help for xmame and frontends

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I'm using Fedora Core 3, i just installed advancemenu from the source
code to work with xmame. I keep on getting an error message in the
terminal.
It keeps on complaining that it can't find an xmame config file of some
sort.
I'm using xmame v.96, but I may get v.99 soon. Could anyone help?

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On 05/09/2005 22:18, Neo.Sage stated the following:

> I'm using Fedora Core 3, i just installed advancemenu from the source
> code to work with xmame. I keep on getting an error message in the
> terminal.
> It keeps on complaining that it can't find an xmame config file of some
> sort.
> I'm using xmame v.96, but I may get v.99 soon. Could anyone help?

The "old school" technics was to copy a template file (xmame.dist or
something) to ~/.xmame/xmamerc and edit xmamerc (basically tell it where
your roms are).

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Neo.Sage wrote on 07. September 2005:
>
> I just installed xmame v.99 today. I tried to create a config file
> using -cc, but it
> says that -cc is not a known command for xmame. I believe that -cc only
> works with the dos version of mame. I'll look through the man pages for
> xmame again to see if there is a command for creating a config file,
> i've looked at it before but didn't see anything. Thanks anyway.

A config file is shipped and created when compiling. It's called
"xmame.dist" (I believe). Just copy and rename it to "~/.xmame/xmamerc"
and also let it know where the roms and other stuff are.
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