Mame help

[HOTR6]

I downloaded mame32.
I installed my roms
I tried to get mame to work and nothing!
well not nothing. I get this message saying:

Mame does not support the game "'C:\program'

when I try to put the roms folder in the emulator. So I hit OK and then it opens the emulator and says:

MIDAS: Device is busy

In the background it is "Loading '88 games"

I hit OK and it says:
Unable to start emulation most likely you have a corrupt or missing ROM file. The following files must exisit in the specified directory or .zip file.

88games:   861m01.k18

[HOTR6]

Anybody?

I am trying to get this thing running. Help please!

[Brad]

http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/

Brad

[HOTR6]

Okay I went there. I am still looking it over. I did push F5 and a list of games came up so I clicked on it and the same error came up with difforent names. I will research more but if someone has the answer quick that will be great.
Also what is MIDAS? and what is it doing?

[miles2912]

Grab the mame command line for Windows.  Make a MAME dir off your c root.  Unzip it there.  Copy the roms to the roms dir.  Drop to a command prompt and from the mame dir run "mame -verifyroms".  This will tell you if your roms are good.   To play a specific rom, type from the mame dir "mame [name of rom]".

Don

[HOTR6]

Maybe I should not be doing this! I know absolutly very little about computers. I don't know what is meant by make a mame dir of your c root. and such.
If you could tell me step by step I could do it but I don't know where to start.

I have mame 32 I downloaded it from the site and it seems to be alright I just can't get any games and I can't find anywhere what the MIDAS is.
Thanks for the help so far

[Brad]

Mame32 has it's own audit routine.

From memory it's on the top menu, File/Audit All Games?

Then once it's complete, in your list to the left you have game filters. Make sure you have selected the Available Menu Option.

Then run any of the games in your game list on the right.

The Midas thing sounds like you have been playing around with sound options.

Brad

[Tiger-Heli]

I downloaded mame32.
I installed my roms
I tried to get mame to work and nothing!
well not nothing. I get this message saying:

What version of MAME32? (i.e. 0.102, 0.103, etc.)
What version of Roms?

[Thenasty]

What is this 88 games stuff?

I think your confuse. This is not a 88 games in 1, its only 1 game named 88 games. Here is link to see what this game is.
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/88games

[Tiger-Heli]

Maybe I should not be doing this! I know absolutly very little about computers. I don't know what is meant by make a mame dir of your c root. and such.

What that means is open Windows Explorer, click on My Computer, click on C:\, select File-New-Folder, and create a folder named MAME.  The folder will display at the top of Windows Explorer as C:\MAME. 

[cdbrown]

Don't get discouraged.
Mame32 is a nice little program which is easy to use with a little knowledge.
When unzip/installing mame32 it creates a folder called "roms" within it's main folder (perhaps called mame32).
The romsets are all in zip format - so for 88 games you'll have a rom set called 88games.zip in the roms folder.  Each game has a zip file.
Installing roms is probably the wrong wording - you need to copy the rom files to the roms folder and that's it.
When in mame32 - on the left you should see a list of folders. 
Go to Available Games - this is a list of games mame32 sees on your system.
You should go and click File (top left corner) to open the menu - then click audit all games.
Go get a drink
This will update the list of available games that mame32 can "run" - use this term loosely as there are a number of games in mame that are unplayable in terms of speed of pc's as well as not quite emulated.
Try that and get back to us.

[Tiger-Heli]

Also - I think you may need to tell MAME32 where your ROMS folder is, but I rarely use it, so not sure.

[HOTR6]

I did the Audit games feature and it did go through and then it showed all the games in the available list.
I am going to start over and try again. I will let you know what happens.
Thanks for the help.
I will keep you posted.

[HOTR6]

Well what do you know! I took everything off the computer and stasrted over! It works now!
I can get the games to come up!

NOW I have a sound problem! It says I have no sound device. When I go to control panel and click on sound, speech, and audio devices. I have speakers hooked up.
My other CPU works just fine with them.
I am going to try and do some trouble shooting but I thought you would be interested in hearing that the games work now.
Thanks for your help and if you have any ideas about the sound let me know.