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New to MAME - general questions on versions and ROM
Medar:
Sorry if these have been asked before, I have looked around but am still not clear on the below items!
I have the following: Mame32 (v 0.62) running on my old 300mhz PII with 384mb of SD-RAM under WinXP, and a 2-player X-arcade controller. I am really only interested in the old 25 cents coin op games (ie Galaga, Defender, Stargate, Joust, Frogger, Robotron, Pac-man series, Time Pilots, etc).
I am running them all fine under mame32 v 0.62, but I am debating installing a Front End. I have a nice cabinet I built with an original Stargate marquee...and a front end would really make the thing shine.
First, I have installed mame 0.83 (command line) and can run it just fine, but it does not run many of the ROMs I have....quite a few actually. I also understand that the command-line mame versions are the ones that run best under Front Ends (ie MAMEWAH)...and really mame32 does not run all that well with it.
1. How do I tell what ROMs are compatible with what version of mame?
2. Is there a fix for the ROMs that are not compatible?
Mame32 is working fine under 0.62, I just figured its time to learn more about the software.
Thanks for any help everyone.
SirPoonga:
1. www.clrmame.com or www.romcenter.com
2. You are on your own there, try newsgroups :)
pointdablame:
With your older computer and desire to play only the old classics, I would downgrade MAME to .36 and use CLRmame to update (or downgrade actually) the roms to that version. .36 has pretty much all the classics you'll probably think of and some newer games as well. It should in theory run a bit better on your computer as well.
Medar:
Thanks guys.
I downgraded to v0.55 before seeing this last message (based this decision off a previous thread I found).
So far I am running MAMEWAH 0.97 and MAMEv0.55 with no issues. I had a bit of stuttering after a while, but that was only after turning on the screensaver mode and not going through my Task Manager and getting rid of all unnecessary tasks.
Now my quest heads toward finding an NES and SEGA Genesis Emulator that will run under MAMEWAH.
Aceldamor:
screenshotarchive.com box art, screenies, and emu's for mamewah...
mamewahsetup.com will help you getting them set up
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