I've seen this asked a few times but not really seen a genuine or at least straight forward answer. I've got PiPlay set up on a pi2, and am trying to find roms that either work with advmame or mame4all. I know there's all this stuff about mame4all using 0.37b5 roms and advancemame using 0.106 roms. Unfortunately that doesn't help when all you have is zip files and none of them seem to mention the version number.

Plus irrespective of that, practically none of the roms I have ever work with either mame system.

I've got 6,000 mame roms that came in a huge zip file. So far I've gone through about 500 of them, with a massively painstaking process of copying them over to the Pi, trying them on both mame4all and advmame, seeing they don't work (vast majority quickly produce a list of missing files then go back to the pi screen), then deleting them again. So far out of the 500+ tried, I've found 12 that actually work.

Surely, someone, somewhere, is willing to just provide a list of roms that actually work? Is it a legality thing or a pride thing that stops people from providing noobs that answer? Like, 'hey, I worked hard to find some working roms, so screw you and your shortcuts buddy!' ;)

I'm just so frustrated, it seems like a great system, I've just spent a small fortune (for me anyway) on a custom cabinet and all the trimmings, as well as spending a couple of weekends putting together everything, only to conclude I can barely find any games to actually play on it. I can appreciate it must be difficult finding working roms given each was often developed for custom cabs over a couple of decades, so getting one working must be tough.

The alternative would be a simpler way of maybe being able to delete games that don't work from the rom list in PiPlay, OR even better, while the rom scraper is going through scraping the roms, would it be possible for it to also verify each game and instantly drop it if it sees the emulator can't run it? THAT would be awesome!

Any help appreciated. All the roms seem to work fine on windows emulators I've tried, which is even more annoying. tbh I'm about ready to ditch the pi and just shove a PC in there, it's just a shame really, I like the idea of emulators running off such a tiny box! :)

Cheers,

Dale.