It worked!!! Thank you so much. It's really appreciated. Instead of copying this in with me typing I connected my mame computer to the internet and copied/pasted directly from your post. Thank you again. My hours of frustration has been solved by you in minutes!!!

Really grateful for your reply. I tried this and on clicking the .bat file it very quickly flashed something but nothing happened. I was unsure if it should be typed on two lines so I tried that and clicking on the .bat file it took me to my first mame folder (I then had to open this to start MAME b...

I've tried START C:\mame\mame.exe and it boots into MAME from startup but doesn't load ROMs?? If I manually click on MAME.exe it will load ROMs fine. Does anyone have any ideas for me please. If not I'll have to run my cabinet with the laptop outside so I can get to the keyboard and mouse!!

Hi all. I've just built my first arcade cabinet and thoroughly enjoyed it. I knew I would struggle on the computer side as it's not my strongest subject and it's been really frustrating! I've finally gotten everything working fine but I wanted my machine to boot straight into MAME. I've tried a laun...