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Can anyone send me a site that has reliable roms? I keep hitting Rom Nation or some such but when using the latest Mame version they seem to always have errors.
 
http://maws.mameworld.info/maws has NO ROMs, but has the game info you need to download the ROMs properly.

Look up the game you want to download at that site. Look at the ROM info to see if you need to download a "parent set" ROM and a child set to make the game work.

Some ROMs run by downloading the one ROM image. Some require a parent ROM image too.

RJ
 
I guess it wan't rom nation it was Rom world. But almost every rom is crap I've found.
 
It's been a long time since i messed with mame,but if i was to get into it again i'd go with a site like www.isohunt.com and download a torrent of all the roms.I just took a look and there are many compilations there.I just searched mame roms,you will need a program like bitcomet to download a torrent.
 
Ah - fruedian slip. I guess Rom nation is where I wanted to be. It's just nice to see which games give what kind of attract mode and if it really is something you want.
 
meh crud. Some aren't able to be downloaded. no dkong. For Gods sake hasn't nintendo made enough milk off that yet?
 
I don't know the rules of this forum but at BYOAC this thread would have been deleted already. Any Namco Rom is tricky to find. I guess it's really touchy over there about finding roms. My best advice would be to find a good torrent. A buddy found a torrent with like 18GB of almost every rom and artwork file available. I have no idea where he got it but I think it's a "standard package" you will be able to find eventually. Newer versions of mame always need updated roms. Older versions of mame will run old roms much better.
 
I never did understand the "Updated Roms" thing with mame. The roms are just a copy of the eprom; how could they need to be updated?

Tom
 
I never did understand the "Updated Roms" thing with mame. The roms are just a copy of the eprom; how could they need to be updated?

Tom

Mostly they are just renamed to make it easier to include other versions of the game. Once in a while, a bad dump is replaced. You don't have to redownload the ones that are just renamed; Clrmamepro can update all of that stuff. The MAME code is constantly being worked on, and they have done a lot of changes over the last couple of years that affected every driver.
 
Your roms probably aren't BAD they just don't match you exe version. Maybe read up on mame more before you waste your time getting the wrong stuff.
Check out www dot tiptonware dot com
 
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