Yet another question.

[bearzilla333]

I have my Gamex and all my console emulators, MAME and pinball games working great on my main PC, but I want to give me sister and her nephews a taste of some of the simpler arcade games that can run on her older PC. Since their hard drive is limited on how much space they have. I decided to pick and and choose about 100+ old school games like pacman/donkey kong ect. However when I did this about half of the MAME ROMS I grabbed did not show up, I went through the filters and still not luck. For poops and giggles, I decided to bring my portable HDD over and test all the ROMS I had. Sure enough they all showed up. I am just a bit confused as to why to half the ROMS I picked and choose to run on my sister PC did not show up. Am I supposed to use more that one ROM for one game? Am I missing something here? If any one can shed some light on this for me I would be greatly appreciate it. Thank you

[Adultery]

Are you positive your hand chosen set is made up of parent sets and not clones?

IE PacMan's parent ROM is actually Puck Man. Using clones won't work because files will be needed from the parent set.

[bearzilla333]

Ah... I think I under stand now. Sorry for the newbie questions. I am still trying to understand it all. thanx for the reply I will tinker more with this issue I have.

[AlphaUMi]

Yes, in my opinion Adultery is completely right. You have to hand choose the parent set.

I'm using MAMEUI 0.141, I hope nothing relevant changed in the UI...

1 - Open MAME

2 - From the left column (you sholud read All Games, Available, Custom... etc...), select All games.

3 - Now you should have a "tree" list in the main central window, with the parent rom on the left and the various clones below slighly on the right.

4 - In the main central window, you have to read the parent rom's file name in the "directory" column.

For example for "Action 2000", you should see something like this:

Game Directory

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Action 2000 act2000

Action 2000 (Version 1.2) act2000o3

Action 2000 (Version 3.10XT) act2000o2

OK, you have to copy act2000.zip (parent rom) from your roms folder into the destination folder of your sister's setup.

Hope I made it clear. Let us know the results, I can post some screens if necessary.

[bearzilla333]

It sure does, thank you so much!

Edited September 24, 2012 by Draco1962
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