MAME N00b

[moosebones82]

Hi I am new to emulators and I am trying to understand how to setup a MAME emu and play games like the simpsons and xmen and such on windows 7. Any info I would greatly appreciate.

[Kherr]

I wouldn't begin to be able to help you because MAME has always been an emulator that was confusing to me... But hopefully by me posting in here someone else will notice your thread a bit more and HELP YOU OUT. >.>'

[te_lanus]

Let's see. Mame.

Step one:
Get the Emu from Here: (windows)http://www.mameui.info/
Get the Roms from Here: http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=MAME
1. Get it from 0.140
2. if needed get the updates for 0.141 (u1-3)
If needed remember to DL the Bios's (Neogeo - Naomi(1-GD) - Ect)

Step 2:
Create a Directory (like c:\Mame).
And Extract the Emu into the Directory, Most modern extractors will create all the needed Directories.
Move all the Roms to the Roms Directory
Start Mameui (it should find all the Roms, if not just press F5)

In the Left plane click on the Available, and choose what game you want

[Shanks]

Rather than start a new thread I thought I'd ask here.

I downloaded MAMEui32 and went to the Abandonware DOS games section and got some games.
I placed them in my rom folder then started the app, but it can't find any of my games.
I tried searching but it doesn't display any of the games.

You said I might need to download Bios's (Neogeo - Naomi(1-GD) - Ect), but not to sure exactly where to get that from, and not to sure if it will fix my problem. If not can you please explain where I went wrong.

Help me out please.

[Shanks]

Just some for info.
I just went through the read me file that comes with MAMEui32, and I downloaded a game they linked and it worked. Also the version I'm using is 0.143. So it only wont show games that I got from this site. So I'm guessing it is the bios that I have to download.

[BlueMaxima]

MAME runs a different type of game to DOS games - DOS games won't work in MAME. You need to download the MAME roms from this site, not the DOS games.

[Shanks]

OK that explains a lot.
Thanks got the right emulator now,