Can anyone explain me about mame versions?

[nanosev]

I have a lot of roms of MAME 0.174 but I dont play it since a lot of time. Few days ago I realized that exists MAME 0.191, 0.210, 0.214 etc. I guess are updates of emulator but here's the question : updates to work games that doesnt work in previous versions? Or only to improve the emulator to play better the games that already exists? And 2nd question : the list of games for MAME is a closed list or currently still release games? Sorry for my ingorance about this platform but is the platform that I least play. Thanks.

[Hot Trout]

Each mame version normally contains a few fixes to existing roms and also a few new roms. The vast majority of the roms within each mame set does not change from set to set. Certain collections (MAME versions like 0.174) become a standard for different hardware platforms at that time. Like MAME4All for example.

We have anumber of these 'moment in time' mame collections so that everyone can find the collection for specific hardware platforms.

[nanosev]

Many thanks! I will investigate about MAME that i have abandoned it completely.

[mahanoor]

Hi

I built an arcade cab some 8 - 9 years ago, using hyperspin & various emulators it all ran really well but I never really got into understanding Mame.

I'm doing a new build now & planning to use Hyperspin along with RocketLauncher & Mame, there are only about 15 - 20 games I want on my wheel so I have these stored in a Roms folder. But what I believe (?) is the best Mame version to use, Mame64 0.214, I point it to my Roms directory, when I click the available tab it shows nothing. If I type in the name of the game & then try to run it I get "The selected machine is missing a , please check you have the Rom or CHD"

In Mame32 Plus Plus 0.119 under available I have my games listed & they all run.

Under MameUI64 0.213 my games don't show at all (although there is a massive list) & when I search they don't come up.

So I guess my question is what is the best version of Mame to use, as said I would have thought the official Mame 0.214 but why won't it show just my Roms & why won't they run?

Appreciate any comments.