It gunks up your game list in EmulationStation, but it works well. For example, a Neo Geo game, you need the Neo Geo BIOS in the same directory.
Mame32 will tell you in the game info pane if the game is a clone or parent rom.ĪfterBurner also requires the AfterBurner II rom (which is the parent set in this case) so you need both aburner2.zip and aburner.zip to play after burner.ĭie Hard Arcade requires the stvbios.zip, although its worth noting that it doesn't run that well in mame as STV emulation is still pretty ropey. obsidianspider, 15:42 The BIOS file just needs to be in the same directory as the zip file of the game. If we are trying to play a game and it needs a BIOS, we might see a message like the following where it will tell us. Mame requires the parent rom for any of its clones to run. I coppied all MAME BIOS files to the mame/roms folder, but all games still dump to the RetroArch menu when I move past the 'ok' screen. Can you play Mame on Wii MAME Wii is an Arcade Emulator based on SDLMAME. Same thing happens when I load a MAME game from RetroArch. As a general rule, you should compress all the BIOS files into a single archive before transferring them to the ROM folder. What mame does is has a parent rom which is basically one version of the game which has all the core game files, then any other versions of the game just contain the few files that are different, this is called a clone. Where do Mame BIOS files go BIOS and MAME ROMS The BIOS files you download need to be transferred to MAME’s ROM folder. Most arcade games have a number of variants (releases for different regions, newer revisions etc). Have you checked that you have the parent roms for all the games you are trying to play?.