I have MAME and I have roms for many of hilarious looking games that Syd has reveiwed. (revolution X Rolling Thunder Moonwalker Smash TV) and I wanted to play them myself, but for the life of me I cannot get anything but Rolling Thunder II to work, everything else claims to be broken. Where the hell do I put all the damn files? I'm slowly figuring it out by reading the documentation, but I want instant gratification. I have the Nintendo versions of a few of these but they are absolute crap.
Syd Lexia
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Posted:
Feb 07 2008 04:41 pm
The files need to go in the ROMS file under the MAME directory. Also, do NOT unzip them.
And you might be missing some ROM files. For example, if you want Game X US ver 2.0 to work, you might need Game X World ver 1.0 and Game X US ver 1.0. It just depends on how the ROMs are packaged. Usually I go with the World version on all the ROMs I get, just to be safe. The only reason I fuck with the different versions is if there's some updates that I want, new game content, or if I'm playing it online and I need a certain version.
Knyte
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Posted:
Feb 07 2008 06:06 pm
Also make sure your ROM set verison matches the version of MAME that you are using, otherwise many ROMs will not work unless you update them.
ie: ROM set v0.107u & MAME v0.107u. Not ROM set v.068 & MAME v0.107u.
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Posted:
Feb 07 2008 09:15 pm
yeah they're in the rom folder unzipped and all I got that, didn't know about the version issue. Looks like it's gonna be trial and error, thanks though.
I have the Nintendo versions of a few of these but they are absolute crap. 
