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You need to acquire FULL VERIFIED romsets for the emulator which you choose to use according to the wiki. You should also read this after the above as it will reinforce the above:Īttempting to download single roms is never recommended. Here are some examples: here, here, here and here Just by typing in MAME HELP into the search bar will reveal them. A search on here would reveal hundreds of threads on this topic. Your post has been replicated hundreds of times and answered hundreds of times. But if you end up trying different versions of MAME (and corresponding ROM versions) because you like ehow one runs better than another, you might consider moving everything into Arcade once you have them working.You need to read the very clear guidance provided on MAME. If everything works under one emulator to your satisfaction, great.

Sure, it's harder for me to setup and keep everything straight, but it is easier for users who don't need to know the details. The user can find and launch them all and does not know or need to know which emulator I have configured to launch each ROM. I can mix zip files from different romsets together (of course I need to keep track of them in a spreadsheet or something) so they work with the emulator I want, but the whole list will be under one group in Emulation Station. By putting everything into Arcade, I can setup which emulator gets used to launch each game with the RUNCOMMAND.

I may have my titles memorized as to what emulators they use, but he will have to hunt through three lists to find what he wants to play without any clue as to why. You see, I would need to explain the technical reasons behind the use of different emulators to someone who doesn't know or care. Where is it? Oh, that's in a different MAME. Next, he wants to play Asteroids, but it is not in the list. So, I show my system to a friend who is non technical, and he wants to play Joust. For example, I use lr-mame2003 for most games, but vector games I use AdvanceMAME., and NeoGeo I use FBA.

Most of us who use ARCADE do so because multiple versions of MAME and FBA befuddles users who don't know or care about the difference.