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Maybe I'll go back to MacMAME when an Intel version is released but until then, the Windows version is good enough for me. For instance, I didn't have any problems with games like Hard Drivin' or Terminator 2 in XP but when I played them in MacMAME, they were VERY laggy and buggy. I was trying out both versions of MAME last night and noticed that most modern games run A LOT smoother on the Windows version of MAME. I do have XP installed on my Mac.what I think I'll do is just instal MAME on that and delete the MacMAME. Anyone know where else I can get a current set of roms? Or maybe sell me a copy?
#Mame os x some files were missing download#
The problem for me though is that my ISP puts a cap on what I can download from NG's per-month (think it's only like 1Gb). I know a few people mentioned downloading sets from newsgroups. I guess I'll have to find a complete & up-to-date romset and start over with that. That stuff about parent/merged roms makes a lot of sense and that's probably why a lot aren't working for me. It's great being able to emulate all these games that I wouldn't be able to play otherwise (not just the classics that I haven't played in years, but also lots of games I never would have even heard of otherwise), but I just can't believe they couldn't have made the whole thing a little more user friendly.
Yet another reason that MAME is way too complicated for sane people to deal with. So maybe you have merged-split ROMs of some clone games without having the parent ROMs needed to run them. These are oxymoronically called merged-split ROMs. the ZIPs might only contain the files that are different from the ones in the PUCKMAN.ZIP archive, whic means that PACMAN.ZIP and PIRANHA.ZIP will not work unless youalso have PUCKMAN.ZIP in the same folder so that MAME can get the files it needs from it. Third, you could have the separate files like above, but instead of having all the needed files in PACMAN.ZIP and PIRANHA.ZIP, etc.
#Mame os x some files were missing zip#
Second, you could have one zip called PUCKMAN.ZIP and then other ZIPs for Pac-man and Piranha and games like that and each ZIP will work fine on its own because they contain all the files needed.
#Mame os x some files were missing how to#
With MAME, you have some options in how to deal with these sorts of games.įirst, you can get ROMs that contains the "parent ROM" as well as its "clones" combined into one ZIP, so you could download a file called PUCKMAN.ZIP and then look at your game list in MAME and see that you have not only Puckman, but also Pac-man, Joyman, Piranha as well as different versions of Puckman and Pac-man (which often can't be told from each other in game at all, but only with a hex editor). Think of Pac-man the original game can be considered the "parent ROM," but there's lots of other games based on Pac-man like regional variants or hacks that used some of the same ROM chips as the original but also some that were deifferent. There's different kinds of ROM sets with MAME. It seems like it would make life easier for everyone.Īctually, there's another possibility as well. I really wish the MAME people would just stop doing all this ROM updating except when it's truly necessary. Eventually what I decided to do was just jump in grab a version of MAME and current ROMset and then jump backout and ignore all the updates from then on since I don't want to devote my whole life to keeping everything up-to-date together. It's why I stayed away from MAME for so long. I don't know if there's anyway to downgrade your ROMs like that at all.
#Mame os x some files were missing update#
You have to know what version of MAME your ROMs were meant to go with and then using a program like CLRMAME and the proper DAT file for the version of MAME that your MacMAME is built on, you can update your ROMs to work.Īnd of course, newer version ROMs won't work with older versions of MAME, which becomes a pain for instance in my case where I have all v0.100.1 ROMs, but I'd also like to make a MAME disc for my Dreamcast, but can't since the Dreamcast version of MAME was built on v0.78 it something like that. Unfortunately it makes dealing with MAME a huge fucking pain in the ass. The MAME community does this because they think of themselves as an "archiving" community rather than just an "emulation" community so they want their ROMs to as accurate a rendition of the original arcade boards as possible. It's usually just because some of the individual chip images within the zipped ROM have been renamed or something small like that, but it totally breaks compatibility. It's because every time MAME gets updated, some of the ROMs that worked with the older version will no longer work.
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