Is there a way to get all the roms in one download? or do I need to get them all one at the time?

J.

You can get a full rom set mailed to you, google search for the Lazarus project. You can probably find a complete, or mostly complete set on a torrent somewhere.

But anyway it's not legal do have some rom mame if you don't have the pcb of the games.. !

They're on usenet along with the chd's.

Of course it would be nearly impossible for anyone to own every pcb ever produced, but there must be a couple of these guys since this site has developed a good way to download and keep a full romset updated without having to redownload the whole thing.

http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/mameftpgroup/index.php?full

Keeping a full romset *UPDATED* is a bit of a newbie thing (just like a rotating monitor - which I had)..  I've had a MAME cab now for 8 years.  At first that's what I was doing - keeping up-to-date with all the roms.  Then you'll realize it's not that important unless you get to a game that you really want but wasn't emulated yet (not that many left) and it comes out in the latest version.  The newer ones with CHDs don't run at full speed anyway so when they add new games now it's most likely unable to run like it should.

Also, adding clone # 10 of a particular game that you already have 9 versions of doesn't really matter..

My 0.02$

Mike

If you get a copy of emule you can download 5000 of them in a 4 CD set.

Here is the filename:

MAME 32 with 5000 Arcade Roms - 4CD Pack - disc 1-4 Clone Cd - CdrWin [EDK.HT.ST].zip

and emule File link

ed2k://|file|MAME 32 with 5000 Arcade Roms - 4CD Pack - disc 1-4 Clone Cd - CdrWin [EDK.HT.ST].zip|805375485|d7087cc77358133a37f366fbd3a90b53|

and emule (note: you may have to forward a few ports on your router to get it to work)

http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1&rm=download

Not that I am condoning it. Just for information purposes only.

You have all 5000 boards right?

last time I checked my mameset from cooke was 6-7 dvds?

Quoted from mark

last time I checked my mameset from cooke was 6-7 dvds?

From who? No mame roms here.

Quoted from Mark70

Of course it would be nearly impossible for anyone to own every pcb ever produced, but there must be a couple of these guys since this site has developed a good way to download and keep a full romset updated without having to redownload the whole thing.

http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/mameftpgroup/index.php?full

over 500k per second with over 70 seeds............very nice
will be done later today..............


Thanks

Actually, you may even want to search for a more "refined" list of roms. I know I will. As much as I'll miss picturing a Mah-jong upright machine, or Mat-Mania in Japanese, I think instead of 7 freakin DVD's, there's in fact about HALF a CD worth that actually get any play.

Like Mr.Mikeman said, the other 9 versions of are a waste of space really. Even though they were a necessary evil to pass along for other guys to work on, and improve them to arrive at satisfactory "complete" version.

Craig

Quoted from cooke

From who? No mame roms here.

Same here... I don't have the 6 DVDs     You can't ask me for the roms that I don't have from the DVDs I don't own to not burn the essentials on CDs that I don't have and not send them to you, that I don't know!

Not Sparky

Quoted from MrMikeman

Keeping a full romset *UPDATED* is a bit of a newbie thing (just like a rotating monitor - which I had)..  I've had a MAME cab now for 8 years.  At first that's what I was doing - keeping up-to-date with all the roms.  Then you'll realize it's not that important unless you get to a game that you really want but wasn't emulated yet (not that many left) and it comes out in the latest version.  The newer ones with CHDs don't run at full speed anyway so when they add new games now it's most likely unable to run like it should.

Also, adding clone # 10 of a particular game that you already have 9 versions of doesn't really matter..

My 0.02$

Mike

I would agree.  The value of the site isn't the update method, but the number of seeds.  Of course they ask that you seed out of respect for the system.  ....that is if you were to be one of those lucky people who had a warehouse full of thousands of PCBs.

On the topic of a pared down game list.  Since everyone has such diverse taste, how do you know that the pared down list isn't missing something that someone else wants?  I'm really interested in this.  It's like there needs to be a system like they use to match up daters, but instead you fill in information like: I don't like mahjong games, don't want any adult titles, don't wany any japanese titiles .....

If there were someone who had a pared down romset, would those people be willing to disucuss it or "refuse" to participate in illegal CD burning activities at a meeting of MAACA?