#Mame bios files retroarch software
#Mame bios files retroarch code

If you want to only print ROMS you have, then look at the MameFileManager option in the Arcade Roms menu. Like all other MAME functions in QuickPlay, the filePaths functionality doesn't ever inspect what romfiles you have on your disk, it just prints what the mame.xml says should be the paths. So that we can do something with the filepath: in particular in QuickPlay now (after release 4.7.0) we can ask QuickPlay's Synctool to fetch the file specified at the filepath from some remote location.For instance the RetroArch team did some great work on a standlone Sharp 圆800 emulator that's much faster than MAME's emulator right now, so if you have that EFind-ed with QuickPlay, you can right click and launch that so that we might launch it with another emulator! If we try and launch a game with no filepath in an emulator that's not a MAME emulator, it will never work, yet there are many cases where we might want to open a rom the MAME team has collected with some other emulator.So, why might we want to also point to a filepath for these printed romdatas? There are two reasons: Of course we can use the (non-softlist) MAME Emulators we found during an EFind scan to try and run any Rom and any romdata in QuickPlay, so its entirely possible to pass MAME filepaths, but when we print off things from the MAME XML, every single game described by the MAME team is given a 'mamename', so we don't need this. This is the same for arcade or home computers/consoles.

#Mame bios files retroarch code

When QuickPlay calls MAME (or MAME-in-RetroArch), it doesn't 'need' filepaths: it calls 'mame.exe mamename' where mamename is a code the mame team made up to launch a particular game with ('bublbobl' for the game 'Bubble Bobble' for instance). Now you understand how that works, let's think about what happens when you load a MAME game from QuickPlay So once these romdata files are printed, no more interaction with MAME happens until you actually play games. If you want to change anything in them, its easiest to just delete them, change some option, and print them again. These romdatas are 'printed', once, in QuickPlays data folder as romdata.dat files and displayed in QuickPlay.

#Mame bios files retroarch software

You then tell QuickPlay to print a set of Arcade Romdata files and/or a set of Software List Romdata files, and QuickPlay uses that file it made when it scanned the MAME XML. In Mame Options, there's a section 'Arcade and Softlist Printing Options'.īefore we start, it helps to understand how the MAME functionality in QuickPlay works - so i'll try and explain how everything gets printed one-time upfront at first, and then remains static:įirst you scan a MAME XML as a one-off thing into QuickPlay, creating a smaller file that QuickPlay uses to print things with. Understanding the MAME Path printing option

5.2 I tried to run a MAME romdata game with 'parameters to run' in a non-MAME Emulator, but it didn't like the command-line args passed.

5.1 What is all that extra console output when the romdatas are printing if I choose to print filepaths?.

2 Understanding the MAME Printing Options settings.

1 Understanding the MAME Path printing option.