mame:
a multiple arcade machine emulator.
this, in other words, allows you to
play arcade games on your computer.
if you go to
http://mame32roms.chessman21.com, and get the mame32 binary. then i
recogmend downloading x-men and blade master, 2 side-scrolling games. in the
dirrectory you extracted mame32, there is a "roms" subdirectory. place the
zip files for x-men and blade master, (xmen.zip) and i forgot the other
name. xmen is forr x-men and there is another zip file for blade master.
then go into mame, and go to file, click "ordit all games". and wait for a
while, then look with whatever screan reader you use at the window, it
should say either checking game <a gamename>, or "file ordit". then read it,
it should say something like: rroms group
correct: 2
incorrect: 0
then
click ok, and once that's done, press tab, and it should be onn all games.
press down arrow, or a, to get to "avalable". then the 2 games should be in
the list! to get more roms, go to www.emucation.com and register. you will
need to know what zip-file is for what rom, otherwize you cant download the
right one.
for example, ya dont click on "guardian" for the "guardians"
game, ya click "grdian". to find out zip-files for roms, look at the all
games list, for the game you are looking for, to do this a little easier,
press the letter of the game til you get to the name. then, press the
"application" key, to the right of the right windows key, and click
"properties". it should say what zip fikle it is, something like:
test rom
(world)
"testrom"
that was just an example, no such game exists as the one
i just gave, that's just an explination!
hopefully this should help you
with mame.
to oh and one more thing
when you run a game, type "ok" on your
keyboard and press the spacebar, then keep pressing the number 5 on the
number row til you hear a sound. also, look at the "statsus:" in properties
for a certain game, it may say something like:
status: working
and
sometimes:
video emulation isn't 100% accurate,
if this happens there
will be another screan where you must type "ok".
once the game has
started,
press 5. this inserts a coin. then press 1 to start.
now... the
buttons.
most of the time you will want to use:
control: button 1 -- most
side-scrolling games use this for the attack button, shooters will let ya
shoot the gun with this button.
this also silects a character.
alt: button
2 used for jumping.
space: button 3 -- this sometimes woriks sometimes
doesn't, sometimes it uses a special power to get rid of all the enemies,
this can also be achieved by pressing control and alttogether.
if you have
any more questions,
e-mail:
[email protected]
and i will
reply. there are other buttons, i will try to find them and paste all the
stuff in on a quickstart guide for the controls/buttons.
hope this explains
it all.
reguards, aaron