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Hi all,

Fairly new here and very green when it comes to emulators. Still need to learn a lot. This site has helped me a lot already. So far, I have successfully set up MAMEUIFX 0.151 and a handful of games on my Windows 7 PC. I have a few questions that I hope someone can easily answer.

1. Is there a BIOs pack or something that I should add to the emulator? I have already found the "fixed" neogeo bios. Are there others? If so, where can I find them?

2. From my understanding, I should look for games beginning with the matching 0.151 first for updated roms and work my way down?

3. I have done the above for the following, but can't get these to work: Pole Position (any version), Super Sprinter (any version), Paperboy (any version), Daytona2 (only version I tried). The audit feature shows quite a few missing files.


Thanks for any help! I can do a print screen if that would help.

***UPDATE***

Okay, I think I figured most of it out. Found the missing files in the updates and online to get Paperboy, Super Sprint going. However, all the Daytona ROMs load but cannot play properly. Also tried a CrusnWLD ROM and got it to work, but the background music is choppy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Ryan

Daytona USA works on Sega Model 2 board which currently isn't supported very well in MAME. To play it or any other game from that system you need another emulator dedicated to Sega Model 2 games, called simply Model 2 Emulator.
Cruis'n World works on a hardware very similar to Nintendo 64. To play it at full speed on MAME without choppy sound you need a very, very powerful CPU on board of your computer - I think a quad core above 3 GHz should do the trick, but the more the better. MAME doesn't benefit from our graphic cards - the emulation always runs only on our CPUs thus making the more resource hungry games (mostly 3D, but not only) completely unplayable. There's nothing you can do about it beside trying a console version on any Nintendo 64 emulator - this port is very well done in my opinion.

Its great to see a new member helping another new member. Many thanks Bezarius for this.

Thanks for the info!

Oz Bezarius wrote:MAME doesn't benefit from our graphic cards - the emulation always runs only on our CPUs...

Wow. You learn something new every day.

I started setting up emulators for the first time almost 10 years ago. You would have thought I would have run across this fact a long time ago but I've never read it until right now. Thanks for the info, Oz.