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Using MAME with Linux
#316434 - 10/27/13 06:28 AM
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Hi,
I'm trying to use MAME with GNU/Linux and I have some problems. I'm using Gentoo, and it is very poorly documented. The manpage is simply this:
" Started in 1997 by Nicola Salmoria, MAME was originally intended as a series of emulators for individual games, which were
later combined into a single multi-game emulator. In the following years, MAME grew over and over up to the actual size, with
more than 100 contributors to the project."
The rest is just a list of arguments.
I had some ROMs that worked before, with a different version of MAME under Linux Mint. Now with Gentoo, some of them do not work.
E.g. for Salamander 2 I get:
salmndr2 : 300a01.34k (131072 bytes) - NOT FOUND (konamigx)
When I run -verifyroms.
I didn't need this file before, so why do I need it now? What has changed?
From a list of what files the romset (Salamander 2) should contain, I noticed that 300a01.34k is a "merged" file. What is a merged file?
What utility, for Linux, should I use to manage my romsets? How do I get Salamander 2 working?
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Re: Using MAME with Linux
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#316458 - 10/27/13 07:51 PM
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Re: Using MAME with Linux
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#316490 - 10/28/13 04:37 PM
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ClrMAMEPro works through Wine on Linux and Mac, but for non-Windows your best bet is to just find a ROM torrent site that updates on every MAME release and build up some ratio.
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Re: Using MAME with Linux
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#316495 - 10/28/13 06:05 PM
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And on Mac OSX for that matter...
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Re: Using MAME with Linux
[Re: Sune]
#316505 - 10/29/13 12:24 AM
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> > I had some ROMs that worked before, with a different version of MAME under Linux
> > Mint. Now with Gentoo, some of them do not work.
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> http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php?title=FAQ:ROMs
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> I *think* you can run clrmame on Linux through wine.
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> S
It works. I ran it on wine before without a problem. 
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Re: Using MAME with Linux
[Re: R. Belmont]
#316532 - 10/29/13 06:22 PM
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There is no need to run Mame through Wine. It works just just fine as a Linux native client as long as you have the proper roms and bioses. No since running an emulator in another emulator.
The only issue I have with it in Linux the joystick dead zone. Can't get rid of it. Haven't been able to determine if it is an issue with the X server or Mame itself.
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Re: Using MAME with Linux
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#316534 - 10/29/13 06:36 PM
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> There is no need to run Mame through Wine. It works just just fine as a Linux native
> client as long as you have the proper roms and bioses. No since running an emulator
> in another emulator.
Nobody said anything about running MAME through Wine....you asked what you should use to manage your ROMs: http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/
But there's no Linux version.
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Re: Using MAME with Linux
[Re: Sune]
#316537 - 10/29/13 09:41 PM
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Nevermind, long day.
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Re: Using MAME with Linux
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#316544 - 10/29/13 11:33 PM
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> There is no need to run Mame through Wine.
You *do* know who you're telling this to, right? ;-)
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