i have an older copy of mame roms ,and was trying to figure out if i can roll back to mame 2003 .or is fba and neo geo work ok on newest sets
ps my set is mame 1.25
Paul
looking for easy way to get rom
Moderator: dee2eR
Re: looking for easy way to get rom
archive.org can be a good place to try for specific MAME sets.
It is possible to convert from set to set but it's a pain too as you need extra romsets to fill in some blanks etc. to successfully convert a whole set. Some of it can be automated in romcenter without having extra romsets using datfiles for particular MAME versions as some changes will just be file renaming within the zips.
Most games are better off in newer MAMEs than 0.078/2003 (or FBA which uses a modified MAME 0.173 set). This is particularly the case on Pi4 as most games will run in 0.172 or newer. On a Pi3 NEOGEO stuff will work best in FBA or AdvMAME(0.106).
It is possible to convert from set to set but it's a pain too as you need extra romsets to fill in some blanks etc. to successfully convert a whole set. Some of it can be automated in romcenter without having extra romsets using datfiles for particular MAME versions as some changes will just be file renaming within the zips.
Most games are better off in newer MAMEs than 0.078/2003 (or FBA which uses a modified MAME 0.173 set). This is particularly the case on Pi4 as most games will run in 0.172 or newer. On a Pi3 NEOGEO stuff will work best in FBA or AdvMAME(0.106).