/vr/ - Retro Games

just emulate, they said

>>8812915
I'm used to /b/ is mame hate like the andy sixx poopboi threads here

>>8812927
>that wall of gobbledygook that is missing
in English doc

>>8812927
did you try downloading the game you want to play

>>8812915
>>8812927

Filtered by download
KEK

M.A.M.E.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
if you find a game you want to play on mame there is ALWAYS a better emulator to do it.

>>8812945
>if you find a game you want to play on mame there is ALWAYS a better emulator to do it.

Name ten, no 3d games allowed

>>8812927
just use a mambe build from 2003 or 2010

>>8812927
i think you are using a 20 year old rom

Is there a perfectly good mame build that I can use for most classic arcade roms without the hassle of having to upgrade everything or redownload arcade lbraries?

>>8813009
the fuck does this mean, 99% of roms do not need to be updated between versions, just download lastest MAME, google "MAME romset archive.org" and pick one reasonably close to your version, that's it.
You don't need to update MAME later if you are really worried about upgrading, it's far better than using a 10 year old version of the emulator

>>8813009
mame became cucked after version 0.239 because the devs have to legally remove some games.
so get mame 0.239 and romset 0.239 and you're done forever.

>>8813023
thanks, wasn't aware of this

Why would someone repeatedly make threads to brag about how they're so retarded they can't figure out how to use an app that is simple enough for 12 year olds to wrap their mind around. Maybe OP is 9?

>>8813023
What games got removed?

>>8813123
Super Mario 67

>>8813123
Akai Katana and DoDonPachi Saidaioujou, two games by Cave. Exa Arcadia got the rights to them so they could release arcade versions of them.

>>8813178
sad

>>8813023
https://www.mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0240.txt
>new working clones
But anon, how could you turn down all these Keks?

stop replying to the spammer

>>8813753
no u

OP supporter her.

Mogloian MUHME emulation kept me off from tons of games, apparently.

I play SNES games and the SNES emulators just work. As a literal leech I get the lil gems I want to play and that's all. I fucking play.

MUHME btw turn you around with non-sensical version numbers, connundrums about unknown formats that you don't know either the meaning or the purpose.

Well, fuck you MUHME. Whne I play bomberman I'm having a good time bc I load the game AND THAT'S ALL.

I'm not in the mood of having an academic qualification to play some old ass games.

Really, fuck yhis MUHME shit, it's non-sensical

>>8812927
Just download those files and put em in the mvsc folder. They're not that hard to find.

>>8812915
Why are you trolling about MAME?

>ALMOST EVERY GAME DOESNT WORK.
This is false.

>>8812927
>check on arcadeitalia
>last update to anything: 2017
Hint: (qsound) means you need to download the qsound rom as well. Very obscure rom that confuses people, much like that neogeo.zip no one has ever heard of.

>>8813943
Does this sound hard and you'd rather it just werk? Download mame 0.175 or earlier.

Yo how the fuck do i play BATTLE BALLS in mame?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbVg27r1RFA
When i try there's a long-ass countdown and then nothing happens.

>>8814048
DIP Switches -> JP1: Normal

>>8813031
Don't do that. Download 0.242 romset and arcade64 0.242 as your mame executable. It can play every 0.239 game and is a much better experience than regular mame as it culls lots of things from the set, namely:

NO mechanical games (pinball, crane games, etc)
NO poker, fruit, slot or gambling games
NO computers, consoles, terminals, appliances, etc
NO games that display a black screen (skeleton drivers etc)

https://undumped.miraheze.org/wiki/List_of_Undumped_Arcade_Games
Why haven't you sent an undumped arcade game to MAME, anon?

>>8813952
Downloading one extra file to have an up to date emulator is not hard.
Expecting a program that emulates dozens of different platforms over multiple decades to "just werk" without at least a few minutes of reading documentation or downloading additional extension files for your specific purpose (in MAME's case usually a BIOS or CHD file, but sometimes oddballs like qsound.zip) is absurd and unrealistic.

If you want something that "just werks" for dummies go buy one of the commercial re-releases.

>>8814367
>Downloading one extra file to have an up to date emulator is not hard.
For the babies in these threads it is. They have trouble with downloading a Neo Geo bios. Probably the first bios most people download for mame if they didn't get a full rom set.

>>8814126
ok thanks

What are some GOOD games that can only be played on mame?

>>8814903
If you don't count shitty console ports, then Model 1 (Virtua Racing, Virtua Fighter, Star Wars Arcade), System32 (GA Death Adder, Spiderman, OutRunners), Cruis'n USA/World, Killer Instinct 1/2 and a bunch of random shit like Primal Rage and Gradius 4

none of them playable on FBNeo, which I'm guessing was the focus of your question

>>8814903
CarnEvil

>>8814935
>>8814941
nvm then

>>8814105
Doesn't seem to work for me, it sits on "NOW UPDATING. PLEASE WAIT A MOMENT" regardless of what I set JP1 to. Thanks though

>>8815739
you have to reset after changing the DIP switch

>>8815850
yeah, i tried that with all 3 settings for the dip switch and no luck. tried a few versions of the rom as well for good measure. i'm using 0.230 so maybe i just need to update, will try and report back

>>8815895
that's odd
I was curious about your case and tried it without any previous information and it worked doing what I said, I am using 0.235
and thanks for the recommend I guess, seemed like a pretty fun game

>>8815906
downloaded latest mame and the rom again to be sure and it's doing the same thing for me. thanks for checking though, i think my shit is just haunted
it's one of the more interesting puyo derivatives i have played though, neat little game

>>8812915
All games work noob. I have an arcade machine with 7,000 working games.

>>8815967
nm i got it working. turned out waiting for the countdown and resetting (after changing dip switch) worked. i thought i had tried that already the first time i looked at this game a few months ago, oh well.

>>8815973
>Mame has 38,000+ games
>I have 7000 working games
>"All games work noob"

>>8814903
Kung Fu Master
Out-Run
I Robot

>>8814126
>Download 0.242 romset
>the missing games are missing
excellent plan buttmunch

ALL ABOARD THE MAME HATE TRAIN!
CHOO CHOO!

it just werks, they said

>>8812915
You're a real card, OP! A hidden, vaguely herb-scented card.

mame gaming time! woo hoo!
fire it up, see this:
>dnfs120-201666.rom (16384 bytes) NOT FOUND
>saa5050 EXPECTED CRC(201490f3) Sha1(6c8daba70374e5aa3a6402f24cdc5f8677d58a0f)
>FOUND: CRC(6298fc0b)

Many
Awful
Moments
Experienced

>>8816247
>He includes the 31,000 Casino/Poker games in his frontend audit.

Absolute degenerate

>>8816446
Download proper romsets from reputable sources stop googling random russian malware sites brainlet

>>8816540
>frontend audit
in English doc.
no really what is this "audit romset" and why is it different to "F5 to refresh games"?

>>8813178
>shmups
oh, it doesn't matter then

>>8816557
>MAME emu is used in homemade arcade machines
>wat is frontend

How do I know you're a 14 year old tranny?

>>8816557
cuz mame is made to hoard a bunch of complicated roms so the library needs to do an audit of the roms one first time to be able to know what roms you have stored firsthand, or something like that

>>8816590
>How do I know you're a 14 year old tranny?
because they are your fetish you sick fuck

Game data was stored on ROM chips and these roms are the dumps of these chips which the mame emulator uses to emulate games. More complex games not only had multiple ROM chips thus multiple roms per game, but also hard drives (magnetic or laserdisc) which are dumped as CHD images which the emulator also needs alongside roms in some games.

The audit simply tries to detect all these games based on their roms and CHD's. It's automated and mandatory when you're dealing with thousands of games.

>>8816610

>>8816616
so audit roms and refresh games is the same thing? the documentation doesnt say shit

May
Antagonize
Most
End-Users

>>8816979
>>8816981
>>8816983
dev's will fix it bro, any day now

Fun fact: in Spanish slang, mamé means "I sucked (dick)".

THE MOAR YOU KNOW

>>8817042
Also, telling someone "no mames" means something like "stop fucking around with me".

>>8817042
I imagine that is very pertinent knowledge to your style of living.

>>8817057
Touched a nerve with the MAME dicksucker, I see.

>the feel when somebody starts a thread because they could never get some random game to work in mame
>me who has never played the game in my life
>*clicks rom in mame and it works perfectly*

>the feel when somebody starts a thread because they could never get some random game to work in mame
>me who has never played the game in my life
>*clicks rom in mame and it works perfectly*

>>8817064
>>8817067
now you should practice on how to post a reply you fucktard.

>>8817001
more like multiple bug machine emulator

>>8817073
>welcome to the bug submission page!
do NOT tell us about any bugs.
yep, thats the meme devs in a nutshell

>>8813009
MAME 0.242

Many Autists Much Enragement

>>8813009
>Is there a perfectly good mame build that I can use for most classic arcade roms without the hassle

Yes anon, Arcade64 0.239, all newer versions of MAME are cucked, and the main branch is cucked, and the devs are cucked, so for the most uncucked derivative of MAME use Arcade64 0.239 with the 0.239 romset.

What other anons have said is not true, it's preferable to avoid using newer romsets with older versions of MAME, some times due to changes romsets stop working in the newer releases.

So use Arcade64 0.239 with the 0.239 romset

>>8816413
look for the romset with the same version number as the emulator. why does this apparently boggle the mind so much?

the majority of shit will just keep working even if there's a version mismatch but if you absolutely positively need a guarantee that a (supported) game will work for you, yeah, look for the matching version number for god's sake (in addition to having the required bios/chd files) - it sure ain't rocket science.

>>8817191
>download a hundred gigs of games every time you update the emulator bro!

>>8816392
Don't you just download the whopping 2 that were removed (that I don't care about since they're not-retro Caveshit) from the 0.239 ROM set and plop them in the new set? I have no idea what anyone's talking about. I'm guessing we're not supposed to even want anything newer that gets added because of two Cavefag games that no one else cares about?

>>8817210
romset = 1 game, i.e. the zip file containing the roms that make up the game, shoulda been clear about that.

if you want a "complete" mame set, just stick with one matching the emulator and don't update - easy as that. mame's focus is on accuracy which doesn't mean that later versions necessarily offer improved performance - for 99% of your shit you'll never need to update, true story.

>mame's focus is on accuracy
lmao

>>8817367
well, it sure isn't on performance...

>>8817219
Yes. When you want to run those 2 games run the mame 0.239 exe. For everything else run the current mame.

ya'll know you can have two different mame versions on your computer at the same time, right?

>>8817492
How can this be? My... my 2 games...
I'm gonna...
I'm gonna...
All aboooooooard the MAME Hate Train.
CHOO CHOO.

Mameeeeeeeeeh = mommyh

Multiples Especificas Maquinas Emuladas (M.E.ME.)

>>8816620
audit is just making sure u paid ur taxes when playing the games

>>8817523
that's pretty funny coming from a project like mame

another butthurt moron basing mame. no surprise here

>>8817492
>two mames
>lets just multiply the amount of configuration hell by two!
take your meds

>31 ips
>94 posts
stop replying to the spammer
for the love of god

>>8819245
Can I reply to you?

>>8819245
look out the Reply Police have arrived

>>8819245
>no likes/replies ratio
>no reddit comment history
>in desperation the seething zoomshit resorts to complaining about the only thing he can find, the reply statistics

can't you just download the roms and play them on retroarch instead of some mememulator from 20 years ago?

>>8820204
Oh boy, you don't know the can of worms you just opened.

>oi m8 just download these missing literal who files with 0 description of what it is
>for every version we release weekly
>lol jk we removed that game anyways
its impressive that mame has a less usable ui than retroarch too. and the devs wonder why people sill use prepacked versions from 2003

>>8820204
Why don't you try it
Hard mode: Don't come to /vr/ 5 minutes later asking for tech support

>>8820241
there are literally 0 games I care about

>>8820231
>its impressive that mame has a less usable ui than retroarch too.
I wouldn't know, I've only ever used MameUI

>>8820204
1942 doesn't seem to work with the latest 0.242 core and a few others, but it worked with this one. Need to test other games.
I downloaded it from here btw https://pleasuredome.github.io/pleasuredome/mame/index.html

>>8820231
What is so hard for you about using google?

what the fuck is going on with mame and the .ini files? it just dumps them in the main directory and not the INI directory.
then when you change a games properties it doesnt save them anyway so you have to manually do it within the .ini

mame is indeed a clusterfuck of bugs, been in development for TWENTY FIVE FUCKING YEARS no less.

CHOO CHOO!

>>8812915
Software rendering only, please understand

MAME is not an emulator.


MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework.

MAME’s purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus.

I expect a few replies but which UI is best for Mame?
tried a few but they all have good points and bad points none of them seem to get it right.

>>8822941
I like Attract Mode.

>>8812963
>no 3D games allowed
So, filtering out anything worth playing and reducing the list to 80s meme bullshit?

The correct pronunciation of "MAME" is "mommy"

>>8822959
He probably wants 2D games listed cause he knows MAME is kinda shit for 3D games.
Here's a list of arcade games that would work better in a Dreamcast emu.
https://segaretro.org/Sega_NAOMI
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Sega_NAOMI_and_variants
This might answer his question.

>>8823017
er no, its MAMMY

>>8823017
Mommy
Always
Makes
Eggsies

>>8822795
delusional

>>8817074
If you know the game has no sound you don't want hundreds of bug reports of "this game has no sound!" clogging up your inbox.

>>8823675
that just means it will never get fixed lmao

>>8812915
out of all my roms the only games that hiccup are the PS2 games and only a few.
Gran Tourismo 3 a spec is one of my favorite games of all time but after spending 100 or so hours in it. I realize all the of-road tracks are bugged. and I put way too much time with the cars I have to just restart all over.. so I just use buggy rom.

I cant be the only one.tnn

anyone use the mame UI arcade64 and know how to create a favorites folder?
its just not there and the help link just goes to mame page itself.

>>8826645
I can't believe they didn't put a button to create a custom folder, but what you can do instead is:
>go to your arcade64 root folder (the one with all the folders and the arcade64 exe)
>create a directory called "folders"
>create a file instead and rename it "Favorites.ini" (name can be whatever, it's just what will be displayed)
>file can be left blank, it doesn't matter
>start arcade64 and the favorites folder should be displayed
>right click on a game -> add to custom folder to add it to favorites

>>8826645
I can't believe they didn't put a button to create a custom folder, but what you can do instead is:
>go to your arcade64 root folder (the one with all the folders and the arcade64 exe)
>create a directory called "folders" and open it
>create a file inside and rename it "Favorites.ini" (name can be whatever you want, it's just what will be displayed)
>file can be left blank, it doesn't matter
>start arcade64 and the favorites folder should be displayed
>right click on a game -> add to custom folder to add it to favorites

>>8826686
great answer, thanks a lot.

>>8822795
MAME is a software.

merging mess with mame was a massive fucking mistake.

>>8813114
because the Ui is absolutely disgusting?
almost everyone on earth has bitched about it

90% of people who install mame no longer want to play and give up after trying to navigate that shit

D-

>>8830148
and dont just call me a retard or a faggot

the shyla foxx gif everyone posts here was captured by me in mame
you have to get first place to see her
i spent more time configuring the software than playing

it doesnt have to be this way
use a fucking toolbar like the rest of windows programs

>>8813114
became mame is a clusterfuck of shit wrapped in a turdbag of nonsense, almost ALL of it iis broken or bloatware out of the ass. there are TWENTY emulators within it that dont work.

I just want the raunchy stuff. Give me the damn direction to the booba games.

>>8830730
type in "explicit" in the game search

>>8830154
>and dont just call me a retard or a faggot
ok, you're a retarded faggot. Smart mame users have a frontend or select a mame version compiled with one built in, and only retards end up spending more time configuring than playing.

>>8830730
Pachinko Sexy Reaction
Booba game and it's fun

>>8830730
the 3D poster in the waifu thread
ask him anon

>>8830730
http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/lista_mame.php
use the "mature" filter under "additional filters".
Pipi & Bibis is nice, and I like the Gals Panic series.

>>8830730
>tfw still can't say onions sauce on 4channel.org

>>8833135
newfriends cannot ꜱoy.

>>8833162
lol enjoy your ban

>>8833162
onions is overrated anyway
sneed is where it's at

>>8833167
the jannies like me
and i have 4changold
you must pay for a premium 4chan gold account to post through the word filter

arcade games suck ass anyway compared to their home conversions.
yes they have better graphics but they are designed to take money, not be good games.

>>8834136
>coping because he can't set up mame
Why not compare the different versions, they don't cost anything. Except mame which costs "not being a retard."

>>8834376
Arcades often have lopsided difficulty, for instance Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is easy as shit and then there's the double slisaur fight is pray not to die.
Daioujou 5th stage is just tight micrododge stream and bullet spams. Mushihime Futari has actually impossible patterns. Esp Galuda 2 has the true seiri fight really early on if you 1cc that's as hard as a final boss. Akai Katana has the twins.

Lots of unreasonably broken trash.

>>8834390
>true seiri
*true Seseri

>>8834136
>designed to take money
*designed to take a press of the "insert coin" key
ftfy, what's the problem?

>>8834539
It disproves the 1cc autist theory that every games is meant to be beaten on 1 credit.
If it's got cheap shit you're supposed to get mad and not play it instead of pressing the credit button.

>>8834552
>disproves
No it doesn't.

>>8833174
You mean a 4chan pass, Mr. Ponzi?

>>8834136
you never played the arcade version of sunset riders huh?

>>8834136
Kill yourself actual subhuman

>>8834552
It disproves the theory that playing chunky games that had booger-finger kids rubbing their hands all over and kicking the cabinet was ever a good idea. Thankfully, arcades are dead, and you can enjoy them the way the devs didn't intend, with a nice emu and no distractions.

>>8835123
Best arcade ports is when they have tons of unlockables. There is a reason why the DC version of Mars Matrix and Giga Wing are preferable it's because it keeps you entertained with unlocks that simultaneously train you at becoming better at the game.

>>8835126
Die Hard Arcade/Dynamite Deka on Saturn had the player grinding a game called Deep Scan if you wanted more credits than the default 4. It's a clever way to encourage gitting gud since you pay for credits with irl time.

>>8834376
mame works just fime, I'm talking about biased game design you illiterate prick.

bump

>>8839069
>download latest version of mame
>download complete rom set
>now it's time to play some arcade games
>a month later they release a new version of mame and you have to start from the beginning
Fuck you mame!!!

>>8839092
I legit have no idea who to believe in this thread about what to actually download
Actually what year do these romsets cut off at because arcade games are still coming out.

>>8839092
>you have to start from the beginning
For what purpose?
Besides there are update sets for a reason, they include only the changes between one romset version and the next.

>>8839092
Ok I'll take the bait, but I'll shitpost with a blogpost.
I use emulators since neoragex, had ps1 and 2 hacked, then psp etc etc but I always had problems with mame, and I leaved it alone till the end of the 2010s. I literally started using mame for real just because I wanted to play shmups and some beu with my brother.
Mame is not that hard, but if we put it alongside others emu projects, it's a nightmare. It's a nightmare to download, to organize, to double check, and get ready to play. This without talking about frontends, bezels and other thing to beautify this shitburger.
Now, the real question is 'why there isn't a mame/arcade general?' why I still need to inform a new anon that don't want a shit ui to download arcade 64? And that 64 has even retained the cutted shmups from 0.239, so you can play everything with no hassle? Why we still need to tell new anons to go and check arcade database to see what files are you missing(if you don't know an easier way) and if you really need to update?

>>8839069
>bumps his own thread
fuck you

>>8839101
>I don't know who to believe
If you are believing someone who is screaming about how you need to redownload every single file with no proof, then you deserve to be left confused.
>what year does this cut off?
MAME has made no effort to emulate the Windows and Linux PC-based arcade games that came out after 2000. Tatio Type X series, Sega Lindbergh, Sega RingEdge series, Raw Thrills hardware, etc. This is because it makes no fucking sense to emulate the entire PC and Windows/Linux environment on a Windows/Linux PC, when all that is needed is a compatibility layer like Teknoparrot.

Is it normal for some games to have slowdown like metal slug 2?

>>8839378
Oh it seems that game always lagged, huh thats disappointing.

>>8839557
Mame's "slider controls" have the option to overclock the CPU, give it a go.

>>8839582
Thanks Ill look into it later, I dont know why I never dabbled in mame/arcade emulation before.

>>8839616
you need to enable cheats first

>>8839092
MAME RAGE!!!!!
TOOOOT TOOOOOT!

>>8839621
>enable cheats
I enable cheats but there's nothing there in any game, all I want is some auto-fire for games that are killing my gamepad buttons, what am I not doing right?

>>8839363
>MAME has made no effort to emulate...

That's not really true, the absolute retards that are the mamedevs insist in emulating everything using the host cpu, obviously they can't find anybody stupid enough to undertake the task of emulating both x86-64 AND gpus in software just to get it working at 1 frame per hour.

Proof of that fact are the numerous standalone 3D arcade emus like supermodel or Hornet.

MAME simply doesn't really have a gpu hardware backend.

>>8839101
see:
>>8817184

wow the jannies deleted A LOT from this thread
what fags its called a joke

clearly can't handle the bantz

>>8841210
just delete the whole thread then if there's an opinion you don't like

the entire thread is off-topic and clearly shitposting

>>8841212
>>8841210
left the basedbeans poster but pruned the rest of the discussion

1984-tier
maybe the jannies DO like him wtf

>>8841218
its because im actually funny
please cry on another board

>>8840310
>TOOOOT TOOOOOT!
Multiple
Angry
Man
Enrager

>>8840314
You need to download a cheat database too
http://cheat.retrogames.com/
Get the most recent one. Unlike roms it doesn't matter if the version number matches your mame version.

>>8812915
MAME isn't for playing games, only documenting hardware.

>>8841271
oh thank god i was trying to play games with it thank you for informing me i was doing it wrong all along

>mad slowdown in fucking Mario Bros of all games on a fast CPU in .242
Okay I'm on board, fuck MAME til they fix this

>>8841202
I already downloaded the 0242 romset, can I just get those 2 games that were deleted and use that instead?

>>8842078

Probably, either using an older mame version or the Arcade64 fork if it didn't remove the games, you'll have to look for the individual sets though.

>>8842134
Not sure what you mean by individual sets I know I sound like an idiot.
Well its a good thing because I cant find any 0239 romsets in archive while 242 is easy to find, also 252 was missing gradius 1 and I had to get it manually, what in the fuck? Now Im wondering what else is missing

>>8842150
Meant to type 242 and not 252 there obviously.

>>8842150
>Not sure what you mean by individual sets
This
> missing gradius 1 and I had to get it manually
Look for what games were removed, look for the rom names, and then look to manually download it, just like what you did with gradius 1 for example.

>>8842312
Well thats a pain but I guess Ill download them as I go and notice them missing, Im not about to go down a list checking one by one.
But are there many games missing from the romset and what is the reason.

>>8842150
its not removed, its included in its parent ROM (vulcan.zip)

>>8842418
vulcan.zip only includes gradius 2 for me

>>8839363
>MAME has made no effort to emulate the Windows and Linux PC-based arcade games that came out after 2000.
Cant you just play them on a pc?, why emulate?

>>8842436
fuck, I mean Nemesis, always mix up the western names of the 1st two gradius games

>>8842449
Oh I see thanks, Id still prefer to have the JP version if possible.

>>8842436
>>8842449
in case you are not aware, MAME works on a parent/child system
instead of having every single version of a game by itself (which would be very space inefficient) they have one "main" (parent) version with the full game while the others latch on to it and only have the files that are different between them

>>8842458
rename nemesis.zip to gradius.zip and it should show up in mame as the jap version

>>8842462
No I had no idea about that. Things make more sense now thanks.

>>8842458
You can always just throw any extra files in the zip and then you don't need the parent.

>>8842487
Called a "merged set", right? I know many rom sites offer zips like that so you can cherry-pick a few arcade games you want and not need the whole set.

>>8841227
rude, but kekked

>>8842479
if you don't know the name that your version "should" have, then just look it up in MAME itself, the name right after "Romset:" is what the .zip should be named. Also tells you the parent ROM

Notice that games in grey are childs, while the ones in white are parents

>>8842513
>Notice that games in grey are childs, while the ones in white are parents
Oh I see that really helps a lot.
Also I dont get any images of the games the way you do in that pic, its not a big deal though.
Id have figured all this shit out if I had started messing with mame 20 years ago like I should have.

>>8842528
https://archive.org/download/mame-support/Support/Titles/

download "titles.zip", then put them in a folder called "snap" on your MAME folder

>>8842546
Will do.

>>8813943
Just get a full romset and stop fucking around with obsolete files.

>>8842794
>full romset
Because everyone needs thousands of mahjongg games and some giant CHD images from crappy 90s games that tanked.

>>8842861
>Because everyone needs thousands of mahjongg games
Yes.

>>8842879
i just download the specific game i want or is this just me?

my specific rec = dragon breed by iRem

>>8842879
>I am severely mentally ill
Yes.

>>8842861
GOTTA CATCH EM ALL

>>8841202
>the mamedevs insist in emulating everything using the host cpu
mame is more of a hardware documentation project now. the emulator mostly just serves as a practical implementation/demonstration of that work. they kind of shifted priorities a while back.

>>8843034
>having a full romset for an emulator that demands it is a sign of mental illness.
Woah, slow down there, Dr. Schizo.

>>8843031
That's sensible, except MAME has these ridiculous dependencies and ROMset version incompatibilities for apparently arbitrary reasons.

>>8842507
To be honest I've had issues with those working. Like 90% of the time the parent version is the version to play, but in the cases where MAME goes full retard and puts a shitty version as the parent, just throw all the parent files within the zip into the version you want and then zip it up without changing the filename

>>8843104
For all we know these autists may have actually gone to therapy for data hoarding, or have been diagnosed with severe choice paralysis.
Or maybe they're dumb fucks who will gladly waste their time picking through 70GB of roms to remove unnecessary mahjong, but have no problem with saving a billion reaction images from here.

>>8843126
>picking through 70GB of roms to remove unnecessary mahjong
Or how about just downloading games you want to actually play like a sane person?

>>8843126
If you can't spare 70GB to have a working arcade ROMset, you might have other problems yourself. Anything past 5th gen is going to limit you tremendously if you want to have some games available.

>>8843150
Most people also don't want thousands of garbage files and have to rely on proprietary garbage software to sort through them

>>8843150
>If you can't spare 70GB to have a working arcade ROMset
I have every last game I want to play, working, at a fraction of that. Maybe you're just retarded.

>>8843153
Who knows, you might want a cheeky match of stip mahjong at some point in the future. If you're limited by storage, I get it, but if ~70GB aren't a big deal, might as well have the files there.

>>8843130
>downloading individual roms like it's 1999
That's a waste of time for regular systems, let alone Mame where you have look up dependencies.

>>8813748
>Metallica
Welp, so much for the MAME project. We had a good run, bros.

>>8843105
which is why if you need packs of gaems
get a nice front end like coinops or something


mame sucks balls unless you are autistic like me and needed that shyla fox arcade experience shes much hotter without the n64 shirt

>>8843153
>>8843167
>thousands of garbage files on my computer!
>i know every game i will want to play in the future
>bragging about saving a portion of 70 GB by not having things
Yep, it's autism

>>8843196
its not garbage its my games mom gosh

>>8843170
>dependencies
>select "merged set"
>done
Yep, retarded.

>>8843196
>i know every game i will want to play in the future
I know I'm not gonna play 1,350 nearly identical Mah Jongg games.

>>8843395
>an extra thing to do in addition to clicking each individual rom to download it like a fucking retard
Not worth my time

>>8843506
Yet scrolling through thousands of shit roms you've installed every time you want to find something to play is somehow better than picking the games you want up front? You have to look through a bunch of garbage at some point, whether it's before download, or before play. My way means you only do it once.

>>8843576
Not that anon, but I'm for the romset way too. It's fun to descover some new games, and when an anon talks about some stuff I don't know, I just need to search the name and play. In the long run it's a time saver, if you are the kind of anon that wanna try new stuff. If you just want to play some specific game it's a waste of space, not time. Almost 100 gb of shit aren't nothing, even in this day and age where 2 new games can up to that pile of shit. But with launchbox you can filter most of the shit out and have a 10gb romset. (careful to not delete the original romset, in my case launchbox deleted also some good games for some reason).

>>8843623
Yeah, I don't have a problem with somebody who wants a full romset, I just don't see that as necessary..

>>8843397
Some of thems gots titties though. Cartoon titties!

>>8841210
no they they didnt that thread hit post limit, this is the same thread respammed by our resident MAME autist.

>>8841639
you can overclock the CPU by 400% within mame, try that. it works for me in games that slowdown or need a boost, like Hard Drivin'

>enable auto-fire within Mame
>you cant set it to the same button you normally use with the game
>the docs have a 3 page explanation about setting up auto-fire
dev autism strikes again!
CHOO CHOO!

>>8843623
>even in this day and age where 2 new games can up to that pile of shit.

We're on the one game is 100GB stage anon
With weekly updates

>2.5 terrabytes of CHDs. yes TERRA-FUCKING-BYTES
>none of them work
trolled again , FUCK YOU MAME

>>8843623
>It's fun to discover some new games
this. I set the mame folder to Manufacturer, looked up "Taito" and discovered dozens of gems I've never played.

>be brainlet poorfag emukid 15 years ago
>discover mame
>wonder what the largest game is
>it's cube quest at over 20GB
>at that size it must be awesome
>none of the usual rom sites have it
>even if they did my internet it slow enough that it would take weeks to complete
>plus my parents would kill me if I left my pc on overnight let alone a month
>download it from rapidshare at 50kbps with hour long wait times in between parts
>complete it months later
>need to free up disk space before extracting the rar
>extract the file into my mame folder
>run it
>missing files blah blah
>i have the chd but not the rom files lol
>go and download the missing files
>they're tiny compared to the chd
>people make this out to be hard but it's really not
>try running it again
>it works
>runs at like 30% speed on my toaster
>game is shit anyway
>go play something else

>>8843868
welcome aboard the hate train!

Do FMV games like Dragons Lair or Timegal work on this?

>>8843965
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I don't wanna twist the knife too much, but I wanna remind you that the arcade experience it's also play with a bro at your side. For ex all beu genre is intended to be played in coop ihmo.

>>8843576
>scrolling through thousands of shit roms
You don't have to dump the entire set into your rom folder. For every other system I extract games from the set when I want to play them.
Mame handles filtering the roms in the program, so in this case it's okay to have the entire set in the folder.

>>8843965
Most laserdisc games don't work or run like shit on mame except for a few that only work on mame.
Look up the Daphne G2G bundle on archive for most games like Dragon's Lair.
Time Gal isn't even listed in mame, there's a fork of Daphne called Hypseus Singe that emulates a bunch of these games. Never tried it though.

>>8843576
Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin'.
Keep that ROM set scrollin'.