thunderhoop_gal16v8.f2 not found eror rom mame

[catalaman]

someone can help the rom thook.zip not work on mame 0.236 . it gives me this eror in the pic

[skizzosjt]

you're looking right at the solution. you're missing 4 files, seems you have an incomplete ROM or have a clone version w/o the parent, something like that.

[catalaman]

NO THIS thoop.zip is PARENT ROM  , i think this gal16v8.f2 is bios system i dont found

Edited September 24, 2022 by catalaman

[skizzosjt]

oh geeze yup I didn't zoom in a read the fine print 🤦‍♂️ listed as parent rom based off the file name. I don't know enough about that game to know if you gotta get the BIOS or what it is that is missing. to find what you're missing, google is your pal....wink wink

Edited September 24, 2022 by skizzosjt

[spycat]

Those 4 files are part of the game rom and are bad dumps.
thoop.zip was last updated in Oct 2020, so we'll have to wait for a new dump with all files ok.
 

[catalaman]

SHOULD YOU KNOW THAT ROM WORKS FINE ON MAME 0.222 , and dont work on mame 0.236 .

in general normally the update facilitates and corrects the errors, why the update of the mame becomes more and more complicated with the old roms .

 

Edited September 24, 2022 by catalaman

[JoeViking245]

55 minutes ago, catalaman said:

SHOULD YOU KNOW THAT ROM WORKS FINE ON MAME 0.222 , and dont work on mame 0.236 .

in general normally the update facilitates and corrects the errors, why the update of the mame becomes more and more complicated with the old roms .

 

As MAME (mame.exe version 0.xxx) updates, they've updated ROM dumps as well.   Not every ROM gets updated with every MAME update.  This is why if you update MAME and not the ROMs, most of the games will still work. In your case, Thunder Hoop is not one of them.

The rule of thumb is you always want to have a ROM set (version) that matches you MAME version.  

The reason your Thunder Hoop works in v0.222 is because you ROM (zip file) is from version 0.225 or earlier (i.e., 0.222).  If you look inside thook.zip, you will see that it only has 7 files.

c09
c10
c11
c12
sound
th18dea1.040
th161eb4.020

 

When the ROM was updated along with MAME version 0.226, it now has 11 files.  Those previous 7, plus

thunderhoop_gal16v8.f2
thunderhoop_gal16v8.j16
thunderhoop_gal20v8.d21
thunderhoop_gal20v8.h11

(see the resemblance of the 4 yours says is missing?)  So, MAME versions 0.226 and later (i.e., 0.236) are looking for all 11 files.

 

Sometimes you will get "lucky" when you update MAME but not the ROMs, and the ROMs will still work.  But it is NOT advisable to it that way "hoping for the best".