do I need to unzip them for sage to see them?

[ravenray]

Ummm, are you saying you have the image files within the zipped roms? My setup is like this. My zipped roms or in the rom folder and my images are in the snap folder. Although I might be using a few version of mame32 behind, I don't think that should make a difference.

[mc2wheels]

All of the roms are in the \roms directory. In zip files named for each game.

All of my images in my \snap directory are in a file called snap.zip.

[ravenray]

mc2wheels, Have you tried and unzip all the images to the snap folder and see if it pops up?

[mc2wheels]

I'v unzipped all of the png files into the snap folder, verified that the properties file points to that directory, and still get no pictures.

Is this how you have it? Do you have them unzipped?

[ravenray]

Yes, I have all my pictures unzipped. It is a bit strange why they don't show up for you.

[mc2wheels]

Yep, it sure is weird. But I do not seem to be the only one. Doesn't matter so much because I have the games working. But a small annoyance. Could you post your settings in you .properties file, so I can quadruple check them against mine?

[flashbacck]

where do I get/place/find the gamelist.txt?

Also, is there a way to get other emulators (console emulators for example) to work with this?

[CyRex]

flashback,

Right now I have NES and SNES emulators working (nearly) perfectly with Cayars STV. I have a 'Games' section under media, on which you can then select NES or SNES. From there, it brings up a list of games, all complete with box art in the bottom right corner. The emulators I use are Jnes and Zsnes, which I have found to work the best for full screen TV output. Znes works perfectly -- exactly like a console SNES would work. The NES emulator has its glitches on several games, but is very near perfect also.

To add this to Sage I made use of Cayars XML formatted menus. All of the games were added manually, which was a bit tedious. I am thinking of writing a small VB app that will scan my ROMS directory and create the menu entries for me, just haven't had the motivation lately...

-Dan

[davin]

cyrex, would you mind sharing your menus with the community? Or at least the basic structure?

[hackules]

I set ui/show_mame_menu=true or whatever in my properties file, but I don't get the arcade option under media libraries. Anyone have a clue for me? Thanks.

[mattybonez]

Hi Hackules,

Since Cayars STV uses dynamic XML menus, you need to manually set up the link to the MAME menus.

1. Just go into your Media Libraries section (or where you want the MAME link to be), then right-click and choose Add New Menu Item.
2. Choose Internal Screen as the type of menu item, then select 10: Arcade Games.
3. Next, add the text for the menu (e.g., MAME Games) and click OK.This should add the link at the bottom of the list.
4. Once you have the menu item set the way that you want, right-click and choose Save menu definition file. This will save the changes that you've made.
5. From there, you should be able to follow the directions earlier in this post to get the new MAME keys set up in your sage.properties file.

For more information on the dynamic XML menus, and what you can do with them, check out this page:
http://sage-community.org/index.cgi/wiki/NielmStvMenu

Good luck,
mattybonez

I set ui/show_mame_menu=true or whatever in my properties file, but I don't get the arcade option under media libraries. Anyone have a clue for me? Thanks.