Lordmonkus Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 In the past the best place to get a full up to date Mame rom set was either from PleasureDome which had a complicated application process to gain access and you had to maintain a share ratio to keep access or you went to The Internet Archive and dealt with out of date sets and extremely slow download speeds. The PleasureDome has shut down their private tracker which sucked for several reasons but they have since moved their Mame downloads to a new site which is easily accessible to all and no share ratios to maintain. To find the site simply search Google for "pleasuredome mame". You should find this page: From here scroll down to find the full sets, you are looking for this section: For the typical users what you want is either the merged or split sets, which would be the 1st and 3rd links in the picture above. The CHDs are optional downloads and needed for a small handful of games but the download is quite large. The links will open a magnet torrent link which your torrent client should auto recognize. I highly recommend using qBittorrent found here: https://www.qbittorrent.org You can look up guides on using bit torrent if you are new to it, I won't be going into how to use the software. As a bonus to this guide, once you have your full set and want to use it in Launchbox watch and follow the guide on the YouTube channel: 5 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suhrvivor Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 (edited) Nice topic to link people when they ask for MAME Sets links. Another similar way to find MAME sets is by searching "Roms Megathread". On the Retro tab you can find MAME Sets and other retro stuff. Be wary though, those sets might not be up to date. Edited March 29, 2022 by Suhrvivor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 We don't have any rules about not sharing site names, we just have rules against posting links. I made the guide because there has been an influx of people lately that do not know where to get good Mame sets from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 We have always allowed rom site naming and google search terms, just no links has always been the rule here. We have never banned anyone for naming sites and we only remove links when people post them and ask them not to post links. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merovingio Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 8 hours ago, Lordmonkus said: We have always allowed rom site naming and google search terms, just no links has always been the rule here. We have never banned anyone for naming sites and we only remove links when people post them and ask them not to post links. Also could a tutorial be made for the GitHub roms megathread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Mongu said: Also could a tutorial be made for the GitHub roms megathread? no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fursphere Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 This is kind of related. Who the heck builds these "full" sets? I've been messing with MAME for 15+ years now, and every time I download a "full set", when I do a check with a tool like CLRMAMEPRO against the matching mame.exe binary, it always has some differences or missing roms, sets named or packed wrong, etc. Split or merged, doesn't seem to matter. I just got in the habit or rebuilding when I decide to do an update. Its just bizarre to me. And you also have a to do goofy stuff like torrentzip to build your current set to the torrent set so you can join at greater than zero percent, and even that has weird inconsistencies. Anyway, just thinking out loud here. Not complaining, just truly trying to understand what the heck is going on so updates are easier / more efficient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xevious1974 Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Thanks a lot Lordmonkus Very usefull information! I have download the Multimedia File, there a lot of video that I have not in my arcade video folder. But I have a problem! The video files are named like the file rom not how LB name them. So...there is a way to update the filename according to the name of the roms? So I can use them in my LB/BB? Or...I have to do manually? thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 Sorry I do not have a good answer for you, I don't use video files in my LB setup and have never downloaded the multimedia file. I do recall their being a tool that HyperSpin users use to rename files but I couldn't tell you what it is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xevious1974 Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 23 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said: Sorry I do not have a good answer for you, I don't use video files in my LB setup and have never downloaded the multimedia file. I do recall their being a tool that HyperSpin users use to rename files but I couldn't tell you what it is. Thank you a lot for your answer! I'll search following your tip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xevious1974 Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Hey @Lordmonkus you have helped me a lot! I have searched a little following you (hyperspin rename tool, then Launchbox rename media tool) and I have found that Launchbox can read media file that are named like the rom LB title AND rom file! So I am just copying in the right dir to show them. Later I'll use media clean tool to remove the duplicated video Thanks again for the tip! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholzer Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 tried the 0.244 sets, sadly there dont seem to be any seeds. been sitting there for 1 hour not finding/downloading any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 4 hours ago, cholzer said: tried the 0.244 sets, sadly there dont seem to be any seeds. been sitting there for 1 hour not finding/downloading any. You getting your set from Pleasuredome? Just tested 244 from the PD torrent and downloading just fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholzer Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 25 minutes ago, Retro808 said: You getting your set from Pleasuredome? Just tested 244 from the PD torrent and downloading just fine. I am so sorry! Turned out it was the firewall blocking torrent traffic. 😅 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neutrebon Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Hey! Ultra noob (and french) here. I began to built my collection and I finded those awesome Rom pack. I just downloaded the mame Rom Pack and the only thing I find is a XML Document. Not Zip roms or anything. I continued my setting in Launch box, it analyzed it very well, but I could not play the games. It wanted to run, but failed after like 5 seconds (no audio or video). I know I probably messed up or forgot something, but right now I'm searching my Obi wan. You are my only hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 9 hours ago, Neutrebon said: I just downloaded the mame Rom Pack and the only thing I find is a XML Document. Not Zip roms or anything. I continued my setting in Launch box, it analyzed it very well, but I could not play the games. You cannot play games without the actual roms. You need to download the actual zipped rom files and if you followed the steps in the first post you would not end up with just an xml file. Not sure where you are downloading the Mame rom pack from but if it is just an xml file that is your issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neutrebon Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Allright, that's what I though. I will go old school on this one. Thanks for the quick response. I really appreciate it. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zayd47 Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 The site shuts down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Zayd47 said: The site shuts down? No. Still active. Just use the search term Monkus gave in the first post in Google and it will be the first listing that shows up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zayd47 Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 49 minutes ago, Retro808 said: No. Still active. Just use the search term Monkus gave in the first post in Google and it will be the first listing that shows up. Mind if i ask what is BIOS Devices & Machine Bios Devices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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