Posted: 1/21/2008 6:12 AM
Post subject: Trouble getting MAME32 to work
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Spider-Waffle
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I don't see any option to load a rom, it just has a list of a whole bunch of roms, but I when try to play one of them it says "unable to create the direct 3d device" and then that it couldn't find a whole bunch of files. I have a rom I want to play but it doesn't show up on the list.
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Posted: 1/21/2008 11:15 PM
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DeHackEd
Emulator Coder, Site Developer, Former player
Joined: 11/6/2004
Posts: 833
Pop it into the ROM directory, then choose to refresh the list.
Posted: 1/22/2008 6:30 AM
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Spider-Waffle
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Well I got it to work by leaving the pacman.zip in the rom folder and also extracting all the files in the .zip to the rom folder. Just doing one or the other wasn't enough to work. Is there a better to get it to work?
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Posted: 1/22/2008 7:35 AM
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moozooh
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1. Just leave the ROM zipped in the "ROMS" folder. 2. You need BIOS files to play certain games. Those can usually be taken at the same place as ROMs themselves.
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