Author Topic: New mame and old roms? (Read 1379 times)

Marky_1979 · « **on:** April 20, 2006, 06:06:14 pm »

I am thinking of upgrading my version of mame as i have an old 0.97 version i have the corosponding rom set. my question is if i ungrade to the latest version of mame can i still use my old roms set with it or will the games not work anymore?

Thenasty · « **Reply #1 on:** April 20, 2006, 06:08:00 pm »

it depends. If THE GAME has been updated/fixed/retouch/rename/remove/etc., then it won't work.

Marky_1979 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 20, 2006, 06:46:27 pm »

So say streetfighter games will be pretty much the same just things like the virtua striker type games will be updated?

cdbrown · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2006, 05:11:55 am »

The majority of roms will remain unchanged however some do change based on a better dump of a game board, or fixing encryption, fixing errors etc. Best way is to use a rom manager to verify the set against the new version of mame - it will tell you which are wrongly named, changed or missing. Some of the changed ones can be fixed with the manager as well to make them workable with the newer mame version.


Main	Restorations	Software	Audio/Jukebox/MP3	Everything Else	Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements	Monitor/Video	GroovyMAME	Merit/JVL Touchscreen	Meet Up	Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing	Woodworking	Software Support Forums	Consoles	Project Arcade	Reviews
Automated Projects	Artwork	Frontend Support Forums	Pinball	Forum Discussion	Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board	controls.dat	Linux	Miscellaneous Arcade	Wiki Discussion	Old Archives
Lightguns	Arcade1Up	Try the site in https mode		Site News


Unread posts \| New Replies \| Recent posts \| Rules \| Chatroom \| Wiki \| File Repository \| RSS \| Submit news

Author Topic: New mame and old roms? (Read 1379 times)

Marky_1979

New mame and old roms?

Thenasty

Re: New mame and old roms?

Marky_1979

Re: New mame and old roms?

cdbrown

Re: New mame and old roms?