oilersman Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 HI guys, been awhile since ive played some ol mame games. Really need help here, where do i start? I have a couple hundred mame roms and of course none can be played in launchbox. I do have a 20' screen in the mancave so i was hoping if this works i can go on to BigBox. But anyway, is there a rom set complete with a working mame EMU that i can find or even buy? Just dont have the time to fiddle so much. Just wondering if anyone can help me here? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Ok just to address the first big thing here. You should never ever buy Mame and most importantly roms. Buying Mame and roms outside of legally licensed products is illegal and we will neither tell you where to do such things and in fact we highly suggest you never do this. We suggest this for a couple of reasons, reason one is it is illegal. Reason two, you have no idea what version of it is. Reason 3, you have no guarantees of it working and you have no idea what kind of shitware they have bundled with it. Reason 4, something will go wrong and you won't know how to fix it, building your own is not too difficult and you will learn how to fix things when they do go wrong. There are some complete rom sets on the internet and while I cannot (for legal reasons) provide direct links to where to get them I will give you search terms that you can Google and you should find what you are looking for quickly. "organization of archives" "paradise of emus" "dome of pleasure" The first too will have somewhat older sets but will still have most likely 99.9% of everything you would ever want to play. The last one will have the most up to date sets but you will have to register and be ok with using torrent. If you are new to Mame I would suggest taking a look at my guide I wrote for beginners to it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilersman Posted August 17, 2017 Author Share Posted August 17, 2017 Ok thanks, i will try my version of mame in launchbox with my set of roms. They use to work a couple of years ago with maximus arcade but not sure why they dont anymore. I remember once using rom center but that wont load in my pc anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 If you know what version your rom set is you can get the corresponding version of Mame, all the old versions are available on the Mame website. If your rom set and Mame works outside of Launchbox it all likely hood will work in Launchbox as well. Do you know which version you have ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilersman Posted August 17, 2017 Author Share Posted August 17, 2017 No darn clue but a small handfull from the romset works great with Mame 0173 , so i'm guessing that is what the romset is. If so, wonder why sooooo many of the roms wont work. Must be a mix and match? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Just because some roms work with Mame 173 and others don't does not mean your rom set is 173. Roms from older romsets can often work with newer Mame builds. Why so many wont work though is because over the years rom dumps have changed due to older ones being bad dumps and getting replaced with proper dumps. Or in some cases like recently with the Capcom CPS2 they finally emulated the encryption chip which is now included in the newer roms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilersman Posted August 18, 2017 Author Share Posted August 18, 2017 Thanks for your assistance. I've been working in LB and see that it may not be possible to have a list of Mame Roms and have more than one emulator. I thought there might be a way to edit one individual game and choose a different version of Mame to run it. I'm thinking a whole diff Rom set is the way to go. I'll go study up more with your guides and info. Thanks so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 (edited) you can right click on any individual game in LB and then edit the emulator for that specific game. Or you can use ctrl+left click and choose multiple games and then right click and edit and change the emulator for just the selected games Edited August 18, 2017 by DOS76 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilersman Posted August 18, 2017 Author Share Posted August 18, 2017 I've tried right click and edit and it seems the new emulator controls every other Rom. I'll try again later. Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilersman Posted August 19, 2017 Author Share Posted August 19, 2017 Ok can anyone help? Ive tried a small sample test with 5 zips for one game and in romcenter and it plays 100% with the emulator there. yet in LB it wont. Im positive ive entered all parameters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 Can you post some screenshots of the edit emulator and associated platforms windows in Launchbox ? Specifically these 2 windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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