I have R4 running on my pIII 1GHZ with a Hauppauge 350 card. Everything is working perfectly, except the games module.

I have all of my roms mounted via NFS, with the options 'rw,soft' and the mythtv user has r/w permissions in the roms directories. When I configure the games module in mythfrontend for my MAME/NES/SNES roms and select 'scan for games' in 'Setup->Game Settings', it scans for MAME roms for a few seconds then kicks directly into searching for NES/SNES roms. When I try to go into 'games' on the main menu, it restarts the scan for games, does the exact same thing as in the setup phase (completely ignores the MAME roms) then dumps me to a screen where I can see the NES/SNES sections but no roms. No MAME section shows up either.

I have also tried pointing the MAME roms location at /tmp and the NES roms location at a valid directory. I got the same results. Also, what are the other directories for? Do I need some MAME cabinet files? I don't have them, but the games seem to work fine in XMAME on other machines.

My MAME roms are all zipped into individual files and sitting in one dir (like if you were going to fire up XMAME and point it at the dir).

Am I missing something here? I would like to play my roms through mythtv.

Thanks.

The other directory are for what they state. You don't need them. The only problem I've encountered is mythgame not pickup the MAME ROMs. In the Setup, remove the path for History.

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I changed all of my settings for cabinets, screenshots, cheats, etc.... to blank, and it seemed to find my MAME roms this time, instead of just skipping through the search. However, it now skips the NES/SNES games search. When I get to the games screen from the main menu, it only displays the PC games which is empty.

What particular settings matter besides the binary location and the games location?

Do I leave the setttings which I do not want to use (cabinets path, cheats path) blank?

Why does it search for games when I use 'Games' from the main menu? Is this failing to write a config file somewhere? I used 'Scan for games' in the setup menu.

Thanks.

I had the same problems. Games not showing up, and mame scans happening when you enter the game menu. It looks like the default knoppmyth install points this stuff to the wrong place.

I went into games general settings and changed my settings like this:

MythGame Settings -- xmame (page1)

binary: /usr/games/xmame
rom locaition: /myth/games/xmame/roms
catver.ini: /myth/games/xmame/catver.ini
screens /myth/games/xmame/screens
hiscores: /myth/games/xmame/hiscores
flyers: /myth/games/xmame/flyers

page 2

cabinets: /myth/games/xmame/cabs
history: /myth/games/xmame/history
cheat files: /myth/games/xmame



Scan for games now works.
I don't get a "scan for games" when entering the regular games menu now either.


Oh. Note. All my my roms are in their .zip file.


Now I have an ugly system-locking video problem when xmame starts up. I haven't gotten to troubleshooting it quite yet.

Good luck!

Mine will not show up , and by default they are set to the above settings. I have my catver.ini in place and the roms all in place. Anybody know why they dont show?

I had the same problem... here is how I got mine to work....

Made sure I had a catver.ini, history.dat, and a hiscore.dat files located in the approperate directories... I googled for mine as I could find them on the Myth distro...

Then, using the Myth menus, went to setup, then to game setuip.... I then point directly to the files mentioned above... not just to the directories but also the file names as well.... (../../history/history.dat)

Once I did this I was able to search for and locate all my roms....

I hope this helps....

-Brian

Still having this problem... can someone post a definative fix please?
Something is screwy still.

Fresh install, and it's not working out of the box, downloaded catver.ini, hiscore.dat, history.dat and a few free/open roms and it still doesn't work.

help?

There is a bug (that might be your problem) with the command line arguments of mythgame in mythtv0.14, specifically with the hiscore settings.

Although it asks for the path to the hiscore.dat file in the settings it actually wants the path to the directory where hiscores are kept. There is no option for the hiscore.dat file in 0.14. Additionally, the command line option that is used for the hiscore directory is from xmame 0.62 or earlier and as Knoppmyth is shipped with xmame 0.65.1 (with R4V2 anyway) it wont work anyway!

This is now fixed in CVS, I got so fed up with trying to get the hiscores to work I eventually ended up upgrading to CVS and submitting a patch to fix the problem (which is now in the CVS tree) and add the hiscore.dat setting.

To get xmame working in KnoppMyth, just leave the hiscore setting blank. If you want working hiscores as well, either upgrade to CVS or try adding the appropriate command line arguments to another setting (mythgame just builds up a long command line string for the settings which is passed to xmame).

eg. add

-hiscore_dir=/myth/games/xmame/hiscores -hiscore_file=/myth/games/xmame/hiscore.dat

to the end of the current catver.ini or other setting (with the right paths for your system). That should make sure the arguments are passed to xmame.