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Two Mame32 questions......
Tiger-Heli:
:cheers:
turbo6:
Another thing that may help some of your old roms work again would be to get newer versions of the Bios Roms. I updated Mame recently and had a bunch of games missing, then I downloaded the newer Bios roms and alot of the games work now... not all but many.
modessitt:
By the way, I would have really like it if www.arcadeboardsrus.com was a real site... :angry: :laugh2: :hissy: :cry:
Well, I guess I'm going to have to delete every rom that won't work and re-download them. I guess the one advantage is that I can download ONLY the games I like and skip all that Japanese Mahjjong crap... :cheers:
markt:
Almost correct. A few MAME roms change every MAME revision. Chances are some of your .031 roms have not changed and would work with 0.100u, but most would not.
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So how do you tell what version of mame the rom you are downloading is for?
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: markt on April 23, 2007, 09:36:06 pm ---So how do you tell what version of mame the rom you are downloading is for?
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We're kindof in a gray area with the site rules here, so I'm going to word this vaguely, but it might get deleted anyway.
Most sites only support the current version (or maybe the previous version) - right now probably 0.112-0.114.
Some sites have "rollback" sets which will allow you to take a current set back to an earlier one.
Some burners offer complete sets from previous revisions.
Generally, this is okay - b/c if MAME 0.36 tigerh rom had roms a.u32, b.u54, c.u36, and MAME0.114 moved a.u32 to tigerhb.zip and left b.u54, c.u36 and new prom.u26 in tigerh - you can download ClrMAMEPro and if you have tigerh and tigerhb from MAME 0.112, it will make a 0.36 rom for you.
SIMPLER EXPLANATION: Generally, either new roms are added or existing roms are renamed. Rarely are existing roms removed or deleted. So using a new set with an older MAME version will work much better than trying to use an old set with a newer MAME version. (ClrMAME can locate and re-group and rename sets for you, but it can't add files that you don't have).
Where you run into problems is with roms that were intentionally deleted (Monaco GP, for example) or samples or previous version artwork - and basically, you're on your own here unless you find friends who happen to have them, or some non-mainstream websites.
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