Files

[topdawgg]

I am really tired of DLing a Rom and missing 10 files.... am I doing something wrong when I DL?

[topdawgg]

one site has MVC2 as an official mame game... I am assuming to get this to work I have to figure out another damn emulator?  NullDC?

[BadMouth]

I am really tired of DLing a Rom and missing 10 files.... am I doing something wrong when I DL?

The version of the rom has to match the version of MAME you are using.
Things are renamed and reorganized between versions, so the current version of MAME can't find them in the old rom
 and an old version of MAME can't find them in a newer rom.  (if changes have been made, if not it will work fine)

one site has MVC2 as an official mame game... I am assuming to get this to work I have to figure out another damn emulator?  NullDC?

Not every game that has been dumped into the MAME romset is playable in MAME.  Yes, you will need a different emulator to run MVC2.
I'm not sure where NAOMI emulation is in NullDC.
Demul would use the rom from the most recent MAME romset (or slightly older if no changes have been made to the rom).

I'm using Makaron for that game, but it's far from a user friendly setup. (and it uses a different rom) 

Hang around long enough and you'll start to understand how it all works.
I have just about everything possible on my setup, but don't spend much time playing the games.
Getting things to work IS the game for me.

[topdawgg]

I guess my big problem with this is that even after finding what I believe to be the right rom version to match my mame version... its still missing files.  I understand there are bad dumps and all... but sheesh.

My next game to try and figure out will be Street Fighter 3 Alpha (assuming its out there).

[BadMouth]

I guess my big problem with this is that even after finding what I believe to be the right rom version to match my mame version... its still missing files.  I understand there are bad dumps and all... but sheesh.

My next game to try and figure out will be Street Fighter 3 Alpha (assuming its out there).

You are probably missing the bios files.
Some games need the system bios in addition to the rom.

example: Neo Geo games need neogeo.zip and the game rom to work.

[topdawgg]

As far as I know I have all the bios files .  I got a complete bios pack for mame 0.145. 

Is there a place that lists what games use what bios files?