Introduction:
I am on openSUSE tumbleweed, and installed mame.
I already have 2, 60 gigabyte roms packs, but both don't seem to work.
One of those packs worked fine with mame while I still was on a different version of openSUSE, called leap.
Tumbleweed is the rolling release version of openSUSE.
I found this:
https://www.mamedev.org/roms/
I added in mame the path to my rom folder, and after a restart of mame, I saw mame does remember the link.
Questions:
Is my assumption right that these roms from that mame devs page, should work with every mame version?
I downloaded star fire, but it has the same problem as the two other roms packs, mame does not seem to see it.
I also tried to start mame from the commandline, but sadly that did not gave me any errors, to point me to what the problem is.
Right now I am installing the mame debugging tools, but I have no idea on how to use it.
Is there a page that explains how to use the debugging tools, and or has command line options with which I can track down what the problem is?
Last question, how hard is it to compile mame myself?
My success rate with compiling programs myself is not that great.
What did work was compiling Doom 3 (a game) for Linux, but with a program called LMMS I sometimes failed and sometimes was successful.
I am far from a Linux expert, I see myself as a bit of an advanced user.