Tr3vor Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Well, I'm trying mame on my computer that hooks up to my tv, and I want to play galaga, but every variant that I try to load up, it says there is rom images or something missing. can anyone help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 That means that you have ROM images missing. As new versions of MAME are released, updated ROM images for games are also occasionally put out as well. Chances are an updated version of the Galaga ROMS have been released and you don't have the set that's fully compatible with your version of MAME. Example from my personal experience, the Killer Instinct 1 and 2 ROMS I have work on a MAME build from two or three years ago. They do not work in the latest build of MAME, however (I get the same error as you). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tr3vor Posted June 26, 2011 Author Share Posted June 26, 2011 well, I've tried a ton of different roms and a few different versions of MAME and it still doesn't work. I got Berzerk, Phenix and Q-bert working, but not galaga or anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 You're probably just SOL man if other games work. Buy a Namco Museum collection, there are various old versions that are mega-cheap (for instance, the N64 version). BTW, MAME can be hit or miss. It's not like a NES emulator where the majority (if not all) games work. I have a lot of games on my HD that won't boot in MAME. It's just a part of using this program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorussell Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Make sure you put the games in the "roms" directory. If you keep more than one version of MAME in an arcade folder, each version builds it own "roms" folder. I had it happen before where I had to go under Options/Directories and tell it where the roms were. Try to keep just one version at a time, so you don't have 2 seperate "roms" folders. Something else I discovered recently is that semi-recent versions of MAME screwed up some games when you have the cheats enabled under game properties/miscellaneous (box is checked). The newest version fixed that; Galaga was one of the games that had a problem crashing when the cheats were enabled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 "MAME: nothing works"...LOL. More like "MAME: I can't get Galaga to work" or "MAME: Galaga doesn't work"; or some games don't run. You said you got Phoenix and Q-bert working, but tried "a ton of different roms" and "different versions of MAME" to get "Galaga or anything else" to work. Regardless, MAME is already providing the answer to you... "...every variant that I try to load up, it says there is rom images or something missing." If ROMs are missing, the game will not run. You can try 'two tons' or 'three tons' or every set you can find, and every version of MAME ever made; but if the set you have is not compatible with the MAME version you are using the game will never run. Galaga has worked find for me since it's implementation in MAME all the way to 0.142u6 (Latest version). The key is doing the work and research to keep your set(s) up to date. Which really is cake with tools like ClrMAMEPro and others. But, if you want the easy solution/answers here it is: http://www.us-lazarus.com/rom-burner/sets/index.shtml It is easy...Just be ready to pay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Make sure you have all the parent ROMs for Galaga. In MAME, go to "All Games" in the GUI and set the View to "Grouped." That will show you all the parent ROMs you need for the respective games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Here's all the details you need if you choose more work over paying: http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/galaga That's the parent set information along with links to every child set and the full names, size, crc, and even sha1 values. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 @rmaerz..."Retrocade" always reminds me of this: http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulator.php?id=retrocade More here: http://www.zophar.net/marcade/retrocade.html And of course the iconic: http://www.arcadeathome.com/pic.phtml?images/retrobabe.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 @rmaerz..."Retrocade" always reminds me of this: Seriously, I just tried to register retrocade.com today and as you can see it wasn't available. I have registered retrocademagazine.com just this morning. In any event, Retrocade is the name of my home arcade and will be the name of my magazine to be released Q4 this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Retrocade is the name of my home arcade and will be the name of my magazine to be released Q4 this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Retrocade is the name of my home arcade and will be the name of my magazine to be released Q4 this year. The new DNS works for me http://www.retrocademagazine.com/ so I will begin transitioning my site from my arcade related content to magazine content this week... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Do an audit on your romset (e.g.alt-A in mameUI, etc.) to find out whats missing in your galaga.zip, then go get it. It's really not much more than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underball Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Get the latest version of MAME from the official site. Then, get individual roms from emuasylum or planetemulation. Google these. Or just google MAME .142 roms torrent and download the whole shebang. Be warned, it's like 30gbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Or heck I'll save you the trouble of googling. Just go to http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/ for your Mame torrent needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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