Great video. I now use non merged myself. Guys, the secret to finding the newest mame roms is two words...pleasure dome

An perfectly put together tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to make it

Brilliant, the arcade database helped me resolve an issue with a ROM today, turns out I should have used Neo Geo instead. Great job!

Love these videos. Keep them up. Something to keep in mind is that a non-merged set also includes the bios files in the ROMs zip. It's the only type where it's a self-contained zip file for a particular clone that "just works", with the downfall of it really bloating your hard drive, since now each zip file for every version of the game is much larger. A non-merged set is around double the size of a merged set.

That was everything i needed and more. You put it together so nicely, added to my trusted tech tubers.

Thank you! I wasn't too keen on installing 80gbs worth of arcade games. This video saved me a lot of hard drive space and frustration.

after a long confusing and frustrating 24 hours of trying to play pacman , WE FINALLY DID IT ! god bless ur soul

I have not used mame since 2005. We use to run command prompt and whatever rom you downloaded it works flawless.

Thank you so much explaining how MAME works!

Thank you! I had a difficult day making NEO GEO games work but I followed your instructions and it turned out very fine, btw I'm using the latest 32bit version of MAME and everything works fine.

I would kiss you right now. I was trying to figure out on my own. My logic was, the newer the mame, the more roms would work with less bios hassle. Thanks a bunch!

Just found this channel and love it as I am big in retro gaming, especially mame w Retroarch.

Brilliant explanation, thanks a lot, now I can enjoy hours of fun playing those arcade games from my childhood, greetings from Mexico sir 😊😊😊😊😊

Great video! Exactly the information I was looking for.

excellent explanation to exactly what i was looking for....such a shame all this hassle is required to get some roms running, as the quality of mame games is one of the best.

Thank you! Finally able to get a bunch of games working in Mame that have eluded me up to this point. Appreciated!

OMG! I have close two 8 years of experience on software development so I have a pretty descent understanding on how directories and libraries work. I have now 2 days trying to play The King Of Fighters on MAME and so far I haven't moved from the place I started, there is just no way MAME would run any game, no matter how many roms or bios I download. I think I'll stick to software development for now.

Awesome video couldnt of done a better guide. Only thing missing is device files. They are the same as bios files but are a remake of say sound or chips that a series of arcades might have. They are never included in the rom file but can be found in some bios sets.

Thanks for the information. Now i cam start on my All in one Mortal Kombat arcade cabinet. 😊

Thank you so much, I have watched so many vids, but yours gave me exactly what I needed. Legend

Thank you for this. So well explained. Makes so much more sense now.

Wow that was so well explained! Thank you for the clarification - Amazing!

amazing video for first steps and concepts!! Thanks!

Great explanation! Are you using RetroFE in the background? Would be awesome if you could explain how to install your own games with that frontend.

Thanks for a thorough explanation!

I have everything on my computer. All of the games boot up fine. The issue that I am having is "insert coin".... no button I push inserts the coin. On my android its just the select button with a controller... Its not working on my windows 11 PC.... no controller or any button on the computer inserts the coin. My controllers work with the other emulators in Launchbox just not Mame. What can I do?

Could I possibly unzip both the clone or split set game and then unzip the "additional files" needed to run the game then rezip them both into a singular zip file? I don't want the bios or additional files showing up on my game list when I scroll through them.

Excellent, Thanks!

Brilliant - Thanks for the information!

15:39 "You need to Match the Rom and the MAME version". -Man, that's true. and it's really a handicap with little sense on "MAME's" part. [But also an example of if it ain't broke don't fix it... I guess] -I also tried downloading the latest version of mame in an idea that (it's been a long long time, in my case 20 YEARS, so I assumed; ok they are roms from the 90s (obviously nothing change) but maybe there should be a new version of the emulator with improvements and that take advantage of/or may work better with newer 64bit systems and processors). So, I copied the Roms from my old version to the newer one and they all throw errors of missing parts [And I'm not going to lie even the new versions of MAME feel more clumsy], so in view of the data obtained I think I will continue to get stuck in MAME from 2003 -I got to know the MAME emulator thanks to a birthday gift from my cousin's ex-boyfriend in 2007. It was a cd that he himself burned with the Super pang and Snow bros rom, and the 2003 version of MAME. So yes, practically I have been playing this rom and old version for +15 years (I am very surprised that it still works on Windows 11, because I have a lot of games from the first decade of the 2000s that are a headache to run on windows 10+ and some that even since win 7 they did not work for me at all because they required the 16 bit subsystem) -However thanks to the new version of mame I discovered that apparently there are parts of some uncompressed street fighter roms in the old folder that were not listed in the 2003 mame

Love your videos, always great, thank you very much.

I looked everywhere for a romset and can't find a good place to download a set. I have maybe 25 games total that I will play, so a set would alot of wasted space for what I need. Can I download missing files for just those 25 or so games I want. Thank you

You are god’s greatest gift to humanity. Thank you

I know for some of these games the parent is actually a game that came out later for example if you want to play gradius you need to have nemesis which is the parent but gradius is still the original PCB.

Thanks, I def wasn't trying to download 70 gB on my 2 mB speed and the mame community isn't always so... friendly

Thanks chief!

very informative as always

Amazing explanation!

02:38 NES was a bad example because of the diverse set of chips that were put in the later carts to extend its abilities.

Your videos are so helpful...especially for noobs like me!!

Thank you! Great Video.

Thank you!! You helped a lot!

You said retropie should have no problem playing any Mame Rom, correct? I'm getting my rasberry pi soon and wanted to make sure I didn't run into any walls

How do I get an individual mame game running through Launch Box? Do I still need to install mame or does Launch Box install it for you? When I try to add a file it asks for the platform.

A new video? Very cool

I have a question, does this apply in arcade mame on Anbernic Rg35xx? Because I can't play some Mame games on my device....

Very helpful, thank you.

I have brought metal slug from GOG and wish to use the ROM and BIOS files from that on MAME. How can I determine which version of MAME to use?

another question. Does mame make a version of a game for each mame upgrade. For example if I want to down load Mario cart from the SNES system...is there only certain MAME version that will work on or do they make mario cart for each version. I know its complicated question.

Needed help for sorting out roms as in is there a way to know if a certain mame rom is of which year ? Emudeck has more then one mame roms folder

What theme are you using on big box? That one looks slick.

What is the exact Big box theme are you running behind you??? It looks like Unified but what version as there are a bunch! Thanks

Thanks for the video, great share. Meanwhile I try to run the game 'Super Mario World' on Mame version 0,254. I also have the latest NSS bios. I can open the game but the screen goes black and says no slot.. May you suggest any solitions to fix that? Guess the NSS bios file is not emulated good, I mean I can't run any game which needs NSS bios..

Thanks for a great guide how

I'm in heaven ...and I still can't quit get all... But MG ! This is, a new begining ...I think I'll be looking forward Open the gates of MAME realm .. Just next to paradise Dude! Thx!! Dude!!!... Oh ps... G.s.t.K 🎉

Man wish you had included a link for that arcade stick/button combo thats plugged into the tv

I have a strange error where game roms aren’t recognized

Can you do a video or explain to me, how to play big arcade mame roms, those that have also a CHD file, how you make them work?

Thanks, but there's one problem. When I put the rom into MAME it doesn't show the rom.

I'll spend hours and hours getting them to run then play them for 2 minutes, once I've had my nostalgia hit.

If there are 3 differnt Versions of pacman in the ROM how do you show them seperatly ???

is there a way to download snap shot of rom automatically by pointing the directory of roms

I still use Kawaks. I had to get a new PC and had to "recollect" all my roms though. Having a hard time finding a few that will work on Kawaks. I have roms that work on Kawaks (PC) but wont work on MAME4droid (tablet) and vise vera. I think Kawaks might just need a bios file added to it but I dont know what if any? When I see the CHD file error while using MAME4droid then I will use this method and see if it works for me.

great video, is there a way to get retropi on raspberry 4 to power on the monitor for an arcade cab, table top , bar top srand up ect. so dont need to open to hit button on monitor.

Where do I put the BIOS ROM if I'm using MAME through RetroArch

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Wish this worked on the mame wii version! I wanna play ring of destruction 2 😢

Thanks

This includes getting Mortal Kombat 4 to work right?

Is there any way to play Neogeo games on Mame emulator?

Honestly with all the headaches I've gotten trying to wrap my head around all this stuff, I'd personally prefer to just drop the money on one of those Super Arcade X things or something similar where its already set up and ready to go.

yeah im not downloading any romset i only like the games i like

Darn! All I wanted to play was Galaga but it requires a parent... Which parent ROM I don't know. It seem like I need to upload thousands of ROMs just to make sure the few games I want to play work.

THANK YOU. FFS, every video I watched on how to run MAME roms is like "alright just download a few thousand games and waste 100+GB when all you want to do is play one game" wtf is that?

Whats the benefit of getting the latest version of Mame...what are the benefits?

how to download those files from arcade database?

Can I play mortal Kombat turbo ninja online with friend ?

Bytes N Bits I not all mame roms are complete 100% ether, there many sample game that missing there sample sound. good example is Mario Bros. if you compare to NES version to The Mame Arcade version you can see that Arcade version from Mame is missing a the sound chip board because it's was not dump properly even the is playable, also explaining to new commoners about mame is good way to know what your dealing with. also you dont need have every game for every mame roms, I rather stick with parents roms than rather keeping the clones, and Like to aviod Merge and split all together. Because I'm expert dealing trouble shooting with mame Sense 2007 and Im part the Mame World Community, What you did is wonderfully. also Community always suggest to use Standalone Mame rather using Repo or core of mame for Retroarch. But when you're dealing with people that want to use Android Hardware or Raspberry Pi, that issue they don't know how to handle or understand the hardware altogether. Specially the Chinese and Koreans they sell their prebuild hardware Emulator at Amazon with them and always has issue not knowing what their doing with there illegal's sell products

Good... what can I do if I have just chd file ?

hey bro, can you suggest me a place where i can get a decent rom on pac man

I do all this and I don't see my roms listed. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

I really need help doing this if anyone can help I want to play these games with my son please help me

its easy but some roms wont work.

Huh? Do people actually download the whole rom pack? I always download individual ROMs makes it easier for game hacking. And that’s also why I use mame because it can describe the ROMs offsets which makes reverse engineering for actual arcade hacks, easier. I have several videos where I do arcade hacks on pacman, burger time, donkey kong and outrun. Wow we have very similar channels great little hacks on hard- and software.

Yeah I only really have maybe 20 games I like to play so I never liked the huge romsets

MAME is literally my least favourite emulator.. complicated configuration, too many roms, merge non merge parent clone CHDs too many confusing things, all games work by their own base so you need to set them one by one which makes it even more of an annoyance I only use MAME for Arcade version of Tekken Tag. for others, i use other platform emulators (SNES or PS1) which are more easy and simple to work good thing its only one game so i dont have to deal with every game. if it was not for Tekken Tag Arcade, i would have removed MAME already

hi im really stuck i have a copy of XenoCrisis_NG_MAME rom but it wont recognised by mame nore with launchbox, any advice would be helpfull i have read the install but still dont work i have copyed what it says. this is what it says (Create a folder or zip file called xenocrisis with the supplied MAME ROM files and then copy the text from the provided neogeo.xml into the neogeo.xml file found in the hash folder inside MAME's root.

Non-merged ROMs are by far the best way to get specific, single games running. As someone who really only cares about 30-50 arcade games, they're always my first choice.

I tried installing mame and getting it to work but then I got distracted by the more attractive option of pulling out my teeth with a pliers