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Flake:
I'm not sure downloading a older version of mame will fix your problem as you are probabaly going to download a version of mame that is older than your roms so you may end up in worse shape. Are you sure the mame versions were the same? You say it was .128 but are you sure the binary isnt version .128u1 or higher?
If you can confirm for sure that they are the same version of mame then use the program CLRMAMEPRO - its free and its purpose is to update rom sets to the version of mame you are currently running. Its not the most user friendly software but if you've made it this far you should be able to figure it out.
u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: Nemss316 on October 31, 2008, 12:19:35 pm ---No, they are both the newest releases from Mamedev. .128 I believe. Maybe I just need an older command line version?
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Double check the MameUI version number.
Nemss316:
For the versions, I first downloaded the GUI version of MAME, just to get the ROMS loaded while I worked on the cabinet. I figured that later when I downloaded the command line version, as long as it was in the same release, wouldnt matter. They are both the newest version of MAME.
I'll try and use the CLRMAMEPRO and see if i yield better results. If not, it didn't take me that long to download the roms, perhaps i'll just redownload them again onto an older MAME command line version.
paulscade:
Is that for sure? (that the ROMs need to match the MAME version)??
I thought that the ROM files were just dumps of the original game ROMs... so they shouldn't change <??>.
I can see how MAME updates would make different games run better/worse.... as the emulator code is tweaked to fully emulate the different hardware components....
But the ROM files changing?
protokatie:
--- Quote from: paulscade on October 31, 2008, 04:33:44 pm ---Is that for sure? (that the ROMs need to match the MAME version)??
I thought that the ROM files were just dumps of the original game ROMs... so they shouldn't change <??>.
I can see how MAME updates would make different games run better/worse.... as the emulator code is tweaked to fully emulate the different hardware components....
But the ROM files changing?
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Yep, it is for sure.
The ROM files for MAME are formatted for specific versions. Sounds odd (even to me, but I understand why they do it) but you must realize that MAME is an ever changing (improving?) system and the method of reading ROMs and decoding them changes as well. There are utilities out there that can "transform" a ROM from one version to another. Basically, the MAME ROMs are ROM dumps, but need to be stored in wrappers (IE not many arcade games came on only just one ROM, but as a set).
Odd, yes. But we aren't talking about SNES games here either. (IE SNES is a singular (sorta) system that once emulated is pixel perfect, whereas MAME is emulating hundreds of hardware setups and is nowhere near to being fully close)
..A little bit of a logic run-around. Sorry for it.