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Hi Everyone.
I Need Help setting up MESS in Linux. Ive been trying to do this for some time but no luck, I have MAME working so Im not completely without a Paddle.

I have my systems set up as such for the Roms....
/home/phil/mess/roms/genesis

And Im guessing my Bios's are Correct....
/home/phil/mess/bios
Where the bios dumps are in here not in individual folders...

Please help me solve this so I can get it working. All of the Tutuorials are for Windows..
Thank You

What's the value of your 'rompath' setting (in mess.ini or on the command line or in QMC2 or wherever)? It should be "/home/phil/mess/bios;/home/phil/mess/roms" in your case...

Everything is Default.
Id like to keep everything in the same structure in the home folder.
but No I havent changed anything. Ive installed the SDL packages and went from there... Fresh Start

Well, the default value for the rompath setting is just "roms" (dunno if the package(s) you've installed use different defaults, though), and this means "a folder named 'roms' in the current working directory". So if you'd like to stay with the defaults you'd have to copy all BIOS dumps as well as the 'genesis' sub-folder to the directory "./roms/" (again, assuming there's no system-wide mess.ini - overwriting its value - that came with the "SDL packages" you've installed).

Try

vs.

to find out if a different system-wide default for 'rompath' has been set.

Ill Have to look into this when I get home but the packages I installed were all direct from...
http://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/

rompath $HOME/mess/roms;/usr/local/share/games/mess/roms;/usr/share/games/mess/roms

"/home/phil/mess/roms/coleco"
Thats how I have my consoles set up, roms has a folder for each system...
nes, snes, coleco, genesis. a7800, a2600
"/home/phil/mess/bios"
is where I'm guessing the Bios's go? Thats how I have it set up anyway....

# Default MESS configuration file for Debian
# See /usr/share/doc/mess/examples/default.mess.ini
# for an example file with all possible options.
#
# Allow per-user mess.ini configuration files
inipath $HOME/.mess;/etc/mess
#
# Default data search paths
rompath $HOME/mess/roms;/usr/local/share/games/mess/roms;/usr/share/games/mess/roms
samplepath $HOME/mess/samples;/usr/local/share/games/mess/samples;/usr/share/games/mess/samples
artpath $HOME/mess/artwork;/usr/local/share/games/mess/artwork;/usr/share/games/mess/artwork
cheatpath $HOME/mess/cheat;/usr/local/share/games/mess/cheat;/usr/share/games/mess/cheat
crosshairpath $HOME/mess/crosshair;/usr/local/share/games/mess/crosshair;/usr/share/games/mess/crosshair
hashpath $HOME/mess/hash;/usr/local/share/games/mess/hash;/usr/share/games/mess/hash
ctrlrpath /etc/mess/ctrlr
#
# Default data output paths
cfg_directory $HOME/.mess/cfg
nvram_directory $HOME/.mess/nvram
memcard_directory $HOME/.mess/memcard
input_directory $HOME/.mess/inp
state_directory $HOME/.mess/sta
snapshot_directory $HOME/.mess/snap
diff_directory $HOME/.mess/diff
comment_directory $HOME/.mess/comments
#
# Override document root of the internal web server
# (do _not_ change this unless you know what you are doing!)
http_path /usr/share/games/mess/web/
#
# Debian feature defaults
# Set key to toggle full/partial emulation to Ins
uimodekey INSERT
# Set video to 'opengl' if DRI is enabled and reliable on your hardware
video opengl
# Set multithreading to '1' if you have more than one core
multithreading 0
# Set window to '1' if you want MESS to start in a window
window 0

If you want to have them in /home/phil/mess/bios then you need to add that path to the rompath setting.

BIOSes go directly in one of the paths that rompath points to. So you can have snes.zip in /home/phil/mess/roms the way it's set up, or you can add the path like Duke said.