Help with playing games

[brucelee91]

Is ther another way to play the games strait from the mame itself? the only way i know how to play is say i was playing MK2 i drag the MK2 rar file and drop it in to the mame icon and it starst up no prob.. But when i open mame there are hundreds of games including MK2 but i cannot play from there how will i install it to the mame? Thanks you to anyone who helps

[Jale]

Run MAME from the command line or MS-DOS program and then the game name. Let's say you wanna run Killer Instinct you should put "mame kinst".

[brucelee91]

wheres the command line? sorry this is all new to me

[Jale]

If you are running Windows XP, you can find it by clicking on Start --> All Programs --> Accesories and you'll see the command line with this icon: http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/2382/commandlineicon9xm.jpg

Then, depending on where you installed MAME, you should look for it through the command line. Let's say you installed MAME in C: and you created a "MAME" folder in there. When you open the command line, you'll see the following:


C:\Documents and Settings\*your windows account*>_
Type "CD.." 2 times until you get to this:


C:\>_
Then type the following:


C:\>cd mame
And then, type:


C:\mame\>mame *game name*
And that's all.

There's a version of MAME called MAME32 which has a GUI (Graphical User Interface) to make things easier. Go to the main site (http://www.emulator-zone.com) and look for it in the MAME section.

Notice that in the MAME forder there's a "rom" directory. You should uncompress the files and put them in there.

[-=VampyR=-]

Use mame32 , it worked fine for me..or use mame32 Plus! because its got more effects that you can add so you get the best picture you like or get as close to a TV arcade look as you want.

(mame32 Plus! has even hq2x and hq3x image scaling it looks very good)