Games not showing up in mame
Games not showing up in mame
This keeps happening to me it seems. This time it's my neo geo games - they run fine, but refuse to show up in the 'available games' list. They're in the same folder as the other ones, which do show up. Yes, I refreshed the list (f5).
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crithit5000
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Re: Games not showing up in mame
Did you audit the ROMs to see if they appear as 'Available'? Sometimes games that work fine tend to say they don't, and don't appear on the available games list...Neon wrote:This keeps happening to me it seems. This time it's my neo geo games - they run fine, but refuse to show up in the 'available games' list. They're in the same folder as the other ones, which do show up. Yes, I refreshed the list (f5).
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Re: Games not showing up in mame
When hardware supports multiple different bios', MAME will only require whichever bios it is configured to (so by default Neogeo only needs sp-s2.sp1 / Europe 1 slot) to actually run.Neon wrote:This keeps happening to me it seems. This time it's my neo geo games - they run fine, but refuse to show up in the 'available games' list. They're in the same folder as the other ones, which do show up. Yes, I refreshed the list (f5).
However, MAME's auditing lists all missing roms even if the game is not configured to load them. MAME32 uses the same audit routines to determine whether games are available or not.
I'll get around to fixing it someday..
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Super Mega C
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MAME, one of the greatest things out there!Super Mega C wrote:MAME, blech! I tried it once. What a joke. When I did manage to find all the files for the games I wanted to play, they either barely ran or were virtually unplayable.
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*holds back the urge to flame*MAME, blech! I tried it once. What a joke. When I did manage to find all the files for the games I wanted to play, they either barely ran or were virtually unplayable.
Don't blame the mame devs for your inability with computers. You probably tried a really old build anyways.
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Super Mega C
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By all means let loose with your bad self. And it wouldn't matter how new the build is that I tried (which was the latest by the way) since the dev team never goes back and improves anything that they consider working. I'm sure there are one or two games that play perfectly, just not any of the games I wanted to play.Neon wrote:*holds back the urge to flame*MAME, blech! I tried it once. What a joke. When I did manage to find all the files for the games I wanted to play, they either barely ran or were virtually unplayable.
Don't blame the mame devs for your inability with computers. You probably tried a really old build anyways.
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Don't blame other people for your inability to understand the idea that emulating some games at full speed requires hardware more powerful than:Super Mega C wrote:MAME, blech! I tried it once. What a joke. When I did manage to find all the files for the games I wanted to play, they either barely ran or were virtually unplayable.
a) what you have
and
b) is available right now
Most of the shmups you want to play in MAME that aren't emulated at full speed yet have console ports, so maybe it's time for you to decide which is more important: blowing thousands of dollars so that you can play "free gamez" at full speed or shelling out far less green for the console ports (which are typically spot on anyways).
Paying a few bills for Raidant Silvergun and Soukyugurentai is a hell of a lot cheaper than building a PC that'll run them at full speed in MAME.
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Super Mega C
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I'm not blaming the dev people for anything. I just think MAME is an over hyped peice of garbage, with the exception of the few games I played that did seem to run the way they were supposed to. OutZone was probably the best I played, and even it had it's flaws. I also tried to play Mercs and Guerilla War. Guerilla War had crap controls, and Mercs would barely run. And those are older games. Double Dragon 2 also ran poorly. I couldn't even find all the files for Double Dragon 1, Dimahoo, and several Neo Geo games. That's when I gave up. MAME just doesn't live up to it's promise for me.
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