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Strange, I wonder if the ROM download was incomplete? It's possible, now I think about it, that the failure happened after I got hold of the full ROM zip which would have overwritten previously-working ROMS. I downloaded this one again, and that solved the problem. Ah well, thanks for your help.

The game is present/available but doesn't start; apparently this is the problem: System media audit failed: buf1 (279 bytes) - NOT FOUND ioa1 (279 bytes) - NOT FOUND prg1 (279 bytes) - NOT FOUND rom1 (279 bytes) - NOT FOUND sou1 (279 bytes) - NOT FOUND stf29.1a (279 bytes) - NOT FOUND iob1.11d (279 bytes) - NOT FOUND c632.ic1 (279 bytes) - NOT FOUND It was definitely working, I've got a good ten minutes of playing time logged in LB (aye, not much, but not just a failed run), so I've no idea what might have occurred.

Thanks for replying. I suppose what I mean is that I'm using the base mame.exe, whereas for years I used one with a much nicer GUI rather than the very blocky default. As for your screenshot requests: Game: I didn't do anything to the .ini file apart from create one as it wasn't initially present (can't remember the method). Everything I can see here looks like default settings. Didn't see any effect from creating it.

Hello, I'm a recent convert. I've got MAME version .273, and ROMs for .273 too (well, I updated to .274, but this made no difference otherwise). Some ROMs seem to work without trouble (e.g. Phoenix, Shinobi), but many don't work at all, the classic black screen and back to menu. There was a change recently, a game I'd played a lot (Street Fighter 2 - World Warrior) stopped working without me having changed anything. All the suggestions I see here relate to making sure versions match, maybe editing .ini files, reinstalling everything maybe. Nothing I've done has helped. A further thing is that I'm struggling to test games directly in MAME, I can't find them...! (the lack of a GUI in my version led me to find Launchbox...) Thanks in advance.