NeoGeo n00b... please help

[pointdablame]

I've taken a break from my ever changing cab plans, and have just started playing a bunch of games.

However, none of my King of Fighters roms work  I'm guessing I'm not doing something correctly.... do I need a different emulator?? I'm trying to run this through MAMEwah with no luck. I've also had no luck with the Metal Slug series. I supposes that they can all just actually be corrupt but I'm suspecting otherwise.

Any help would be great. Thanks.

[Aceldamor]

Do you have the Neo Geo Zip file in your roms dir?

BTW...this should prob be in software fourm...

[SirPoonga]

Do you have the bios file, neogeo.zip

Your answer is in the mame FAQ.

[pointdablame]

I do have the neogeo file in my roms directory. It's about 52kb, is that right?

If this should be in Software, please move it, I was debating between where to put it. Sorry if I made the wrong choice.

[Howard_Casto]

you do know that those ames are HUGE don't you?  They take quite a while to load, expecially on slower systems.  I'm just saying, you might not be waiting long enough.

[Minwah]

I do have the neogeo file in my roms directory. It's about 52kb, is that right?

If this should be in Software, please move it, I was debating between where to put it. Sorry if I made the wrong choice.

Beware that the BIOS files change with new MAME versions, as well as some game rom files.  My current neogeo.zip is 233kb, so I guess yours is out of date - this would cause the symptoms you're having.  My neogeo games definately work - I played Sengoku 3 last night

[SirPoonga]

Yeah, neogeo went through a big change these last two versions of mame.

[pointdablame]

Ok I guess I have some looking around to do then Thanks for the help tho.

And to Howard, yes I do realize how large they are. When I try to load them however, it says  that they are corrupt or missing roms. When that happens, I usually give up waiting heh.  Thanks for the thought tho, I probably would not have thought to just let it load if it didnt' say it was corrupt right away.