Why does MAME suck so much???

[CrystalTyler]

I freaking hate MAME! As far as being able to run almost everything in the whole damn world goes, MAME is the hardest emulator to configure!!!

It's so freaking simple. Look at all the other emulators on the internet. Why can't you be like them, MAME? WHY?!

Ugh.....it gets me so frustrated. All I wanted to do was run Fairchild Channel F. That's all I wanted to do. Could you do it, Mame? No.

It says it doesn't have the required amount of roms of chds!

I configured your damn rom folder! I even put the fairchild roms in the folder and specified the directory! The Bios are in the directory!!!

WHY ARE YOU THE WORST EMULATOR EVER!!!???

[lordmonkus]

Despite your rage I answered your question with all I am willing to help with in your other thread.

[Warrior]

Vanilla MAME does suck indeed, this is why we have forks and MAME Frontends.

Some of my preferred forks have kinda faded out of existence but thats perfectly fine as RetroArch has me covered for that .

Have you ever dabbled with Final Burn Alpha?

It is pretty easy to use unlike MAME and is the best for what arcade games it can run, FBA is also in RetroArch for ease of use.

[lordmonkus]

Mame used just for arcade is quite simple to use and extremely good at it. It just gets tricky to use when you want to go into the side of emulation that Mess was for.

[amiga1200]

go here and report any bugs: Download Links:
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also, user documetation comes with each OFFICIAL mame relz.
ask at the source.
all the best!

[Ragnar]

Look at all the other emulators on the internet. Why can't you be like them, MAME? WHY?!

You're aware other emulators are emulating single systems, and arcade games encompass a vast number of system types, right? It's pretty shocking that something as good as MAME even exists...

[Zorlon]

Funny thread

MAME requires er no setup asides from controls if defaults are not used

The issue is the roms and chd's and this will always be the case as when MAME updates so do the roms that makes it difficult to get the correct roms

so configuration is not a real issue, the issue is with MAME using new dumps and new drivers that is still a good thing as emulation only becomes more accurate the downside is that new users or users that just don't get this, become lost and confused.

Note that if it was not for MAME plenty of other arcade emulators would not just not be around as they are built with partial MAME code mixed with various other trickery code to get games running smoother that MAME does not do as that is aimed at accurate emulation not just to get the games playing

A simple audit tends to tell anyone exactly what is missing either can be done via rom auditing software/dat software or via various ports of mame

[lordmonkus]

Indeed Zorlon. I used to use MameUI because I thought Mame was easier to set up that way until I learned just how simple it really is.
Now I just get the command line version. Make sure my rom path is setup and adjust 2 or 3 settings in the mame.ini like turning off sleep, skip info and enabling the shader I want (none of those are necessary) and I am off to the races.

[CrystalTyler]

I am very new at any sort of programming language. All I use are GUI for everything. cmd and terminal are the bane of my current existence. I always hated how they just never seemed to work out for me. Which was like 98% of the time. Kali. cmd. I hate it all. I never EVER got anything to be 100% correct in my codes unless it was something simple and I can't even do that correctly.

[Zorlon]

Nothing wrong with using a gui version, kinda why they got done was to make programs more user friendly

I can use command line options easy enough but that is not to say I prefer it though

[lordmonkus]

Well I run all my Mame stuff through a frontend anyways but it's so fast and easy to just open the mame.ini file to change 2 or 3 settings than to dig through menus.

[CrystalTyler]

Maybe it's because I was running MESS when I was trying to figure out how to actually create a mame.ini file. I never knew how to do this. I just wish it was as user friendly as PJ64 or ePSXe is all.

[Zorlon]

The ini is auto generated anyway and Mess is MAME nowadays as they merged

[lordmonkus]

They may have merged them but I find it easier to use a separate build of Mess. I had no luck getting Mame to run the stuff that wasn't arcade like x68000, Atari 5200 and ColecoVision. I just found it much easier to have a separate Mess install. Separate Mess builds are being kept up to date with the latest versions matching Mame.

You generate the ini file by running either the mame64.exe or mess64.exe with the command parameter -cc. This generates the .ini file right in the same location as the .exe
Mame and Mess will generate an ini file if you load the exe and navigate that awful UI to change some setting and save it out but it isn't just automatically generated when you run the program.