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| BadMouth:
Might want to wait until you're farther into it before posting tutorials. There are all kinds of mistakes that you haven't made yet. :lol The next snag you'll probably hit is that not all of your old v.90 roms are going to work with that shiny new v.148 MAMEUI In general, the version of MAME you are using must match your roms. It should be stated on [your favorite rom site] what version they are. It's a little more complicated than that. The roms will work if no changes have been made to that particular rom, but it's best to just use a version of MAME that matches your romset. There's also the issue of needing bios or sound board roms in addition to the game rom. |
| benarcade:
Good info. Thanks. This is a "newbie perspective" - it is not an expert's perspective. --- Quote from: BadMouth on February 07, 2013, 02:17:26 pm ---It should be stated on [your favorite rom site] what version they are. --- End quote --- I don't see any mention of version, other than (rev 2) for Asteroids as an example. |
| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: benarcade on February 07, 2013, 03:14:16 pm ---I don't see any mention of version, other than (rev 2) for Asteroids as an example. --- End quote --- Well, since they have v.90 as their MAME download, their roms must be that version. I looked it up and MAME v.90 is from 2005. I guess it's easier to supply an old version of MAME than it is to update their roms. :lol |
| benarcade:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on February 07, 2013, 02:17:26 pm ---There's also the issue of needing bios or sound board roms in addition to the game rom. --- End quote --- My understanding is that the ZIP files contain all the ROM image dumps as well as unencrypted sound and BIOS data. |
| danny_galaga:
Good on you for listing a 'newbie' instruction (",) One thing you forgot to mention is that you need to click 'audit all games', for mame to refresh and 'see' your set of ROMs. I assume that's still the case with V90. It is with V78. |
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