how do you use rom bootlegs?

Question

i've a mame command line arcade emulator.
some roms are bootlegs of other roms,
what does that mean?
what are the differences?
and how do i use them?

Answer 1

Key word is MAME and (command line).

Answers to your 3 questions:

1) Some roms are bootlegs of other roms, what does that mean?

(A) Yes roms are the Chips found on the vintage type games found in the Game rooms around the world. Atari, Neo Geo, and Nintendo for example used cartridges that had a chip or so inside of them. As hackers were able to extract the information and copy it.They would rewrite some of the code to rename the game from say "Pac Man" to "puck man". Also they may have changed the game play, by adding more lives, creating new characters, or changing the speed of the game. Roms extracted and saved without altering them are just called the games name.

2) What are the differences?

(A) The difference is an original game found in the arcades in most parts of the world, or. Hacked games found in not so ligit countries, for instance.

3) How do I use them?

(A) I'm not a Command Line MAME person but here is a link if thats which MAME version you want to use and ask on the boards: http://www.mame.net/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/wwwthreads.pl?action=list&Board=mamegeneral


***LASTLY***

If you want to play MAME and are using a windows based computer then try using MAME32 pluss. Click this link if so interested it will download the zipped program: (WILL ADD LINK ONCE SIGHT IS BACK ONLINE) The MAME32 main sight is http://mameplus.emu-france.com/ (it seems the sight is down right now but should come back up soon)

If you find the mame32 pluss program and unzip it in a mame folder on your hard drive, place all the roms you have in the roms folder in the mame folder(s) once you start the program it will do a self audit you can tweek settings and rember after you place new roms in the folder you will need to re audit to see it mame will allow you to use them.

Click my avitar and look at all the questions I have answered on MAME and you will find a lot of usefull information on sights to help you build a great collection of mame games.


Good luck MAMEing

Answer 2

ROM is the short hand way of saying read-only memory. These are not CD images and can only be derived from cartridge games (Sega Genesis, SNES, etc.) IF you have a ROM bootleg, that only means that it was copied. Your emulator needs to suit the ROM you are trying to start up. For example, a Genesis Emulator will play Genesis games.

To use them, there are usually directions that tell you to put all the ROMS in a specific folder. Read your README.TXT file that came with your emulator to find this.