/v/ - Video Games

Forgot to mention I've tried Outrun with modern open source engine and quite liked graphics and music in it. Engine here: https://github.com/djyt/cannonball/wiki

I don't know OP, it's your call so do some soul searching you confused faggot. By the way, the best version of Outrun is the 3DS port by M2.

cherry pick away op, download mame extras and mame ui and look for shit you'd enjoy, treat it like spelunking you lazy nigger.

I tried MAME on Retroarch a while back and despite having the needed files it would freeze or crash or just not work properly. I don't know if it's gotten less shitty, but maybe avoid that.

>people still muck around with trying to download roms one by one

>people still don't know how to into MAME

BO of /vr/ here, I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

>>16605395

>>16606080

>>16606097

>there are people who don't know mame has a search function

>doesn't know you can record gameplay and play it back

>doesn't know how to have perfect integer scaling & perfect aspect ratio

>doesn't realize that mame's gui is actually the best interface and only brainlets can't understand that it is not a nigger tier design like retroarch is

>final burn alpha exists

this is such a shit thread

>>16605490

actually the better port is the bing bing wahoo or the cannonball engine.

>>16606080

Stop using RetroShit, it's pointless and cores are outdated. Install latest MAME, download a romset to designated rompath and run the executable – it will present you with a search of your roms.

Granted, some stuff will crash depending on the driver (ST-V/Saturn comes to mind – there's a nasty issue in MESS where running Shining the Holy Ark has has a random chance of killing the emulator on playback of "boxed" videos, for one) but those are usually clearly marked as work in progress.

What exactly were you trying to run and how outdated was the core?

>>16606409

You had a merged zip, now your zip is split, so there are no bios files in it. Download the stvbios files for your version of MAME, or download these two merged .zips for 0.209. They should still be good for 0.210.

Cotton 2:

https://mega.nz/#!QE1yXaZA!VBqaslVKk8eak0ztUBkGrV9y8JMwcVIxi6mtV8rdhEI

Cotton Boomerang:

https://mega.nz/#!xM1wGACT!fHCaPBszEbC5CId6NyT9q-7MTPoOHGAQoY3ibEikdKw

Does anyone have that MAME video that's set to Fame?

>>16606575

Download merged mame sets if you don't want any more problems like this, it makes it easier to get rid of junk roms you don't want.

>>16606591

At this point I'm gonna shill my merged romset for MAME. All working arcade games, no pinball, game&watch, barcade, TV-plug-in, ticket redemption, arcade-ized consoles(Playchoice 10, etc), standalone handheld bullshit like Tiger Electronics, pachinko, mahjong, quiz, or gambling games. Strictly arcade games only, merged for a nice clean romlist. The CHD using games have all needed files inside the folder with the CHD, since MAME has no issue with that and I didn't want two entries for the same game in my fucking romlist. Latest set is 0.205, with "upgrade" packs to bring it up to date with 0.209.

197X-1985 : https://mega.nz/#!RRVAwCDA!4TNy8FHZOtmdUd7Nmk4lenWzvb03MLtHUqWChhc51xU

1986-1990 : https://mega.nz/#!EAdiBSQL!A7wRIRQhxqIW7rYy6YbJt0-nf3FYDYXK7pwhtQzQnNc

1991-1995 : https://mega.nz/#!sRUyiYIZ!cCvoMMAxl0hqT1TOuuvcCn-j9aVvc7qCsBKU6Iu3zTs

1996-2000 : https://mega.nz/#!ddVARCwJ!QSDoE1HaMXtpB7gb6nANK2vTWP7Hl1O3JoGfvV9HK7Y

2001-XXXX : https://mega.nz/#!4BFRzCAL!9R4J8p5WDNdee3_8wpWiDYVYl5PzhwFuu3YH0yRDdRI

And CHD using games:

CHD A-B : https://mega.nz/#!dVMRRASR!NWJiTyvx0QLVSeZzCJBE1NFzbB1vhwHjlEtOwvFRSYg

CHD C-F : https://mega.nz/#!ZBFwwKIT!6679UcRLLzgF5jj0ynZJT_8bib0rHJD8NT53DrzHYC4

CHD G1 : https://mega.nz/#!BFMmlY6T!JGcBiKHbFQHhwhestjFnb_fqg0QEKaXftRw5LZ17Va8

CHD G2 : https://mega.nz/#!xVM0TC5C!BrGeQdHqcSxOKyM_4wJwcMgU8waO-xQE0hOoYehQJR8

CHD H-R : https://mega.nz/#!wUUkgCjB!q5NIkULJa1ZgALL7HXTUyM8PdWE2hMxymThBjhpWjok

CHD S-Z : https://mega.nz/#!dQMgFI5C!8v6yIWrAT4J8bUTbS2OSTAYvi_ASH08X0dSBkwc31jI

Some games I missed: https://mega.nz/#!5Z0R0QDK!RuCeQzIlKxx7T_xl_nOlSFe2ONOM7asI3-0UmJNYNFM

0.205 to 0.206 update pack: https://mega.nz/#!sdFGyIQK!iNbvzlmFcz22XW_LRB_mpCiz6eBXQ1HDZ54UIZqaDHY

The new game for 0.206, SF Rush 2049 Special Edition: https://mega.nz/#!IUcEiA6T!DLnNxqpKHXu-o8P_20yyGR3CGAMgQezDW26C7XSiJyc

0.206 to 0.209 update pack: https://mega.nz/#!lQcTmK5J!mWp6DVGTjzkmASKo9EP_HtRMlS1wUK9RYo8Jhut1WUE

The new game for 0.209, Akka Arrh: https://mega.nz/#!VQUhBa5R!yRPsgk9UHdLy30EZPLEW6_xmx3mBGsbF6eTAqBIe6Y8

Currently in the middle of a refresh to bring the main set up to 0.209 so you don't need to fuck with all the update packs, but it will be a few weeks before that's finished.

>>16606638

You're doing a good job for everyone else /vr/ mame anon, just make sure people know about it. I organized my own collection since I was interested in looking up gameplay footage myself.

>>16605395

They are free and the companies can't profit from people playing them. Of course they are worth it.

>>16606638

I'll need to download this in the morning. Holy shit, good work.

>>16606235

Shock Troopers 1 > 2

>>16606638

great work there anon, I'll make sure to download once I free up some space. Once again thanks alot.

>>16605395

Yes. They're shitloads better than the ports. And a lot of stuff wasn't ported.

>>16606482

>>16606638

Are you the guy from /vr/ posting those condensed romsets of all the various platforms? Doing a great work, anon.

>>16606638

Prise the anon

I never understood how mame sets work. Why are there so many update packs? Why can't I just load a rom like every other emulator?

>>16607330

Because extra shit from arcade boards gets decrypted all the time. In the last few years autists have decrypted more shit in qsound bios allowing for more accurate sound emulation in cps2 games. In turn you need updated rom sets of cps2 games along with an updated qsound rom set.

Arcade games ran off of boards with specialized parts that people are still trying to accurately emulate.

>>16607330

Split sets rarely need an update, except when they manage to get a better quality dump or dump one of the chips that haven't been dumped yet. The downside is you end up with a bunch of bios files filling your romlist, and if you want to play a specific version of a game you need the clone to go with the parent ROM, which can get annoying fast. Updating a split romset means just adding all the new .zip's to your folder, which will be anywhere from 20-40 per new version.

Merged sets will have ROMs that need an update every single version. This is because it has all the clones, and most of the updates are new clones being added to the collection. If you want to play a different version of the game, you just rename the .zip file to the version of the game you want. Since merged ROMs have every clone, I gotta update every game with a new clone. 99/100 games don't NEED the update to work, I just try to keep the set up-to-date on clones. Updating a merged romset means overwriting the current merged ROMs with the new .zip's, usually about 10-20 ROMs per new version.

MAME is all about the accuracy, so whenever they get another chip dumped and added to a parent ROM, they usually rush to get that chip emulated as part of emulating the game. Which is why older dumps(ROMs from earlier versions of MAME) usually spit up an error about missing ROMs when trying to use them with recent versions of MAME. So you can either update with every single version to stay current(mame roms sooner, pleasuredome sets), or you can take the lazy way out like me and only update when something comes along that makes it worth the time to update, like the GUI improvements back in 0.18X, SF Rush 2049 being added in 0.206, or Akka Arrh in 0.209.

>>16607207

Yep, that's me. Curated merged MAME set since 0.170, condensed console sets started back in march.