MAME in MA - some roms work others dont? Should I use older version of mame?

[mattmayhem]

I am very new to MA and all front ends that arent mame32. I have been tinkering with it for about 2 days now just playing with settings and trying different things on my desktop before making the plunge and throwing the front end on the PC in my cab.

I noticed that the command line version of Mame.140 and my romset is kind of hit or miss what games want to load. I am pretty sure I have romset .117 but thats not the problem. When running mame itself (double clicking on the exe) it actually pops up with a random set of roms listed in the box.  This is very weird because usually it wouldnt run unless you typed in the rom under the run command. Regardless, most games I threw at it ran, but there were a few that didnt. Now, when I run a game in MA, its hit or miss if the rom loads up (usually really fast if it does) or not at all (stays on a black screen)  . Should I try an older version of MAME?

I'm not sure why it would do this, I have all the setting to hide non working games, but there are still games I know work that just will not load. I really want to use a front end to make my cabinet a little nicer to navigate, but if it means there is going to be games that dont work, I will stick with mame32.

[Trontastic]

I'm having the exact same problem! Games that run from MameWah (using mame, mame32 or advanced mame) work fine as from the command line, but MA is hit or miss on games. Would love some input on this.

-T

[mattmayhem]

I kind of figured thats what it was. I am using a 32 version mame, with an older complete set of roms (few years old now), and I was trying to run the same romset with the newest 140 version of mame cmd line. I will try again and report back when I can get my hands on a complete set of roms. Might be a while, but I will get to it eventually. Thanks.