What's the Deal with MAME?

Metropolis

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It doesn't always work like it should. For example, I've downloaded the master ROM for Street Fighter II (sf2.zip), kept it zipped, and placed it in my "roms" folder. But it still won't work. I've done the same thing with Galaga, Mario Bros., and others. None of them work. And I have two different versions of MAME!

The Neo-Geo bios ROM and the Playchoice bios ROM won't work either. :(
 
Then you're doing it wrong.

Seriously. I'm not trying to be a jerk.

What errors are you getting? I'm betting that you may need to use a ROM manager to do some renaming on them. Where did you get the ROMs? Pleasuredome? It may just be easier to match the version of Mame to the version of the ROM you have.

And IIRC the BIOS ROMs don't do anything by themselves.
 
I stand corrected on the Neo Geo...it boots to its test menu without specifying a specific game. You may have an older version of the BIOS, the Neo Geo driver goes thru a lot of changes.
 
Alot of times the roms have to match the version of Mame you are using. Try an older version of mame.

Agreed. But randomly choosing Mame versions can be time consuming. A ROM manager would sort the problems quickly - at least in terms of renaming, etc.
 
No, I have the most up-to-date Neo Geo bios. The bios will boot up with a grid on the screen (in one version of MAME), but none of the Neo-Geo games will work with it.
 
Then there are probably issues with the game ROMs. What is the specific error you're getting?
On MAMEUI, the ROMs don't even show up. On the other MAME, they show up, but it tells me I have required files missing.
 
...but it tells me I have required files missing.

Ding ding ding...there you go. Possible reasons for this:

1) you have a "clone" set without the required "parent" set.

2) ROM names are incorrect. Repair with a ROM manager. http://www.clrmame.com

3)ROMs have been redumped. You need to get these redumped ones. Though in this case if the names are the same as the old ones it'll just give you grief about the CRC being wrong.
 
The deal with MAME.........????

Wow dude , I have to take a timemachine back to 97 when I had to start it in DOS and type stuff like "no scanlines" etc etc. (those who been there know what I'm talking about) to get the show on the road.. If you can't do it now, with how easy it is nowadays, then leave it allone please
 
hahaha yeah mame32 makes it pretty easy compared to dos. i dont know anything about computers, i'm pretty sure its some kind of voodoo that makes it all work.
 
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