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Anyone else here curate their MAME romsets? Instead of dumping a full set of crap or picking out like 5 games, actually going through the entire MAME library and picking stuff out? Latest version I have has 2001 games and 1045 if you don't count clones. All hand-picked. Also, I'm using Arcade, which removes 99% of the crap that's been added the past decade or so.

>> No.6072905

Curate your life and kill yourself.

>> No.6072907

Actually don't kill yourself. Instead be the hero we need and upload your curated set somewhere for your vr brothers. Save us from the hell that is having to deal with the mame's weird obsession with calculators and fruit machines.

>> No.6072918

>>6072905
>>6072907
http://arcade.mameworld.info/
https://pastebin.com/cBr5VDzq

>> No.6072926

Also as a list of ROM names. Maybe if you have a source you could convert this into a list of files to download. Assuming they're not full merged, or you'll get all the crap bootlegs and useless regional variations. https://pastebin.com/Amf4dYRL

>> No.6073115
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>>6072918
>>6072926
You should check out:
Riot
Cool Riders
Thunder Fox
Gun Force II
Thunder Hoop
Thunder Hoop 2
Spinal Breakers
B.Rap Boys

>> No.6073380

>>6073115
>Riot
I actually did try this one, but didn't like the controls. Maybe I'll try it again.
>Cool Riders
Looks pretty ridiculous, and I dunno about those digitized sprites.
>Thunder Fox
Tried this one, too. Thought it was pretty dull. Maybe I'll give it another shot.
>Gun Force II
That's on the list, bro. Line 675. lol
>Thunder Hoop
Don't know if I'd add it to the collection, but it looks ok. Reminds me of early PC games like Duke 2.
>Thunder Hoop II
This is also on the list as "TH Strikes Back", line 1725.
>Spinal Breakers
Didn't try this one, but it looks like Riot except even worse. lol
>B.Rap Boys
I've seen this one and DJ Boy before. Can't stand the art style. In fact most of Kaneko's arcade output is pretty garbage. I should make a meme MAME set for stuff like this and Explosive Breaker. Love that stock photograph helicopter attack.

>> No.6073394

I use ArcadeFix by that one autist from that Italian forum. He also provides the romset for it.

It's extremely easy to find and use. You'd have to be a console-owning /vr/ retard to fail to find it.

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>>6073394
>It's extremely easy to find and use. You'd have to be a console-owning /vr/ retard to fail to find it.

Yeah, no, you're a retard. This shit is obscure as fuck. I found it searching "ArcadeFix" MAME and it's like the 5th result and the forum looks like this. Holy shit.

Anyway, the point wasn't to download someone else's curated set, it's to build it yourself to see what games you really like.

I will see what his curated set looks like anyway. I'm willing to bet it's a dumpster fire, though!

>> No.6073426

>>6073394
Yeah, ok, I don't even need to download this to know it's a dumpster fire. It's all in a giant .zip that I can't really look into anyway, but just from the file size I can tell this is NOT a curated set, but just everything in MAME thrown in together that's not slot machine bullshit, which is similar to what Arcade does anyway. The entire size of my set, including CHDs, is 13.3 GB. This guy's ROMs alone are 20.1 GB. There is no way in hell this is curated to any serious degree.

>> No.6073503

whats the problem with regular mame?

>> No.6073506
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>>6073426
Yeah, it's a set for everything Arcade(Fix) can play. I like that. You're stupid, so no wonder you can't handle it.

Oh and the forum looks like this. You're just a console-owning simpleton that doesn't know how to block ads and other obtrusive elements. I bet you use Chrome or some shit like that.

>> No.6073513

>>6073503
Since ~0.183? Nothing. It's fine now.

>> No.6073517

>>6072885
I really should. I'm sick of seeing romsets stuffed with countless fruit machines. Alright, fine, preserve them, but no one wants to play every fucking version of of the Eastenders video fruit machine.

>> No.6073605

>>6073426
Yeah op, you're retarded for not downloading a pack almost twice the size of your pack when you're trying to cut down the size of your pack. You probably play on a console and actually enjoy video games, you fucking furry faggot.

>> No.6073617

>>6073605
Lol, salty tranny.

>> No.6073629

>>6073506
You still sound like a retard. Also, the funniest bit is this:

"NOT USE CLRMAMEPRO!!!

The my roms are complete and verified
to 100% for the relative version,
Attention: ClrMamePro and similar
tools can destroy my personal romset."

His pile of garbage is such a dumpster fire, if you even try to run a ROM auditor on it, it breaks the shit out of it. That is an astounding level of incompetence.

>> No.6073694

>>6073629
Give adblocking a try. And dilation.

>> No.6073696

Yes I do, and I don't really fuck with fancy front ends. I just use MameUI and I have an excel file to keep track of what games I have, what runs, etc.

>> No.6073704

>>6073696
Why not use the built-in auditing tool? It's not perfect (it whines when you don't have 10,000 bootlegs in your set), but better than nothing.

>> No.6073705

>>6072885
I acquire games one at a time, and I still have more than I will ever care to play.

>> No.6073713

>>6073704
It doesn't work for 30% of my games and I can't be bothered to fix it. Plus in my own spreadsheet I can sort them in any way I want

>> No.6073743

>>6073713
>It doesn't work for 30% of my games
Does this mean you just ignore MAME's warning that your games might not even work?

>> No.6074083

>Relying on a 17 year old Brazillian kid to tell you what arcade games to play
Shameful

>> No.6075613

Curated merged set is at 0.209(I gotta update), has something over 2000 titles. 34.89GBs fully zipped, includes CHD games except the laserdisc games. Only WORKING games, no non-arcade titles.

>> No.6075671

>>6075613
Good job. But there really isn't much beyond 0.209 worth fucking with, honestly. There was a super rare Taito game Super Dead Heat added. Overhead racing game. Sound makes my ears bleed, though.

>> No.6075680

>>6075671
what about 207?

>> No.6075689

curating regular roms is pointless. CHDs are a lot bigger therefore it makes sense to pick and choose these

>> No.6075693

>>6072885
Yep! Its hard but worth it. I need to have a giant list of Mame ROM names in text format so I can ctrl-f through the romset, fin necessary chds and stuff, and then drag\drop.

>> No.6076109

>>6075680
There was an interesting Atari prototype game called Akka Arrh that was added.

>> No.6076126

>>6075689
Yeah, no. Sorry, but I don't feel like trying to sift through 10,000 bootlegs, hacks, useless regional variations, old versions, slot machines, mahjongs, etc. to find the games I actually want to play.

>> No.6076130

>>6075693
It's easier to run the audit tool and see what it's complaining about missing.

>> No.6076140

>>6073743
yeah I don't give a shit about the warnings. I'll decide for myself if it plays well or not

>> No.6076162

>>6076140
Well, good luck with that. Don't blame anyone else if the game suddenly freezes, crashes or starts acting retarded.

>> No.6076235 [DELETED] 

I'm not sure I understand what this thread is about. I have a full ROM set, the CHDs and BIOS devices too. Did "install" them all? Hell no, well the BIOS files I did.

Like if I hear about an interesting game I just grab it from the archive and drop it into the ROM directory. If it needs a CHD then that too of course.

Are you guys doing anything differently here? I'm defintitely going through the entire thing, checking out every title on Youtube or something like that. That would be crazy. I have ~300 games installed. I'd post the exported.txt but I can't (banned).

>> No.6076242

I'm not sure I understand what this thread is about. I have a full ROM set, the CHDs and BIOS devices too. Did I "install" them all? Hell no, well the BIOS files I did.

Like if I hear about an interesting game I just grab it from the archive and drop it into the ROM directory. If it needs a CHD then that too of course.

Are you guys doing anything differently here? I'm defintitely not going through the entire thing, checking out every title on Youtube or something like that. That would be crazy. I have ~300 games installed. I'd post the exported.txt but I can't (banned). Oh yeah, and I use regular MAME.

>> No.6076250

>>6076242
Use Arcade. It's a lot more manageable and gets rid of 99% of the crap. Not counting clones or games that aren't working, it's "only" 3,845 games. That's easy enough to sift through.

>> No.6076253

>>6076250
But why do you care about "removing" games? why dont you just download the games that you want?

>> No.6076259

>>6076253
Most people are lazy and just dump the whole set in there and then never touch any of it. Or only download a handful of games they already know about instead of discovering anything new on their own. Wether you only d/l the ones you want, or d/l the entire set and only move ones you want to the rom folder, it's better than doing the aforementioned.

>> No.6076283

>>6076250
I'm not going to use your fucking... whatever that is,dude. ArcadeFix. No one's ever heard of that shit, okay shill? And even if I was intrigued by it you still failed to give a reason to make the switch. Because it's a subset of a MAME romset? That's not a reason for me. I WANT the whole set.

>> No.6076298

>>6076162
>Don't blame anyone else if the game suddenly freezes, crashes or starts acting retarded.
I wasn't going to. lighten up

>> No.6076303

>>6076283
>ArcadeFix
You haven't even read the thread, have you?
>>6076283
>I WANT endless trash taking up space on my HDD.
lol.

>> No.6076340

>>6076303
You have trouble finding ~60GB of free storage space on your PC? The SD card in my 3DS holds more data than that dude. Just how poor are you?

>> No.6076343

>>6076340
The CHDs take up way more than that.

>> No.6076352

>>6076343
~440GB on my set, still not that big of a deal I say

>> No.6076354

>>6076352
It is lame that you don't need any of that data most of the time though, I'll give you that.

>> No.6076373

>>6076352
You realize most of that is games that don't work and probably will never work (and even if they did, they'd run at 10 seconds per frame), right?

>> No.6076379

>>6076373
I didn't read the thread and you didn't read that >>6076354 and this exchange if over. Good day.

>> No.6076453

Mame should have stuck to arcade and not merged with the other project.

>> No.6076467

>>6076453
>arcade games past 2005ish started using x86 hardware
>merging with an emulator that has x86 as one of the goals is a bad idea
Not following you on this one.

>> No.6076484

>>6076467
PC based arcade games are at most a virtualization job. In most cases they just need an API wrapper and a few hacks to convince it it's still running on an arcade machine in glorious nippon.

>> No.6076490

>>6072885
>I'm using Arcade, which removes 99% of the crap that's been added the past decade or so.
MAME emulates non-arcade games too?

>> No.6076507

>>6072907
Meme emulates slots now? Jesus christ why dont those fucking niggers just make a new emulator instead of cramming it all into one it really isnt convenient at all

>> No.6076513

>>6076484
>a few hacks
Accuracy is the main goal remember?

>> No.6076536

>>6076513
Yes, emulating a 100% PC and windows based game on a PC running windows using entirely LLE is exactly the kind of pants-on-head retarded bullshit that's kept MAME as a joke status emulator for decades.

>> No.6076540

>>6076490
>>6076507
You guys are just realizing this? MESS and MAME merged years ago. In 2015, in fact. And they had been steadily adding other garbage (slot machines, mahjong) by the bucketload before this.

>> No.6076558

>>6076540
I haven’t played MAME (or any emulator for that matter) in like 5 years.

>> No.6076567

>>6076536
>complaining about accuracy focus in an emulator that focuses on accuracy at the expense of everything else
People did the same thing with BSNES. Now it's the superior SNES emulator. Huh, it's almost like focusing on accuracy pays off in the end. Who would have thunk it?

>> No.6076572

>>6076567
BSNES is one option out of many for SNES emulators, just like MAME is one option out of many for arcade emulators. TeknoParrot does today what MAME might do a decade from now.

>> No.6076609

>>6076572
I never said BSNES was the only option, I said it was the superior option. It's the only SNES emulator with HD Mode 7 AND the ability to play SMW romhacks before they figured out they were fucking up sound. It's more accurate and has more useful features than any other SNES emulator.

And that's the entire point of a focus on accuracy. Eventually the program will become the best available. Focusing on making it just werk now means it will eventually get left in the dust like ZSNES, NESticle, or Final Burn Alpha.

>> No.6076640

What's the point? All the interesting games that run on MAME well are old as hell and for that you should be running GroovyMame. None of the late 90's 3D arcade games will ever run well on Mame or at all.

>> No.6076675

>>6076640
GroovyMAME is up-to-date with current MAME. Maybe you're thinking of AdvanceMAME? That one is still back on 0.106.

>> No.6076697

>>6076540
Why tho? It's so pointless and stupid just more bloated romsets I really dont give a fuck about emulating konami fists of fire or else I'd just go to the casino

>> No.6076707

>>6076126
then just type the name of it

>> No.6076713

>>6076707
That would still bring up all the bootlegs, hacks, useless regional variations, old versions, anything with a similar name that I don't care about, etc.

>> No.6076716

>>6076697
The MAME dev team went off the deep end. All they care about now is shoveling more non-working crap nobody cares about in there. And even if it did work, it'd run like shit.

>> No.6076830

>>6076675
I thought GroovyMAME was old because you need to use old ATI drivers, or at least old enough to have VGA out.

>> No.6076838

>>6076830
GroovyMAME will work fine with LCDs if you set it to use LCDs.

>> No.6076938

>>6076838
counterintuitive

>> No.6076989

>>6076540
The fucking autismo lords that put gambling shit and other nonsense in their romsets should be soundly beaten with a rubber garden hose.

>> No.6077478

>>6076938
What's interesting is the low latency feature in GroovyMAME was implemented in Arcade in 0.216. So I don't see any reason to use it anymore if you're using an LCD. Both of them have lowlatency option in mame.ini now.

>> No.6077480

>>6076989
Yeah, I don't know what compels people to seek out "full sets" when they're full of useless garbage, most of which is marked as NOT_WORKING anyway.

>> No.6078062

I just want a working CVS2 rom.

>> No.6078134

>>6078062

I feel like Demul should probably run that? MAME isn't for anything more advanced than like NFL Blitz when it comes to 3D games imo

>> No.6079152

>>6078062
DEMUL runs Naomi/Naomi 2, Atomiswave, Hikaru, Galeco.
Zinc runs ZN1/2 games.
Model Two Emulator runs Model 2 games.
Super Model Emulator runs Model 3 games.

Everything beyond this era of arcade games is all PC-based and just needs a wrapper to run on your Windows PC natively 99% of the time, if it wasn't just re-released on home PCs anyway.

>> No.6079161

>>6079152
I forgot to mention Chihiro, which currently has no real emulator because it's based on the original Xbox, which hasn't gone anywhere in decades in terms of emulation.

>> No.6079289

>>6072885
Yeah, I did it for MAME, NES, SNES, Genesis, PSX, Saturn, PCE, and GBA.

I didn't do it all at once. It was a culmination of playing ROMs for almost 2 decades.

Looking at my list, there are

15 SNES games

12 NES games

12 Genesis games

6 PCE/CD games

7 PS1 games

42 arcade games

3 GBA games

3 Saturn games

A couple criteria:

>no RPGs, SRPGs, etc
>no fighting games (I think playing fighting games alone is kinda pointless)

I played almost every single ROM released, except RPGs and other text-heavy games.

It's not necessarily a list of the "best games on the system" or whatever. Because there are many good games that I purposely didn't include in my list. It's simply a list of good games that I really like.

>> No.6079765

>>6079289
You're a picky eater, but that's commendable.

>> No.6079843

>>6079289
What are the 3 GBA games? I'm curious.

>> No.6080308

>>6079765
I'm actually not a picky person, certainly not with food. Just with games, I guess.

>>6079843
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Drill Dozer
Metroid: Zero Mission

>> No.6080637

>>6072885
for some reason street fighter 3 and some other games aren't working for me on fbneo

>> No.6080640

>>6080637
Dont you need CHDs for those games?

>> No.6080741

>>6080640
Yes, SF3 requires the CHD to be present.

>> No.6080851

>>6080640
>>6080741
There are NO CD variations that don't require CHDs (or take forever to boot up for the first time)

>> No.6080869

>>6080851
Oh yeah, I actually use one of those. Didn't really chatch up to the fact that I could've gotten rid of the CHD after making the switch.

>> No.6081446

>>6080869
>>6080851
>>6080741
>>6080640
not to ask to be spoonfed but im just using a rasberrypi 3b with retropie and can't get it to run along with MvC2, Melty Blood, and a few other games
it works fine most though. but no luck with those

>> No.6081695

>>6081446
That's not on you. At the current time those two don't run. They never did.

SF3 though? That one's on you. Most like your ROM version doesn't match your emulator version which can cause the game not to work. So make sure MAME and ROM are of the same version. If you're downloading ROMs from a source that does not state the ROM's version, you should evidently stop doing that. Site's like that are worthless for MAME stuff really.

Anyway, as was already pointed out, the best way to play SF3 is the NO CD variant. Unlike other versions it boots instantly and does not require the CHD. The ROM is called sfiiinr1.zip and shows up in MAME as (Japan 990512, NO CD). It is a clone variant of the game and for those to run requires the parent ROM to be present as well - which in this case is called sfiii3.zip. So you need both sfiii3.zip (parent) and sfiiinr1.zip (clone) to run the NO CD clone.

The parent game will actually not run in this scenario. It itself requires the CHD because well, it's not the NO CD version and that data is storen in the CHD.

No BIOS files are needed to run Street Fighter 3.

>> No.6081727

>>6081446
>MvC2, Melty Blood
You need Demul for these. You could also just get Melty Blood for PCs since it's been ported ages ago and runs fine.