Like many other poor souls not privy to MAME ROMs and emulators I struggled to get my ROMs to work. It seemed like every time someone tried to explain it on a forum or blog post I left feeling more confused or discouraged, so I put it off. It's one of the most confusing parts of RetroPie.
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MAME 0.134 set is now available. Every single rom has been uploaded separately so you can get the one you need or download the whole set. It's up to you. Below you'll find a plain text file with all the links. You can import it into your download manager or just pick single links. It's about 23253 MB of data so you may need a premium account for that. Three people who will email me now will get a 30 Days Premium Account.
Download MAME 0.134 Full Romset from Rapidshare (link list): Direct Download Link: mame-0.134.rar
Update:
All three Premium RS accounts are already gone.
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Still struggling to get MAME ROMs working? Here is the answer, and it's simpler than you think.![]()
Finally I came across this helpful Reddit post that had a no bullshit answer and actual instructions of what to do and where to place the files.
EDIT: Here it is summarized below. For more details use the link to the post.
I was finally able to get Metal Slug working! Finally! FINALLY!!!
Why didn't the main GitHub Wiki have a simple example like this? It could have helped so many others that came before me. So, I updated the Wiki with some information that I think will really help others and would have helped me when I was struggling. I modified the table to remove the useless 'BIOS extension' column where each entry was '.zip' and added a paragraph with an example showing exactly what you need to do to get a MAME ROM working (along with a few other improvements).
TL;DR After struggling for weeks to get MAME ROMs to load correctly I finally stumbled upon a no bs answer here on Reddit and finally got my ROMs to work, which inspired me to update the official GitHub Wiki.
EDIT: Some simple, and great advice from comments below. Abcd 2 mp3 songs free download. 2 approaches: (1) To save yourself the headache of wondering whether you have the right files, try downloading the full romsets and throw those in the arcade directory. (2) Copy samples and BIOS into proper directories, then if filesnames have similar names such as game1a.zip, game1b.zip, etc. and make sure you keep these together.
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EDIT 2: About the mysterious 'samples' directory, thx /u/wotan: There's a folder called samples in the romset that contains sound files for games. Just copy the entire thing over to /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame2003/samples/
Mame 0.139 Full Roms
EDIT 3: It just dawned on me that a FAQ and TIPS sections on the GitHub Wiki MAME section would probably be really helpful. I will try to compile common questions and answers tonight as a start. More important: those with knowledge of these things should contribute to the Wiki so the RetroPie community needs it and can certainly benefit from it.
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EDIT 4: Removed a link.
Mame 2010 Reference Set
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Hi,
I searched the internet for some retropie / mame information but was not really able to get a clear answer on this.
I just installed retropie 3.7 from SD image and run emulationstation quite fine. now I'm confused about the version of mame I should use to run my mame games. i belive the performance issue is not really a problem as the pi 3 I have should be powerfull ennough to emulate most games. So, shall I select Ir-mame2010 as emulator as it seems to be the most up-to-date and supports way more roms as the other proposed emulators ?
Also, I'm confused about the romset to use. I currently have a 0.169 full romset. Can I upload it to my pi and will these roms work with lr-mame2010? Or do I need to convert the roms using clrmame ? Or will only the roms listed in 0.139 work, and roms added after that not work ?
Thanks for your help ! :)
Pi Model: pi3
RetroPie Version Used: 3.7 Built From: SD Image USB Devices connected: nothing Controller used: ps3 Error messages received: N/A Guide used: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/MAME File: N/A Emulator: that's the question :) Attachment of config files: N/A How to replicate the problem: N/A Comments are closed.
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