> Like I've said, I've run Mame in the cabinet for years since version 61 (from memory)
> maybe even a few before that one. So, to the degree of installing and setting up and
> running mame I'm ok. I just have no clue where Mess is in Mame (how to get it
> operating, where to put roms, and how to assign directories for mess or even
> configure it). Thanks again for your help and patience.
Okay, so let's use the Commodore 64 as an example, and compare it to Frogger, the arcade machine.
Arcade machines have ROM chips on a circuit board, which need to have their contents dumped in order to be emulated in MAME.
The Commodore 64, too, has ROM chips on a circuit board, which need to have their contents dumped in order to be emulated in MAME.
To run Frogger, you need the contents of each ROM chip, each in a separate file, compressed in a ZIP file called frogger.zip, which resides in your roms/ directory.
To run the Commodore 64, you need the contents of each ROM chip, each in a separate file, compressed in a ZIP file called c64.zip, which resides in your roms/ directory.
This is, again, why I stress that for all intents and purposes, it's the same thing. There is no "MESS" anymore. There are no "MESS" drivers anymore. MAME is MESS.
The only thing that's different is that if you want to start a system that has a cartridge slot, you can additionally point MAME at that cartridge by passing "-cart [full path and filename to the cartridge that you want to run, like software/SNES/Super Mario World.smc, if that's where you put it and that's what you're trying to run]". That's it. Done.
That having been said, I think you're a bit confused.
MAME is a command-line application. Always has been. Yet you say you've been running MAME in a cabinet. So unless you have a keyboard and mouse hooked up to your cabinet, and you've been typing something like "mame frogger" in front of a little thing that looks like "C:\>", you actually haven't been using MAME. In that case, you have either been using a derivative build of MAME, which is unsupported and which it's unlikely anyone will be able to help you with, or you were using stock MAME in conjunction with a separate frontend - which, again, is not part of MAME, and which the developers can't reasonably be expected to support you with.
So: When you started these games on your cabinet back in the day, using MAME, what exactly did you do and type?
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