MAME (2010) core crash to desktop

RetroArch Windows devices
#1

So basically i have MAME standalone and RA both installed on my PC and MAME4droid on my Android smartphone.

MAME standalone and MAME4droid can read my 0.139ul ROMs just fine, they work.

Now when i load the same ROMs for RA using the 2010 core or any other MAME core in RA the .zip ROMs crash RA to the desktop.

Why does this happen? Also, the same thing happens when i try load GBA ROMs in .zip format… But GBA ROMs DO WORK when i load the .gba extension rather from archive.

What could be the cause. Because N64, Genesis, SNES, e.t.c all work when launching a .zip file.

#2

We would need to see a verbose log to know what’s actually happening.

#3

I’ll try get you a log, but need a guide on how to do this.

#4

open a command window in your RetroArch directory and do this: retroarch_debug.exe --menu --verbose It will print messages to the console window.

If you want it to go to a file instead, put this into the command window: retroarch_debug.exe --menu --verbose >> log.txt 2>&1

#5

Right, i didn’t bother with the debug. But i decided to download the latest MAME core 0.72. It does play some of my 0.39ul ROMs… just not all of them due to missing CHDs. Is there a way to easily update the ROMS for missing files?