Mame on ouya?

**pfj** · 07-16-2013

Has anyone been able to get mame4all/mame4droidreloaded to work off the same roms folder? I have all my games roms for each emulator in separate folders on a USB drive. Whenever i set both these emulators up and direct them to the roms directory on usb they don't see the roms. I end up with a folder for each emulator within the MAME roms folder on the USB.

USB/MAME ROMS/Mame4all/.....
USB/MAME ROMS/MAME4droidreloaded/...

The only way it works is to copy my roms into the roms folder within these folders

USB/MAME ROMS/Mame4all/roms
USB/MAME ROMS/MAME4droidreloaded/roms

This basically means a have a duplicate roms (taking up twice as much memory) folder for each MAME application rather than just the same one I can "point" each MAME emulator at.

@CamelJR - Did you move the complete MAME4all folder to external HDD from SD card (internal)? Does it still run OK? Can other apps be moved to external storage? Great news regarding 2 controllers!

**CamelJR** · 07-16-2013

I copied the complete folder to a hdd, put all the roms there, and set that as my rom dirctory. Seems to work great!

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Only problem I'm having is saving/loading a state. The text appears: "Select a position to save to" and I'm not sure what to do next. It seems that I should enter a name for the state using a keyboard, but this doesn't work. No matter what I try, I get the error "Failed to open file for save operation". Could this be because I'm running off a hdd?

Merged your posts. Use the edit button next time.

**Propagandhi** · 07-22-2013

How's it goin?

I can't confirm that 2 player-support works properly. Eventhough I have the latest build of Mame4droid Reloaded and both controllers are detected succesfully via Gamepad Autodetection, I have noticed that the Player 1's R1 and R2 Buttons is recognized as the Player 2-Start Button. The Start Button of Player 2's Pad isn't mapped at all. The Coin Button doesn't seem to work on neither of the controllers. I am using two PS3 controllers for play and the Ouya one for navigating.

Most games don't suffer from this issue, but games like MVC sure do and become unplayable with 2 players. I hope that this issue gets adressed - Mame is one of best emulators on android and I'd love to see my friends and me playing playing some classics together on Ouya.

**AmigaJay** · 07-22-2013

Just go into the mame menu (the thin on screen menu that lets you speed up games, and configure the controls for other players, all I needed to change was insert coin and start for other players ( i used L2 and R2) can confirm works with 4 players using 3 other ps3 pads no problem.

**Propagandhi** · 07-22-2013

That actually did it! Thanks for the heads up

**CamelJR** · 07-22-2013

@Prop: I did the same so it would work with PS3 controllers. Also, make sure your hdd is fat32 (cluster size 64kb) or the save states won't work. I had problems with this for awhile...

**Propagandhi** · 07-23-2013

Yeah, I'm using a fat32 formated stick. Saves work fine - thanks!

**Billbofet** · 07-26-2013

can someone pm me with the latest version of this .apk file? I have tried to pull it off the Google Play store and it keeps telling me I don't have a device, yet I have three android phones and two tablets and have used it in the past???