Maintaining your roms

[consolas]

Hello my friends

Being new to this, I have a lot of questions regarding roms. I have a few but I didn't have the emulator so I downloaded the latest from the mame.org site.

Thing is, and I found it now, there are roms that only work with specific versions of mame emulators.

Is there any way I can know the version in which the rom should be used?

How do you guys maintain your roms?

Thank you

[BadMouth]

There is no way to tell by looking at the roms themselves.
The place where you got the roms from should have something saying what version they are.
You can download older versions of MAME to match them from the MAMEDev website.

[harveybirdman]

I'm going to take a look at the software romcenter on a recommendation from Howard. And I think it may help you too.

However you probably want to build up some understanding using command line mame to see what your version of mame is expecting from the games you're trying to run. I know that helped me a lot.

[consolas]

Will try to look into it then. To be honest I just try to download some roms in order to test mame - just googled and that was it.

How is piracy regarding roms? Can we actually pay/buy roms?

[BadMouth]

How is piracy regarding roms? Can we actually pay/buy roms?

There is nowhere to legally buy roms.
It is illegal to use a rom with an emulator if you do not own the original rom chips and hardware.
(according to Nintendo, it's still illegal, even if you do own the original hardware)
This is strictly enforced by nobody.

[consolas]

Oh. I'm a criminal! ahah Thanks for the input