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Title: Some games just won't launch
Post by: helpmebuild on May 24, 2010, 10:43:39 pm

So I have a handful of games that just won't play. From what I understand it is likely due to using a version of mame that changed the names etc and certain versions of the rom just won't play in certain versions of mame?

My main concern is that I cannot for the life of me get Killer Instinct 1 or 2 to work and those are two of my fave games. Not getting these games working is driving me crazy. I don't really want to have to update or change the version of mame I use and chance more issues, so is there anything I can do?

Any suggestions of help would be appreciated!

Title: Re: Some games just won't launch
Post by: Turnarcades on May 24, 2010, 10:59:17 pm

Do you have the.chd files for these games? KI1+2 are hard-drive based games and also require the .chd's to work.

Title: Re: Some games just won't launch
Post by: zafdor on May 25, 2010, 07:43:18 am

You can confirm the ROM does not match the MAME rev by some switch in the MAME line command (which escapes me at the moment).  I have always been reluctant to upgrade MAME, but never had a problem when I finally did it.