old mame to newer version...whats better?

[crabbymikedavis]

I have an old version of mame32 that has been great, but I bought a tankstick, and it obviously is not compatible with old mame32. i downloaded mame32ui and it has a nice interface, but most of games don't work, and I went to a website (romhustler) to see if they are updated but no go? Is there a version of mame that uses the tanstick as a controller and also most of the old games work as well. i play more of the Pacman/donkey kong/ joust/ galaga sort of games, or is there a better site to get the roms to work with mame32iu? I am not computer savy, so it would have to be a program that you click and it downloads everything and I just move my roms to that folder, cuz I don't understand all this binary and source code stuff?.....thanks for your help!!!

[CathalDublin]

you've old roms, either download the new romset for your build of mame or convert your roms with something like cmpro
see link http://petes-emulation.com/alienmame/docs/How_to_Update_MAME_Roms.pdf

[u_rebelscum]

I have an old version of mame32 that has been great, but I bought a tankstick, and it obviously is not compatible with old mame32.

Why not?  (It should work.)  Is it an in game problem, or a front end problem?  What version of mame32 did you have?