MAME ROM Sets and Updates
Noobie question here...
I've downloaed the MAME 0.161 Complete ROM set and all of the updates up to MAME 0.174 to 0.175 Update Pack. Do I just unzip the ROM Pack and the updates and copy them to the ROM directory and replace any duplicates to update the set to 0.175?
Thanks in advance!!!
i was in the same situation recently, had an ancient 0.138 set and decided to freshen it up. not sure it's the right way, but did as you, downloaded 0.161 set + all updates(to 0.175). wasn't sure how to go about the updating, but my friend google pointed me to 'CLRMAMEPRO' and this quick guide. i just followed the guide and updated the 161 set to 162. now my set is 162, so next i use the 162 to 163 update. rinse and repeat.
im no pro, so just save a clean copy of everything in case of issues.
I found another discussion about this utility and I updated everything just as you did and it all looks good. I have some additional updates to the other stuff but it was pretty easy.
If games are still not working with your 175 romset...mine didn't and I just did the same thing last weekend....you can also run EMULoader, filter by Missing ROMs, right-click the game in the list and click Game Details. It'll show you any BIOS or specific rom files in the ZIP that are missing.
Google those and get a set that has them. You can try that set or unzip both and merge for one big set w/ all the files to make a new "game.zip" file. Then right-click and rescan the file in EMULoader...or just try to run the game. All should be good.
I was surprised by how many games I fixed by downloading all of the namco BIOS files for example. I didn't even know they existed. lol
Originally Posted by WishItWas1984
Good stuff!
Out of curiosity how many gigs or TB is the full 175 set up to?!?
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I deleted them after curating out the 200 favorites I wanted for my machine, so I can't say exactly. I do know the 161 full romset is 51.2GB.
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