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Howdy all!

I was around in the 80s when the arcades were big and popular, and I just found mame and roms.

I downloaded mame and some roms and everything works great. It's great to see some games that I have not seen since decades ago.

My question is, how can all the zip files on a single page be downloaded, so a person does not have to spend the entire day downloading them 1 by 1?

If the zip file links were actually all on the same page, orbit download manager could be used to download all of them with a couple of clicks.

Can I download all the "a" titles:
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/inde ... me-0.137/a

then all the "b" titles without having to click on each one, go to the next page, and then click download?

If not, I did see the unlimited member has access to the multipack downloads:
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/inde ... Mega-Packs

but they don't list what they contain, and all of them put together do not add up to the 335.71 GB that the mame rom index page lists.

I also saw an unlimited member access page:
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/inde ... older=MAME

That lists Mame-0.139 through Mame-0.150, but not what they contain. Do these contain all mame roms 0-Z? In other words, are these single downloads of multiple mame rom zip files, like titles 0-c, c-f, etc.?

Basically how can the 335.71 GB of mame roms be downloaded without clicking on a couple of thousand pages, downloading the 335.71 GB of zip files one at a time?

Thanks!

Hello and welcome. Firstly the mame roms section contains many complete versions of the mame rom set from the very early versions to the very latest. That is why the entire section is so large. The reason we keep many different sets is because of the changes between sets over the years. Also some of the older sets are far smaller in size and are better suited to handheld devices like smart phones and talets.

In the single download sets we only peovide the older smaller complete sets like 0.37b5 etc as it is impossible to offer a 28 gb single download file.

In general it is very difficult to allow so many users (200-300 at any given time) to be downloading large data sets, we simply dont have the bandwidth capacity. Most sites dont offer downloads of any mame sets.

In the future and with more funding we would be able to offer single downloads of sets like 0.144 but at present I am afraid it is just single roms for any recent large mame sets.

The only alternative is torrent sites but these have many problems and hazzards.

Okay, I understand. Thanks for taking the time to reply with an explanation.