Rom images for arcades and Pinballs

Google.

http://maws.mameworld.info/maws - go there and search for the game name. It'll give you a list of the games. Choose one and look at the file name - for example Pac Man is "pacman" but you have to look for a .zip file so google for "download pacman.zip"

You'll find places such as romnation.net where you can do that.

That's what I do when I need to download a ROM image for burning replacement chips when fixing game boards.
 
Google is your friend.


Thanks to MAME, you can get any video game ROM image quickly and easily. As for pinball machine ROMs, the ipdb.org has them with the listsings for most games.

-Ian
 
The only problem I have with this is figuring out which rom belongs in which socket. Lots of games are named properly like "5e.bin" means you burn it to the chip that belongs in 5e. However, games like DK (where the ROMs were taken from a 4 board set) are a bitch when trying to burn ROMs for a 2 board set. There's a lookup chart for DK specifically, but I've run into other games where I've had to make an educated guess as to what ROM goes where.
 
Cool, im looking for some pinball images that i cant seem to find...This will help
 
How come you have to use zip files. Or are those the original roms and they are big files and need to be zipped


Thanks

Ps sorry for stealing thread just didn't want to start new on for this stupid question
 
With the pinball stuff, ipdb has a lot of it pretty well covered - all except for Gottlieb. For whatever reason, Gottlieb manuals and ROMs are hard to get. I guess nobody really likes those games enough to bother. If you do some searching though, you should be able to find the Visual PinMAME tables for the game, and extract the ROM image from that.

-Ian
 
How come you have to use zip files. Or are those the original roms and they are big files and need to be zipped


Thanks

Ps sorry for stealing thread just didn't want to start new on for this stupid question

A zip file is nothing more than a compressed archive. When you download a ROM set for MAME, it's just a bunch of small files, one per ROM chip, compressed into a zip archive. It's a lot easier than dealing with a bunch of small files for each game. Remember, most games contain many ROM chips. The zip file for a game will contain images of all of them.

-Ian
 
With the pinball stuff, ipdb has a lot of it pretty well covered - all except for Gottlieb. For whatever reason, Gottlieb manuals and ROMs are hard to get. I guess nobody really likes those games enough to bother. If you do some searching though, you should be able to find the Visual PinMAME tables for the game, and extract the ROM image from that.

-Ian

Gottlieb copyrights are strongly enforced. That's why you won't find the manuals and ROMs anywhere.
 
With the pinball stuff, ipdb has a lot of it pretty well covered - all except for Gottlieb. For whatever reason, Gottlieb manuals and ROMs are hard to get. I guess nobody really likes those games enough to bother. If you do some searching though, you should be able to find the Visual PinMAME tables for the game, and extract the ROM image from that.

-Ian

Steve Young is really the only place to get that stuff
 
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