As arcade machines are much more complicated in their design, you'll typically need the data from a number of different chips on the board. For most consoles and handhelds, the individual chips are frequently but not always merged into a single file. For arcade games, a ROM image or file is a copy of all of the data inside a given chip on the arcade motherboard. Hope that helps in some way, any further questions fire away.This section aims to clear up a lot of the most common questions and cover simple details you'll need to know to use MAME effectively.
In that image I posted you will see the second option is "configure directories" you just go in there, pick something from the list, lets say roms, you then just navigate to where your roms are then once in the rom folder hit tab on the keyboard to set that as the directory.Īs for your original question as to the software lists, Extras, and Multimedia, I have never used any of those so I'm not 100% sure where they go, but as I say above you should be able to put them anywhere as long as you tell mame where to look for them. you can of course put your roms anywhere on your system, and that is when you would have to tell mame where they are. all you will need to do is set your paths, and if you are putting roms and such inside your mame folder you may not even need to do that as mame looks inside its own folder by default, so it will by default look in the Roms folder for the roms. The vast majority of the commands in that link you will never need.
Except there are zero instructions on how to do this in MAMEUI it would be me sitting there and making guesses and I'll maybe be able to figure out 60% of it on my own. This is another example of a process that's probably easier in MAMEUI. I do have the instructions for it, but am still somewhat confused. That's a bit above what I know how to do. Using original MAME to address my OP issues will involve me editing an. That's the beauty of Launchbox it doesn't care what emulator you use it will just pass the command lines to whatever you tell it to.Īs I mentioned in another post, there's a long list of command-lines for MAME.Īre all of these command-line options available in the menu you're showing me? You use whatever you want to use though, best emulators are always very subjective and what works for one may not work for another. In fact this is basically all Launchbox does for all emulators it passes the rom to load to the emulator via command line. Yeah when setup in Launchbox its actually Launchbox that passes the command lines to MAME, and does so whether you use the UI version or not. When I was first getting into MAME most of the information (articles/tutorials/YouTube videos etc.,) were focused around MAMEUI so I gravitated toward MAMEUI. I'm sure you can see how this would be intimidating to people who don't know command-line and have never emulated before. And really, I couldn't be bothered to learn command-line when MAMEUI functions perfectly fine without the use of command-line. Never had to type in command-lines? Uh.Ok, well, there are A LOT of command-line options. I wish I could just get on a Skype call with someone and make it worth their while to help me out with this. I've scoured the web trying to find answers to certain things and I'm coming up short. I've never had to work so hard in my life to understand what should be a simple piece of software. And yeah, you're right, once you get the hang of things, MAMEUI isn't so bad, but until you reach that point it drives you borderline bonkers which is about where I'm at. Yes, in MAMEUI-for paths-It's "Options" > "Directories" but there are certain things about this functionality that doesn't make sense to me. I'm using MAMEUI. I realize there's some overlapping information/functionality, but I don't use original MAME because I have zero interest in typing Command-line. The site you posted is for original MAME which is different than MAMEUI. There is some good info here explaining how certain things work. Really MAME isn't that complex once you grasp a few of the concepts of how it works but that can take awhile sometimes. Okay in MAMEUI (which I haven't used in awhile) there is an option to set paths for certain things but I'm not sure of the extent of it actually.