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MAME advice by Fussbett 06/20/2006, 3:20am PDT Are there any MAME experts here, among the 7 readers? I've got questions. So to celebrate my new full time job that destroyed my June, I've decided to dedicate July to building a MAME cabinet. This is a big deal, as people may remember that I'm terrible with my hands. So "cabinet" is going to be a loose guideline, instead of a blueprint. The victory condition is merely getting solid arcade controls going, so if my cabinet ends up being a sheet of plywood and many wires streaming out of my computer to the Happ controls, I'm fine with that. However, during my preliminary research I've also discovered that I'm not very good with my head either. MY COCK HEAD! Haha, no, I mean my neck head. After taking 7 years off from the MAME scene, I find the world to be annoying, as Stuart describes. Much of my 1.5 Gigs of ROMs that (mostly) worked in MAME32 0.36 are now of course broken in MAME32 0.62 (don't ask me how I got this version yesterday) and MAME32 1.06. Stuart's warnings aside, I was more surprised by how many of my ROMs were now reported as incomplete. They were complete in 1999, but they're incomplete in 2006. I don't know how that can possibly occur, but if I load MAME32 0.36 I get to play seemingly perfect Double Dragon and 1943, but in later versions I can't. Audits (rounded): MAME 0.36 1600 correct 1850 total MAME 1.06 1200 correct 2000 incorrect ...and no, I don't know why I have different totals either. This is complicated by the fact that MAME32 1.06 will sometimes let me play "incomplete" ROMs. So fuck all that, let's start fresh. I notice that people release MAME ROM torrents in conjuction with MAME updates, and obviously I'm not going to try and "patch" my ROMs through 50 revisions. Should I really invest in one of these 13 Gig collections? Is there a good site where everyone downloads individual ROMs? I'm thinking this might be better for me as I don't need 50 versions of Mahjong.

"MAME Over" by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/02/2006, 1:06am PST     GAME OVER! ...Sorry, but it had to be said. NT by Souffle of Pain 03/03/2006, 9:07pm PST         Is this somebody atoring to make SofP look dumber? by Reichsminister Doktor Goebbels 03/04/2006, 12:52pm PST             Re: Is this somebody atoring to make SofP look dumber? by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/04/2006, 2:32pm PST                 So the other person is INC? NT by Entropy Stew 03/04/2006, 3:37pm PST                     It's either me or you, ES. NT by I need clarification 03/04/2006, 7:33pm PST                 That's mind boggling by Lizard_King 03/04/2006, 7:47pm PST                     Sorry.......................................................................FAG! NT by I need clarification 03/04/2006, 9:40pm PST                         I suck (children of) cocks. NT by Lizard_King 03/05/2006, 8:11am PST                 Why are you checking IPs? NT by Tony 03/04/2006, 9:38pm PST                     He's gone mad with power! by motherfuckerfoodeater 03/05/2006, 1:57am PST                         He's insane. Time for a new admin NT by I need clarification 03/05/2006, 3:01am PST                             The transistor from his Crystal Castle display is going to explode by motherfuckerfoodeater 03/05/2006, 3:46pm PST                     Quality of Service Metrics by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/05/2006, 5:20pm PST                         Well stop it, before you jeapardize the success of the whole Caltrops experiment by Tony 03/06/2006, 12:34am PST                             ^-- for example >:( NT by Tony 03/06/2006, 12:37am PST                             Re: Well stop it, before you jeapardize the whole Caltrops by Druids 03/06/2006, 4:02am PST                                 At first I read that as "jeeping", which also seemed to apply NT by Entropy Stew 03/06/2006, 9:15am PST     MAME advice by Fussbett 06/20/2006, 3:20am PDT         Re: MAME advice by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/20/2006, 3:39am PDT             Re: MAME advice by Zsenicorpse 06/20/2006, 7:46am PDT                 Oops, I see Zseni provided that link too. by Fussbett 06/21/2006, 10:23pm PDT             See? I told you he was building one. NT by I need clarification 06/20/2006, 4:29pm PDT                 I don't know how ICJ kept this a secret from me. NT by Fussbett 06/21/2006, 10:09pm PDT                     because you didn't read his other website NT by obviously 06/21/2006, 10:54pm PDT                         Along with blaming me for ruining Caltrops... by Fussbett 06/22/2006, 2:56pm PDT                         Yeah or this one, Obvious(ly a fucking moron) by I need clarification 06/22/2006, 8:13pm PDT             Re: MAME advice by Fussbett 06/21/2006, 10:17pm PDT                 I had the variants and simply needed "popeye.zip" by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/23/2006, 12:40am PDT             Which joystick did you pick? NT by Fussbett 06/28/2006, 10:51pm PDT                 Re: Which joystick did you pick? by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/28/2006, 11:24pm PDT                     Today I bought the Happ Competition from a local parts place. by Fussbett 06/29/2006, 5:05pm PDT                         The Happ Competition is awesome NT by Fussbett 07/04/2006, 12:00pm PDT         I only tested the first one. by Jerry Whorebach 06/20/2006, 4:05pm PDT