![]() Seems like a great and somewhat simple way to stay updated.MAME originally spelt as Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, is one of the best open-source emulators to get free arcade games. My plan is to upgrade the CPU to triple core (currently single core), add a second GB of RAM, and get a little beefier video card and then just buy an external hard drive with the full updated set with all of the other systems and front end pre-configured. ![]() I had a set of DVDs for 0.127 and an update to 0.128, but lucky for me, it wasn't my "ROMS" drive that crapped out, it was the motherboard, so I just rebuilt the O/S drive and left the "ROMS" drive as is. I knew that I was already out of date prior to the new job thing, but holy crap. I took a new job 3 years ago that had me basically living 2 hours from home for the first year, then in an apartment for almost another year while we tried to sell our house, and it wasn't until last night (a year after we moved into our current house) that I finally got my MAME cabinet up and going after some hardware failure that happened somewhere in that time frame of not playing. "Out of date" at and "old" 0.144 version. Doing the full rom set torrent guarantees (assuming the torrent is correct and properly CLRMame'd and all that) that you have the proper files for that version. But it's possible that things weren't included that should have been. In theory, an update set should have whatever changed. it should mean that you're only downloading the files that changed if you queue up the full rom set torrent instead of the updates. This has the added benefit of possibly giving you better transfers since, if I recall, torrents give preferential treatment to those contributing more to the torrent? I could be wrong, but however it works out. Also, you're contributing to the torrent by allowing it to upload the files you already have while you're downloading other stuff. You should only get the changes then and not have to worry about the "update" torrents at all. So I let the torrent handle whatever changes were made. Roms that have changed won't match the checksum for the torrent so will get scrapped and re-downloaded. ![]() Periodically I got back and get the new torrent for the latest version. ![]() ![]() This may be really lazy of me, but I basically did all the stuff with CLRMame and all that once, ages ago, then got sync'd with a torrent of the full set. ![]()
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