General MAME questions

[Kincaid]

It worked fine but since i have mame on my machine since months i thought there must be an update. So i searched and found the newest version 0.144. I downloaded the self extracting binary and copied the files over the old mame version (after i did a backup of this folder). It looks like it is running fine. I can start mame and it says version 0.144 but when i try to start the game i get the message that some rom or chd files are missing. Then i extracted the binary in a new folder and copied just the old mame.ini since there was none in the new folder, but i did get the same error. Does the newer mame version need other files than the older one?

Another question:

I use clrmamepro and generated a profile by pointing to the mame.exe. I set up the rom folder and then dropped the downloaded rom archive on the rebuilder. After that i had 13 different games in mame and only 2 of them are working. Every other rom brings the same error message in both versions. I guess thats because clrmamepro made wrong romsets, but why?

Edited January 9, 2012 by fRequEnCy
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[fRequEnCy]

To answer your question, as far as updating to a newer version of MAME then it's recommended to update your romset as well so that you don't have errors and so they match. If your missing roms then you need to fill them in. We can not go into details about that since it's against forum rules so please don't talk about that here.