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Haze
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Re: How to run SNES/nes games through software lists
01/30/17 04:05 AM


> I'm going to run my games using software lists for SNES and new consoles, but the
> lists are refusing to run my game files. For example, I have a nes game called
> shatterhand.nes and named it after the softlist entry, which would be shatterhu.nes
> but it doesn't work. Then I saw that mame looks for 2 files now instead of one, one
> ending in chr and another weird name that I don't remember now. If I mount the game
> file, it runs fine. But when I try to run it using the softlist, it fails to
> load/run.
>
> How am I supposed to name my ROM to run it from the nes software list?

you're meant to use the correct roms, just like for the rest of MAME

renaming something doesn't make it the correct rom

MAME expects NES dumps in the form they were on the cartridges, so if there were 2 chips, there should be 2 roms.







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* How to run SNES/nes games through software lists R.Coltrane 01/30/17 04:03 AM
. * Re: How to run SNES/nes games through software lists Haze  01/30/17 04:05 AM
. * Re: How to run SNES/nes games through software lists R.Coltrane  01/30/17 04:07 AM
. * Re: How to run SNES/nes games through software lists BIOS-D  01/30/17 05:16 AM
. * Re: How to run SNES/nes games through software lists R.Coltrane  01/30/17 03:11 PM
. * Re: How to run SNES/nes games through software lists BIOS-D  01/30/17 03:32 PM

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