Admiral Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 I tried to load centipede(and this goes for every other game), but it says it's missing a number of files(centipede.3??). Where can i get these files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 Are you trying to load the 7800 version of Centipede into MAME? If so then it won't work. For 7800 emulation you need the MESS emulator. If you want to use MAME you would need the MAME Centipede ROMs. Mitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Posted April 15, 2003 Author Share Posted April 15, 2003 When i try to use MESS, I get a "roms missing" error..and i have the "7800.rom" file...I am sure i am putting the roms in the right place...help?!??!?!(but yes, those missing files were with MAME) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 I had this figured out a while back. There was some arm-twisting thing you had to do to get it to work, but I can't remember what it was. I thought it was setting the BIOS directory to where ever the 7800.rom file was but that doesn't work either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 Ah, ok. Here's the arm-twisting part. (Which is a really dumb thing to have to do, especially since I couldn't find any docs about this...) You have to put the 7800.rom in a the directory /mess/bios/a7800 and se the MESS Bios directory to mess/bios. That got it to work for me. I was reminded of this from Mitch in this thread: http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.p...t=mess+emulator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted April 23, 2003 Share Posted April 23, 2003 Here's some good sites for MAME ROMS: www.mamefans.net has every arcade game as a description but not every roms www.emuchina.com does have all of the arcade roms.The only downside is that they name it by the filename www.klov.com has info on every arcade game to date! Hope this helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miqorz Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 Can a mod kindly remove those links? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldunko Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 the last one is just information in his defence... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miqorz Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 It's not so much the fact they're roms as the fact they're COPYWRITTEN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 Look...Here's a little story: Atari roms are NOT COPYWRITTEN ANYMORE! Atari's last owner: Hasbro Interactive released those roms into public domain. MOST of the roms on MAME are public domain now.The ones with a "anti" symbol ARE COPYWRITTEN. Hope that settles some confusion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miqorz Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 Copywrites last 70 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldunko Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 copyrights... copyrights last 70 years... the systems are in public domain i know that, but if hasbro/midway really honestly cared THAT much then they'd surely use their corporate lawyers to beat down some servers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted April 27, 2003 Share Posted April 27, 2003 Umm if a copyright owner releases the rights to a copyright, no they aint. Anyways you might want to try renaming that bios file to A7800.bin as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanBoris Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Look...Here's a little story: Atari roms are NOT COPYWRITTEN ANYMORE! Atari's last owner: Hasbro Interactive released those roms into public domain. MOST of the roms on MAME are public domain now.The ones with a "anti" symbol ARE COPYWRITTEN. Hope that settles some confusion! This is toally incorrect. The only ROMS for MAME that have been released into the Public Domain are Gridlee and Robby Roto, all of the others are still under coypright. I also don't recall hearning anything about Hasbro releasing any of the Atari library into the public domain. Hasbro DID release the encryption keys for the Atari Jaguar carts so that homebrew development could procede. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miqorz Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Couldn't have said it any better myself Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted April 29, 2003 Share Posted April 29, 2003 Hmmm I thought the tramiels released the 8-bit computer OS's to the public way back in the day???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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