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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Zeenon on February 20, 2013, 08:18:15 am
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So when I started this journey about 5 months ago all I wanted to do was play some old 80's games and now it's turned into a small hobby (especially building a cab just for this purpose) :). I think however I skipped some basics because I was given 0.146 romset with the CHD's and MAMEUI32/64. So.....
1) I recently purchased LEDblinky and it needs a mame.xml file? How do I generate this?
2) Is there a way to verify the rom set?
3) Is it worth it to update the rom set?
I'm scared to run anything against what I have since it's working with no issues, but that is my fault for placing the carriage before the horse.
Z
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You should be able to see what doesn't work, typically it will have a red box beside the ROM name. Stuff that works will be green or have an icon/picture.
If you have the right directory set in your config I believe right clicking on the ROMs and running an audit will do the trick.
I wouldn't think you would break anything that works by running that.
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So when I started this journey about 5 months ago all I wanted to do was play some old 80's games and now it's turned into a small hobby (especially building a cab just for this purpose) :). I think however I skipped some basics because I was given 0.146 romset with the CHD's and MAMEUI32/64. So.....
1) I recently purchased LEDblinky and it needs a mame.xml file? How do I generate this?
2) Is there a way to verify the rom set?
3) Is it worth it to update the rom set?
I'm scared to run anything against what I have since it's working with no issues, but that is my fault for placing the carriage before the horse.
Z
1) not sure. My front end (Mala) generates mine. A program called Romlister can generate one and weed out games you don't want while you're at it.
Someone else will probably have a better answer.
2) clrmamepro (if you were given a complete full set, it's probably fine)
3) Not from v.146 in my opinion. Only a few games added. Look at the release notes for v.147 & 148 to see what. Nothing I would update for.
Sounds like you're set up better than most beginners.
I'd recommend downloading the standard MAME v.146 binary at www.mamdev.org (http://www.mamdev.org) and learning how to launch games without MAMEUI.
Then you can move on to choosing a front end and will understand how it is launching MAME.
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mame -listxml > mame.xml
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I was playing around with clrmamepro on a backup set of my 146 ROM's and was wonder if I need to go from 147u1 -> u2 -> u3 -> u4 -> 148 -> 148u1 is order to update?
On the backup set I went from 146 to 148 and plugged in all the files it was missing to get a complete 148 set, but I'm wondering if I should of done 147 first?
Z
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