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8769607 No.8769607 [Reply] [Original]

you’ve got to make sure you’ve got the right romset, then you’ve got to get the parent rom, then you’ve got to find the chd, then you’ve got to locate the correct fucking samples … it’s all so tiring

>> No.8769662

>>8769607
imagine learning the GUI of mame for this

<img class="xae" data-xae width="29" height="32" src="https://s.4cdn.org/image/emotes/7a95728b_Gigachad.png">

>> No.8769792

>Emulator doesn't magically run games without having the actual ROMS
Why are MAMEdevs so stupid, bros?

>> No.8769809

>>8769607
Just get your boyfriend to set it up.

>> No.8769821

>>8769607
Kek. I think I went too far with this stuff to where getting all of those things and configuring them became more fun than the games themselves.

>> No.8769857
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>>8769821
I managed to set the CD-i emulation using MAME in my computer. The feeling on seeing everything finally boot up and load the intro cutscenes was exhilariting. I felt I was dreaming seeing those shitty Hotel Mario cutscenes run in my screen. The game was fucking awful but I felt like a chad managing to make everything run from shitty outdated guides from cached dead websites.

>> No.8769858

>>8769607
Got any better ideas?

>> No.8769872

>>8769607
rom sets change because better dumps are made available. you want to be stuck with out of date and incorrectly dumped roms? good for you. the rest of us update. go fuck yourself and stop trying to drag people down to your retarded level.

>> No.8770042

>>8769872
like 99% of roms have “known problems with this machine” or “imperfectly emulated features”, even basic stuff like Galaga or Donkey Kong; wtf is wrong with these retards that they still can’t dump a goddamn rom correctly?

>> No.8770114

>>8769607
Mame is as garbage as retroarch to setup but once you get it running it's good.
Such a shame the devs of both projects are lazy as fuck to fix such problems.

>> No.8770125

>>8769607
If you find the romset, you have all parent files.
The place you downloaded the romset probably has a matching chd set, if not lurk moar.
If you already have a romset l3rnto clrmamepro,
Everything else can be found at proggeto.

>> No.8770169

>>8770125
There is literally zero reason for an entire set. The only thing you might need the whole set for is the support files. But unless you plan on playing 1k+ games and want a dozen regional variants of each game, there is no fucking reason to get the entire set

>> No.8770281

>>8770169
so what's the best place to download individual games from?

>> No.8770301

>>8770281
The place that has all the outdated roms. But they all force you to update

>> No.8770314

>>8769857
There's a CD-i core on retroarch that dropped last month. It basically automates the entire process now. It's still based off of mame so it has the same compatibility.

>> No.8770465

>>8770281
Retroroms has always up-to-date roms and allows you to download them individually.

>> No.8770469

the ROMS should never have to be updated, ever. this is just shit MAME devs being shit.

no other emulator forces you to do this.

>> No.8770471

Imagine being so entitled that you complain that piracy isn't easy enough, in 2022

>> No.8770481

MEME is the only emulator where an update causes angst, its a fucking nightmare clearly written by autists.

>> No.8770510

>>8770469
Cry about it.

>> No.8770517

>>8769607
git gud

>> No.8770564

>>8770169
>gonna waste your time dealing with dependencies and shit over a rom set that's around 60 GB total
Fine if you're a spacelet but I don't need that extra work.
CHDs are different. Aren't updated as much and I think old CHDs will still work with a warning message. Old laserdisc games in the CHD set are 10+ GB each and most of them don't even work.

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8770595

>>8769607
Stop caring and just play the games you want to play. If you want to play the game badly enough you'll make it happen.

>> No.8770604

>>8770481
I love how this irritates Retroarch jagoffs when they do a daily update of all the cores on their mini-console. Then their games don't work. Mame devs don't give a fuck because it's not their problem. Seethe about it.

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8770618

>>8769607
Its too bloated now with close to 40,000 rom sets for all sorts of shit no one will ever use. At least Arcade cuts it down to just over 10,000 which is what I've been using for years.

>> No.8770621

>>8770618
I'll have to check this out.

>> No.8770623

>>8770621
https://arcade.mameworld.info/

>> No.8770632

>>8770623
So does this use MAME romsets?

>> No.8770642

>>8770632
Yeah it just cuts out all the worthless crap.

>> No.8770646

>>8770632
Exact same, it's literally MAME with the non-arcade stuff commented out.

>> No.8770657

>>8770642
>cuts out all the worthless crap.
Like being told I'm missing a parent ROM or CHD? CHDs are the worst because most places don't have them and I don't have time to become an expert at MAME, not unless I want everything else to go to shit. Such is life.

>>8770646
>with the non-arcade stuff commented out.
I heard that MAME can emulate other game systems, is that what you mean?

>> No.8770661

>>8770657
Everything from those Tiger Electronic handhelds to full consoles like NES, SNES, CDi, and computers from x86 stuff to things you can't emulate anywhere else like SGI workstations. Arcade also cuts out the stuff it says on it's page.

>> No.8770664

>>8770661
Ah thanks for clarifying, man.

>> No.8770710

This is the reason im still using a build from 10 years ago, and even the i only updated it to play Demon Front.

Sad part is a few months ago i wanted to play 4 players coop Cap America and the Avebgers but the ROM i have gets corrupted at the begginong of the 2nd level, i think i somehow updsted that one game only and cant find the correct one for my MAME build.

People complained about Byu being autistic, wonder what wpuld they call the MAME devs for the shit they pullout.

>> No.8770735

>>8770710
>Sad part is a few months ago i wanted to play 4 players coop Cap America and the Avebgers but the ROM i have gets corrupted at the begginong of the 2nd level, i think i somehow updsted that one game only and cant find the correct one for my MAME build.

It could have been a solar bit flip, anon. The sun's rays sometimes cause binary to "flip" the values of "1" and "0" causing many thing to break or even be fixed. Sucks though.
Did you ever get it working? Great game that I played a ton of in the arcade, btw.

>> No.8770895

>>8770465
Nobody uses up-to-date roms because of how stupid is to download the same game again everytime

>> No.8770928

>>8770895
You do realise the game logic in the older versions for lots of classics was just made up by the MAME developers? The reason why a lot of the ROMset changes occured were because they finally got dumps of the MCU code to make the games actually play properly. People would rather play these ersatz versions that only exist in MAME than update and play the real games.

>> No.8770941

>>8770895
>Nobody who keeps an up-to-date set has to download the same game again everytime
Fixed that for ya.
You seem to be one of the meme-spewing tards who thinks you have to update your entire romset with every new version of MAME. People who aren't retarded know most of the updates that happen are just more clones being added to the romset, and are to be ignored unless you're one of those people obsessed with keeping a fullset. Most of the parent roms for the popular games people actually play have been 99% the same since 0.150.

>> No.8770947

>>8770928
Are they still getting new "dumps of the MCU code" every month to this day? Why they keep updating if they already fixed it

>> No.8770948
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8770948

How would I go about using MAME if I specifically want to use it to play obscure games no one knows about?

I had an uncle when I was a kid that gave me a version of MAME burned onto a CD that had something over 1k games on it and a big part of my childhood was just fucking with that. What's the biggest equivalent of that today? Bigger the better.

>> No.8770975

>>8770947
Yes, most recent being Cookie and Bibi 2's P87C52EBPN and the S87C751 from World Beach Volley. They keep updating because of the new dumps.

>>8770948
Download latest version of MAME. Download latest romset you can find on the internet archive or the source of your choice. Use some rom manager program to figure out what needs fixing, if anything. Run MAME, filter by working, go. People rag on the obscure crap, but the PDC50 has some RPG-ish like dungeon crawling game that wasn't terrible, if a bit broken. If you wanna go hardcore, get the SL set with it and try out all the microcomputers.

>> No.8770984

>>8770947
Yes.
Even fucking Space Harrier wasn't dumped correctly until a few months ago. Arcade games are not like consoles, they are deliberately made to be extremely hard to get all the data out of, so in years gone past loads of corners were cut and shit simulated to make it look like the game was working, unless you knew the coin-op well (which is very few people).

>> No.8770986

>>8770941
So you test every single rom to see which one needs updating every time a new version comes up

>> No.8770998

>>8770986
>stay up to date with audit software to automatically fix your shit for you
Or
>just keep on using the same set until it finally spits up an error, then download a newer rom for that one game
Why the fuck would you test every fucking game with every update? Are you completely retarded?

>> No.8771087

>>8770998
>audit software
That's a quicker way of testing but you still have to replace the roms it tells you to every month. Having a complete set from an old version remains a lot easier.

>> No.8771235

>>8769607
At this point mame exists only for archiving purposes. You should use the variations like arcade and/or shmupmame if you actually want to play. fbneo is alright and the core works well on ra

>> No.8771284

you never have to update real hardware :)

>> No.8771307

>>8771284
couldn't have made a worse comparison if you tried

>> No.8771310

>>8771307
how? it's true.

>> No.8771316

>>8771310
You don't have to frequently update mame. Shmupmame uses the 0.148 version for example.
Also, good luck actually acquiring the real hardware for all of it.

>> No.8771343

>>8771235
>arcade
>Literally exactly the same as MAME but with some games hidden so tards don't have a 'tism fit when they see things they never even needed to download anyway
>shmupmame
>Mame from 10 years ago, only backgrounds don't move in sync with the rest of the graphics and some of the games it supports don't even have fucking sound yet

Some great recommendations there.

>> No.8771350

>>8771343
>good mame
yes

>> No.8771395

>>8769857
I really don't understand how you had any trouble at all. I got it working in MAMEUI 0.241 in like 2 seconds.

>> No.8771405

>>8770042
MAME's standards are ridiculously high.

>> No.8771406

>>8769872
>rom sets change because better dumps are made available.
yes, and usually these changes are just gratuitous filename changes, with little or no actual differing content. I wrote a script just to rename the roms automatically because I got so sick of redownloading everything.

>> No.8771412

MAME - Filtering scrubs since 1997.

>> No.8771414

MAME - Filtering scrubs since 1997.

>> No.8771429

>>8770281
i don't think it has stuff for arcades but there's vimm's lair
some of the later gens take a while to download though

>> No.8771721

>getting retarded about the updates
You either download update sets every month, or just don't update Mame. There's no reason to update Mame every month unless you're a hardcore mame autist. You can update every few years and download a full set then. I remember it working pretty decently in 2000, I think having a 2021 version instead of April 2022 will be just fine for playing old ass games.

>> No.8771812

>>8769607
When will they get Sega Model 2 games working? Unless they didn't bother getting them to work on the emulator because Model 2 Emulator exists.

>> No.8771818

>>8769607
You can't download a cure for retardation

>> No.8771835

>>8771812
>when will they get this 3D system working
You can assume probably never.

>> No.8771841

>>8771812
Model 2 uses a strange FIFO comms system to interface with the CPU and the 4-5 DSP's on the board. They just dumped the DSP's thanks to capsoff back in 2017, and even Guru was saying they weren't going to implement the dumps since it would push the emulation speed for their model 2 code down to sub-1FPS. That being said, they have been working on the Model 2 driver since Guru's assessment.

>> No.8771961

Good, that means you are retarded.
This is on purpose so brainlets like you don't complain about bugs that have been fixed a year ago.

>> No.8772568

>there are entire communities which offer the latest version as full downloads
op is too dumb to extract the winrar archives, checks out

>> No.8772670

>>8769607
or you just go on internet archive and download the torrent of the romset with the version number matching whatever version of mame your using

also lmao@chd games that require those aren't even real games

>> No.8772674

>>8771812
m2e source code was donated to mame devs but it's apparently incompatible with mame philosophy because it's built on speed and hacks instead of accuracy

>> No.8772854

>>8772674
Apparently it's a load of Vivanonno-level recreation in now ancient D3D9 code rather than actual emulation, so wasn't very useful. Remember the TGP graphics chips weren't even dumped in those days.

>> No.8773146

the meme devs are so lazy and imcompetent that it will never have more than 5% of working titles before they all die.
MAME needs to be taken over by non-trannies

>> No.8773358

The MAME devs are busy working on features that people actually want like supporting more Tiger handhelds.

>> No.8773497

>>8773146
>5%
Lol, filtered.
They support 44,474 machines on the arcade side, parent roms and clones included. 15,912 of those sets are working. And most of the non-functional shit is gambling machines that the people who hate MAME claim to not care about.
There are 10,585 actual arcade machines registered in MAME, 4,214 if you only count parent sets.
There are 6,372 95%-100% working arcade machines, 2,216 if you only count parent sets.
2,290 arcade machines are imperfect but still playable or mostly playable, 937 if only counting parent sets.
1,923 games arcade machines are considered unplayable or not working, 1,061 if only counting parents.
Add it up, and 75% of all known arcade games can be played in MAME, and about 50% are pretty much flawless.
What doesn't work is Naomi/Atomiswave, most Model 2 games, most of the Laserdisc games, 3 out of the 4 Namco System 21 games, Hyper Neo-Geo 64 games, some of the Konami GV system games, Triforce games, a bunch of Konami System 573 games, and a whole lot of really old TTL games.

>> No.8773601

>>8771721
This. I just download a fullset for whatever the new version is every few years or so. It's relatively hassle free.

>> No.8773640

>>8773497
>What doesn't work is
99% of the games people care about.

>> No.8773667

How the fuck do I compile mame on linux? Debian keeps getting error 2 on seemingly random points and on fedora the whole terminal just shuts down after a while. Am I just too stupid for this? I know I've managed to compile it before but I don't really remember if I had any problems then.

>> No.8773670

>>8773640
>has no argument
>can't even name the games he cares so much about
I notice the people who hate MAME are amazingly retarded, and can't even make a decent argument.

>> No.8773682

>>8773670
>0 support for sega model 3
>basically no support for sega model 1/2
>"arcade emulator"
laughing at your life right now kiddo

>> No.8773705

Has anyone ever managed to play through MAME and get 100% trophies/achievements?

>> No.8773706

>>8773682
Mame isn't the best option for those, use Supermodel.
It's shit for laserdisc games too, use Daphne (get the pre-configured Daphne GTG Good To Go bundle with all the games from archive, it's an absolutely retarded emulator)
I don't use Mame for consoles either becuase those have better emulators.
For most older arcade games mame is the best option. Figure out how to use it or cope with a worse emulator becuase you think user friendliness trumps accuracy.

>> No.8773753

>>8770710
MAME devs aren't pedo trannies who fake their death for Twitter sympathy at least.

>> No.8774482

>>8770510
thats not a rebbutal

>> No.8774585

>>8773497
Majority of the games people give a shit about have graphics/audio/timing issues, even many pre-2000s games. Fuck these incompetent hacks.

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>>8769607
>mame
https://youtu.be/1ftw88mDtG8?t=1400

take the fbneopill

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>>8773706
>It's shit for laserdisc games too, use Daphne
It will be way better than Daphne soon, pic related.
>>8774585
>Majority of the games people give a shit about have graphics/audio/timing issues
Like what?

>> No.8775961

>>8775552
>It will be way better than Daphne soon, pic related
Assuming the games fucking work, which is the only anybody uses garbage like Daphne in the first place.

>> No.8776004

>>8775961
Time Traveller works great, the picture quality of the laserdisc rip is extremely impressive.
The only problem is they're being gay and coy about supporting Dragons Lair/Space Ace etc, even though the proverbial horse has fucking bolted, died, and been turned to glue by now.

>> No.8776009

>>8769607
The parent/child system could probably be phased out now because storage space isn't an issue like it was back in the day. But everything else about MAME's methodology is perfect and should be the standard for all roms, consoles included.

>> No.8776023

>>8776004
>The only problem is they're being gay and coy about supporting Dragons Lair/Space Ace etc, even though the proverbial horse has fucking bolted, died, and been turned to glue by now.
We have digital leisure to thank for that. Those guys will try to sue the hell out of anyone who even looks at Dragon's Lair without their permission. The only reason they didn't try to sue Daphne out of existence was because Daphne requires you to have a legit copy of the games to rip data from. MAME has a legal budget of 0 dollars, so I think they want to avoid digital leisure at all costs.

>> No.8776110

>>8776023
Ok, that's a good reason.
>>8776009
>The parent/child system
It's worth pointing out this isn't the software's fault, it's users and especially ROM sites for mostly only offering this setup for download due to it saving bandwidth. You can already completely ignore this paradigm, but people consistently choose not to.

>> No.8776297

>>8773667
Just for the sake of documenting my retardation, I'd like to say that the fedora system most likely just ran out of ram(?) because I was able to compile it without any -j options with make. Of course, that executable did not run on my debian machine because of the newer version of gcc on fedora but I managed to compile it on debian too after concentrating on the error messages for more than a second and finding out that I just needed to pass some environment variables to tell it to actually use qt5 instead of ''.

>> No.8776325

>>8774482
And here comes the tears.

>> No.8776335

>>8769607
>install retroarch
>install mame2003+ core
>download latest non-merged mame2003 set from archive
>scan into retroarch
That’s it. That is literally all you need to do. It is caveman simple.
You faggots won’t be happy until the emu devs come over to your house, set the whole thing up for you, buy you lunch and jerk you off.
Learn2Computer

>> No.8776359

>>8776023
>Daphne requires you to have a legit copy of the games to rip data from.
This is why the G2G bundle is the only way to use it. It has an older version of the emulator before they put it in the copyright protection. The emulator itself is a complete shitshow and even has a built in bittorrent client. It's 100x worse than any Mame problems mentioned in this thread.

>> No.8776360

>>8769607
>the right romset
That's your preference and no one else's fault.
>parent rom
Never not been the case. Do realize that sets come in combined zips, right? Sure, you have bootleg games included, but they are tiny. Not like you have to play them either.
>then you’ve got to find the chd
Oh no! I have to look for this other thing which will be conveniently found on the same site I'm perusing now! The HUMANITY!
>samples
There's only one place that has up to date samples, and everyone knows where it is.
Lazy. Whiny. FAG.

>> No.8776365

>>8776335
>gimp mame for your shitberry pi

>> No.8776401

>>8774585
If this is true (it isn't), then feel free to fix the problems and submit your code. That's kind of the point of the whole thing.

>> No.8776413

>>8776365
Literally fully featured mame for my PC retard. Do you think everyone who uses retroarch limits themselves to a pi?

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>>8769607
Babby mode for MAME beginners in 2022

>download RetroArch
>search "mame roms archive.org" on google and find the latest set available there
>use http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/ to look up the filenames for the games you want
>download them from archive.org
>MAME .zip files now include all the parents and clones so if you want to play a different version of the game just copy it and rename it to the other version. Use arcade italia to figure out the right filename
>use the MAME current core in Retroarch, or use the normal MAME standalone if you prefer
>if a game doesn't load you need the BIOS or CHD files for it, use MAME standalone and try to load the game and it will tell you what you are missing
>get the BIOS and CHD files from archive.org

was that so hard?

>> No.8776447

>>8776413
You're using Mame2003, the retard version for slow computers.
>MAME 2003 is a libretro arcade system emulator core originally derived from xmame 0.78. This core is a popular choice for the Raspberry Pi family and other low-powered hardware because it supports most 2D-era arcade games and a broad set of features without requiring as much processor and memory resources as later MAME cores.
You're on a computer, you can use real mame.

>> No.8776464

>>8776421
The no bullshit version
>find a complete rom set, note which version of Mame it's for
>download the whole thing because you're not on mom's ipad, you have space
>download the version of the mame emulator that matches your rom set

>> No.8776470

>>8776447
I was under the impression mame2003+ is a fork of regular mame that is continually updated due to its better compatibility at the behest of regular mame devs.

>> No.8776475

>>8776464
>downloading full romsets
ngmi

>> No.8776569

>>8776421
Meanwhile in any other emulator.
>Download emulator
>search download rom on search engine of choice
>load (usually clearly named game.rom) rom
It's just more complicated, not hard. The multitude of different romsets, versions and the fact that you need this, that file and maybe this file sometimes to run a given given game all add up to a more frustrating experience than what most people are used to. The mame ui being a bit clunky doesn't help either.

>> No.8776830

>>8776470
No MAME dev has anything to do with any retroarch core. Period. It was all ported into a core by other people.

>> No.8776843

>>8776475
I don't know what games I want to play in the future so I get them all.
>oh no i'm wasting gigs of hard drive space that could be used for tranny porn

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>>8776830
You are wrong and fat.
https://docs.libretro.com/library/mame2003_plus/
This clearly states that mame2003+ is indeed an active fork that has added plenty of games with lots of bug fixes to the 2003 romset.

>> No.8776905

>another episode of pretending that googling a romset that matches your emulator, downloading the ROM into the ROM folder and hitting f5 is too hard

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>>8769607
For me it's GGPO + full romset, you get plenty of arcade games in a 15gb torrent and you just open and play it in 2 seconds

>> No.8776953

>>8776843
Try downloading a game one at a time and also searching up flyers, manuals, marquees, overlays, magazine reviews, strategy guides, and video advertisements.
By the time you are done your mental investment in the game will be ready to play it and you'll spend more than 5 minutes with it.

>> No.8777057

>>8776953
I already do that.
I don't see why individually downloading the roms needs to be part of that, but if it works for your own personal autism that's fine.
>spend more than 5 minutes with it
Except these are arcade games and it is okay to spend 5 minutes/1 credit on it.

>> No.8777119

>>8769607
>can't set the same joystick input for the interface and the game itself
This is when I started using Final Burn Neo and never went back to that piece of shit that is MAME

>> No.8777150

>>8777119
What exactly are you talking about?

>> No.8777181

>>8777150
The MAME interface and games need to use different input to navigate them. It's ludicrous.
I need to use WASD to move in game and I had to set YGHJ to move inside the MAME interface.

>> No.8777201

>>8777181
That is simply not true. You mean it doesn't work any other way, as in it won't accept that setting? I don't understand. When was that supposed to be the case? 15 years ago?

>> No.8777271

>>8776895
No fatty, he is right. MAME 2003+ is a retroarch invention designed for poors to run MAME on their Pi shitboxes. No one else should be using it and none of the original developers are involved.
It's deliberately designed as a bastardised version of MAME a) because it was all that would run on the crap hardware that RA became popular for its support of and b) as a fuck you to the MAME team by the nutcase who runs RA after his attempt to shake them down failed.

There's no such meaningful thing as "the 2003 ROMset". Again, this is all an invention to make an ancient piece of software that was being recycled against the terms of its original licence look like it was some legitimate informed choice instead of a random ancient bit of other people's code being propped up weekend at Bernies style.
It appears it worked.

>> No.8777289

>>8776895
>mamedev
It was forked from MAME, the mamedevs are not maintaining that. MAME 2003-Plus team is. They are the ones that ported MAME to a core, not the MAME dev team.

>>8776830
>No MAME dev has anything to do with any retroarch core. Period. It was all ported into a core by other people.
>>8776895
>This clearly states that mame2003+ is indeed an active fork
Point out where I said it wasn't an active fork.

>> No.8777294

>>8775405
fucking bloatware lmao

>> No.8778038

>>8776843
>gigs
>hard drive
>tranny porn
worst.unintentional.toll.ever

>> No.8779360

>>8777201
As in, if I set WASD to move the fucking joystick, I can't set it up again to move the in-game joystick because it erase the fucking thing.
Anyway I moved to FBNeo so I don't give a shit about MAME anymore

>> No.8779459

>>8779360
Yeah, you're a retard. Chalking this one up to user error, everyone. To be fair, MAME input configuration can be a bit of a pain at times but I have no idea what sort of situation you had maneuvered yourself into. Doesn't matter anyway right? You've moved on and don't care anymore. Only just enough to complain about it. How convenient for everyone.

>> No.8779503

>>8779459
What more do you want me to do? Reinstall that piece of shit just to prove you wrong?
I used plenty emulators over the years and I know how to fucking configure them.
MAME has a fucking godawful UI and it wasn't "user error"

>> No.8779540

>>8779503
>MAME has a fucking godawful UI
Nah I'd say that retroarch's is worse

>> No.8779545

>>8779540
I agree on that point. Retroarch is the fucking worst

>> No.8779547

>>8779503
I don't want you to do anything. Thought I made that clear.

>> No.8779561

>>8779503
It was still your fault though. Mine (and I'm sure everybody else's MAME) is set up just the way you desired yours to function and I've never heard of anyone having trouble with this before. I play with a stick and control the entire GUI with it too - save for a few functions like pausing, bringing up the menu, exiting, fullscreen, service menu and the like.

On top of that my keyboard is also redundantly set up to with all the bindings needed to play and control the UI. You must have overlooked something very basic for it not to work.

>> No.8779721
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8779721

>>8779561
MameUI chad here
Can control the in-game UI with keyboard or the joystick mapped to the game controls
Mame just works

>> No.8779791
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8779791

>grab a version
>grab a romset
>keep it for the next 5 years
>repeat

Not a big deal.

>> No.8781436

>>8779791
>keep it for the next 5 years
There is literally nothing wrong with this.
If you think there is, you're saying nobody should have played anything on Mame until 2022. Because it was just too inaccurate.

>> No.8781605

Its not really that hard after i found the whole collection on archive.org.
By using google i also found some really rare files that were missing for some games. I couldnt get one game to work and luckily some guy one YouTube comments told me how to do it. But that game doesnt work anyway. Maze of kings.