MAME 0.193 It’s a bit late for Christmas, but MAME 0.193 is ready today. First of all, let’s get the disclaimers out of the way. We’ve switched to GCC 7 for Windows binaries, and started requiring SSE 2 (Pentium 4, Opteron, Athlon 64, or equivalent) for 32-bit Windows binaries. Holy happy year! Tons of new working games this time. Here's all the new arcade games and handheld electronic games supported in MAME 0.193 Please don't unl.
Note: If you're reading this doc because you're starting an arcade emulation project, begin by reading Getting Started with Arcade Emulation.
Correct ROM versions are essential.
So how do you tell you have the right ROM if you aren't sure that your set matches the version required by the emulator you chose? What if you don't have the right version?
Note: the process of verifying and rebuilding ROMs is complex and requires a substantial investment of time and effort in order to master. If your goal is to have working ROMs, it is almost always simpler to download a full ROM collection that has already been verified to match the emulator you chose.
Once you begin working with software tools to help validate, rebuild, or filter your ROM collection, you will quickly encounter the need for 'DAT' files, so named because they usually (but not always!) have the file extension .dat
.
DATs describe the ROM contents including filenames, file sizes, and checksums to verify contents are not incorrect or corrupt. DATs are usually maintained either by emulator developers (such as with MAME or FinalBurn Neo) or digital preservation organizations like TOSEC and No-Intro. Almost all DATs are volunteer efforts and represent one of the most important and impressive outcomes of the video game preservation community.
In order to verify or rebuild a set, you need its corresponding DAT file and a software tool to process the DAT. For example, the authors of RetroArch recommend that Super Nintendo Entertainment System ROM collections be validated against the No-Intro 'Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System' DAT. ROM collections for use with the MAME 2003 emulator should be validated against a 'MAME 0.78' DAT (such as the one found in its metadata folder). And so on.
This doc assumes that the user is working with ClrMamePro, one of the most popular ROM management tools. ClrMamePro is not the only option available, however. Popular ROM verification tools include:
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These Windows tools can be run on Linux (x86) using Wine. RomVault can be run natively on Linux using Mono.
1G1R DATs (aka Parent-Clone DATs) allow you to create a '1 game, 1 ROM' collection from a full No-Intro set. For example, you can set ClrMamePro to filter your set based on a preference of USA ROMs > then EUR > then JPN.
The resulting set of ROMs will feature a USA version of a game whenever possible, then look for a EUR region ROM for that title, and finally use the JPN only if no USA or EUR ROMs are in the folder. All regions with releases in a given system are supported (in other words you could set a preference of Spain > Europe > USA > Italy > Japan > etc.)
No-Intro's DAT-o-MATIC (DoM) also allows you to download DATs for their currently supported systems, and DATs in latest Logiqx's XML format which contain Parent-Clone information for the system. Both of these DATs can be obtained, as available, from the DAT-o-MATIC on the No-Intro website.
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The lr-mame2003 core and lr-mame2010 core maintain a catver.ini
file in their github repositories. catver.ini
can be used with ROM management tools such as ROMLister, Simple Arcade Multifilter and MFM - Mame File Manager in order to sort and filter a MAME collection by genre or by other tags, such as whether it includes 'Mature' content.
It is possible to 'rebuild' from one version of an ROM collection to another. If you also have access to ROMs from a newer or older ROM collection you can 'roll forward' or 'roll back' your ROM version.
The wiki pages for MAME, FB Neo, and Neo Geo include DATs and detailed information about the ROM sets needed for the various arcade emulators.
The remainder of this section of the docs is devoted to a demonstration of using ClrMamePro to rebuild and validate arcade ROM sets. The tutorial uses a MAME 0.37b5 collection as well as a PiFBA collection (in the video version) to demonstrate the process.
Before manipulating arcade ROMs, please be sure you are familiar with their unique terminology.
In addition to having a version number, arcade ROMs can be formatted four ways:
It is possible with ClrMamePro to change one or two options and when it runs it will delete all your existing ROMs. OK, not really - using the default options it will make backups of any files it removes, but it is still possible to mess up their ROMs beyond repair when getting started with ClrMamePro.
You can download all .DAT files for all arcade emulators HERE* For this tutorial, extract the zip file into C:
(but you can put it anywhere you want)* Open retropie-dat-master and you should see a list of folders. Each folder contains the .DAT files for the respective emulator. We will only be using C:retropie-dat-mastermame4allMAME 0.37b5.dat
in this tutorial.* Create a subdirectory C:retropie-dat-mastermame4allroms
(this will be used in the next step)* Create a subdirectory C:retropie-dat-masterpifbaroms
C:clrmameprocmpro64.exe
. The welcome screen explains that common first steps are to 1) Create a Profile, 2) Set up your paths and 3) Scan your ROMs. We will be doing things slightly differently, in order to leave your source ROMs intact. C:retropie-dat-mastermame4allMAME 0.37b5.dat
C:retropie-dat-mastermame4allroms
and click 'OK'At this point, you could scan the ROMs folder you just selected, but we just created this folder and it is empty. Instead, we will rebuild into this folder.
C:retropie-dat-mastermame4allroms
Time to find out how well your source ROMs matched up..