Arch Linux

Description:

The PKGBUILD of MAME copies files to /usr/share/mame but the mame program does not search there for them.

i.e. the mame.sh skript generates a mame.ini that sets the artork path to "$home/.mame/artwork;artwork". This will search in "$home/.mame/artwork" and in "/usr/lib/mame/artwork" since this is the place of execution. "cd /usr/lib/mame" and "./mame"

Same with all folders in /usr/share/mame/



Additional info:
* mame 0.197, happens also with sdlmame 0.196



Steps to reproduce:

Try to start a software list game like Super Mario Bros on NES "mame nes smb1". Since MAME does not have the hash informations stored in /usr/share/mame/hash it does not know what to do.

"mame -hashpath /usr/share/mame/hash/ nes smb1" does work.

Also plugins don't work for the same reason. Some shaders coming with MAME also don't work because of missing artwork files (i.e. crt-geom).


Maybe two proper solutions:
1. create a mame.ini with the correct pathes in it
2. store the content of /usr/share/mame in /usr/lib/mame/