I just started using MAME32 the other day. Now I can play all the old games that I love!
I have lost count of how much money I put into 'Blues Journey' when I was a younger. So when I saw it for download I was pretty excited. After playing it for five minutes I decided I wasn't a very good game critique when I was young. It sucks now! Ahah.
This board has been pretty helpful for when I have had difficulties.
But I have a few questions, if you don?t mind answering them.
If a rom has bad files in it will it appear in the available list in the emulator? How does the emulator decide what roms it will show? Because some games don?t appear, as you will see below.
I'm using MAME32 v0.65 at the moment.
I also have NEBULA 1.8b and NEBULA 1.7.
All the older games seem to work without any hassles at all. On both emulators as well.
These are the roms I have had trouble with.
King of Fighters 2001.
King of Fighters 2002.
Metal Slug 4.
KOF2001
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I think one of the files in my kof2001.zip is bad.
I get this error in MAME when I try to run it (it does not even appear in the NEBULA list of available roms, even though it is in the rom directory):
262-m1.bin NO GOOD DUMP KNOWN
MAME will still run the game, but it gives that warning above.
The CRC of the file is: 6C5050CB. I checked mame.dk and they don?t seem to have a correct CRC for the file so i am unsure of what the correct CRC is.
The file seems to be small, so if someone has one that works. If they could please mail/post it that would be great. My email is mailto:pannel@optusnet.com.au.
KOF2002
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When I place the kof2002.zip in the rom directory and refresh the available rom list the game is not available for play. This is in the case of both MAME and NEBULA.
Is there something I need to enter into the NEBULA .ini file to make the game available? I have read this somewhere but I am unsure of what to enter.
Will this game ever work in MAME32?
Do I need to use NEBULA 1.7 to play this rom?
Here are the details of my kof2002.zip
The file is 84.7mb.
I have all the files in the kof2002.zip from the Neblua dat that are in THIS POST.
There are ALSO two extra files in my kof2002.zip. These are:
265-m1.bin CRC 7DBAB719
265-v1.bin CRC 15E8F3F5
Do I need these files? What are they doing in there? Can I delete them?
Hopefully this is enough information. Probably too much! Ahah
MS4
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This game does not appear in my available rom list either. But I think I know why.
When I open the mslug4.zip all the files are in the .rom format.
How do I convert them into .bin files that the emulator can recognise?
Thanks SO much for reading this post. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time,
Mark