ROMs folder not found

Technical code : ROMS_DIR_NOT_FOUND

What it means

Every ROM-related check was skipped — the scanner can't tell which ROMs you actually have.

Why it happens

VPinMAME keeps all ROM zips in its own roms folder — without locating that folder, there's nothing to compare a table's required ROM against.

How Pincab Toolbox detects it

The free scanner checks the following:

No folder literally named roms could be located under VPinMAME's installed location.

What to do

Pincab Toolbox could not find VPinMAME's roms folder. Without it no ROM check is possible, and VPinMAME itself will find nothing.

  1. Open the VPinMAME folder and see whether it holds a "roms" subfolder. If not, create it: it must be named exactly "roms", lower case.
  2. If your ROMs live elsewhere (another drive, say), VPinMAME must be told: run "Setup.exe" from the VPinMAME folder.
  3. In the window that opens, find the ROM path setting and point it at the real folder.
  4. Confirm, close, then run a new scan.
  5. If you cannot find that setting, the simplest fix is to move your ROMs into the "roms" folder next to VPinMAME: that is where the whole ecosystem expects them.

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Covered: Visual Pinball X (10.x) and PinUP Popper. Not covered: Future Pinball, Pinball FX, Visual Pinball 9 and the other frontends (PinballX, PinballY).

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