"how to" mame beginners

[mitu]

@drewpie1895 As people have said, you have to copy the .zip files where the rom are stored, not directly the folders. Here's a screenshot of my arcade folder (notice that I copied them in the arcade folder on the RetroPie).

Unzip the archive you downloaded, there should be a folder containing these individual zip files, just copy those .zip files over to the arcade folder and then restart Emulationstation.

[rbaker]

@drewpie1895 said in "how to" name beginners:

i told you what i did before

Yeah, thing is that is not describing what you did and you have STILL not named the files you transferred. In your "I'm preparing" thread, the video posted there shows you all you need to do. The stages for MAME are clear. As they say on Dragons Den, I'm out! But, good luck!

[drewpie1895]

@thedatacereal thats on my mac , how i connect to the pi , saw it on youtube works when I'm sending over nes roms etc

[mitu]

@thedatacereal said in "how to" name beginners:

Where are you seeing this "go/connect" ? Is it a button in a program?

It's macOs's way of connecting to a network share from the Finder (i.e. the equivalent of Windows Explorer in macOS's world) - https://users.wfu.edu/yipcw/atg/apple/smb/

[drewpie1895]

@rbaker many thanks

[drewpie1895]

@mitu ok now i have zip files in the folders but each rom has many zip files not just one for yours like "goldenaxeu.zip" for example.

[mitu]

@drewpie1895 1 ROM = 1 zip file. There is no 'ROM has multiple zip files'. Do you have the 19xx.zip file in the files you have downloaded ?

[drewpie1895]

@mitu nope.

[drewpie1895]

@mitu I'm going to try and download again from somewhere else.

[mitu]

Can you post a screenshot of you downloaded ROMs folder and one of your arcade share on the Retropie ?
How many zip files you have in the folder you downloaded there ? A typical romset should have a few thousand zip files.

[caver01]

@mitu It might be different regional clones of goldenaxe.

[mitu]

@caver01 said in "how to" name beginners:

It might be different regional clones of goldenaxe.

That surely is, I copied the US version to the arcade folder myself :).

[herb_fargus]

@drewpie1895 said in "how to" mame beginners:

if you want to earn an easy £100 come round to mine and sort it please

Unfortunately self reliance and problem solving skills cannot be purchased.

[Icomeinpeace]

I got my Pi setup and working within 40 minutes. Then i d/loaded my first ROMs for MAME and found they wouldn't work. Caver01's post was exactly what i had done wrong and I learnt very quickly to get the right ROM sets and within 2 hours I had everything working - MAME / SNES etc. I visited that very nice redacted and got the 44 gb file (that ok admin?) :)) and every game I have tried has worked since.

Bud listen to the advice, its going to help.

[Domogram Rovers]

Dunno what difference it makes but I have all my Mame roms in the mame-libretro folder not the arcade folder.

[drewpie1895]

@herb_fargus no but if your car breaks down you can call a mechanic.

[rbaker]

@domogram-rovers It's all in the docs. Arcade allows multiple emulators to be used under one heading called "arcade". So I can put all my FBA, MAME and ADVMAME roms in the same folder.

[Clyde]

@rbaker said in "how to" mame beginners:

@domogram-rovers It's all in the docs. Arcade allows multiple emulators to be used under one heading called "arcade". So I can put all my FBA, MAME and ADVMAME roms in the same folder.

Just a short interposed question: Are there any disadvantages in using the arcade folder instead of the individual emulator folders besides that the latter let you divide the roms for each emulator more cleanly?

[rbaker]

@clyde None that I can think of. It's there in my opinion for when you build a system that just needs to "work" when those who play do not care what MAME is and have no interest in what version or why there would even be versions.

[Clyde]

@rbaker Thanks :)