Hello! I actually created an account to get help here...
I cannot get any mame ROMs to run. I'm familiar with mame. Boy, am I ever familiar (*thousand yard stare*) My 2003+ ROMs work fine on pc and raspberry pi (I perhaps should add, through the same exact emulation, i.e. retroarch, mame 2003+ core).
Currently when I attempt to load an archive on the 3ds (boot9strap luma cfw), I get a whole load of errors telling me it's missing files (ROM names). They go past so quick I have trouble reading them, but curiously, it appears to be telling me some that are definitely there are missing, AND some that aren't (naturally) are missing too. I then get a "no items" on the top screen. Basically, it's behaving either like this ROM collection is not correct - even though I know it is (unless... Mame 2003 plus means something completely different in 3ds land?) - OR, it doesn't know where the rom is (erm... I literally just selected?)
Everything else works on this 3ds. I have 3ds games running, bubble emulators running - and even retroarch itself is fine with neogeo stuff, running beautifully with whatever I tried (which genuinely surprised me, tbh).
I've tried a fresh install (i.e. completely removing retroarch and starting again).
Is there some magic step to getting this working I have missed? Is the folder name crucially important (I've tried all that make sense, i.e. arcade, mame2003-plus, etc)? Should I have done things in a very specific order or way? Did I forget to sacrifice my first born? I swear mame just finds new ways of boiling my urine every time I try to set it up...
I cannot get any mame ROMs to run. I'm familiar with mame. Boy, am I ever familiar (*thousand yard stare*) My 2003+ ROMs work fine on pc and raspberry pi (I perhaps should add, through the same exact emulation, i.e. retroarch, mame 2003+ core).
Currently when I attempt to load an archive on the 3ds (boot9strap luma cfw), I get a whole load of errors telling me it's missing files (ROM names). They go past so quick I have trouble reading them, but curiously, it appears to be telling me some that are definitely there are missing, AND some that aren't (naturally) are missing too. I then get a "no items" on the top screen. Basically, it's behaving either like this ROM collection is not correct - even though I know it is (unless... Mame 2003 plus means something completely different in 3ds land?) - OR, it doesn't know where the rom is (erm... I literally just selected?)
Everything else works on this 3ds. I have 3ds games running, bubble emulators running - and even retroarch itself is fine with neogeo stuff, running beautifully with whatever I tried (which genuinely surprised me, tbh).
I've tried a fresh install (i.e. completely removing retroarch and starting again).
Is there some magic step to getting this working I have missed? Is the folder name crucially important (I've tried all that make sense, i.e. arcade, mame2003-plus, etc)? Should I have done things in a very specific order or way? Did I forget to sacrifice my first born? I swear mame just finds new ways of boiling my urine every time I try to set it up...
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