HOW TO CONVERT ROMS FOR MAME4DROID RELOADED!

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Im having a HUGE issue with the roms, .134u4 roms are nonexistant, and I cant 
figure it out with the whole clrmamepro thing and rollbacks. TELL ME PLEASE 
SOMEONE! I want to play my neogeo and mvsc again, It does it all so well with 
my Xperia play, minus performance drops with the MK games, but I dont care for 
them and I understand the optimization thing with performance drops with those 
games.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by thehamb...@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2012 at 12:32

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To get 0.134u4 roms you need:
Latest MAME romset
Latest MAME rollback romset
MAME 0.134u4 ClrMAMEPro .dat - http://romshepherd.com/oldmame/index.php

In ClrMAMEPro:
Load the 0.134u4 .dat.
Set Add-Paths to your latest romset AND the rollback romset folders.
Use the Rebuilder, tick 'use Add-Paths' for source and set destination to a new 
folder.

Hopefully that should work. By the way half of the 22GB 0.134u4 romset are 
non-working games, so with a bit of patience you can trim this down to 11gb 
(use MAMEUI 0.134u4 and filter out 'working' to see the non-working roms)

Original comment by matbur...@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2012 at 4:04

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Can you send me a link to the rollback roms, or at least give me some kind of 
more detailed explanation on how to do this, this is why I never liked MAME in 
the first place! TOO COMPLICATED~

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2012 at 6:58

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what game doesnt work for you, i have no problems, try getting all other 
regions and test which one works.

Original comment by 2black...@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2012 at 10:12

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Its not any kind of rom parent or region problem, its that i dont know what to 
do for converting to this specific set. I tried the xda-developers page that 
seluco wrote for this, I search high and low for instructions on downgrading 
with roms from emuparadise/romhustler, and none of those worked. Im trying your 
method, but can you please tell me how to get the rollback roms working, since 
clrmamepro, with rollbacks from pleasuredome exactly as is (MAME Rollback Roms 
(0.145) - xxx), doesnt reconize them as sets, but instead as uknown sets and 
either deletes them, or just not use them and edit the real game roms I want 
converted.

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 4:59

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Sorry, the rollbacks are actually "MAME (0.xxx) - xxx"

x=mame version/game rom name

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 5:29

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Are you using the rebuilder (rather than scanner), and are you adding your ROM 
paths as 'Add-paths' (rather than 'ROM paths' in settings?)

Clrmamepro has always been more complicated than necessary.

Original comment by matbur...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 4:22

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OH, i used rom-paths, its rebuilding the roms now. Im going to try it in a bit 
once its finished. thanks for that fact!

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 7:28

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Does take forever though, im gonna play punch out now and wait till its finished

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 7:30

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Nope, it didnt work. Still gives a "Missing files or CHD's error" for the games 
"converted".

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 8:19

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Which games aren't working? Is it all games or just some?

You're definitely loading the 0.134u4 dat file when you start clrmamepro? And 
you've added the folders to both your latest roms and the rollback roms?

One tip to speed up the rebuilder is to untick 'recompress files'.

Original comment by matbur...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 9:46

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1) All games not working (or at least the ones that never worked before
2)Yes, its the 0.134u4 dat file from the link you gave me
3)yes its to the latest roms and rollback roms.

Does this work for you by any chance?

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 10:00

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Yes, that's the method I used to rebuild and all the roms are working fine, 
except those which need CHD files as I've don't have the CHD files.

Silly question, but the non-working games don't all need CHD files, do they? 
Can you list a few please?

Original comment by matbur...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 10:09

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no, except i think the 2 killer instinct games that i have in it. I need to 
say, half of my roms are of the 0.37b5 set that was used before reloaded came 
out, and others i dont know what set its from. Im getting the huge 0.145 
torrent from pleasuredome at the moment which i think will most likely fix my 
issues. It will take about an extra 2-3 hours though.

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 10:17

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For 99% of the games, you can use the rom for the latest version.

For the others, you'll have to use clrmamepro or find an older version 
somewhere.

Original comment by fsk2...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 10:22

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interesting... thx for the info. Might not be that useful though since im using 
the 0.145 roms to convert.

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 10:28

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all of this is not helping, its not working, im losing hope!

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 11:41

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You definitely need the latest .145 romset, not many of the old .37b5 romset 
will work.

Original comment by matbur...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2012 at 12:34

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i dont know anymore, this is all insanity!

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2012 at 1:38

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More questions! for the rollbacks, do i have to rename them from format of 
"MAME Rollback (0.145) - xxx" to "xxx"? or do i keep them as is?

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2012 at 3:03

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also, i do apologize for asking so many stupid questions, i just want to make 
sure of all these things so i can do it all right before i screw up again and 
have to wait about a whole day to redownload the stuff and start all over 
again... or someone could PLEASE just post a working page where i can download 
the whole mame set for this converted from the other sets, that would be 
AWESOME!

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2012 at 3:06

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Finally, i have another solution! Ive tried using the street fighter 1 rom from 
the 0.137 set on the old computer AND IT WORKED! (compared to "Missing files or 
chds" messages) Maybe its best just to use that rom set rather than convert 
0.145 roms.

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2012 at 1:19

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You didn't say you had a 0.137 set! Of course it's better to use that than 
0.145 :)

If you do decide to try the rollback again, then use the 0.137 set with the 
rollback set. You don't need to rename the rollback names, as clrmamepro is 
only interested in the rom files inside the zip rather than the file names.

Hope you (finally) get this working :)

Original comment by matbur...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2012 at 3:12

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thx for letting me know finally, testing more roms from the 0.137 set, since i 
just started trying it, before i just used 0.145/0.37b5 roms.

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2012 at 10:25

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now i have another problem not related to romsets, the neogeo games crash 
randomly! I submitted a new issue on the page. Its mostly for new neo-geo games 
around 25 megabytes in size.

Original comment by thehamb...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2012 at 11:42

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Hi guys!
I have an iPAD 2 (jailbreaked) and i installed the imame4all and downloaded 
somewhere rome for that version.
The thing is, i want a version that can run well, Street Fighter games Marvel 
fight games, killer instinct, metal slug games, daytona, sega rally, king of 
fighters games, and basically its that.... i have downloaded this rome, but i 
can't put them working neither in mame4all neither in mame4ios.
In imame4ios i see the games CAN run, with green advertisings, but when i press 
on the game, i only see a message that tells there are rome missing and CHD 
images.. i have clrmamepro...but honestly this is a pain in the ass. For what i 
understand i must have the respective iMame4Ios DAT file....and use clrmamepro 
to "convert" the roms for imame4ios..right?

Original comment by andreper...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2012 at 2:12

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You actually want to try to run Killer Instinct on iOS? And Daytona?

I've got some property in the Florida Keys to sell you... as well as some 
magnificent investment opportunities in Nigeria. :-)

Original comment by toto...@gmail.com on 28 May 2012 at 12:57

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instalei em meu celular modelo xt316 o emulado que ate funcionou bem, porem, ao 
instalar as roms da forma correta e do lugar correto e aparece que nao tem roms 
no programa. Ja abri uma pasta e escrevi MAME ja deixei ele dentro, sem uma 
pasta e tambem dentro do proprio aplicativo e nada... poderia por favor da uma 
força.

grato

Original comment by alves.j...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2012 at 6:11

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Can anyone tell me how I can get strikers 1945 plus to run on my iphone? I have 
iMAME4all and iMAME4ios and can't seem to get it working. Is there a BIOS file 
I need and if so which, and where do I place it? thx in advance for any help.

Original comment by Smyth...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2013 at 4:16

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I have both Killer Instinct 1&2 (ARCADE) running on my iPhone 5 with Gridlee, 
check the video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdfn5gGOFuQ

Original comment by Kane5...@gmail.com on 11 May 2013 at 7:41

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I download mame on my phone note 3 Samsung and dot know how to reload roms pls 
help

Original comment by rashidra...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2014 at 5:44

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I downloaded mame on my samsung s3  and I don't know how to load roms its my 
first time please help. 

Original comment by ThabisoM...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2015 at 9:39

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Hi i downloaded Mame4droid v1.39u1 on my samsung galaxy s5 smartphone but i am 
struggling to copy the roms or the naming of the files can you pleasr provide 
me with steps of how to start playing the games?

Original comment by juan.val...@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2015 at 7:02