billbo
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help with widows Mame

Hi could please ask where i would find some help about using Mame on a pc ??
new to this and trying to run mame with LaunchBox on pc but cant find out what roms i need or what ver of Mame
i need Thanks
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Re: help with widows Mame

billbo wrote:Hi could please ask where i would find some help about using Mame on a pc ??
new to this and trying to run mame with LaunchBox on pc but cant find out what roms i need or what ver of Mame
i need Thanks
You really don't need any additional front end to use MAME as it has a capable front-end already embedded in the emulator. General help can be taken from here: http://docs.mamedev.org/index.html

The basic overview is simple:
- Visit http://mamedev.org/release.html and download the latest release appropriate for your operating system.
- Install the download package in whatever folder you choose
- If you have roms to use, simply place them in the ROMS folder that is produced from your install. You can get a number of free for non-commercial use romsets from mamedev directly off the site @ http://mamedev.org/roms
- Simply double click the MAME/ MAME64 Icon (depending on package) and a selection menu will pop up. ESC will exit your game if playing a game and return to menu, ESC while in menu will close MAME.

That's it. Just play around with it and you'll see it is much easier than people generally think.

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