GroovyMAME not finding ROMS on USB and crash

[pooman2084]

I had some time yesterday so downloaded the latest GroovyArcade 2020.08 to replace my broken instalation.

I seem to have flashed it succesfully to my smaller 16GB USB 3.0 as it now boots and goes to the game select screen. First thing is the few games included all seemed to go to a res that was out of range for my monitor and didn't appear to be playing blind. Is there an initial warning screen or suchlike that needs to be acknowledged the first time it is run?

Anyhow, I have a 64GB USB of vertical games on a seperate stick, but I can't get Groovyarcade to see it. I enter it into the path for the GroovyMAME Roms but it doesn't find them (I think I'm using correct syntax for linux but i'm a linux noob). I tried the LXDE but it doesn't seem to find the drive.

I have a second setup for horizontal games running my original 2Huwman build from years ago. I've tried copying the path in that but it shows a 'no files found' or similar error.

Most online docs seem to show people copying files to the USB via network, but this 2 USB setup worked before and is a much better solution if still possible.

Any ideas please folks?

 

[agent4125]

If you're using attract mode as the front-end you need to press tab to go onto options then in the emulators mame section rescan the ROMs.

 

[pooman2084]

Thanks for that!

I didn’t make myself very clear, I go and rescan and it doesn’t find anything.

Best guess is I need to mount that other drive in Linux but god knows how to do that.

I know the drive is called 64GB and the Roms are in a folder called chdroms but I can’t see them in the file manager or anywhere else. They show up ok on a windows pc.

 

[agent4125]

Ah ok... To automount the usb drive partition on boot, try this...

use fdisk -l to find the /dev device for the usb drive partition you want to mount, after plugging it in of course ...

This will give you e.g. /dev/sda1 or something similar, make sure you get the right one.

Then use sudo blkid /dev/sda1 | awk -F'"' '{print $2}' to get the UUID of the partition (use the /dev/blah the previous command returned)

This will give you e.g. 7953-B46C

Then sudo nano /etc/fstab and add the line: -

UUID=7953-B46C /media auto rw,user,exec,umask=000 0 0

(putting the UUID that the blkid command returned)

To check this has worked, reboot and check that the USB drive partition is mounted at /media

You can change /media for another folder name if you like.

I wrote this in a rush, but hopefully it works.

Aside from that, who the hell needs 64Gb of Vertical games!?

 

[pooman2084]

Great, thanks!

I get to the sudo blkid/dev bit but get the error

‘Fatal cannot open source file ‘{print $2}’ for reading. No such file or directory exists.

 

[agent4125]

Can you copy/paste the commands you ran and their output into here?

Or try:

blkid -o list

to find the UUID of your usb device
agent41252022-01-03 16:03:43

 

[pooman2084]

Thanks again!

Ok, I went to a mate’s with it as he’s an it guru and we managed to figure out the mounting!

We had to setup a root account but got there in the end so I now have a list of games in MAME!

I may have set some paths to default though I’m the installer. Any game I start attempts to start then goes back to the front end.

 

[agent4125]

Check the groovymame log

Or run it from command line (you can do this from within the desktop) and you'll be able to see any errors