wat is mame and how do i run it?

Question

i wanted to play snow bros and in search i found a bit about mame so i downloaded it from mame site and the rom too but when i try runnin mame it says " M.A.M.E. is a console application, you should launch it from a command prompt" umm how exactly i do that plz any help will be appreciate

ty in advance

i wanted to play snow bros and in yahoo search result i found out about mame so i downloaded it from site and rom too but when i try runnin it , it says "M.A.M.E. is a console application, you should launch it from a command prompt." umm how exactly can i do that? plz any help is appreciate and ty in advance

ps if u know any web where i can just play snow bros online that would be great help too, thx

Answer 1

The version you downloaded is DOS based and you need to type the game prompt command line. Try typing MAME SNOWBOAR . You type mame then the name of your rom.


NOTE rom is to be keept zipped, and placed in the mame folder in the roms folder.

Good luck