Sound quality in mame not good

Gators

I have been reading, a lot. This part is absolutely unclear. With there being several different versions of files with the same name, and no clear instruction how to determine what you have and where to get what, I'm lost there.

The samples part I've figured out, I have samples working in QBert and Donkey Kong Jr. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction for that, I appreciate that.

However, I'm still unclear how to find working Donkey Kong roms. Also, my pacman and ms. pac man do not work.

Like I said, yesterday in my investigating, I ended up on a link that led me to a .zip file of everything that works for mame4all, that was really easy and simple. I'm not finding anything like that here for this, nor can I find a way to figure out how to get working roms for this.

herb_fargus

@Gators mame is not simple. It's a smattering of hundreds of thousands arcade games from 4 decades of games. But there are tools readily available which are described on the wiki which solves the majority of the issues namely clrmamepro. I even made a video for you...

BuZz

you can use your current set, and try and rebuild it for 0.78 for lr-mame2003 with clrmmaepro - that is detailed on the link I provided. You can use a dat file to verify whatever romset you have.

I can't help you with locating roms.

Gators

I see that I need lr-mame2003 0.78 romset. Nothing tells me how to get that. How do I get that?

herb_fargus

@Gators rtfm

BuZz

you need to use your initiative - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules - it is against the forum rules to ask where to download copyrighted software.

Gators

I CAN'T FIND THEM.....

BuZz

then you are out of luck.

Gators

Then what use is this forum if you just refuse to help people and send them on a wild goose chase that doesn't actually answer the questions at hand? Why not make an emulator that actually uses roms that work perfectly well on any PC version of mame I've used?

Gators

Can I please get some help here? You've still told me nothing on how to make this work.

dankcushions

you're asking for us to give you a link to an illegal file. there's a very simple google search that will help you find a torrent for mame 0.78.

Floob

@Gators As others have said, the instructions on how to do this is in the Wiki (and trust me, that makes it a lot easier than it used to be).
The only part that isnt there is where to find the roms themselves due to copyright rules.

I have made a short video below, showing Donkey Kong working in lr-mame4all. As per the wiki I have the rom from the 0.37b5 romsets.

If you dont want to use clrmamepro (Herb Fargus has made a video to show this) to create/rebuild the correct versions, you need to find the correct romset as a whole. Google or torrent sites will generally help here. But please dont get upset if we cant give you a link.

Gators

I have Donkey Kong working in mame4all, but like crap. I have a set for that, but that does me no good. I can't find the set. Maybe you can't give a direct link, but, I'm not sure how one is expected to find the right thing when there's different things called the same thing......

dankcushions

if you download a big old zip (about 9gb) called mame 0.78 it will be the right set. it's easy to find.

Floob

I'm not using mame4all above, I'm using lr-mame4all. This is on a Pi3, but to be honest I'd expect it to be the same on a Pi2 and even Pi1.
Perhaps you dont have a PSU that is correct?
It should be 5.1v 2.5A - is that how yours is marked? I presume you are using it mains powered as opposed to a usb into your TV or something?

Do you get a small square box appearing in the top right of the screen indicating under power or anything?

Gators

Ok, this stupid program makes no sense. I only want a few games, not a huge pile to sift through. So, trying to build a new set, I made a folder with a handful of games I want, and told it to rebuild that into a new folder. My new folder has a ton of games I don't want. Where is it generating these from? How can I get a small set that I want without a ton of extras? This makes no sense, how is it making games out of thin air?

Gators

Ugh....if you keep using different things with nearly the same names no one will ever understand anything you guys try to do.....

Floob

Thats a mame convention that makes sense. As you are new to MAME, you may find this explanation(s) of why different versions exist helpful:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MAME/comments/3gh78n/probably_a_silly_question_but_why_are_rom_packs/

Gators

Ok, I use this stupid clrwhatever program, and now I have more rom files that still don't work. Thanks.....

Is there a clear way to just get a handful of working roms at all?

Do you go out of your way to make the most difficult to use products?

dankcushions

no-one here made mame. these are ancient mame cores that the raspberry pi can JUST about run. don't like it? don't play arcade games on a pi and stop being rude to volunteers who do this for fun.