need mame roms and I am fed up

[bradhig1]

The hard drive on my last laptop crashed and now I am trying to replace mame and its roms.   I can't get deco cassette to work because i am missing vod_7e and every version of cbdash  I fnd online doesn't have it.   I used to know where to get mame roms but those places are gone and I am afraid of what other missing rom files I will need.    I couldn't find a full romset for the latest mame all I could find on usenet was a set for mame 145.

 

[+arcadeshopper]

The hard drive on my last laptop crashed and now I am trying to replace mame and its roms.   I can't get deco cassette to work because i am missing vod_7e and every version of cbdash  I fnd online doesn't have it.   I used to know where to get mame roms but those places are gone and I am afraid of what other missing rom files I will need.    I couldn't find a full romset for the latest mame all I could find on usenet was a set for mame 145.
 

Archive.org

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[bradhig1]

can't download from there.

[+arcadeshopper]

Sounds like a personal problem. Don't they have torrent links?

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[youxia]

Search for "pleasuredome mame" on the web.

[mr_me]

16 hours ago, bradhig1 said:

The hard drive on my last laptop crashed and now I am trying to replace mame and its roms.   I can't get deco cassette to work because i am missing vod_7e and every version of cbdash  I fnd online doesn't have it.   I used to know where to get mame roms but those places are gone and I am afraid of what other missing rom files I will need.    I couldn't find a full romset for the latest mame all I could find on usenet was a set for mame 145.

 

The 145 set is pretty old.  Archive.org has a 243 merged set.  You can grab individual files directly but looks like you have to use torrent to get the entire archive.

 

I see a flle called v0d-.7e in decocass.zip in the mame bios set.

Edited May 21, 2022 by mr_me

[bradhig1]

I got the needed files on my own.

[MrMaddog]

Which version of MAME do you current have?

 

It's actually best to just get the Merged ROM set first and then get the matching version of MAME...

[gambler172]

I found the rom. To get it work, you need a modified mame.exe. Just overwrite the original mame exe and you can start playing ?

[roadrunner]

It sucks having to restart mame again on another pc
doperoms had alot of good bios files

 

[SoundGammon]

This site has roms:

 

https://www.retrostic.com/

[Asaki]

You're supposed to use the provided tools to update your ROMsets when MAME itself updates.

 

Granted, it's a little confusing to figure out...I've done it once and I don't remember how I did it. I need to leave myself notes so I don't have to hope I can find the tutorial again.

But I definitely need to do it again, because some of the sets I've found are missing quite a few popular games.

 

I usually just continue running an outdated version of MAME

Edited July 15, 2022 by Asaki

[youxia]

39 minutes ago, Asaki said:

You're supposed to use the provided tools to update your ROMsets when MAME itself updates.

 

Granted, it's a little confusing to figure out...I've done it once and I don't remember how I did it. I need to leave myself notes so I don't have to hope I can find the tutorial again.

This made sense in the days of limited internet bandwidth, or dl credit on torrent sites. Back then I used to download incremental updates, now I just grab the latest whole set once or twice per year.

[mr_me]

8 hours ago, Asaki said:

You're supposed to use the provided tools to update your ROMsets when MAME itself updates.

 

Granted, it's a little confusing to figure out...I've done it once and I don't remember how I did it. I need to leave myself notes so I don't have to hope I can find the tutorial again.

But I definitely need to do it again, because some of the sets I've found are missing quite a few popular games.

 

I usually just continue running an outdated version of MAME

If you're talking about Clrmamepro, while it can reorganise and rename files to an updated set, it won't add any missing files.  You still have to download them.  Even running the tool isn't necessary as you can just add more rom search paths for additional downloads, and Mame can find files in the old sets if they are there.  I just grab individual rom files as needed, it doesn't happen to often that newer mame can't find the files in an older set.