It was also a while for me but now I'm busy with updating to 131 and that takes ages. Many games need extra roms and some need bios like neogeo stv or atarisy1. Also my kinst and kinst2 chds show incorrect checksums now. Have found kinst.chd in 4 diff places but they all have them incorrect lol. Bummer.
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If anyone has a waorkaround for the 720 controls, let me know - proper pain - used to enjoy playing it
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Thx for that insight Sandman.
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I've quit updating MAME. Version 130 included many new Casino-games, I'm still missing around 440 Roms there. And since 131 is giving errors with the CHD'Files (yeah I know, they're still working), I don't want to update all these things.

Who of you has still a complete 131-collection? Only less people, I guess...
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I guess they find adding new games more interesting than fixing broken older ones....
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Well, MAME is a preservation project after all so I guess that's why...
But as much as anyone else I'd love to wake up one day and find every supported game running perfect! Dream on, eh?

Firefox wrote:

I've quit updating MAME. Version 130 included many new Casino-games, I'm still missing around 440 Roms there. And since 131 is giving errors with the CHD'Files (yeah I know, they're still working), I don't want to update all these things. Who of you has still a complete 131-collection? Only less people, I guess...

I've temporarily stopped at 130, I like the big round numbers!! My last version was 125. However I still collect the updates for each release, but don't perform an actual update of my collection for each version (that was becoming very tedious), usually I leave it until every five versions or unless something very major happens. Although CHD's I gave up on collecting a long time ago now, sometime between versions 96 and 100.
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Tempus fugit..

http://www.petes-emulation.com
http://www.retroroms.net

The CHD's are also getting old and need an update, I guess!
Baaah, I don't have time anymore to spend hour after hour to update Roms and CHD's which I'll never play...
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Quick question for the MAME experts.

I downloaded a big bunch of ROMs (3000 or so?) and they came with a seriously old version of MAME (from 2002 or 2003.) As an example, I'll pick Tapper. Works fine on the old MAME, but on the newest version (which supports alot of cool features the old one doesn't) it complains there's missing CHD or ROM files or something, same with a bunch of other games.

What does it all MEAN?
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Unfortunately some of the the ROMs change slightly with newer versions of MAME so you have to find a ROM set that corresponds to the version of MAME you're running. Bit of a hassle, I know.
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I would understand if we were talking about games that weren't accurately emulated in MAME but some seem to be changed just for the hell of it. I have MAME133 now, and matched ROMs.

I have decided if anything significant is emulated in a future release I will just use those specific games separately in another directory with a new release of MAME, it is too much hassle to download everything ever few releases when most of the old 80s arcade games I played didn't need fixing so should have had a workaround to prevent a requirement for changing/re-downloading them.

I'm still using version 0.96 and I can't bother upgrading it hehe
works fine for me though upgrading is really not worth the hassle
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I've never tried to emulate Arcades, because I prefer to use computers. And when I want to play some Arcade games, I and my friends go to a local store here on my town, that are specialized in Arcades, then I prefer to play on a real one. To feel the intensity.
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I recently downloaded mame 0.138 from underground gamer. Without CHD's it clocks in at about 28 GB.

I used to collect old JAMMA PCB's too, ended up selling them off years ago, now I just have a MAME sit down cab.
I still fancy a genuine Bubble Bobble PCB, but they are getting crazy prices.
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Has anyone a complete and actual Set with all the Roms and CHD's? I wonder how much space would be needed. I have all Roms from 141, but I didn't complete the CHD's.
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Could be a few reasons, including:

- The oldest versions of MAME have each individual game with a full set of ROMs, including bootleg.
- Older but not oldest versions have one 'original' version of the game, and other versions (U, E, W, bootleg, etc) have only the different ROMs each each zip.
- A few years ago they redifined which were the 'original' versions, and around the same time, some sets changed. a notable example from memory was pacman/puckman reversed as to which one was the master.
- The CHD format changed a year or two ago.
- Often the older games were dumped improperly and may be corrupt, even though it wouldn't affect gameplay. Mamedev's standard procedure is to redo the dump entirely. Note while often this does nothing to the gamer, this can affect the game's logic (Bomb Jack originally had the vulture avoiding you IIRC!), colours, sound, or who-knows-what. Hyper Bishi Bashi Champ I think is an example of a game which still isn't dumped properly - last I checked.

I dunno, the joke in the scene has always been that mamedev are more interested in emulating porno mahjong games accurately (there's a lot of them in there) than actually optimising, or adding support. Maybe there's truth to that

I thought I had a fully working setup of 136 but the other day I tried running Berzerk for the first time in years and it just produces a black screen. I'm sure it worked when I downloaded it years ago but not any more apparently.

Seems to be the only one affected so maybe some corruption, but MAME doesn't error or complain at all so who knows.

This might sound silly, but try using an older version of Mame. The new version won't run half my games, yet if I go back to Mame32 from 2005, everything runs perfect (from the seriously-oldschool to metal slug)


best regards,
- dink