Howto, Gaming: MAME and xmame (Post your working games !)

[burek]

1/ Have a Linux box

2/ If you have the arcade machine yourself & dumped its ROM for your own usage
(please dont download roms = illegal)

3/

sudo apt-get install xmame-sdl
sudo apt-get install xmame-tools

4/

cd  ;  mkdir -p  mame/roms

5/ from the console

cd ; xmame -fullscreen mame/roms/mk.zip

for mortal kombat for instance

if you wanna joystick:

cd ; xmame mame/roms/mk.zip -fullscreen -ef 1 -jt 5 -jdev /dev/input/js0

6/ Quick keyboard configuration:
type keyboard ok ok .... space
now, it s running in fullscreen
now, press TAB
then, in input general > other controls
insert coins: type enter and you might hit : Keypad 5
player 1 start: type enter and you might hit : Keypad 1
ESC to exit the menu TAB of configuration

7/ the game is now running in fullscreen, and waiting for coins & start key .... lala certainly demo running ...

8/ the keys for playing in mame are now:
KEYPAD 5 to insert coins
KEYPAD 1 to play
Left CTRL to Fire !!
arrows of keyboard to move ...

9/ It works ==> OK
so, now, please POST the :
a / file name of your zip file
b / game name
c / and if you really like it a cool screenshot
additionally, if you followed this howto & it worked for you, please let this thread know (information for "statistics")

10/ Enjoy Sharing !!

11/ you can too make a video of your desktop of it :

sudo apt-get install xvidcap
$ xvidcap

configuration for speed of xvidcap
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/7...xvidcap2tt.png


12/ apt-get install kxmame
if you wanna a gui
but it is not working for all zip files !!!!! attention
console way is more working !

Screens of the arcade machines : http://www.mame.net/wip0204.html (what is mame too)
http://www.mame.net/wip0208.html
mame faq : http://www.mame.net/mamefaq.html

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nice howto : http://www.mythwiki.de/index.php?title=MythGame
(xmame-tools has the chdman/make verify program, other plugins that can be useful)

[jingo811]

Need help!

taco@bell:~$ apt-get install xmame.sdl
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
taco@bell:~$ sudo apt-get install xmame.sdl
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package xmame.sdl
taco@bell:~$

[leech]

It's supposed to be xmame-sdl, not xmame.sdl.

Leech

[jingo811]

ic.

[burek]

It's supposed to be xmame-sdl, not xmame.sdl.

Leech

Oup's sorry, windy keyboard ... typo
I edited/fixed the first post of this "howto"

[rolando2424]

Isn't the download of roms ilegal?

[burek]

Isn't the download of roms ilegal?

If you have the arcaade machine yourself & dumped its ROM for your own usage

[rolando2424]

If you have the arcaade machine yourself & dumped its ROM for your own usage

Hum... ok...

[burek]

Pacmania
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7ESHBHMC

[vixvix]

I can not have the sdl version run on my edgy-server box, have to install the x-window-system-core to run xmame in X. Each time I tried to run xmame-sdl, it gave me something like device permission issue, but if I did sudo xmame-sdl, I got device not found instead.

Any idea? Is there a doc about ubuntu sdl config? I cannot google one. I heard some said the SDL is by default built in ubuntu.