MAME driving me nuts, please help

[englischdude]

Hi all,

hopefully someone here can help. Here I have an IMAC and an ASUS laptop which is running Linux Mint 9. WHen I isntall the MAME emulator on the mac everything works puuuurfectly, however I have copied the same ROMS over to the LINUX laptop and I cant get it to work. Through the packet manager I can install MAME without problems, however when I try to start a game it tells me that there are a nuber of ROMS missing!

Please, any suggestions?

Thanks
Martin

[Dekar]

It's probably because you're running a different version of MAME on your laptop than on your iMac. Most MAME roms work only with a particular version of MAME.

E.g. if you have a romset for MAME .132 then you need to use MAME v.132 in order to play those roms. Some roms will work on any MAME version, but most of them will only give you problems.

So you have two options;

1. Find out which MAME version you're using on the Linux laptop and use ClrMamePro to convert your romset so it's compatible with that particular MAME version.

.. or ..

2. Find out which MAME version your romset is for and use that particular version of MAME on your Linux laptop. You can use ClrMamePro for this as well.

You can download ClrMamePro here:

http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/

English tutorial for ClrMamePro here:

http://www.mameworld.info/easyemu/clrma ... guide.html

Good luck!

[englischdude]

Hi Dakar,

I have maybe 20 Roms. How do I find out with which version mame they are compatible?

Thanks
Martin

[englischdude]

Please also check out my support thread here for additional infos:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=58127



Regards
Martin

[englischdude]

weird, updated to the new Linux Mint 10......... problem solved!

Yipppeeeee