Mame rom support files

[virtvic]

I have the latest version of mame (I think - 202) and roms to go with it. Soome of the roms aren't working and I'm presuming the need support files.

IE - All Neogeo games - metal slug, puzzled etc need the rom 'neogeo.zip' to function. I think these are bios files? I got a feeling some other roms need relevant files. Is there any place I can cross reference the roms to add in the bios / support roms?

 

[Flinnster]

Sometimes the mamedev docs for each driver will reveal some info.
Cosmic Alien / Magical Spot driver info here:
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/cosmic.cpp

 

[Flinnster]

hmmm...
not promising mate:

GAME( 1980, magspot, 0, magspot, magspot, cosmic_state, empty_init, ROT270, "Universal", "Magical Spot", MACHINE_IMPERFECT_SOUND | MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE

 

[chunksin]

Is that my set Vic? I'll filter the bios files and upload them

 

[virtvic]

Yes Rich.

Dave - is there any way I could record the samples from my pcb and send them to the mame devs?

 

[chunksin]

Here is the full set of bios files for 202: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1H2RIVvPrw5pqd5lBIRpBZvwW_PWk762J

 

[Flinnster]

I guess yes, if you can get them playing individually then that will help. Are they not just the same as the Cosmic sound samples then?

 

[Flinnster]

I guess yes, if you can get them playing individually then that will help. Are they not just the same as the Cosmic sound samples then?

If they are not, then hell yes (just read AndyC's post on other thread)

 

[virtvic]

Rich sent me all the support files, which are *.zip format.

If
you put these in with the roms in the roms folder and they are all
*.zip files, attract mode thinks they are game roms and puts them in the
menu. Rich came up with the wizard idea of changing all the support files
to *.7z files, as mame recognises those and telling attract mode to
only look for roms with the *.zip extension and NOT ones with *.7z

I am in the middle of a batch file now converting all the support files into *.7z format.

 

[big10p]

Not familiar with Attract Mode, but do you have to tell it where ROMs are, or does it get this info from mame.ini? If the former, you could put the support ROMs in a separate folder (so Attract Mode can't see them), then add the folder to the ROMs path in mame.ini
big10p2018-10-29 09:43:45

 

[sttic]

Probably too late to be useful but while mame recognises file extensions .zip and .7z, for every one of those matching files it first tries to open it as a zip (even if it was .7z) and if that fails then as 7z.

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/emu/fileio.cpp#L686

So you could just rename the archive file and not have to convert/repackage it.