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Title: NeoGeo n00b... please help
Post by: pointdablame on July 28, 2003, 01:56:39 pm: I've taken a break from my ever changing cab plans, and have just started playing a bunch of games. :)

However, none of my King of Fighters roms work :( I'm guessing I'm not doing something correctly.... do I need a different emulator?? I'm trying to run this through MAMEwah with no luck. I've also had no luck with the Metal Slug series. I supposes that they can all just actually be corrupt but I'm suspecting otherwise.

Any help would be great. Thanks.
Title: Re:NeoGeo n00b... please help
Post by: Aceldamor on July 28, 2003, 01:58:41 pm: Do you have the Neo Geo Zip file in your roms dir?

BTW...this should prob be in software fourm...
Title: Re:NeoGeo n00b... please help
Post by: SirPoonga on July 28, 2003, 02:26:42 pm: Do you have the bios file, neogeo.zip

Your answer is in the mame FAQ.
Title: Re:NeoGeo n00b... please help
Post by: pointdablame on July 28, 2003, 06:25:46 pm: I do have the neogeo file in my roms directory. It's about 52kb, is that right?

If this should be in Software, please move it, I was debating between where to put it. Sorry if I made the wrong choice.
Title: Re:NeoGeo n00b... please help
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 28, 2003, 06:31:32 pm: you do know that those ames are HUGE don't you? They take quite a while to load, expecially on slower systems. I'm just saying, you might not be waiting long enough.
Title: Re:NeoGeo n00b... please help
Post by: Minwah on July 28, 2003, 06:55:59 pm: Quote from: pointdablame on July 28, 2003, 06:25:46 pm
I do have the neogeo file in my roms directory. It's about 52kb, is that right?

If this should be in Software, please move it, I was debating between where to put it. Sorry if I made the wrong choice.

Beware that the BIOS files change with new MAME versions, as well as some game rom files. My current neogeo.zip is 233kb, so I guess yours is out of date - this would cause the symptoms you're having. My neogeo games definately work - I played Sengoku 3 last night :)
Title: Re:NeoGeo n00b... please help
Post by: SirPoonga on July 28, 2003, 07:42:55 pm: Yeah, neogeo went through a big change these last two versions of mame.
Title: Re:NeoGeo n00b... please help
Post by: pointdablame on July 28, 2003, 09:16:36 pm: Ok I guess I have some looking around to do then :) Thanks for the help tho.

And to Howard, yes I do realize how large they are. When I try to load them however, it says that they are corrupt or missing roms. When that happens, I usually give up waiting :) heh. Thanks for the thought tho, I probably would not have thought to just let it load if it didnt' say it was corrupt right away.