Can't Load Any Mame Roms...

[lancelott]

I've tried several MAME ROMs (Puzzle Bobble, Metal Slug, Metal Slug 2) and they all give me something like this:

Loading "Puzzle Bobble / Bust a Move"...
puzzb_p1.rom
puzzb_s1.rom
ng-sfix.rom
Unable to open ROM
Error reading ROM
Unable to initialize machine emulation
LOAD FAILED: Press A button...

What is happening? I got these ROMs from a 0.36 set torrent, which shouldn't be that much of a difference from what GP2X uses.

My mame is in /games/mamegp2x/. Does it HAVE to be in the root of the SD?

Anyone know why it would do this?

 

[TelcoLou]

Look for the 0.34 torrent for the GP2X.

 

[lancelott]

Wait a second...there's no ng-sfix.rom in the zips.

What is that file for? It didn't come with MAME or anything...

 

[vcd_pat]

Lancelott, if you want to play mame roms you have to have it set like this: G:\mamegp2x\roms\
G is the drive letter for my SD card. The emulator should be placed inside the mamegp2x folder.
The mamegp2x emulator from the gp2x files archive only works with 0.34 roms. Check the gameslist.txt that comes with the emulator it gives you unique rom names that are in 0.34 format, these will work on the gp2x. I had lots of probs with error messages until a friend pointed me in the right direction. Good luck.

I've tried several MAME ROMs (Puzzle Bobble at Metal Slug at Metal Slug 2) and they all give me something like this:

Loading "Puzzle Bobble / Bust a Move"...
puzzb_p1.rom
puzzb_s1.rom
ng-sfix.rom
Unable to open ROM
Error reading ROM
Unable to initialize machine emulation
LOAD FAILED: Press A button...

What is happening? I got these ROMs from a 0.36 set torrent, which shouldn't be that much of a difference from what GP2X uses.

My mame is in /games/mamegp2x/. Does it HAVE to be in the root of the SD?

Anyone know why it would do this?