![]() Run the shortcut and it will generate the mame.ini file. ![]() In the Target box you will see a full path and exe just put -cc at the end with a space after the exe or quotes if there is a quotation mark. If you have no idea how to actually use the command prompt make a shortcut file to your mame64.exe, right click it and then properties. To do this open your command prompt (dos looking window) and navigate to your Mame folder. The first thing you want to do is to generate a mame.ini file. In fact I recommend you actually keep them separate, this way you can have multiple installs of Mame to try out new versions without having to have duplicate collections of roms eating up drive space. If you wish you can dump your roms right into the \roms\ folder that is in the Mame install folder but you do not have to do that if you do not want to. It will ask you where you wish to extract it, just put it where you want. I am going to cover the basic non ui based version of Mame because the ui I found to be kind of useless after getting used to editing the mame.ini file.ĭownload the version of Mame you are going to use and run it. Also the Capcom CPS games will need updated roms that have the key.txt file in them, this is an encryption key the games actually had and got implemented into the emulation. ![]() For example if you tried to use a 0.151 rom set with the 0.221 Mame version your Capcom games that require the qsound.zip bios will not work at all because of changes made. I cannot tell you exactly where to find it but using google there is a certain paradise that should prove useful.ĮDIT: While you do not have to have a matching rom set and Mame version to have some games work you will want to have your rom set and Mame version matching as closely as possible to ensure maximum compatibility. You can very easily use a 0.151 rom set which is extremely easy to find. So if you are going to use Mame 0.178 you do not need a 0.178 rom set. Now you do not NEED to have the latest version of the rom set to match whatever version of Mame you are using. Mame roms are not simply 1 file like cartridge based consoles and because there are so many versions of arcade games based on region and hacks there can be a ton of different versions of a game, Street Fighter II: World Warrior alone has something like 27 different variations of the roms when hacks and clone files are included.īecause of the way the roms are the easiest place to start is by obtaining a complete rom set. The first and most important and most troublesome part of Mame is the roms. I will not be getting into updating your romsets either, that is more advanced and often it is just easier to redownload a new full rom set than mess around with updating. I am going to keep it short, simple and focused on getting things up and running easily. Obviously from the title of this thread this tutorial is going to be geared towards people that are new to Mame.
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