How to Setup MAME in Batocera

This is a detailed tutorial on how to set up MAME in Batocera. This includes the ROMs guide that you need to download for Batocera.

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Links mentioned in the video:

Batocera Wiki Page About the Romsets:

Bios files for Batocera 31:

Mame 2003 Plus Romsets:

Mame 2010 Romsets:

Mame 2010 Reference Non-Merged CHDs

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[The-third-eye]

I would love to see an updated video on this topic. i am a big fan of your work keep it up!!

[Tweaker]

im watching this 3 years later. Thank you! You can also use something like LaunchBox just to create the set of your choosing, instead of individual deletes

[Clone]

Thank you man. I tried to download some individual game roms and a few worked while most didn't. Mame is more complex compared to other emulators which makes sense because every cabinet has different hardware. This lays out the process in a nice and easy to understand way. Thanks again.

[elreygarcia]

One question I have is do the 2003 Mame roms and the 2010 Mame roms have to be in superstar folders or can they be in the same folder

[screamerjoe]

How do you get tekken and killer instinct to work in mame on batocera?

[erictanner]

I have followed this but none of my games show up. Not sure what the problem is. Only 2 mame games show and those came up when I uploaded the v35 bios.

[hdjoe]

One thing I’ve been wishing for is the option to download just what you want from the romsets. I hate having to download the entire giant file just to spend a ton of time deleting games I don’t want. Which is about 90% of it.

[rowdyvc]

heya great video. Mame 2010 Reference Non-Merged CHDs - is there an update for these needed files?

[gagailos]

I scraped my games 2003plus non merged romset but i still see the names like before. All different versions of the same game. What did i do wrong? Can you please help?

[override]

wao when i sow galaga i just cry what a good memories thank you i wil try then i come back to tell you when i done thans again

[metsrrhq]

Hi All. I'm in the process of building my first arcade cabinet and installed a mini PC with Batocera. This is all new to me and am trying to learn. I'm stuck at not being able nor understanding how to map the control panel buttons. It's 2 Player with 6 buttons on each side. I just want to be able to play good old classics i.e. DK, PacMan, Super Cobra, etc, and am lost. There are no issues with using a Bluetooth device that the seller of the Batocera SSD added. Any suggestions? I can't seem to find much help on YT. Thank you!

[budape]

bless you the way you explain it has made it be great for me to understand :P

[spakey]

Hi I'm having problems with Tekken games on 2003 they have no sound or won't boot up? Any ideas? Thanks

[elmoredneal]

Hello there! 👋
Thanks so much for your videos. They are extremely helpful. But I have a question (I'll try this make it short)
I've set up 2 different Batocera installations. The 1st was set up on a 128GB SD Card. This was mainly a proof of concept installation just to see how Batocera worked while I was waiting for my new SSD to arrive. The 2nd is set up on a 2GB SSD. This is to be my main Batocera drive where I'm going to install as many games as I can.

On my 1st set-up, I did not follow your instructions for setting up Mame. I'm not sure what Rom set the Roms are from, but a many of them didn't work (understandable, seeing as I likely used the wrong Rom set). I put the Roms inside the Mame Roms folder, but they were not in a "Mame 2003" folder. However, I downloaded Mame Bezels from The Bezel Project and they worked! 😁 It took a very long time to download, but I now have individual customized Bezels for many of the games such as Donkey Kong.

On my 2nd set-up, I carefully followed your instructions for setting up Mame. I downloaded the correct Rom set and placed the Roms in a Mame 2003 folder inside the Mame Roms folder. I've scraped the Roms and every single game I've tested seems to work great! 😍

However! The problem I ran into is with Bezels on my 2nd installation. I downloaded Mame Bezels from The Bezel Project, but this time the download was really quick. For some reason, it only downloaded generic Bezels. None of the games have individual customized Bezels. I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong, but I'd really like to get these Bezels working.

Does anybody have any ideas or help?
To me it seems almost like The Bezel Project is having trouble "finding" my Mame Roms 🤷‍♂️ Although Mame itself seems to have no problem finding the Roms 😁👍

[justaguy]

I bought the iconic arcade pad from GameStop and I’m trying to add an arcade file with multiple files in it to mame. I got the files on there but the game won’t start up, it just crashes. Any tips? Thanks.

[adamcroxton]

man u are a god send.. i wish i would have came across this sooner.. i have been trying to update rom sets with various software.. merge.. un merge hell.. missing dat files.. its been a pain. man this here is gold. and i love u lol

[DazDaz]

I'm running a preconfigured Batocera image on on my Pi and I can't figure out how to access the MAME setup menu in-game for setting dip switches etc. Any clues?

[anthonyknight]

Did you do extensive testing of the 0.78+ romset? Randomly testing, I've found quite a few games (probably the majority) work with the 0.78+ emulator but specific ones like Marvel VS Capcom, only work with the 0139 emulator. I can't figure it out and want to use the 2003 Plus because it supports netplay. I know FBNeo supports netplay, but it also has input latency that messes up the experience a bit.

[madgoatrancer]

Hi there, m'y question is, i want to install a new mame 32 on batocera it is possible

[lewispatchett]

Hi not sure if this still works but when you say download the torrent file for romsets it doesnt open as anything other than try to open a video file? no content downloads?