No.4689 [View All]
This thread is for discussing all things MAME and arcade allowed under the board rules. Also so I can share the romset I've been working on.
This is not intended to be a complete romset of every game dumped, but every game that actually works under MAME. Minus all the barcade, pinball, slot machine, pachinko, mahjong, porn, and other assorted crap titles most people would never touch. This also excludes arcadized console games(Nintendo VS system, etc), Tiger electronic handhelds and Game&Watch titles. This is a completely merged MAME romset, so all the clones(regional variants and revisions) and BIOS files are contained within the same .zip file as the parent game. If you wish to play a different region or variant of the game, just rename the zip to the version you want. The end result of this is a very clean rom list. No BIOS files littering the folder, and you don't have 18 variants of the same game to scroll through. You can also be certain that the game is playable, and is actually a videogame and not something else.
Keep in mind many games expect you to have a joystick, trackball, wheel, or other specific controls. A large number of racing games act funny if you don't have the hardware it's expecting. A decent amount of sports games react the same way. It's possible to map a lot of that to a controller with analog sticks, but not all games will control 100% properly unless you have the right sort of controller for them. Best of luck to keyboard users.
I'm trying to update the set every 10 mame revisions or so, but I'll update if something major pops up, like a major new game or emulation improvements. When an update comes out, I'll put up an update pack to update all needed roms to the latest standard. All you need to do is drag and drop or copy+paste the roms and overwrite the old ones. Then I'll take down the old fullset and upload the new fullset. I'm going to try to keep from too many update packs before updating the fullset, but shit happens.
As of 5/3/2019, the current fullset is 0.205, and the current update packs are 0.205 to 0.206 and 0.206 to 0.209.
Download links for the full 0.205 set here:
>>7629
0.205 to 0.206 update pack and new game here:
>>7665
0.206 to 0.209 update pack and new game here:
>>7777
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No.5368
>>5367
Why do you have passwords, anyway?
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No.5369
>>5367
Oh, and an index for 1991-1995 will be up before Friday.
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No.5370
>>5368
I had a reason but I'll be damned if I can remember what it was.
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No.5404
>>5367
Does the Mega link fail to load for anyone else?
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No.5406
>>5404
What browser are you using? Just tested the link, it came up fine for me. MEGA uses some funky magic to create the files, if your browser is out of date it might not work.
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No.5408
>>5406
Oh yeah, that's it. I guess I should keep an emergency updated browser from now on.
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No.5412
>No arcades near me
Closest one is full of touch screen mobileshit and alot of the older cabinets are in poor shape
Feels bad man
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No.5505
I have to say, it's a bit tedious and annoying when there are over a dozen archives and they each require a unique password.
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No.5761
>>5406
For some reason Galaga isn't working. MAME keeps telling me it's missing a ROM or CHD.
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No.5767
Hey, I was wondering if any anons could help me with something. Does anyone know of a specific shooter released for arcade, it was a two player vs game where one player played as a "boss" and the other played as the little plane. It was released for arcade but I can't remember it's name.
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No.5830
>>4690
Bravo, the fucking passwords don't work.
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No.5852
>>5851
WinRAR shits out errors when trying to extract even a single file. I'd give it another go, this time trying 7zip, but the urge to play a bunch of eighties arcade titles in MAME has passed.
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No.5978
>>5972
What's the difference between the update packs and the new standard?
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No.6117
>>6106
Thank you so much, OP! I haven't messed around with MAME in over a year, the updated set is much appreciated.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a good front end program?
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No.6695
>>6117
Thanks for your hard work OP.
Just a question: each Mega link is supposed to replace the previous one or should I download every one you've posted so far?
Is there some kind of ultimate Mega folder?
I downloaded all the genres I wanted from >>4690 and >>4716 and then noticed a lot more links came afterwards.
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No.6833
For those that want to bypass the 5GB download limit on Mega, I have found a website. https://shurcrypter.se
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No.7492
Loving this.
I'm building my own MAME arcade machine running on retropie.
It's hit and miss. Not as effective as PC, but I can always change out the Pi unit for an old PC.
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No.7494
>>7492
What do you mean by not as effective? Is your RPi too slow for the games you're trying to run? In theory the RPi3 can run tons of stuff. This dude has accelerated Amiga systems with 68040 chips and he said the RPi emulates a much faster Amiga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGmbrhtC3M
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No.7503
>>7494
Maybe, I'm having a horrible time running Die Hard Arcade on Retropie. It barely runs alien vs predator.
When I use Mame on PC, it works great. I'm very new to non-windows based emulation.
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No.7572
>>7503
Don't bother trying to emulate anything newer than PS1 on a Raspberry Pi 3. There might be a few exceptions here and there, but the CPU is a Cracker Jack prize.
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No.7573
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>7572
Probably, but my interest in gaming stops at the 16-bit stuff like Amiga, Sega Genesis, and Neo-Geo. So even the oldest Banana Pi is enough.
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No.7576
Where can i get a ghosts and goblins rom
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No.7577
>>7576
For what emulator? If it's MAME, you have to download the right version of the rom, because their shit always changes.
Anyway I don't know, but I plan to build this:
https://docs.libretro.com/library/mame2003_plus/
And the matching roms would be in here:
https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.193_ROMs_merged
https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.193_ROMs_split
Those are like 60 GB total each, and I'm not even sure what the differences are. But apparently you can download individual game roms by going into SHOW ALL -> List Contents and then pick a game.
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No.7594
the chd pack is no longer available from mega
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No.7609
>>7594
Yeah, you caught me in the middle of updating. Getting the entire set current to 0.205 standards since there's been some major changes to emulation quality, as well as some major additions to the game list. It's taken a while since I let it slide for so long. Sad to say, there won't be an update pack this time around. It would be too damn big. Too many games had redumps and additional clones added, at this point it's just easier to start clean with a fresh set. I will have a New for 0.205 pack available if people just wanna check out the new stuff from 0.186 onwards without downloading the entire set again, but that's it. I'm working on the final update today since I already had the set up to 0.204 to be ready for it, once they are uploaded I'll post the new links. No more passwords, they don't appear to be needed.
On the plus side, lots of new games and emulation improvements from 0.170 and 0.185. SF Rush the Rock and Tokyo Wars are two big names. Q-Sound emulation and System 22 emulation have improved, and M2 emulation finally functions. Evil Night/Hell Night, Total Vice, and Tobe! Polystars now work. Some obscure games like Magic Purple and Night Mare have gotten dumped and are playable too. There's nearly 5GBs worth of new CHD using games, and nearly a GB of new non-CHD games. Merry Christmas folks.
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No.7611
>>7610
Figures this would happen as soon as I found this board.
Keep us updated, everytime I try to get into a community that has the roms they have a bunch of autistic hoops to jump through and then of course you dont log in for a week and you are banned. I'm still using the .158 set.
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No.7612
>>7611
Well I've got good news for you then. Adapter arrived, 98% of stuff was recovered, and I got the corrupted files re-downloaded. Tomorrow I finish updating the set to 0.205 and get everything uploaded. My connection is shit so it might be a few days before everything is up, but it's on the way.
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No.7613
>>7612
Lol wow that was fast.
Any way we can show our appreciation? You should ask doe donations.
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No.7614
>>7613
Nah, if I wanted to make money off of this, I would be selling HDDs full of roms on craigslist.
I did this because I got sick and tired of every MAME set out there being EVERYTHING in existence. Shitty barcade machines, Tiger Electronics shit, endless mahjong games, and a whole lot of games that can't even be emulated yet. I wanted a MAME set of just working arcade games and ONLY arcade games, not all the extra crap 99% of people don't even want to look at. After downloading everything and going through and testing games one by one, I figured it would be a waste to do all this work and not share when it was likely there were other people looking for the same thing.
If you want some way to help me, I'm on the lookout for additional places to host the romset. Most usual spots would probably bitch since it's not a "complete" romset with all the useless crap. Or some jackass would come along and add the "missing" files and bloat it out. Any place without a bandwidth limit like Mega would be great.
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No.7616
>>7615
Awesome thank you so much, I cant wait!
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No.7626
Gonna need a bigger hard drive drive for this. Keep going!
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No.7629
S-Z just finished uploading, time for a cleanup post.
If you have no roms, or you want to upgrade your entire set to 0.205, then the complete working set is here:
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
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
Everything is in .rar's under 5GBs. This way you can go ahead and start playing while waiting for the rest to download, and to make it easier to get a full file through Mega's 5GB limit. And I did fuck up the new games pack by letting World Adventure slip in, which is another shitty mahjong game. Feel free to delete that one. I made sure to wipe it from the full pack. As usual, CHD games doesn't include the laserdisc titles, since those are fucking 15GBs each.
And I missed 125 games and probably more. Here's the 125 I found.
https://mega.nz/#!5Z0R0QDK!RuCeQzIlKxx7T_xl_nOlSFe2ONOM7asI3-0UmJNYNFM
Mostly early arcade games from Atari and Gremlin and the like, but also a number of newer titles including two post 2000 Cave shoot em ups.
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No.7632
>>7629
And one last little bonus for now. This is a modified version of MAME 0.204 64 bit for Windows, made to recognize Sega Sonic Bros, with the ROM already in the roms folder. Also in the Sega Sonic Bros ROM zip is the segac2.cpp file needed to compile your own copy of MAME that will recognize Sega Sonic Bros. For those that don't know, the MAMEdev team won't touch the game since they consider the ROM to be "hot". It should have been in 0.204, but got taken out, and even the commit that added it to the git was removed from the history. So if you want to play Sega Sonic Bros, this is pretty much the only way.
https://mega.nz/#!QV9H3KIT!CwSKMG43lxJkDx1R_TqBItJXe8oSBTbWAub2sBOvjjE
Oh, and I'm moderating this board now. Might as well since I seem to be one of the few people who still comes here.
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No.7634
>>7632
>The MAMEdev team won't touch the game since they consider the ROM to be "hot".
What the fuck does that even mean?
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No.7635
>>7634
Ok, so ShouTime had a copy. Somehow, Guru got his hands on it. He releases it to the public, and adds it into MAME sometime after 0.203 releases. Suddenly the MAMEdev team claims to have gotten a C&D letter from SEGA. The letter says that they do not authorize anyone to have the fucking ROM, and if MAMEdev lets it be recognized by their software and thus playable, they will take MAMEdev to court to get ALL SEGA games removed from MAME. Guru swears it's just ShouTime and other hoarders playing BS games to keep the game super rare 'n valuable. MAMEdev team says "fuck this trouble" and pulls the commit and wipes it, and states they will not add Sega Sonic Bros to the MAME database. One of the MAMEdevs claims they will eventually add it "when things quiet down", but no idea of when that will be. They also say SEGA is sending out DMCA orders around the internet to get download links taken down, but so far only Guru's website is down and it's not for certain if that was a result of a takedown.
TL;DR version: MAMEdev team says SEGA is threatening to sue to have every single SEGA game removed from MAME if they so much as let MAME run Sega Sonic Bros. Could be BS, but MAMEdev team seems to believe it, and they don wan no trouble.
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No.7646
God, the good stuff just keeps on coming. Big news in 0.206 folks. San Francisco Rush 2049 and San Francisco Rush 2049 Special Edition just got promoted to working status. A good man by the name of tedgreen99 made some improvements to the audio and video, and brought it up to functional. I was planning on waiting until at least 0.210 to do an update, but instead I'm doing one as soon as 0.206 drops.
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No.7665
>>7629
Alright, with 0.206 out, I need the space to update the set. The "new games" packs are going down. If you didn't get them before now, you gotta download the entire set.
Updating from 0.205 to 0.206 is as easy as copy and pasting and completely overwriting the existing roms with the new ones here:
https://mega.nz/#!sdFGyIQK!iNbvzlmFcz22XW_LRB_mpCiz6eBXQ1HDZ54UIZqaDHY
And here is the new game in 0.206, San Francisco Rush 2049 Special Edition. Usually I use the base game, but in this case it made more sense to go with SE. Having 2049 and 2049SE as separate games didn't make sense since 2049SE is just 2049 with 2 new tracks and some more cars. Would add 700MB-1GB for nothing. So instead I'm just using 2049SE for the set.
https://mega.nz/#!IUcEiA6T!DLnNxqpKHXu-o8P_20yyGR3CGAMgQezDW26C7XSiJyc
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No.7666
>>7665
Thank you for the uploads and your work I may not be on as much as I'd like anymore but it's nice to see the place is still here.
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No.7691
Thanks heaps for the romsets, always appreciate someone doing this.
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No.7729
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No.7777
With 0.209 having that new Atari game that just got dumped, I'm going ahead and updating the set to 0.209. Gonna post an update pack and a new game pack for 0.209 for those that want to update from 0.206 or don't care to update. I will eventually be pulling down the complete set packs to replace them with 0.209, but I'd like to hold off on that until I finish up the 4th gen of the definitive version project. I would wait longer, but I have reason to suspect a game in one of the packs got corrupted.(Bombjack Twin in 1991-1995 to be specific) As usual, updating is just copy+pasting the new .zip files over the old ones and replacing them entirely. The 0.206 to 0.209 update pack assumes you already got the 125 games I missed in the pack here: >>7629
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
EDIT3: Alright, figured out the problem. HDD was dying, files were being corrupted, so they were being kicked out as invalid. Moved everything over to new HDD, managed to save the CHD games, but some regular games got borked. I'm just going to put everything I'm missing plus the games I'm sure I've missed into the same zip.
EDIT8: Found Fire Fox in the 197X-1985 set. It shouldn't be there, since it's a Laserdisc (10+GB CHD) game. Also being removed for being LD games, Cobra Command from the 1986-1990 set, Cliffhanger from the 197X-1985 set, M.A.C.H. 3 from the 197X-1985 set, Us Vs Them from the 197X-1985 set, and Cube Quest from the 197X-1985 set. If anyone wants to host the LD CHD files, I'll be glad to make a ROM pack for the LD games.
EDIT11: Testing is underway, some titles have definitely been promoted to working since 0.170 and I failed to notice. Also more than a few titles I've never seen before. Some I'm dead certain just got borked when my HDD died. It's taking a while due to IRL shit. Stay tuned.
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No.7786
Thanks a lot for the great work you're doing OP.
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No.7818
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No.7819
P.S. Have to say, some games from good list I've tried were quite impressive
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No.7895
I'm diving into MAME wish me luck…
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No.7989
I have a comfy complete set (including all history files, cheats, etc.) from 2002 or so with all the classics and just about 5GB in size. Was the last version before they added more modern titles and runs to this day. 0.61 or some shit, newest Rom is from year 2000 and was Metal Slug 3. The next mame already featured 3D titles, mine was the last with only 2D games. Running it with the EmuLoader frontend, works fine. Here's a screen cap. 3352 working (partially emulated are hidden in the GUI but everything is 100% complete) Roms.
Took me forever back then to get them all and I didn't even bother to update ever since. It's all the retro shit I will ever need (or mostly all).
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No.7992
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No.7999
>>7777
I can post again! Finally time to get updating. Updated set coming soon.
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No.8133
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No.8134
>>8133
I'm gonna say never. This board's dead bud
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