That's the first thing I tried. You don't install it and it keeps settings in an .ini file. Deleted both exe and ini files ran ccleaner then deleted all references in registry still didn't work. Sfc says nothing wrong and the only visible effects is in MAME itself. I feel I've done all I can think of and it's not worth the risk of really creating a problem so I just let it be. Thanks all for trying to help.
OK, if there is an exe file, the images must reside in that. I don't know from MAME, so cannot say how it references images if it does not install. The images must come from somewhere, and an exe file is the likely source. A Guy
MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. MAME itself is a DOS program run from a command promp. There are a few variants that use a GUI like mameui, mameuifx, or MESS. It's a project to document and preserve arcade games. It's an open source project to teach about programming and hardware. The exe file is a stand along program that uses multiple input sources e.g. snashots, PCB's, history, source code, and mainly ROMS. Source code is freely shared for anyone to compile there own version which is greatly encouraged. Even someone who doesn't understand programming it's a great program because the effect is as close as you can get to playing REAL arcade games (which is thousands of games)
You'd want to find where the MAME32UI or M32UI icons reside. This appears to be a User Interface, you must have some sort of Graphical interface as you have changed icons. Where does the interface itself come from? A Guy
Here's a text of the directory structures from both versions I use. You run the batch file from within the icons folder but I accidentally ran it from my desktop and that's the problem.
here's the log from the latest sfc scan
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