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Hello one and all.
I am accostumed to regular console emulators but I am trying to understand MAME because of the great selection of roms, I am only looking for a selection of roms I'm interested in (it is not few roms but it is not all of them, mostly because I am subject to limited HD storage space right now). I understand the difference between merged(all localizations of one game in a zip), non-merged(every localisation a zip with all required ROM files) and split (one localisation has everything, all other are clones and require it to function) so I go for split and I use http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/lista_mame.php to find out which are the parent roms and their required CHD/BIOS files. Even after learning all of this I am unable to find a complete database of CHDS/BIOS/ROMs from which I can pick out all of the files for the games I need. I joined here to try and solve that problem.
I saw that there are 2 sections for MAME 0224 right now, regular and full. but I also notcied there are less roms on the full version, I also noticed the CHD folders have very few files available. This all seems very counter intuitive but I suppose this is because most of you are chasing fully updating your already complete romset to the latest version (therefore you only need a few new roms/bios/chds), but I only want a guaranteeed fully working partial selection of roms on ANY version of mame.
TLDR:Are there full sets of bios+chds+roms available anywhere on this site (where?) or is it just meant to update already working full romsets?
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Thank you! I assume this version is 0.224, right? |
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The current version is 0.224.
https://www.mamedev.org/
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MucciAdministrator1155 posts
the status of the folder are in those two txt-files:
https://bda.retroroms.info:82/downloads/1_changed.txt
https://bda.retroroms.info:82/downloads/2_status_folder.txt
Keep also in mind that this "full"-folder will be updated when a new MAME Version is released. If you need "older" versions of roms it maybe not fit anymore ....(for this you need roms from the rollback folder)
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hi, i am interested too, but although i am connected to the forum when i try to download from the bda section the server still asks me again login and it doesn't accept them, why? |
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Is there any MEGA.nz mirror for these repos?
Thanks!
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Is there any MEGA.nz mirror for these repos?
Why? The BDA works fine.
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it asks me for user & pass... so I guess my current user & membership level is not enough :( |
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sorry.. my bad... I used my current user/pass and it works... the strange thing is that it didn't take the user I'm logged in now.. I had to enter it again...? |
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Couldn't find this one:
Star Trek: Voyager (stand-up version 1.002) [folder: voyagers - parent: voyager - size: 288kb]
I saw "voyager", but no "voyagers"...?
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Hello again... Yesterday I was able to download a few romsets. until a point where I was asked again my user/pass, and even though I keep entering the same info (hasn't changed), it keeps asking user/pass over and over again... |
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That's because you downloaded too many files. |
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Got it. Thanks a lot... today I got a few more... but one more question, if I may... these zips/chd/roms... are only "standard" & "bios" only... I mean, no software lists? |
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