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I give up... MAME sucks
Blux:
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--- Quote from: harveybirdman on December 10, 2012, 11:05:06 pm ---CHD's were updated in 146, you may need to update the CHD for kinst.
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How? I really have no idea where to even begin ???
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Are you familiar with BitTorrent, BitComet, and BitTorrent search engines?
Great way to find large files like CHDs -- the torrent info should include the version.
Alternate method, roll back to an earlier version of MAME that matches your romset and CHDs.
Scott
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Ah didn't realize by update you meant find the newest version. I thought there was a program or something I could run that would update what I needed.
--- Quote from: harveybirdman on December 10, 2012, 11:34:55 pm ---Another thing to think about is sometimes sites provide the CHD's in multiple rar files that you have to use WINrar or similar software to compile the CHD, and you have to click an option to add to and not write over the file when creating the CHD file using WINrar.
My guess is corrupted CHD assuming he has everything copacetic in the roms folder.
also I suggest looking into Romcenter, it will ease the hair pulling with version updates, I guarantee it!
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I ran mame64, it gave me the same error and then the game loaded fine... I exited out of it and the error in the prompt tells me that the md5s don't match... So I guess I just need to find the newest version.
Learn something new everyday... I had no idea mame had command line switches...
Sad thing is, I use command line stuff everyday at work...
harveybirdman:
command line is your friend, it will tell you what roms if any you're missing or if there are any maintenance issues.
Sometimes you'll find that the names of the CHD's themselves will change, that can be aggravating to no end if you didn't have some way to know what the program was expecting.
Look into romcenter, it's pretty much idiot proof, ever since I downloaded it rom mgmt is a TON easier.
harveybirdman:
also isn't there some bug in Midway games in 147? Perhaps this could be part of your trouble.
Check out Mr Do's guide to compiling and update to 147u3, and you know get rid of those nag screens while your at it! :P
matt4949:
--- Quote from: harveybirdman on December 11, 2012, 12:28:31 am ---also isn't there some bug in Midway games in 147? Perhaps this could be part of your trouble.
Check out Mr Do's guide to compiling and update to 147u3, and you know get rid of those nag screens while your at it! :P
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Is that why mame 147 keeps crashing during audit all games somewhere near the 6950 (total) number? Its about 45% through the romlist which would be a game that starts with M?