MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Where to download older versions of MAME for Linux?

> Hi
>
> I have a game that worked in version 0.148 and a few years ago I downloaded a more
> recent release of MAME but the game stopped working. So I worked my way down by
> installing older versions and I discovered that from version 0.149 and newer my game
> would never work again.
>
> On Windows I simply make the game work by downloading an older MAME setup file.
> http://mamedev.org/oldrel.html
> But for Linux is there a similar way to solve the problem. Because my distro's latest
> working version of MAME is having issues even though I update my rom folder with the
> missing roms.
> Also this compile business for Linux seems too complicated for me to handle. I have
> already managed to jump through a bunch of hoops but the errors just gets more
> cryptic and harder to google the more errors I manage to fix in terminal.
>
> Posting all the issues and errors I've seen would take up too many pages. So long
> story short is there a simple way for a Linux user to just download a binary of MAME
> 0.148?

Chances are it stopped working in 0.149 because the ROMset changed, often this is because the emulation was improved and now requires an additional ROM file, for example this very thing just happened with some Taito games (Rainbow Islands, Bonze Adventure etc.) in 0.196

Trying to find old binaries to work with older ROMs is the wrong thing to do, you should instead use the correct updated ROMset. Older versions of MAME should be considered buggy / unsupported. 0.149 is 5 years old, which is a lifetime in terms of MAME development.

That is unless you mean that an actual bug was introduced in 0.149 that is preventing it from working, and has not been fixed yet, but there aren't many major regressions in MAME from that long ago.