Sorry if these have been asked before, I have looked around but am still not clear on the below items!
I have the following: Mame32 (v 0.62) running on my old 300mhz PII with 384mb of SD-RAM under WinXP, and a 2-player X-arcade controller. I am really only interested in the old 25 cents coin op games (ie Galaga, Defender, Stargate, Joust, Frogger, Robotron, Pac-man series, Time Pilots, etc).
I am running them all fine under mame32 v 0.62, but I am debating installing a Front End. I have a nice cabinet I built with an original Stargate marquee...and a front end would really make the thing shine.
First, I have installed mame 0.83 (command line) and can run it just fine, but it does not run many of the ROMs I have....quite a few actually. I also understand that the command-line mame versions are the ones that run best under Front Ends (ie MAMEWAH)...and really mame32 does not run all that well with it.
1. How do I tell what ROMs are compatible with what version of mame?
2. Is there a fix for the ROMs that are not compatible?
Mame32 is working fine under 0.62, I just figured its time to learn more about the software.
Thanks for any help everyone.