vinylgamer Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 I'm kind of new at this but I have a question that baffles me. I have a large library of games in MAME and I found a handful that don't work. They load until about 95% then it bounces me back to the Launchbox Game Selection screen. Elevator Action & Moon Patrol are two in particular that I can think of. I thought at first it was my game files were corrupt, so I went online and downloaded these two games from another site. Same conclusion.... Is there something I should be doing that I'm not aware of? I downloaded the latest version of MAME. Please... any help would be greatly appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinylgamer Posted March 13, 2021 Author Share Posted March 13, 2021 Im running MAME 0.229 if this has anything to do with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 4 minutes ago, vinylgamer said: so I went online and downloaded these two games from another site. This is likely your issue, you shouldnt be downloading random MAME roms from the internet. Do you know which romset version the roms you downloaded are from? This is important as MAME roms and the emulator are versioned, games are only guaranteed to work with the matching version. They may work with other versions of the emulator, but its a lottery at that point. You cant just download the newest version of the MAME emulator and throw any rom at it and have it work, if any file inside the game zip is not what MAME expects for that version from its own internal database, the game wont run. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinylgamer Posted March 13, 2021 Author Share Posted March 13, 2021 Makes sense. I will try to find what rom set it is and then try to find that version of MAME. Thanks for the reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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