1. Some roms fire give weird warning about not being correct but work fine. Is that just how this works sometimes?
If some part of the emulation is flawed, MAMEdevs will flag it and you'll get a warning "nag" screen.
Some of these issues are
really obvious and some you might not notice.
2. The screen always pops up the frequency and other items when launching a game is that somehow able to be by passed or do you have to hit key in mame to get past it.
Have you generated a mame.ini file yet?
If not, run MAME
one time using the -cc (create config) software switch "mame.exe -cc" to generate a mame.ini file.
- If you run "mame.exe -cc" again, it will reset any changes you made to mame.ini back to defaults.
Now that you have a mame.ini file, open it using Notepad.
Scroll 1/3rd of the way down to this section . . .
#
# CORE MISC OPTIONS
#
drc 1
drc_use_c 0
drc_log_uml 0
drc_log_native 0
bios
cheat 0
skip_gameinfo 0
. . . and change the skip_gameinfo
0 (disabled) to a
1 (enabled) . . .
skip_gameinfo 1
. . . then save and exit.
Next time you run MAME, it should bypass the gameinfo, but still provide performance/deficiency warnings.
If you want to bypass
all of the "nag screens", there are people who compile "no-nag" versions
HOWEVER you should not even remotely consider looking for a "no-nag" executable until you have every game you could ever even remotely want to play working correctly with the normal executable.
Protip: One of the best ways to get on a MAMEdev's "I hate this
guy" list is to report a game as non-working that is already announced as non-working by a nag screen.
3. I assume Mame is for arcade and i will have to find other emulators for nintendo or whatever i am seeking. My end goal is to offer other games from variety of offering even ps2 level if possible i have the hardware to do it i think.
Ever since MAME and MESS merged in v0.162, MAME supports a number of consoles and other non-arcade electronics, but depending on the console you might want to use a different emulator.
4. I have a game Metal Slug and for life of me i don't understand where the split bios it wants is found. Not asking for direct link but when there is a bios like that involved am i over looking something or is it just a feast or famine deal and i have to find it?
To find which ROM/BIOS/driver/CHD files you need for Metal Slug, plug these terms into any search engine.
metal slug site:adb.arcadeitalia.net
That will return results from the website
http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/.
orIf you're feeling lucky, substitute the game's ROM filename for "mslug" in this URL.
http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/?mame=mslugThat leads you to
http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=mslug.
Scroll down to "Files" and click on "Show Mame required files".
- Select the ROMset version you have.
- If you change versions you might need to hide then show the required files again to get the display to update.
mslug.zip 26.3 MiB 27,525,120 Rom -
neogeo.zip 5.00 MiB 5,242,880 Bios detail
You need neogeo.zip.
If you think one of the files in the .zip is wrong/corrupted, click on "Show romset files" to see a list of files and CRC/SHA1 hash values.
Scott