Using an older version of MAME

[menace]

So I'm hooking up an old P200 to run mame--more as an experiment than anything.  Anyways I want to use an older version of mame say like .36 or something.  Do I need .36 roms as well?  I've tried using .72 roms and it insists I need different files.  Any help?

[SirPeale]

Some you will, some you won't.  Run them thru ClrMAME to 'regress' them back to an earlier state.

[menace]

Hmmm--thanks--didn't even know that program would do that--is it a readily available feature or more for elite users?  I have never used clrmame so I'm a certifiable newbie

[SirPeale]

I'm not sure.  I've been using it for a while, it's fairly intuitive.

The option you are going to want is 'rebuild.'  I don't think you're going to want to rebuild an entire set, so pick out the ones you do want and drop them on the rebuild window.

Or if you want to do an entire set, you can do that as well.  For a .36 set, likely it's less than one CDs worth of data.

You will need a datfile.  I believe .36 supports the -listinfo command.  Do this at the commandline:

c:\mame> mame.exe -listinfo > mame36.dat

and hit enter. It will generate a datfile for ClrMAME to use.

[menace]

Thanks for the details--that did the trick

[menace]

In an attempt to skin it down even further I went with Vantage.  Thanks to general Zod I was able to get the entire system up and running with arcadeos in under 20MB of space.  I'm amazed the OS, all the drivers, roms, programs and utilities in under 20MB of space.  I may do as civic83 suggested and put the entire hard drive on a flash card and use that as my primary storage.  This is so cool!

Fortunately the bartop that this will go into was only supposed to have frogger, galaga, pacman,ms pacman and a few others--thats it-- so vantage was the perfect solution--anyone know if some other roms can be made to work with it?