Any MAME enthusiasts out there?

klieber · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 11:35 am Post subject: Any MAME enthusiasts out there?

Anyone out there using MAME? If so, have you found any decent community or forum sites? Most of the MAME sites I've found simply list ROMs (with no download links

) and offer some basic news. Ideally, I'd like to find a site either like this one or slashdot, but dedicated to MAME. (xmame would be even better, but I'm not holding my breath.

)

If there isn't one, mebbe I'll create one.

--kurt
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handsomepete · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 1:44 pm Post subject:

At one point I thought the arcade@home forums were ok, but I think they've kinda turned into the newbie/rom requests type (as they all eventually do

) I'd love to see something like that, though. I need someone to tell me what's good to play out of my complete set so I can stop wasting my life on Burgertime.

Xamot · n00b Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 29

My MAME box currently is running RedHat 7.2. I did that caues the MAME .rpms were easy to find and I could not find .debs. I think I'll convert it to Gentoo now that I think I'm getting a handle on Gentoo.

MameWorld is a decent site and what I think you are looking for.
Mame.dk is good for rom information.

I see there is an ebuild for xmame. Does this also build xmess? If not do anyone know if there are any plans to create an ebuild that will install xmess?

klieber · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 4:36 pm Post subject:

CasimirEffect · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 8:56 pm Post subject:

Ikari Warriors?

I take it you've never played Metal Slug. If you like top scroll shmups no one makes 'em better than Cave/Atlus. Check out DonPachi, DoDonPachi, Gwange, and ESP Ra.De.

klieber · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 10:17 pm Post subject:

elboricua · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 3:17 am Post subject:

I have been looking at this controller for my Mame gaming happyness.

http://www.x-arcade.com

And is supposedly has Linux support seeing as how it uses ps2 and usb and acts as a keyboard.

http://www.x-arcade.com/discus/messages/6/137.html?1019039758
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klieber · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 11:47 am Post subject:

handsomepete · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 5:42 pm Post subject:

Man, Metal Slug is hard. If I had to play it with actual quarters I'd be broke. My current playlist has included -

Burgertime
Tapper
Frogger
Marvel Vs. Capcom (couldn't resist being able to play a fighting game as Venom... even if it is hard to do)
Raiden (my old lady is a pro at this one

)
Popeye (oh yeah, that game rules)

Man, I forgot about Gunsmoke. That game was great. There was also one I played a lot where you're a purple lunar rover or something and there's jumping and shooting... thanks for the suggestions. I've been able to get a full set and it's hard to know what on earth among all of those is worth playing.

I'd be curious to hear about your experiences with the x-arcade controllers... I've always wanted one but it's kinda pricey.

klieber · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 5:45 pm Post subject:

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faithfull · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 67

I tried to play some roms with xmame but I found it too slow.
I own a Dual pentium2 at 400 and on win the performance is good but on lin it's bad. I read the man page and I found that xmame could raster in different ways (X11, Glide, GL and DGA) but on my sytem (a gentoo linux with the DGA key included in USE variable) the only two executables are xmame and xmame.SDL. Why?!?!?? :evil:

A very good place where to download roms is www.emuchina.net but is painfull to visit with mozzilla/netscape!

fsck_ms · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 4:39 am Post subject:

I've really been enjoying mame now that my gamepad works in gentoo. Metal Slug has to be my all time favorite game.
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therobot · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 256 Location: Canada

Metal slug two is the most amazing game ever made, If only I could play it. Xmame won't compile on my system. I'm using gcc 3.1, has anybody else had this problem?

Xamot · n00b Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 29

wink42 · Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2002 10:40 pm Post subject: A good place 4 a newbie question

ok ill take advantage of the nostalgic feeling here, and throw in a partly MAME related question:
Whats the best GUI for xmame?
Is there one included in Portage?
I have dl one called startxmame (great name), i think it is some kind of a script program, (it says TCL/TK on the box..) , but i dont know what to do with it. there is one file which is a shellscript, but when i try to execute it, i get the message
Couldn't find the program 'startxmame''
what is it that i dont understand?
btw:

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suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

faithfull · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 67

CasimirEffect · Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 3:36 am Post subject: I second that.

Grusibus is by far the best Xmame front end. Anyone know who makes a good Xmess front end?

jtmace · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 101

onilinken · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 9

hmmm i did that and i when the game loads i see an acardemachine and in that machine, there is a little screen, VERY LITTLE SCREEN, so how the hell am i suppose to play like that? I really don't want that darn acardemachine there...

any ideas?

mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287

I am having no luck using xmame. Everytime I try to run a game, I get errors like:

loading rom 13: mario.4p
done
tma1c-a1.7f NOT FOUND
tma1c-a2.7e NOT FOUND
tma1c-a1.7d NOT FOUND
tma1c-a2.7c NOT FOUND
tma1c-a.6k NOT FOUND
tma1v-a.3f NOT FOUND
tma1v-a.3j NOT FOUND
tma1v-a.7m NOT FOUND
tma1v-a.7n NOT FOUND
tma1v-a.7p NOT FOUND
tma1v-a.7s NOT FOUND
tma1v-a.7t NOT FOUND
tma1v-a.7u NOT FOUND
mario.4p NOT FOUND
ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.

Any ideas?

handsomepete · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 6:01 pm Post subject:

It could be the 'ol rom directories. Either check the config to see what the default rom directory is and move them there, or add the --rompath (or whatever it is -- don't have it in front of me) switch to it to specify where the roms are at. At least that's what that usually indicates.

wink42 · Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 7:27 am Post subject: The way:

Emerge grustibus is the solution to all your MAME configuration problems.
At least it was to me.
It is precisely what you need from a frontend, a visual overview of your games, and a visual overview of the different paths.
a good frontend!

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kurppa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 97

I have XMame running well, but i'm having trouble with xmess.

When i try to start xmess, it doesn't accept any command line attributes and it seems to have trouble undrestanding anuthing from the xmessrc-file as well. Here's a clip: