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Title: Do ROMs get "old", and not work well with newer versions of MAME?
Post by: Mugzilla on August 16, 2009, 04:18:46 pm

If I had a set of 0.74 ROMs, and when I used them with the latest MAME, why would they work slower, crash, some not even start up, etc?  I was under the impression that a ROM is a ROM is a ROM, and they would work with any version of MAME?

Title: Re: Do ROMs get "old", and not work well with newer versions of MAME?
Post by: richms on August 17, 2009, 02:40:05 am

no, they are packed differently as mame evolves - there is a good tutorial on using clrmamepro if you google for it which will sort the roms out based on the dat file made by your current version of mame.

Title: Re: Do ROMs get "old", and not work well with newer versions of MAME?
Post by: vertygo on August 17, 2009, 06:04:24 pm

the mame release page http://mamedev.org/release.html (http://mamedev.org/release.html) has a what's new link, that gives you a pretty good idea about how things change all the time. Bug fixes, new decryption, etc.