Mame Rom Versions

[WarmFluffyUK]

Howdy Doody folks,

I was trying to get mame on my GP32 to work, I have lots of roms for Mame 6 on my PC, but on trying to run them on my GP I keep getting told that the rom contains errors, files are missing etc . I'm guessing that I don't have the right ROM versions as I remember similar problem between MAME3 and MAME6 on the PC. I have tried ROMS from older versions of MAME too, but still have the same problem.

Anyone know what version ROMS I should be useing :blink: ?

TTFN,
Clare.

 

[Gruntfuggly]

Which GP MAME are you trying? Bear in mind, that none of them really work. gMame (by Mirko Roller) can only run three ROMS, and I never managed to get any of them working. Craigix's MAME only runs 8080 based games, but I think it works a lot better, although I've not tried it.

Xcade is probably your best bet, but again, it doesn't run many games - but the ones it does run are pretty good...

 

[Steve-O]

I dont think mame is working properly on the GP32 yet

There was a Mame Emulator called Gmame that was released that Supported 6 (or 8) Games or something

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Hia,

I have tried Xcade and GMame, and none of my roms appear to work.

Failing this, do you know of a nice Pacman clone for the GP. This is one game I can't actually find

Ta Ta For Now,
Clare.

 

[raven]

Hia,

I have tried Xcade and GMame, and none of my roms appear to work.

Failing this, do you know of a nice Pacman clone for the GP. This is one game I can't actually find

Ta Ta For Now,
Clare.

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Xcade works just fine and Pacman works fine if the roms are properly converted to pdb-files.

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Hia,

I have tried Xcade and GMame, and none of my roms appear to work.

Failing this, do you know of a nice Pacman clone for the GP. This is one game I can't actually find 

Ta Ta For Now,
Clare.

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Xcade works just fine and Pacman works fine if the roms are properly converted to pdb-files.

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This is all fine (if it worked), I have tried converting my ROMS to PDB, and kept getting told that there's files missing from the roms, which was what I started this thread in the beginning LOL.

Clare.

 

[RatchetMan]

Xcade can be a tricky beast and the fact that the standard for Mame rom sets appears to change now and again does not help. I do not think that there is currently a native gp32 alternative. However, you should not have a problem finding Pac-Man for one of the many other emulators that the gp32 supports. There is a good port for the NES which runs fine under Little John, for example.

If anyone else knows of a definitive way to convert MAME rom sets that always works, please let everyone know. I would like to play Lunar Rescue, asteroids and many of the other games that Xcade supports.

Regards,

RatchetMan

 

[cozmic]

PACMAN for the MSX rules!!


BTW clare, are you rich or something, having such a view?!?

 

[skeezix]

yeah, XCade uses the "old school standard" rom naming conventions; the MAME guys fiddle with names over the years (which is *rediculous* and a huge pain in the ass for eveyrone involved :/) ..

You can use ClrMAME to rename from MAME names to XCade names; the ClrMAME dat file is in the XCade FAQ on my website (in the Palm OS XCade FAQ, since same rom converter is used.)

One of these days I will have to make a GP32 version that just loads the zip files

jeff

 

[raven]

This is all fine (if it worked), I have tried converting my ROMS to PDB, and kept getting told that there's files missing from the roms, which was what I started this thread in the beginning LOL.

Clare.

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Ah, that wasn't clear to me, thought you were only having trouble trying to run them, not converting them. Anyways, listen to skeezix, that's how I converted my roms (and of course he wrote the thing ). The mame rom-zips contain all the files you need it's just that the names have been changed.

With the right tools it's really not that difficult

 

[ste_167]

You're best off playing pacman on a NES emu etc -
there's no sound on XMame for one and secondly the original pacman ran in vertical screen mode so it won't really suit the GP anyway

 

[raven]

You're best off playing pacman on a NES emu etc -
there's no sound on XMame for one and secondly the original pacman ran in vertical screen mode so it won't really suit the GP anyway

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Pacman has sound in Xcade, the screen is a little too small though, you can see the playfield but miss the outer lines at the bottom.

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

PACMAN for the MSX rules!!


BTW clare, are you rich or something, having such a view?!?

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Meee, Rich, LMAO, I wish. I just have a top floor flat that overlooks the sea , a view I will never get tired of B) If I was rich, I would spend more time playing games and drinking wine than I do working :blink: ...

Ta Ta For Now,
Clare.