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4 minutes ago, DOS76 said:

yeah all the chds only come in merged

ok i couldn't remember what -i had back at my last version 0.177 or something :) .

so those 2

MAME 0.194 ROMs (non-merged) . MAME 0.193 CHDs (merged) 

should be it.

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1 minute ago, DOS76 said:

So MAME has issues working with the LB controller automation for some reason your best bet is opening a game in MAME hitting tab and setting a 2 button combo to close the program from within MAME itself

I tried to find that option but was not able... is it the overall Male controls configuration option? or where can I find that?

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Hi all,

Just wanted to say thank you for all the really helpful information and links posted here in this thread.   In the last month I've gone from messing with Hyperspin to downloading Launchbox and then a license for BigBox.  Great bit of software and I'm looking forward to getting some retro games on the go.

I'm sure there'll be questions from me in the future but for now I just wanted to say thanks.

Chumpalot.

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The latest version of MAME have up to 15 packs of roms either split or merged

Thanks to Hyperspin Online XML i learned those packs have different sets of systems

But still confusing how to figure out which packs covers up these

Capcom Classics     
Capcom Play System     
Capcom Play System II     
Capcom Play System III

Casio Loopy

Data East Classics

Irem Classics

Konami Classics

MAME

Midway Classics

Namco Classics

Nintendo Classics

Sega Classics

SNK Classics

SNK Neo Geo AES

Taito Classics

Williams Classics

 

How to know which MAME pack belongs to which system?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It's not 15 systems of games, it's one giant pack of rom files with all the games. This is also the CHD packs which is Hard Drive data that is too large to put in a conventional rom, some arcade games had them. There is also the Software Lists which is all the console and computer stuff that Mame emulates.

I am assuming you just want a standard set up Mame roms that have all the games. The Merged, Non Merged and Split sets all have the exact same games with all the necessary roms to play all the games (minus some CHDs which some games require).

Now which of the Merged, Non Merged and Split sets you want will depend upon how you want to do things. I assume Rocket Launcher and Hyperspin uses the Split sets but I don't know for certain because I don't use either of those programs.

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This is how the MAME packs are label

MAME 0.196 Multimedia 19.733 GB     
MAME 0.196 EXTRAs 42.832 GB
MAME - Update EXTRAs (v0.195 to v0.196) 785.717 MB
HBMAME 0.196 ROMs (split) 61.653 GB
HBMAME 0.196 ROMs (non-merged) 233.260 GB
HBMAME 0.196 ROMs (merged)19.991 GB
HBMAME 0.196 CHDs (merged)273.280 MB
HBMAME - Update ROMs (v0.195 to v0.196) 972.625 MB
MAME 0.196 Rollback ROMs 8.419 GB
MAME 0.196 Software List ROMs (split)55.625 GB
MAME 0.196 Software List ROMs (merged)55.361 GB
MAME 0.196 Software List CHDs (merged) 2.140 TB
MAME 0.196 ROMs (non-merged)108.876 GB
MAME 0.196 ROMs (merged)59.020 GB
MAME 0.196 CHDs (merged)484.081 GB
MAME - Update Software List ROMs (v0.195 to v0.196) 182.803 MB
MAME - Update Software List CHDs (v0.195 to v0.196) 127.914 GB
MAME 0.196 ROMs (split) 60.940 GB
 MAME - Update CHDs (v0.193 to v0.196) 2.621 GB
 MAME - Update ROMs (v0.195 to v0.196)43.450 MB

So it is a bit confusing knowing which packs to grab

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