mame emulators problems :\

[bizkonson]

im going a bit nuts here, this is my first cab and my first time working with emulators.
mame is driving me nuts.

the 0147 will not run a lot of games and it has the midway bug.
i also got me mame32 plus 0.83 &  mame32 0.122u1 they run the midway perfectly but suddenly i got a lot of other games not working.

in both i got all the bios's i could find.

i found 2 updates for the 0.147 .dff's and tried to patch it in but i guess im doing something wrong cuase it doesnt work.

can someone help a nubb and tell me what mame emulator will work stably and solidly with all the games?
and how to apply the source patchs to mame if that should solve it?

i would really love your help, im good building and electronic wise but the software portion of it im lost 

[Tafoid]

im going a bit nuts here, this is my first cab and my first time working with emulators.
mame is driving me nuts.

the 0147 will not run a lot of games and it has the midway bug.
i also got me mame32 plus 0.83 &  mame32 0.122u1 they run the midway perfectly but suddenly i got a lot of other games not working.

in both i got all the bios's i could find.

i found 2 updates for the 0.147 .dff's and tried to patch it in but i guess im doing something wrong cuase it doesnt work.

can someone help a nubb and tell me what mame emulator will work stably and solidly with all the games?
and how to apply the source patchs to mame if that should solve it?

i would really love your help, im good building and electronic wise but the software portion of it im lost 

The .diff provided by MAMEDEV.org are for the source file updates.  It's up to you to build your own binary, or find someone who does, if you want a non-integer release  (ie. 0.147u1, 0.147u2).  The forum at mameworld.info (news) often has straight command-line command-line builds of the updates within hours of source release if you are looking for such binaries.  Other places do as well but I can't speak to authenticity elsewhere.

If you are looking for the UI version, you can visit mameui.info for 64-bit versions (which the main author supports) or 32-bit are build and maintained here:  http://www.progettosnaps.net/UI_Museum/unstable.html

[BadMouth]

The main question is what version are your roms?
The place where you got them from should state it somewhere.

If you want everything that can work to work, then you need to use the version of MAME that matches your roms.
Older versions are available on the MAMEDev website.

[bizkonson]

thanks,
so as i read online i can pretty much forget about the roms i collected here and there
they came from different public websites romhustler and rom nation
but now i was referred to a members site that organize them per version
and download them again as to the 0.147 list from a torrent rom site?

or is there an unofficial mame emulator somewhere that will work for me with my roms (older) and newer ones as well?

and what about the CHD's will they make the games that stoped working work again?

[BadMouth]

thanks,
so as i read online i can pretty much forget about the roms i collected here and there
they came from different public websites --------- and ------------
but now i was referred to a members site that organize them per version
and download them again as to the 0.147 list from a torrent rom site?

or is there an unofficial mame emulator somewhere that will work for me with my roms (older) and newer ones as well?

and what about the CHD's will they make the games that stoped working work again?

shhhhhhh....we don't mention names of sites. 

The version of MAME must match the version of roms.  There is no alternative build that fixes that.
Old roms will work as long as there have been no changes to that specific rom in subsequent builds, but I'm trying to keep it simple here.
You can also update your roms using clrmamepro and "update roms" but again, I'm trying to keep it simple here.
It's best just to download the whole, most recent set.

Out of 250GB or so of CHDs in the official set, only a few GB of them are playable.
You are better off just downloading the ones you want, unless you got the bandwidth and space.
(I usually download the whole set....because I got the bandwidth and space)

They are handled a little different.
They go inside a folder with the same name as the chd, then that goes inside your rom folder.
After that, everything works the same, just as if they are roms.

[bizkonson]

thanks badmouth.
i got it, ill just start from zero again and build up from there.
hope the midway graphics error was fixed in the last updates
other wise ill just go one version back and work on that.

[bizkonson]

BadMouth thank you so much
the MameUI32_147u2 works great! the midway glich is fixed and most of my old games are working.
now i can get the new hardware and go on from there...