kawaks 1.54 cant recognize roms

Hello, im new in this forum but not new in emulators. I used kawaks 1.47b for emulating and now i got latest version becouse of its support for more roms. I had neogeo.zip which worked in 1.47b version and i placed it in new version (1.54) into folder "roms" -> "neo geo." So i have everithing done for playing (just have to get roms). So i put roms which i played with 1.47b in new version of Kawaks. BUT :mad: it cant recognize any of my roms. I configured paths correctly and put cps-1 roms in "roms" -> "cps-1" folder and cps-2 and neo geo in their folders. But Kawaks still cant recognize any of them... But everithyng worked fine with version 1.47b!?!?!? I dont want to play on old version cause it doesnt have support for many games i want to play... Please can any1 help me with this? :(

You're probably missing some new neogeo Bios roms. I' won't work if only one it's missing. You can confirm it either making an audit: "Tools" -> "Audit romsets", then open "winakwaks audit.txt" and look for "neogeo" string; or trying to load any game you know you got: "File" -> "Load game" -> click "all" radio button then start a game.

It has been asked many times (make a forum search and you'll see), but the neogeo bios roms (on neogeo.zip) needed are:

Code:

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Name                  CRC
sp-s2.sp1      9036d879
sp-s.sp1        c7f2fa45
usa_2slt.bin        e72943de
sp-e.sp1        2723a5b5
asia-s3.rom        91b64be3
vs-bios.rom        f0e8f27d
sp-j2.rom        acede59c
sp1.jipan.1024  9fb0abe4
sm1.sm          197cf998b
000-lo.lo        e09e253c
sfix.sfx        354029fc

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thanx for your quick reply. I know that i cant ask here for neogeo.zip, but is ther any way u can send me a link? maybe on e-mail
*SNIPPED!*
please if u have it send me on mail. I really cant get each of the, i tried many times. No1 would know that u sent it to me :o

Ok, but please don't post your email, it's gonna be snipped though. Check your PM ;)

Sorry for e-mail. I downloaded latest version of neogeo.zip but most of neo geo games which worked with Kawaks 1.47b arent working with Kawaks 1.54. For example: Metal Slug 1, 3 and 4, GoalGoalGoal, Sengoku 2 and 3, Samurai Shodown 4...
When I try to load one of those games i got mesagge that emulator couldnt find .bin for game...
Im starting to realise that roms i have are too old for this new version of Kawaks, but i have hundreds of them and i cant download new roms again...
Is there any chance to make those work?

Post the roms per romset you're missing and we'll see what we can do

Better check of what is missing by audit. :cool:

I've already post that :cool:

I dont think that is a solution. I will have to dl a million of bins to make roms work which worked with old version of Kawaks. I cant understand why for new version I must have new roms. I really dont see a point of it. I think ill let all go

Thanx on every1s help

Roms change as soon as new verifed dumps come out.

I think it's a solution: Probably only a few roms have changed, and not the biggest ones. There're patches, for example.

New verified dumps = More closer to the arcade version.

But don't worry as there is not much big changes around two versions. It just need patches or encrypt/decrypt.

Note :
I just remember, the previous version of Kawaks were a little bit of troublesome as it didn't follow the MAME's romsets as the developer add some files which is not officially included in MAME. Furthermore, every version of Kawaks is 2 totally different at that time.

Gladly, this time, Kawaks team knew the problem and change the romsets which is much similar to MAME romlists. :cool: