Games – Are There Any UI Options for MAME?

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I used to install GXMAME for launching the MAME games in Ubuntu, but after installing Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) the package does not seem to be available in the Software System. I have tried Gnome Video Arcade, but it simply does not seem to work. Is there another UI that I can use to launch the MAME games?

Best Answer

Have you tried GMAMEUI ?

It's a fork of the defunct GXMame project.

GMAMEUI - Main Window

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I've tried Gnome Video Arcade, and it also didn't list any ROMs. After investigating, it turned out that one of my ROMs was corrupted, and that prevented GVA from showing any ROMs at all!

So, care to do a little test?

Backup your current MAME config/rom folder:
```
mv ~/.mame ~/.mame.bak
```
Recreate it with default settings:
```
mame
mkdir ~/.mame/roms
```
Copy a single game to the default roms folder, and test it with no launcher:
```
cp /path/to/roms/for/example/rastan.zip ~/.mame/roms
mame rastan
```

If that works, great!

Now delete (or backup) the GVA database so it is re-created from scratch, and test it:

    rm -rf ~/.local/share/gnome-video-arcade
    gnome-video-arcade

I did this, and it worked nice. Then it was a matter of finding and deleting th offending ROMs and rebuild my MAME settings.

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