pauline Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Help! I need info on how to format ROM'S to run on MAME 0.34? I am trying to format games to run on MAME4ALL on Dreamcast. How can I load in games which may have CHD's. Such as "Red Earth" or load in samples on games which have voice? Any info would be helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSchoolRetroGamer Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Help! I need info on how to format ROM'S to run on MAME 0.34? I am trying to format games to run on MAME4ALL on Dreamcast. How can I load in games which may have CHD's. Such as "Red Earth" or load in samples on games which have voice? Any info would be helpful. Sorry to break it to you but it is simply not possible. Mame for Dreamcast will run only the older most basic games and even then not always at full speed. You would not be able to run even the newest version of games let alone games that require CHD's. The Dreamcast while an awesome console for it's time is not up to running the games you are trying to run. Even a well spec'd PC often has trouble running many games that utilize CHD's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 It's a little more than simply formatting them, whatever that means. You need the right ROM code dumped to files with the correct names that mame expects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 You'd need a ROM set for that version of MAME. That set comes with audio samples for some games since it only emulated sound for some titles and used samples for the rest). I'm pretty sure it's the same set of ROMs that worked with MAME32 v. 0.35 and 0.36 (and possibly up to and a bit past 0.57). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauline Posted July 26, 2016 Author Share Posted July 26, 2016 Thank you for all the replies. I heard that CLRMAMEPRO may be able to format ROM's. I will start a new thread about CLRMAMEPRO. Peace! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nebulon Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 This should help you since it's of the same generation as what you're referring to: http://mame.oldos.net/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo930 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Help! I need info on how to format ROM'S to run on MAME 0.34? I am trying to format games to run on MAME4ALL on Dreamcast. How can I load in games which may have CHD's. Such as "Red Earth" or load in samples on games which have voice? Any info would be helpful. There are utilities you can download that will take your existing roms and create a set compatible with another version of Mame. The version of MAME the DC uses won't support any game that uses CHDs. You need to take a look at the version number the DC is running and either download a proper set or download a utility to do that for you. I've done this before and once you figure out the conversion tool, it's easy. I would reccomend that you make a copy of your MAME files and work with them. It's very easy to accidentally screw up your ROMS. Work with the copy and no matter how bad your mistake is, you won't screw up your MAME ROMS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenegg Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 CLRMAMEPRO can help rebuild an older version romset, but you'll also need a rollback romset in order to do that successfully. It will be significantly easier to search for a MAME4All romset online. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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