MAME Help

[ShesCrazy12]

Hi, whenever I try to run certain roms on mame, it says it is missing chd files. I have already put them with the roms, and those games were working fine on older mame versions. The neogeo games and area 51 are some of them. Is there anyway to fix this?

[el_mascapo]

Hi, whenever I try to run certain roms on mame, it says it is missing chd files. I have already put them with the roms, and those games were working fine on older mame versions. The neogeo games and area 51 are some of them. Is there anyway to fix this?

for the neogeo games you should try by getting a new neogeo.zip maybe

[ShesCrazy12]

I got the new one and no luck getting it to work

[MaslowK]

From my understanding MAME is very picky concerning what game dumps you have, and what version of MAME you use to run them. Contrary to most emulators, a lot of time newer versions of MAME just won't run older games that have "incomplete" dumps, while particular older versions won't care.

I would generally recommend looking for packs that contain both the emulator and roms together, since they're usually versions confirmed to work right together. Torrent sites in particular are your friend here.

[gezegond]

I had lots of problems running neo geo games under mame. I used another emulator called neoragex which ran perfectly fine. It's fairly old but it does the trick, so I recommend checking it out.

[ShesCrazy12]

Cool, I'll try what you guys said. Thanks!

[Zorlon]

If you use something like www.mameui.info you can check the roms within the program (it's called audit), so just audit the game you are running into problems with and will report if any files are missing or have the incorrect crc

The biggest problem with mame is that with every update some roms also get new dumps so not all the old roms will still work

Don't get me wrong I still think mame is great it's just it is a pain to update the roms with every update, but this is part of it improving with every update, they also use the best dumps possible at the time.

P.S. chd compression is another thing that is changed, mame should come with tools to handle/update those though, just read through everything first

[ShesCrazy12]

If you use something like www.mameui.info you can check the roms within the program (it's called audit), so just audit the game you are running into problems with and will report if any files are missing or have the incorrect crc

The biggest problem with mame is that with every update some roms also get new dumps so not all the old roms will still work

Don't get me wrong I still think mame is great it's just it is a pain to update the roms with every update, but this is part of it improving with every update, they also use the best dumps possible at the time.

P.S. chd compression is another thing that is changed, mame should come with tools to handle/update those though, just read through everything first

OK, but mameui is a 7z file. How do I get it to work?

[Zorlon]

extract the 7z file with 7-zip www.7-zip.org/‎

[ShesCrazy12]

extract the 7z file with 7-zip www.7-zip.org/‎

OK, I did, but how do I launch the program?

[Zorlon]

usually by hitting the exe file, much the same as any other version of mame

[Kool Aid Man]

Mameui Guide - great tutorial but the links are outdated

I could never get Neo Geo games working on Mame, so I switched over to Kawaks. A few games are not compatible, like Neo Turf Masters because of missing raster support.

[Zorlon]

Never had an issue running Neo-Geo in mame but the roms and bios do need to be correct for x version of mame that gets a lot of people (I guess I can figure things out for myself quicker that some do though, or something like that)

I don't have anything against FBA or KAWAKS though both are very capable emulators

[Kool Aid Man]

(I guess I can figure things out for myself quicker that some do though, or something like that)

You are a Jedi Master of emulator knowledge and a great help to this community

[ShesCrazy12]

OK, I'am trying an emulator called neorage for neogeo games, but i can't get it to recognize the roms i put in it. i have tried putting the roms folder everywhere i can think of, but no luck. what can i do?