Windows Rom Collection Browser n00b Tutorial please!

Hi,
I am trying to get my mame roms to play using this add-on and for all the searching and researching on google I can't for the life of me understand how to get it running.
It would be great if someone could post a real simple tutorial with all the steps involved particulary for mame. I have the RCB installed on XBMC but just can't get the games or the emulator setup.
Its not like I have no experience with modding, I have hard modded an xbox and managed to get everything working and I have a kickass xbmc htcp connected to my tv but I just don't understand how to get RCB to work.
I have read all the tutorials available but none are really easy to understand.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I to would appreciate a tutorial (step by step) for this also, I don't sound as set up as the OP, but its something I was thinking about getting into for my daughters sake lol.

Yay, that's two of us

I struggled to get RCB to work and moved to Advanced Launcher instead. It's a lot easier to get results

Thanks I'll give it a go

Can someon please tell me which mame emulator to download and if there should be a correct install path, I'm still haveing major probs getting this to work.
I know...I'm a n00b

(2012-08-03 05:55)stone2 Wrote:  Can someon please tell me which mame emulator to download and if there should be a correct install path, I'm still haveing major probs getting this to work.
I know...I'm a n00b

You will found information here :

For Windows : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?ti...ws#Windows
For Linux : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?ti...MAME#Linux

It's always better to use the original version of MAME.

Thanks for your help but I've read those links and I'm still no closer to getting this to work.
Wish someone could post a tutorial for idiots

stone2 Wrote:It would be great if someone could post a real simple tutorial with all the steps involved particulary for mame. I have the RCB installed on XBMC but just can't get the games or the emulator setup.
Its not like I have no experience with modding, I have hard modded an xbox and managed to get everything working and I have a kickass xbmc htcp connected to my tv but I just don't understand how to get RCB to work.
I have read all the tutorials available but none are really easy to understand.

To get you started with RCB the First use guide should be all that you need to get your games imported. There is also a video that shows you the process of creating Rom Collections.

To get this working with ALA you should read through the guides that Angelscry has linked in his signature.

To get MAME working from XBMC (does not matter if RCB or ALA) Angelscry already mentioned his guide to set up MAME on Linux or Windows. All installations that I did myself I could get working with following these instruction step by step.


As you see there are lots of tutorials available. Just asking for new ones will not solve your issue(s). But you could maybe help to improve the existing tutorials if you point out what is missing, what you don't understand or what is not working on your system. Is your problem MAME or RCB/ALA? Can you launch MAME games from command line (outside XBMC)? Where does it stop for you? Importing games, launching games? Do you get an error message?

With these informations we could try to solve your issues and get our guides more robust against misunderstanding.

I have a question about loading mame games as well, I figured I would ask here, since it seems most relevant.

I have successfully been able to load up multiple games using the guide on advanced launcher wiki to setup mame with the correct args, etc... The problem I am having is that every time I start up mame through the -inipath "mame ini path" "%rom%" argument, it doesnt load my default CFG file. The file that saves all my configured button maps. When I load through the actual mame.exe file it loads them just fine, but like I said, not through the arg.

I am using eden xbmc, with rcb, and mameplus.