I just got into MAME about two weeks ago. I found a bittorrent and just downloaded the most popular version with matching ROMS.
It wasn't hard to install and I had it running in a few minutes. I don't know what I am doing so I have to set up the controllers for each game but otherwise it's great.
The vast majority of the games work. The interface is easy to use for even a moron like myself.
I have it running on a very basic and barebones netbook computer (one of those with the Atom processor, not much RAM, and a crappy GPU) and it runs everything pretty smoothly up until Model 1 and PSX-based arcade hardware.
Stalepie, maybe u you should just start over from scratch.
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