That's a fantastic selection of options for getting arcade games to work. At the time I'm writing this, it includes the following: FB Alpha, FinalBurn Neo, MAMEUI (latest), MAMEUI 2000, MAMEUI 2003, and MAMEUI 2010. It includes multiple 'cores' (multiple emulators) for arcade games. It has a high success rate of detecting ROMs that are being distributed in popular ROM sites.Īnother option: A rising star in the emulator scene is RetroArch, a multi-system emulator. So how do you get old ROMs to work? That's simple - use an old version of MAMEUI! In my emulators page I provide a version of MAMEUI32 from 2007. This means the arcade ROMs you downloaded are definitely old. The workaround: If you're good on the above bullet points then you're doing everything correctly. MAMEUI can help you find all the ROMs that belong to a specific game.
Meaning, download its parent and all of its chidlren.
This is happening because the authors of arcade emulators are purists who insist on everything to be perfect. Or, MAMEUI willĭetect your games, but give you 'not found' errors upon loading a game. Unfortunately, it's common for MAMEUI to refuse to detect your games. The arcade roms that are readily available in rom sites work on these 'old' arcade emulators. I classify it as an advanced emulator, so I do not recommend it for newcomers and casual gamers (this site's audience).Īs mentioned above, my recommendation is to use RetroArch or MAMEUI instead of the latest MAME. Additionally, the latest MAME is not user-friendly at all. The latest version of FinalBurn Alpha shares the same complications. If you download a bunch of roms from a random rom site, they won't work with the latest MAME. The source of this problem is the original and latest version of MAME. So why is arcade emulation so complicated? We don't need to fuss with multiple emulators to get Super Nintendo games to work. So why not just use the original and latest version of MAME, and not bother using anything else? With Super Nintendo, for example, most of us just use Snes9x. I know this can be confusing for newcomers.