Need to find a list of original games, not clones, hacks or bootleg, I prefer not to install any program to do that,.

I prefer to have it as a doc, xls or html type, because I want to put it in my usb stick to carry it arround and work on that.

If anybody can help, I will appreciate.

Thanks iin advance.

When playing on a 16:9 screen, all the 4:3 games have black bars on the left and right side of the screen. Is it possible to shift the image to the left or right side of the screen and just have the empty space on the other side? The reason I ask is when I'm playing in TATE mode, I have to look up a little bit, and it would be cool to shift the image down.

I've tried to get MAME to work on PC in the the past but my technical skills aren't good enough. As I understand it. There is different rom packs that go with certain versions of MAME. I've also heard people say its best to download the entire rom pack for whatever version and it's counterpart of MAME.

My computer is only 1 terabyte at the moment. Do I need to get like 3 more TB just to get MAME working? Or is there a way to pick and choose roms that I should research? As I understand it the entire library of roms is around 3 TB.

Thanks.

So I have a curated rom collection, some roms are merged and some are split, but I'm having trouble keeping the set up-to-date in a simple way, without changing their structure, or how I have them organized.

I tried a couple of rom managers, but they were too complicated for my understanding.

I'm okay with manually updating roms, but I was wondering if there's an automated way to check which roms won't launch/work with current MAME release. Or which roms got renamed and whatnot.

I can take that result and manually do the update process. I tried to make some AI python scripts for this but they were not practical.

Does anyone know if there is a way to add titles to save states?

Right now it's just date and time stamps, which is nice but would be cool if you could rename them to "level 1 boss" or something like that :)

So if I am on lets say .271 and want to upgrade my MAME install that is tweaked and dialed to .272. What's the best way to upgrade and not lose my settings/tweaks?

MAME 0.272

The end of the year is almost upon us, but before that happens, make sure you try MAME 0.272! We’re very happy to announce that the early SNK game Tangram Q is now supported. This game was never widespread, and working examples are rarer than ever. MAME now gives you the unprecedented opportunity to experience this piece of gaming history. Another obscure system that’s starting to take shape is the Estonian EKTA Juku. This 8-bit educational computer was powered by a Soviet 8080 clone and ran the CP/M-derived EKDOS operating system.

The French Thomson computers have been receiving some attention lately, and software compatibility is starting to improve. Progress on the NEC PC-98 family is still coming along nicely. Our CD-ROM drive emulation has been getting better, which has a positive impact on numerous computers as well as game systems. The Epoch Super Cassette vision also got some nice fixes this month.

Numerous reported issues were fixed in this release, including some long-standing issues that had eluded developers for years. There are lots of new working bootleg arcade games to try out. Several TV games have been promoted to working this month, too.

You can read about all the exciting work that went into this release in the whatsnew.txt file. As always, the source code and 64-bit Windows binary packages are available on the download page.

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Just curious, does anybody know ?

https://imgur.com/a/SkRryYS

Hey everyone! I've got a functioning MAME installation and for some reason I can't get Spy Hunter to appear as an available game to play in my MAME.

I've got a .241 and a .271 install that both work with my existing ROMs, but for some reason, every ROM for spy hunter I've added to my roms folder just isnt showing up - I've downloaded every possible ZIP from the megathread, but no luck. I've tested my MAME to see if it was working by downloading a Galaga ROM and that showed up in the list immediately. so I know it's working.

Is there some other type of other file that I'm missing?

Basically whats the rough estimation of when MAME games start to fizzle out in terms of compatibility because the newer arcade engines started to come in like Sega Naomi and others? I realize maybe one day MAME will be able to play them but I just want a rough estimation of the cut off year so I basically know that "Everything before that year is pretty safe" in terms of playability. Thanks.

I'm going to update my PC with black friday deals - I use it exclusively for MAME, retro gaming (arcade) only. Nothing too intensive. Is an AMD 5700X with DDR4 sufficient? Is the 7000 series with DDR5 overkill? Great deals right now on the 5xxx series especially. I want it to startup fast, load up Launchbox fast, get into Big Box fast. My existing PC plays the games just fine already and it's ancient by comparison. I think it's an Intel 7700k. Looking to swap the processor and motherboard to give it a boost. Thanks!

There are so many different versions and variations of this game. Is there a definitive one I should put in my cab? Thanks!

I have spinner I got off AliExpress, actually seems pretty decent with smooth operation and good inertia.

I got it to play the usual suspects - arkanoid, tempest etc - but am having a few problems setting it up - it works ok but movement isn't smooth or fast enough, in other words too many rotations of the dial to get the bat across the screen in arkanoid. I have gone into the tab menu and made a few adjustments which improved it dramatically but I'm still not quite there.

Does anyone else have a spinner and could let me know their arkanoid settings - I know the resolution of spinners can be different but at least it may help me confirm which options to actually change.

I'm trying to rip the airplane textures from Air Combat 22 in MAME so I can recreate them in Ace Combat 7, but I haven't found any info on how to do that.

I know it's possible but I don't know how., does anyone here know?

Hi! I’m checking to see if this is a glitch or if theres a known workaround. Im using a Xbox360 SF4TE fight stick and Mame 0.271. Issue with assigning buttons on input setting as either/or selection. For example on a Neo Geo type setup I’m trying to maintain the default layout while adding RT and LT as responding for buttons C and D. So I go to input settings and press both X and RT to assign both as either or for button C and it shows as grey after it’s received, but then neither button responds. I go back and assign either button alone as C and it works fine but only with one button assigned to C- it’s still greyed out so I’m not sure what that indicates. Is it Restricted to one button per controller type per either/or?

i Hope this doesn’t come off as nonsense and can provide pictures of input settings

I have a pretty large set of favorites. How do I split/group them into separate lists?

For example, I want separate list of favorites or a custom filter for games that work well with specific controller panels I have that are not easily swapped. I have a track ball panel, a driving panel, a dual fight stick, dual spinners, and the basic center joystick.

I don't see anything in the UI. I don't see a way to create filters that act on your favorites. I don't see a command line option to use a specific copy of the favorites.ini file.

What am I missing?

Im trying to get my 3 ultimarc spinners to work but they all move the players together as one. Mainly for ironman off road to play as 3 players like the arcade did. When I try to map my spinners in the game it does mouse 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc never sperate. However when I go to mame itself it does map them differently but won't transfer over when I play the game through launchbox. Any ideas or what I can do Alternatively to get them to all work seperate?

Can someone point me to a place like Mess for Dummies ?

Note Mess32 here is at version 0.270 (https://www.progettosnaps.net/mess/repository/)

Hi everybody!

I am getting a mini-pc to play retro/arcade games with mame, what i can not easily find is an arcade controller to play those games.

I am looking for something similar to what is shown in the picture, a controller with a stick and 4 buttons for example. All I could find are fights sticks which have a lot more buttons and, more importantly, are a little expensive for my budget.

Does anyone know how if this controllers are being sold or I would have to build one.

Any feedback is appreciated, thanks!

Hi,

I'm using the latest MAME mame0271b_64bit but I'm unable to run Alien vs Predator.

It kept giving me this error.

https://preview.redd.it/4gmz5szfr72e1.png?width=1709&format=png&auto=webp&s=34821f87c958d237dea411689eec649dd9f2c01a

I read somewhere that it means the ROMS is not compatible with your MAME version? I'm not sure how to update the ROM version. Anybody could kindly enlighten me how to update the ROM?

Thank you.

Currently (this is most especially true with Konami M2-based games like Evil Night and Tobe! Polystars), there are systems where I end up noticing constant audio stutter (or choppiness if auto frame skip is enabled). My computer's CPU is an Intel Core i5-12400, with 16 GB of RAM, a 2 TB SSD, and an Intel UHD Graphics 730 integrated GPU, running Windows 10.

If I want to get rid of the stutter or the excessive choppiness, what is the ideal PC configuration for optimal emulation of such games?

Heya folks. So I'm having alot of unexpected problems with my new Polycade. I have all the files I need etc (that I'm aware of) but admittedly I haven't messed with emulation in a while, and Mame is barely recognizable from what I remember. The REAL problem I'm having is, the Polycade has it's own interface merging MAME and RetroArc so most instructions I can find aren't helping, and I assume it's my fault as I can't find anyone else having any issues getting it working. Basically nearly every individual file I can get seen but it cant find any of the other files to work, or if I get a bundle, it can spend 15 mins approving all files, then it says nothing exists.

If anyone is familiar with the Polycade AGS program and could help me I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks kindly!

This may be a stupid question fit for somewhere else, but how do I convert LDS captures to CHD?

I've got the whole domesday setup and mostly just like seeing what I can do with the technology, so I'm curious as to if anyone in here knows how the fullsets do it. I'm aware of the slight difference due to SNR and the fact that no two captures are the exact same, so of course no two dumps will have the same hash (which may be necessary), this is more or less for my own curiosity to do with my own captures.

Trying to fix an issue where a handful of games: Moon Patrol, UMK3, etc., they launch, audio plays, inputs work, but the video is hiding somewhere in the background. I'm unable to bring them to the front. I can't find much info on this issue. Perhaps I don't know how to phrase the question properly? Any direction is appreciated. Thanks.

So ive got the rom for the mario bros on game and watch which said that the rom was this version so I downloaded that MAME version but then it says that my files are the incorrect length. What am I supposed to do? Is there a way to fix this?