tallpr24 Posted March 15, 2023 Share Posted March 15, 2023 I finally got around to setting up launchbox with my android phone. works great! the issue im having is that im using mame rom set .253 and using the mame4droid,and several different android mame apps to run the mame roms. Some of the roms dont work with these mame applications for android. I read in several forums that the android mame applications are not compatible with the lates rom sets. Does any one have any experience on what is the best mame rom set to use with android as far as compatibility ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 The very best thing to do for MAME on Android is to download the RetroArch sideloaded APK from the RetroArch website and use the official MAME core with a recent ROM set. You'll want to use the core that doesn't have anything special on it or a date on it. Just "MAME". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallpr24 Posted March 16, 2023 Author Share Posted March 16, 2023 hey Jason, i could never get this to work. i just use mame4droid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 1 minute ago, tallpr24 said: hey Jason, i could never get this to work. i just use mame4droid I wouldn't personally recommend mame4droid, because last I checked it required an extremely out of date and specific MAME set. So that's probably your issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallpr24 Posted March 16, 2023 Author Share Posted March 16, 2023 i tried for years to use mame on android, and it would either not work, or work for limited roms. i found that mame4droid works for almost all the roms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallpr24 Posted March 16, 2023 Author Share Posted March 16, 2023 i noticed an option for mame4all, but after i download and install mame4all , when i launch the game with launchbox, i get an error that mame4all is not installed even though it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 20 hours ago, tallpr24 said: i noticed an option for mame4all, but after i download and install mame4all , when i launch the game with launchbox, i get an error that mame4all is not installed even though it is I'm guessing that mame4all must have changed its launching settings here at some point. I'll have to play with it and see if I can get it to launch. It might be a while though on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallpr24 Posted March 17, 2023 Author Share Posted March 17, 2023 do you have a link that has a version of mame4all that you used to test with, i dont mind trying your version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 21 hours ago, tallpr24 said: do you have a link that has a version of mame4all that you used to test with, i dont mind trying your version That would be long gone at this point, because that was years ago, unfortunately. I'll definitely have to revisit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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