[mythtv-users] scan xmame games

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Cecil Watson wrote:

> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> Hopefully this is a quick question that I can't find the answer to.
>>
>> I've loaded up xmame and got my roms working correctly, but when I
>> scan for ROMS, I get every file in every rom folder listed in my game
>> database making selecting a game a nightmare. So I read up a bit and
>> see that I should be leaving the games zipped, so I zip all my roms
>> into their own .zip files and now I can't launch any games at all. Is
>> there some magic to getting a .zipped rom to work with xmame or
>> getting myth to only display 1 name per folder and launch the game
>> based on that folder name?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brad
> The ROMs should be zipped.  I don't even know if XMAME will work with
> unzipped ROMs.  Perhaps more details about the version of XMAME.  I'd
> also suggest using romdb.  I'd provide a link to the article on the
> wiki, but I seem to be having connections issues at the moment.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cecil

Yeah, I couldn't get to the wiki, either. Unfortunately my problem  
was stupidity. Now that I've learned how to use the zip command  
correctly, I have files and not just folders in my .zip files and all  
is well again. Sorry. :)