Using MAME with SageTV V2

[technazz]

I have set up MAME and everything seems to work fine. Its sweet, using GIRDER I can control SAGETV with my Wireless RUmblePAD II!

But I am having some extra titles show up in SAGETV. When I individually launch them they do not work. If I delete them they will cause another ROM not to work like 1941.zip work and 1941j.zip doesnt. When I delete 1941j.zip, 1941 does not work.

Is there a way for these extra zip files not to show up in SAGE? They dont show up in MAME32!

Thanks

Technazz

[pawn]

Originally Posted by 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?

I know this is an old post now, but just to make it clear: you can make sure a screen cap shows up in the Sage front end by hitting the F12 key while playing or viewing each game. The picture is saved to the snap folder. Sage dynamically loads these every time you enter the Arcade Games section, so snap away, reload the menu and voila!

[dadams]

Originally Posted by mc2wheels

I do play them, but the screen snapshots for the games do not show up on the display where I choose what game to play. It's just a nice to have really, but I was wondering if I need to configure it differently. I have the images path pointing to my snap directory where the zipped png files are. Has anyone out there gotten this to work?

I am also having this problem. My games play correctly, but I don't see the snapshots, just empty space where they should be. It would be cool to able to see them. Anyone who was having this problem get it to work? Here is my properties file listing. The files are in their zipped and unzipped format(tried both)

mame/gamelist_filename=gamelist.txt
mame/mame_docs_path=e\:\\mame\\docs
mame/mame_exe_path=e\:\\mame\\mame32.exe
mame/mame_images_path=e\:\\mame\\snap
mame/mame_roms_path=e\:\\mame\\roms
mame/mame_working_directory=e\:\\mame

Thanks,

Dennis

[mc2wheels]

I've tried both zipped and unzipped, but I just can't do get them. I gave up, and I removed the menu. It's easier to just launch mame32.

[CuriousGMan]

Hello,

I've gotten Mame to work with SageTV, nice job. Once I got around some of the config issues through the help of this message thread, and recreated my own gamelist.txt, it works great. I was looking at using GameEx for this purpose, but it's just much easier to do it this way. I'll use GameEx if I ever get the time to put together a cabinet or cocktail table. Anyway, my question is around the mame images defined by the following parameter:

mame/mame_images_path=C\:\\Mame\\Files\\titles

This doesn't seem to work for me as I do not see any images when I list the arcade games. Does anybody see images here?

Let me know. Thanks!

- George

[jbanera]

Reading this thread has been very helpful in getting mame setup through Sage 4.0 and SageMCE!!! Thanks everyone.

I think I am experiencing the same problems as everyone else in that I too don't see the snap shots through Sage's built in mame support. (See attached image)

Just wondering, is there a menu option or sage.properties option that will just list the mame roms instead of putting them in the format with the snap shots? This would make finding a game much easier and quicker, especially for people who have more than a couple of hundred!!!