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How To: Play Non-Arcade systems with MAME or MESS This guide describes how to setup your game files to play non-arcade systems using MAME or MESS. Many (non-arcade) old-school systems work with MESS and MAME using softlists. These sytems include (but are not limited to): • Neo Geo CD • Phillips CD-i • Atari 5200 • Vectrex • Game. Com • Emerson Arcadia • Channel F • Sharp X1 • Softlists allow the MAME/MESS core to load the game software based on some information in a “HASH” database. More detailed information can be found. Suffice to say, it’s complicated.

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MAME or MESS2014 can be used. Both have varying success at emulating certain systems, so it’s beneficial just to setup both and see which one works the best for you. Setup 1) Get the latest MAME core or MESS2014 core Download the latest “Arcade (MAME)” core and/or “MULTI (MESS 2014)” core from the Retroarch Online Updater 2) Create a hash folder for the core In your retroarch system directory, you will either already have a folder named ‘mame’ or ‘mess2014’, or you will have to create the folder and add a hash folder inside it. Your directory structure would then look like this.path_to_retroarch_system_directory/system (folder) mame (folder) hash (folder) mess2014 (folder) hash (folder) 3) Download and place the hash xml files into the folder You can get individual hash files from the MAME github site. Alternatively, I’ve cloned the folder as of the writing of this guide, you can download all the hash files from. As an example, I want to play Neo Geo CD games, so I’ll have to donwload the file and place it in my hash folder (or both the MAME and MESS2014 hash folders). Now my hash folder contains neocd.xml.path_to_retroarch_system_directory/system (folder) mame (folder) hash (folder) neocd.xml (hash file) mess2014 (folder) hash (folder) neocd.xml (hash file) 4) Setup your directory structure for the game system(s) It’s important to name the folder for a game system exactly to match what MESS/MAME is looking for.

If the folder is not named correctly, launching will not work. The name of the folder typically matches the name of the hash xml file or the name of the bios file (but is not necessarily always exactly the same). Here’s some examples of folder names for various game systems. System Folder Name Neo Geo CD neocdz Philips CD-i cdimono1 Atari 5200 a5200 Vectrex vectrex Game. Com gamecom Emerson Arcadia arcadia Sharp X1 x1 5) Setup your game file directories Place your rom files, including bios files, and chd files into the appropriate folder. Mpls fundamentals pdf. As an example, let’s say I want to emulate Neo Geo CD and I want to play League Bowling. My directory structure would look like this.path_to_my_game_system_files/neocdz (folder) league bowling (1994)(snk)(jp-us)[!].chd (CHD File) neocd.zip (BIOS File) neocdz.zip (BIOS File) neogeo.zip (BIOS File) 6) Get dummy files if needed For CD based systems, there’s a file thats not included in your typical romset that we’ll need.

That file is named the same as the game you want to launch. In the example above, the MAME hash file shows the game name as, but as you can see I don’t have a game file with that name yet, because it wasn’t in the romset. To get around this, you can create a dummy/empty file of the correct name with a zip extension.

After you add this file, now your directory looks like this.path_to_my_game_system_files/neocdz (folder) lbowling.zip (Dummy / Empty File) league bowling (1994)(snk)(jp-us)[!].chd (CHD File) neocd.zip (BIOS File) neocdz.zip (BIOS File) neogeo.zip (BIOS File) For simplicities sake, I’ve created dummy / empty files for the entire romset for both and for. You can download these dummy files and just place them all in the appropriate folder. 7) Launch the game Now you can launch the game from Retroarch, by selecting ‘Load Content’ and pointing to the lbowling.zip (empty/dummy) file. You can also launch the game from the command line, like this: (Windows Command for MAME) '. Path_to_program retroarch.exe' -L '. Path_to_cores cores mame_libretro.dll' '.

Path_to_game_files neocdz lbowling.zip' (OSX Command for MESS2014) /Applications/RetroArch.app/Contents/MacOS/RetroArch -L '/Applications/RetroArch.app/Contents/Resources/cores/mess2014_libretro.dylib' '/path_to_game_files/neocdz/lbowling.zip' Notes: There is a specific benefit initially to running from the command line, as the MAME / MESS2014 core will print out if it cannot find a (bios) file that it expects to run the game. This is particularly helpful when troubleshooting and making sure you’ve downloaded all the correct files. For example, if I’m trying to run a gamecom game and I happened to forget to place the bios file in the folder, the command line output would show the following: NAME: gamecom DESCRIPTION: Game. Com YEAR: 1997 MANUFACTURER: Tiger [libretro INFO] Screen orientation: HORIZONTAL Value not supported for option netdevprovider - falling back to auto [libretro DEBUG] Screen width=208 height=160, aspect=1000/769=1.300390 [libretro INFO] OSD initialization complete internal.bin NOT FOUND (tried in gamecom gamecom) external.bin NOT FOUND (tried in gamecom gamecom) Required files are missing, the system cannot be run. This is giving me the hint that MAME tried to find a file named gamecom. I tried a few CD-I infamous games and so far it’s working great, never tried to play anything non-arcade through MAME until now and your guide helped a lot, clear instructions and easy to understand, thanks a lot for that. The only one not working is Zelda’s Adventure but it’s a common problem apparently, it used to work fine through MESS a good bunch of years ago, but now it’s apparently broken (game freezes when you walk off screen).