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| Paul Olson:
.128 was only released 15 days ago, so if you were using MAMEUI prior to that, they are not the same version. The newest is .128u1, which was released 8 days ago. From your post, it sounded like you had probably been using MAMEUI for longer than that. Not every rom changes with a MAME update, but I don't remember seeing any updates that didn't require at least a few roms to be updated. Sometimes it is only a name change, which clrmamepro can fix, but many times the rom file is changed, or the emulation uses a rom that was not previously used. If your roms don't match your MAME version, you will have problems with something. |
| Malenko:
here's my try at explaining it a little better. They dump a game and then they build a MAME driver around that dump They get a better dump of that game and update the driver in MAME, the old dump no longer works in MAME |
| protokatie:
--- Quote from: Malenko on October 31, 2008, 05:30:17 pm ---here's my try at explaining it a little better. They dump a game and then they build a MAME driver around that dump They get a better dump of that game and update the driver in MAME, the old dump no longer works in MAME --- End quote --- Yeah, a bit more accurate. (Hence why I apologized for the odd logic run-around). But who knows how someone completely new to MAME will get even that. I WAS trying to keep it simple... (failed). Since you seem to be more on the know about this: Why do I have to have the "World" editions of a game to get certain region ROMs to work? (I can only presume that this is due to the regional ROM are just "additional" or "replacement" ROMs that are added to the system). Maybe I am alone in finding this behaviour odd... (IE I would think that each region of a game would be a full dump...) |
| Nemss316:
Thanks for all the help guys, as usual. I will be out w/ the kids tonight, but I'm going to work on this when I get home. The roms are from a fairly popular site, and I had them working perfectlyabout a year ago when I was just happy playing MAME on my home PC. I'll try downloading that older version of MAME, and putting my ROMS on there, and see if it works. |
| Malenko:
--- Quote from: protokatie on October 31, 2008, 05:47:04 pm ---Since you seem to be more on the know about this: Why do I have to have the "World" editions of a game to get certain region ROMs to work? (I can only presume that this is due to the regional ROM are just "additional" or "replacement" ROMs that are added to the system). Maybe I am alone in finding this behaviour odd... (IE I would think that each region of a game would be a full dump...) --- End quote --- Dont quote me, but I think it works like this: World: Full Dump USA: English Roms JPN: Japanese Roms so the USA version uses the World Data for the game and the USA roms for the localization (text and graphics). it makes sense if you look at it like this: theoretically speaking, We'll say Street Fighter II takes up 20 MBs now there's like 80 versions of JUST Street Fighter II. Would you prefer one 20MB dump and 80 additional rom sets that are 1 or 2 MBs a piece or 80 sets of 20MBs takes less time to download and less room on the hard drive. Man I hope I explained that well. |
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