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I'm new to MAME in general. But with this new MAME Set-Up feature, it looks like  it downloads the Arcade games for you? I'm sure I misunderstood something somewhere along the line because it went through an "import" process but I don't have any arcade games, but it's downloading all the metadata for games that are supposedly in my "...\Games\Arcade" folder- which is empty AFTER the import process. They won't even launch when I click "Play" (and I'm sure it's because the file(s) is not in said directory). But a .zip file is selected as the launching target when I go into the "Launching" Settings. What did I miss? lol

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40 minutes ago, Yo Moore said:

Lordmonkus could you point me to where I could find the full mame set 0.239?

I think it goes against the forum rules to share that information.

For myself, I gave up on MAME because I can never find a reliable place to download the romset. As far as I know, the whole package is like 500 GB. I tried for years and it's a well kept secret. 

I know there are websites selling hard drives with the files on them but I don't think I'll drop the cash for it soon.

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2 minutes ago, Yo Moore said:

Sorry I'm brand new to LaunchBox and didn't realize that. I am finding my way slowly but thought there may be a easier way. Thanks for letting me know, I don't want to break any rules.

 

9 minutes ago, Gab Power said:

I think it goes against the forum rules to share that information.

For myself, I gave up on MAME because I can never find a reliable place to download the romset. As far as I know, the whole package is like 500 GB. I tried for years and it's a well kept secret. 

I know there are websites selling hard drives with the files on them but I don't think I'll drop the cash for it soon.

Just google "pleasuredome github" it should be the first result. A split or merged set is around 60-70GB

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I found Pleasuredome on my own while I was searching for the complete ROMset and they seem like they're pretty up-to-date. But I'm also new to this part of emulation so what do I know, lol. They have the v240 set uploaded and it's ~70+GB

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Can LB read Mame ROMs that are zipped? The Mame 240 collection I downloaded had 13k+ ROMs and each zip contains like 7-8 files each. Extracting that many  files will take ages, lol. But if that's what I gotta do, then I'll do it. I also tried dragging a zip file into LB and it didn't read it as a ROM, so I extracted one to test if dragging all the files (from one single zip) file onto LB at once would work and it didn't work either.

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32 minutes ago, eacochran said:

Can LB read Mame ROMs that are zipped? The Mame 240 collection I downloaded had 13k+ ROMs and each zip contains like 7-8 files each. Extracting that many  files will take ages, lol. But if that's what I gotta do, then I'll do it. I also tried dragging a zip file into LB and it didn't read it as a ROM, so I extracted one to test if dragging all the files (from one single zip) file onto LB at once would work and it didn't work either.

Never unzip MAME roms, they MUST remain zipped.

Just run the MAME fullset importer and point it at your MAME rom folder, Launchbox will take care of the rest.

 

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So when the MAME stuff is set up and I have my games imported and metadata is all downloaded- once everything is done, is there a way to go back and allow the import of casino games and tabletop games? Because I left them all checked as I was going through the import/setup process.

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