Well, that and the photocopier at my office. MacMESS is the epitome of NOT asking that question. "if I'm targeting this product to a consumer, would my mother know what to do here or why she needs to do it?" While there is no replacing the above, I think many programs could benefit from their creators asking the question: In both cases, I've seen the challenges they've had finding skilled user experience designers or developers with a keen knack for user experience design. LOL - that is true! I've worked for two well known companies with a heavy emphasis on user experience design. Judging by a lot of software, that it seems hard to get those people for commercial projects - I can understand it. In the meantime, I'm trying to remember where to put my BIOS files again. Hopefully someday, the product will be re-architected by someone who has the design goal of, "If I wanted my mother to use this thing to play Pac Man, how could I make it easy for her?" :-) Heck, at this point, I'd settle for a "HELP" file in the menu, but instead I have to dig through a bunch of folders for docs in hopes of finding a simple answer to a simple question. There'd be a nice "add a game system" option in the menu or UI and it would take care of the rest. In the real world of consumer software, I wouldn't have to know or care. I keep trying to remember which name format to name the bios files, which folder to drop the bios files in etc. But some highly technical engineers have a habit of forgetting that the rest of the world isn't as technical as they are doesn't operate a computer the way they do and doesn't navigate through an application in the same ways. I've met some brilliant ones in my years in high tech.
#MAME OS X BIOS FOLDER SOFTWARE#
This is not a slam on software developers. Its UI, workflow, docs and setup are the epitome of "I was designed by a highly technical software engineer with no concept of user experience design whatsoever". This would be such a great tool except for one thing: I love the concept of having all systems emulated in one spot. You should put the MAME BIOS file in the MAME folder inside the BIOS folder in the RetroPie folder.Tried to get into MacMESS today after not touching it for years. Have you checked that you have the parent roms for all the games you are trying to play?. You can use this shortcut to find the MAME folder /home/pi/. Most arcade games have a number of variants (releases for different regions, newer revisions etc). That means that you should be running on a Raspberry Pi, and using RetroPie and WHDLoad. The files are in the unmerged format, so theyre standalone ROMs that do not. What mame does is has a parent rom which is basically one version of the game which has all the core game files, then any other versions of the game just contain the few files that are different, this is called a clone. are going to be for a specific version of MAME or FB Alpha that RetroArch.
Put them into a subdirectory of your 'roms' directory with the name of the game the CHD is for. Mame requires the parent rom for any of its clones to run.
#MAME OS X BIOS FOLDER DOWNLOAD#
BIOS and MAME ROMS The BIOS files you download need to be transferred to MAME's ROM folder. In addition the CHD, you also need the corresponding ROMs for the game to work.
#MAME OS X BIOS FOLDER ARCHIVE#
#WHERE DO MAME BIOS FILES GO ARCHIVE#Īs a general rule, you should compress all the BIOS files into a single archive before transferring them to the ROM folder. Transferring these ROM files individually may result in various technical hassles at a later point.
Note that the CHD name does not always directly correspond to the game now. Mame32 will tell you in the game info pane if the game is a clone or parent rom.ĪfterBurner also requires the AfterBurner II rom (which is the parent set in this case) so you need both aburner2.zip and aburner.zip to play after burner.ĭie Hard Arcade requires the stvbios.zip, although its worth noting that it doesn't run that well in mame as STV emulation is still pretty ropey.
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