[HELP MAME ] Can MAME 0.206 run older / previous mame version game's ?
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Hey everyone
i Have some questions about MAME- Can MAME 0.206 ( last version of MAME Emulator ) run older ROM / GAMES from example 0.78 version ? (older or new versions too )
2.Support Retropie and Pi 3b+ the last MAME Emulator 0.206 ?
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@Azuke said in [HELP MAME ] Can MAME 0.206 run older / previous mame version game's ?:
Can MAME 0.206 ( last version of MAME Emulator ) run older ROM / GAMES from example 0.78 version ? (older or new versions too )
That's not how MAME ROMs work. Each version has its own compatible ROMset - please read on the Arcade quick start in the Docs.
2.Support Retropie and Pi 3b+ the last MAME Emulator 0.206 ?
Yes and no. It can run, but the PI is not powerful enough to run all the 0.206 romset games and most of the ones that do work are already covered by the other MAME emulators or FBAlpha - again, see the quick start in the Docs.
Thelr-mameLibretro core is using a recent MAME version, but it will take more than 30 hours to compile on a Pi. -
@mitu so what your sugest for me . which version emulator i should install to pi 3b+ and which version roms i should download
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@Azuke Take a look at the Arcade quick start in the Docs.
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Later versions of MAME can run previous ROMs as each release of MAME adds more ROMs and frequently fixes issues found in earlier ROMs
This is why you MUST use the matching ROM set with that SPECIFIC release of MAME as any fixes and workarounds are wrote for the latest version and hence why non-working games now eventually become working versions in the later releases as newer code is updated or added to support newer hardware, this also has the advantage sometimes of fixing non-working games that needed certain hardware to be emulated or encryption keys to be decoded that is found in the actual arcade hardware. Usually encryption hasn't been decoded simply because there was no good dump known of the encryption ROM or data or extreme difficulty in decapping the ROM to physically decode the encryption data
The people that work on MAME dumps also struggle to get some arcade boards as the systems are just too old or very rare and arcade collectors don't want their precious boards tampered with, especially Japan where they need contacts in Japan to buy PCBs on their behalf and send it to be dumped. Japan apparently is a hotbed of PCB collectors who refuse to even engage with anybody outside Japan never mind sell to people that support MAME
I think the last working version of MAME is 0.106, that supports over 6000 games, but bear in mind that will include a LOT of clones and non-working games. The purpose of MAME is preservation of games that are no longer available or simply too old to work anymore. Without MAME people would never been able to play these earlier games as the cabinets simply don't exist anymore, trying to find a fully working one would be even harder
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For early games that the PI will easily run, look for the 0.37b5 ROMs, for later games including disk based games look for the 0.78 ROMs. The last stable release that the PI will run is the 0.106 ROMs
All can be found very easily simply by doing a quick internet search, links or even search terms are not allowed on the forum for copyright reasons and to avoid problems. If links were allowed or search terms there would be hundreds of spam and similar appearing very quickly
Just reading the MAME RetroPie page again, there is also experimental 0.160 and 0.174 MAME. These are optional as the PI may not simply have the power to run later games as they should be, even if overclocked due to the hardware being emulated
Again, the ROMs would be easy to search for but would be very large as the later versions uses more disk based hardware. You could always choose which ones to get though
The later versions of MAME now also incorporate MESS so a lot of MESS games will now run, but again the PI might not be powerful enough to run them but the option is now there. You would also have to compile it yourself with the instructions in the links for LR-MAME 2014 or LR-MAME2016. Be warned though that this is highly likely to take a very very long time. At least upto 24 hours and more for the latest version of MAME 2016 for the PI
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Just came across this link, on the forums, if anybody else is interested
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/20348/all-in-one-overclocked-rpi3b-arcade-rom-set-setup
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@OutRun said in [HELP MAME ] Can MAME 0.206 run older / previous mame version game's ?:
Did someone try to insert Hacks in MAME emulators and play MAME Games with hacks?
Yes - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/lr-mame2003/#cheats
And where you find MAME games without viruses and other stuff ?
Asking for ROMs is not part of this forum - http://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules.
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