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Title: Faulty ROM?
Post by: sapro on May 09, 2011, 12:06:48 pm

I have been struggling to finish the software setup for my machine. I was running Hyperspin with MAME .141 and a couple of the games wouldn't run. These games are on the MAME "working" list and I verified I had the .141 versions of them, but in Hyperspin when I select them it would act like it was opening the ROM, then would go right back to the Hyperspin menu.

I thought it was a version issue so I updated to MAME .142 and tried again with the .142 ROMS, same problem.

This is with a handful of games that, again, are verified on the list of "working" titles for MAME. The other 40+ games work fine.

Any ideas?

Title: Re: Faulty ROM?
Post by: Hoopz on May 09, 2011, 12:24:26 pm

What roms?  Do you have a complete set of .141 or .142 that you are using?  Could they need the parent roms to run properly?  Any error messages?

Title: Re: Faulty ROM?
Post by: brad808 on May 09, 2011, 12:44:05 pm

Update your hyperspin mame database to the same version as your mame. I was having this issue as well.Sometimes roms get renamed in different versions and won't work right

Title: Re: Faulty ROM?
Post by: sapro on May 09, 2011, 01:44:48 pm

Quote from: Hoopz on May 09, 2011, 12:24:26 pm

What roms?  Do you have a complete set of .141 or .142 that you are using?  Could they need the parent roms to run properly?  Any error messages?

Metal Slug 3, Simpsons Bowling, and the 2-player version of TMNT off the top of my head. I have the complete .142 set. I don't think they need parent ROMs, but how would I find out? No error messages.

Quote from: brad808 on May 09, 2011, 12:44:05 pm

Update your hyperspin mame database to the same version as your mame. I was having this issue as well.Sometimes roms get renamed in different versions and won't work right

If you mean mame.xml within the Hyperspin /databases/ dir it matches the filenames exactly.

Title: Re: Faulty ROM?
Post by: BobA on May 09, 2011, 04:49:18 pm

You can check your roms and what is required in detail at MAWS (http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/)

Title: Re: Faulty ROM?
Post by: Thenasty on May 09, 2011, 09:38:46 pm

MAME gamename -verify

it's been a while and don't think parameters in mame would be taken out.

Title: Re: Faulty ROM?
Post by: sapro on May 10, 2011, 08:06:30 am

Thanks guys. While I have the complete ROM set I was only putting the games I wanted into the folder within MAME. Duh... didn't realize the parents were required. I'm going to move the entire set in tonight and see if that helps but I believe that's the answer.

Title: Re: Faulty ROM?
Post by: sapro on May 11, 2011, 08:40:28 pm

yeah, big duh on my part. copied parent roms in and all work now.