my mess is a mess

[snstay]

so ive installed mess 159 got everything pointing in the right direction rocketlauncher and hyperspin wise. Also got all green on my rom audit but when i launch a game i get the loading screen then it just gose back to rocketlauncher its a head scratcher to me, any ideas?

Thanks

[joe35car]

What system are you trying to run with MESS? Does it work outside of RL? Maybe the system you are trying to  run needs the bios? Make sure you have the rom path pointing to the bios.

[snstay]

Thanks for the response. Im running atari 2600. Do you mean pointing the bios to the rom path in RL because i already have the bios pointed in the mess directory. And outside RL i get the black box when i launch the bios.

[joe35car]

That wouldn't be a problem because Atari 2600 doesn't use bio roms. So you never got it working outside of RL?

[Rotgut]

That wouldn't be a problem because Atari 2600 doesn't use bio roms. So you never got it working outside of RL?

 

Saw your screenshot.  I had no idea you could use MAME as an emulator for the 2600...!  Whoa

 

Can MAME run other old school system emus as well...?  ColecoVision, etc...??

[32assassin]

MAME and MESS where merged a few months ago. 

 

So yes

 

Anything MESS can emulate;  MAME can emulate.  You just need to download a version of MAME with MESS built in.

[phulshof]

Driver status for MAME for ColecoVision says "good". MAME supports a huge amount of systems, but some (e.g. Amiga) are still preliminary. Still, I use MAME for emulating a lot of systems these days.

[SIMPLYAUSTIN]

The new module in rocketlauncher requires you to give the bios path, not tested but it may show error if not set, even if needed.