MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Atari 2600

> > > But - and I write this with all due respect to Mamedevs - if this is supposed to
> be
> > > an alternative to Stella, then methinks it needs a bit of work.
> > >
> > > I was expecting integration on more than a code level. Meaning, I - and a hell of
> a
> > > lot of other people - know how to use Mame for arcade titles. We also know, by
> now,
> > > how the frontends work. I was expecting running Atari titles would be the same
> > > process - but clearly it's not (or I'm still missing something).
> >
> > You'd get what you're looking for if you got the specific "MAME Software List
> ROMs".
> > Those are cartridges that MAMEdev has verified are good working dumps (on consoles
> > this is a problem).
> >
> > At that point it's just "mame64 a2600 advent" or "mame64 a2600 berzerk", or I
> believe
> > the new UI will show a list of games once you've picked Atari 2600.
> >
> > Basically we make running loose carts possible, but if you want easy you have to
> get
> > the specific sets and put them in your ROMS folder.
>
>
> Thanks, RD. As noted earlier, I'm grabbing a new Torrent. No doubt that'll fix my
> problems. It says it still has a couple hours to go though. I'll report back.

Unless it's specifically an up-to-date MESS software list torrent, it might not fix your problems. Please tell us the exact filename of the torrent that you are downloading. For all any of us know, it's entitled "Fake MAME 0.171 Software List ROMs That Won't Work For Vaughan.torrent". I don't think you're that dumb, but you don't seem to have managed to figure out that running software-list-approved games on consoles and computers is as simple as inserting one single additional word in between "mame64.exe" and the name of the game you're trying to run, so I'm not willing to take any chances at this point.

Also, I beg of you, please take what Dullaron says with several truckloads of salt. It's fairly well-known that he's legitimately mentally disabled, because his caretaker actually took over his MW account at one point to explain his situation. It's great that he's trying to be helpful - after all, social courtesy dictates that we be nice to these sorts of people even if they say something unfathomably dumb - but at the end of the day you're more likely to get half-accurate instructions in mangled English than you are proper instructions. You should really only be paying attention to the advice given to you by people like me, Haze, R. Belmont, h@p, Olivier Galibert, and other actual developers. Otherwise it's just the blind leading the blind here.