OK, I thought I'd give this MAME thing a whirl. I downloaded MAME32 (not "regular" MAME because I'm an idot when it comes to DOS based anything) here at work and played a little Pac-Man. So I won't run the risk of loosing my job, I thought it would be great to play Pac-Man at home on a spare computer I have. My work computer and the spare at home are pretty much the same hardware and system wise. I take MAME32 home, unzip it, and put the Pac-Man rom in the correct folder, and the rom check fails (no playing Pac-Man for me).
Well, thinking I got a bad rom, I go to work and download Pac-Man again, as well as Donkey Kong, Centipede, and a few other oldies. They all run at work, but only two run on my computer at home (Pac-Man now works).
I realize there are "parent" roms and "sub" roms that rely on the "parent" roms to run (I know that's not quite the right terminology). I have nothing but "parent" roms.
So, anybody have any idea what the heck I'm doing wrong or am I just as big a Windows idiot as I am a Dos idiot?
Also, I love playing mahjong and I see there are quite a few mahjong roms to be had. My question is, how do you play these mahjong roms by using a computer keyboard? I remember seeing a coin-op mahjong game in NYC years ago while I was on vacation. And from what I remember, there were ALOT of buttons. Which key on a computer keyboard corresponds to the right mahjong tile? Are there instructions out there for playing these type of roms?