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help needed I'm stumped Rom quirkyness re: previous working rom now doesn't
gatordad:
I have had my setup running for some time now and have not had to do too much to it as it's been pretty solid.
However in the last few weeks wierd things are happening
I now have had several known previous working roms just quit working altogether. Hit start and mala/mame shows the loading screen gets half way then exits back to my list
I reloaded a few and some work again but there are others even after reloading them won't run.
Rom version match mame version
Refreshed game list in mala after reloading the roms from my cd backup
I'm stumped?
Any ideas
I am leaning towards thinking its the begining of HD troubles but wanted to ask if anyone has any ideas
gatordad:
One of the games I was having trouble with is 2020 baseball, I was doing some reading today and that is a Neo Geo game, have to check with my kids what other games they are having trouble with. hmmm.........
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: gatordad on June 16, 2011, 07:32:19 pm ---Refreshed game list in mala after reloading the roms from my cd backup
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I don't know if the ROMs need to be read/write access, but lots of times when you copy from a CD the files are READ ONLY. Reset the attributes on the roms folder using the ATTRIB command on the command line prompt.
ark_ader:
Sounds like data corruption.
Hope you have backups.
gatordad:
Finally had time time to look into this.
All my Neogeo games were on the fritz
Reloaded my neogeo bios file and all good again, for some reason my bios file went bad.
Just for curiosity sake
Does the bios file store data and get bigger as you play the Neo games? cause the new bios file was much smaller in size then the one I replaced