Mame Problems <Newbie Question>

[taberman]

Hey guys,

I'm not too familiar with MAME but I'll let you know my situation the best I can.  So I've been playing around with MAMEUI32 on my Home Computer for quite some time (Playing all the classics and what not).  So it should come to no surprise that I finally came to the conclusion of building myself a cabinet so I could relive those old arcade days!  Anyways once i got everything together i loaded the pc up with AtomicFE, the latest version of mame, and all my roms from my PC. 

However now some of the ROMs (Neo-Geo games, and some Capcom games) will give me an error on the lines of "Some ROMS could not be found".  Now they all worked previously on my version of MAMEUI32 but now they won't on my cab.  Has anyone ever had this problem or know about it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Taylor

[u_rebelscum]

MameDev FAQ.  Basically, you changed mame version number, and something changed in what mame is looking for in the romsets that don't work anymore.  For example, the neogeo bios has changed a few times recently, so neogeo games need the updated bios set to work.

And yes, the original roms on the boards haven't changed, but for it to never to change in mame's sets, they had to have been dumped completely and totally correctly and emulated perfectly the first time.  Which doesn't always happen.

MAWS is a freat place to find what versions romsets have changed.  For example, neogeo.zip set has
"last change(s)     .130u1 .128u6 .128u5 .127u6 .109 .092 .090u4 .090u3 .084u6 .081u4 .080u2 .080u1 .080 .079u2 .079 .075 .072 .071 .070 .068 .063 .062 .061 .060 .059 .056"

One of the most actively changed sets, though.  Most sets don't change nearly as often, if at all.  (And in fact, some of those changes were adding new bios versions, regions or languages, which you are able to get around without updating the set, but it's easier to update.)

[abispac]

Did you change the mame version you where using, or does still the same?

[taberman]

I changed the version of mame.