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MAME 2003-Plus Reference: Full Non-Merged Romsets


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mame, emulation, emulator, 2003
NOTE 1: Please use the BitTorrent protocol to download this collection whenever possible, and try to upload/seed an equal amount as you download.

Contents:

  • Full Non-Merged MAME 2003-Plus ROM collection with CHDs and Samples, as of December 31, 2018
  • MAME 2003-Plus XML DAT - 2018-12-31 file

ROM Set Format: Full Non-Merged

Full Non-Merged ROM set zips include all the files needed to run that game, including any ROMs from 'parent' ROM sets and BIOS sets. Using Full Non-merged ROM sets means that every .zip in this collection is complete and can be used stand-alone.

Validating Full Non-Merged Sets

To configure ClrMamePro to validate or rebuild a Full Non-Merged collection, disable Split BIOSes from the "Advanced" menu in both ClrMamePro's Rebuild and Scanner menus.
Arcade ROM Reference Sets:

ROM Set Format: Non-Merged

Non-Merged ROM romset zips include all the files needed to run that game, including any ROMs from 'parent' romsets. Using Non-merged ROM sets means that every .zip in this collection is complete and can be used stand-alone, with the exception of romsets that require a BIOS file.

The cover image for this collection is based on an image by Sam Howzit, licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons License. Original image and license: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aloha75/4906597504
Addeddate
2018-10-12 12:43:58
Identifier
MAME_2003-Plus_Reference_Set_2018
Source
torrent:urn:sha1:85294c8e68c7a52ff12eb200da6ddbfe6d8d6b4e
torrent:urn:sha1:7039422522f45593d901f8b4cdd2b17064e3a6b0
Year
2018

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Reviews

Reviewer: romman1 - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - May 28, 2022
Subject: UPDATE 2022-05-25 (MAME 0.244): Full 585.25GB CHDs + 70.23GB ROMs + 64.31GB EXTRAs + Quick How to Guide
UPDATE 2022-05-25 (MAME 0.244):
Full 585.25GB CHDs + 70.23GB ROMs + 64.31GB EXTRAs + Quick How to Guide
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There are too many outdated torrents and information, and the CHDs torrent generated by archive.org has garbage padding files and only has files up to 0-9A-C.

I am tired of it and I know you are too, so here are the latest.

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What's new in 0.244:
https://www.mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0244.txt

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LATEST TORRENTS (Torrents updated 2022-05-25):

Magnet links:

CHDs 0.243 Full (no changes in 0.244) (Merged, 585.25GB torrent, 100+ seeds):
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e5aee5d6a78637d2f2bcb1349f876778520943cb&dn=MAME%200.243%20CHDs%20(merged)&tr=http://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

ROMs 0.244 Full (Merged, 70.23GB torrent, 100+ seeds):
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ec186559da3ac6f266ad13b521360a43516a5406&dn=MAME%200.244%20ROMs%20(merged)&tr=http://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

ROMs 0.243 to 0.244 Update (Merged, 7.9MB torrent):
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e406ed7f61c81ba5ea12796ed7295018680167a9&dn=MAME%20-%20Update%20ROMs%20(v0.243%20to%20v0.244)&tr=http://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

EXTRAs 0.242 (artwork/cheats/snap/titles/manuals/etc, 64.31GB torrent, 50+ seeds):
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:67189b08addd7dd1675141f8060650de668e24f8&tr=http://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

.torrent files:

CHDs 0.243 Full (no changes in 0.244) (Merged, 585.25GB torrent, 100+ seeds):
https://archive.org/download/mame-chds-roms-extras-complete/MAME%200.243%20CHDs%20%28merged%29%20Full%20585.25GB.torrent

ROMs 0.244 Full (Merged, 70.23GB torrent, 100+ seeds):
https://archive.org/download/mame-chds-roms-extras-complete/MAME%200.244%20ROMs%20%28merged%29%20Full%2070.23GB.torrent

ROMs 0.243 to 0.244 Update (Merged, 7.9MB torrent, 100+ seeds):
https://archive.org/download/mame-chds-roms-extras-complete/MAME%200.244%20ROMs%20%28merged%29%200.243%20to%200.244%20Update%207.9MB.torrent

EXTRAs 0.242 Full (artwork/cheats/snap/titles/manuals/etc) (64.31GB torrent, 50+ seeds):
https://archive.org/download/mame-chds-roms-extras-complete/MAME%200.242%20EXTRAs%20%28artwork%2Ccheats%2Csnap%2Ctitles%2Cmanuals%2Cetc%29%20Full%2064.31GB.torrent

Individual files download (ROMs + CHDs + EXTRAs):
https://archive.org/download/mame-chds-roms-extras-complete

Tracker with the most seeds (100+):
http://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

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QUICK HOW TO GUIDE (Guide updated 2022-05-27):

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STEP 1 - Basics
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1) Download and install MAME ( https://www.mamedev.org/ )
2) Know that:
a) MAME considers CHD files as ROM files, CHDs are just bigger ROMs
b) MAME doesn't care where you put the CHDs or ROMs as long as all ROMs/CHDs directories are added to the rom path configuration.
c) That means you can add the torrent directories to MAME, and update MAME's database while ROMs/CHDs are being downloaded one by one, you can also pick which ROMs to download first, read how to do this below.

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STEP 2 - Download the ROMs and CHDs
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1) Install and run qBittorrent ( https://www.qbittorrent.org/ )
2) In qBittorrent, click [open url] or [add magnet link], a box will pop up.
3) Paste into the box the two magnet links from above, one line per link ( magnet:?xt=urn:btih:xxxxxxxxxxxxx... )
4) Click [Download] or [OK] to close the box.
5) You should now see in the qBittorent [Transfers] tab there are two torrents being added, [MAME 0.2xx ROMs (merged)] and [MAME 0.2xx CHDs (merged)].
6) If you have waited for a minute and the torrents are not downloading, manually add a torrent tracker to each torrent, so that qBittorrent knows what peers/seeds to download from, do this by:
a) From qBittorrent [Transfers] tab, select one of the torent ([MAME 0.2xx ROMs (merged)] or [MAME 0.2xx CHDs (merged)])
b) Click the [Trackers] tab (between [General] and [Peers])
c) Right click anywhere in the tracker list for a pop-up menu
d) Click [Add a new tracker...], a box [List of trackers to add] will pop up.
e) Paste the following tracker URL into the box and press [OK]: http://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce
f) You should now see [http://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce] in the tracker list, watch the [Peers] and [Seeds] column, there should be more than 100.
g) Do this once for the ROMs torrent and once for the CHDs torrent.
7) Continue to the next step while the torrents are downloading.

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STEP 3 - Find out where the ROMs/CHDs .zip files are downloaded to
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There are 2 paths: The ROMs (70+GB) and The CHDs (500+GB). Do these steps to find both:
1) In qBittorrent: In the [Transfers] tab, right click the torrent name [MAME 0.2xx ROMs (merged)] or [MAME 0.2xx CHDs (merged)], you should see a small pop-up menu.
2) Left click [Open destination folder], a file manager should pop up.
3) In the file manager, look at the directory location ('directory' is also called 'folder' in windows).
4) Do it once for the ROMs and once for the CHDs, remember these 2 directories for the next step.

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STEP 4 - Add BOTH ROMs and CHDs directories to MAME
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Set MAME's ROMs directory to the two directories qBittorrent is downloading to:
1) Go to MAME's main screen (restart MAME if not sure)
2) Double click [Configure Options]
3) Double click [Configure Directories]
4) Double click [ROMs]
5) Double click [Add Folder]
6) Browse the directory tree using the [UP/DOWN/ENTER] key to select the correct directory (remembered from previous step).
7) Once you have found the final correct directory, just highlighting it is not enough, you must press [Enter] to enter it first, otherwise you'll just set the parent directory instead.
8) Once INSIDE the correct directory, press the [TAB] key on your keyboard to set the directory in MAME.
9) Double click [Return to Previous Menu]
10) Double click [Save Configuration]
11) Do this once for the ROMs directory and once for the CHDs directory. You need to add both directories for all ROMs to work.
12) If you are also downloading the partial update torrents (e.g. MAME - Update ROMs v0.2xx to v0.2xx), then you also need to add the update torrent's download directory by repeating step 1 to 10.

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STEP 5 - Decide on what ROMs to download and how often do you run audits in MAME
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Now that the ROMs/CHDs are downloading and the correct MAME directories are configured, you want to audit the download directories in MAME so that it will find all the newly downlodaded ROMs/CHDs .zip files.

During the audit, MAME will find the newly downloaded ROMs/CHDs .zip files and update MAME's internal database, newly downloaded ROMs/CHDs will show up in the [Available] section in MAME.

Depending on your goal and available time/bandwidth, you have 3 options:

1) Slow + Complete:
Wait for all ROMs/CHDs to be downloaded and update MAME database once (this takes much longer to see the ROMs from MAME because the file pieces are downloaded randomly across all files); or

2) Quick:
You only select a few favorite ROMs/CHDs to be downloaded, then update MAME database. You do this by going to qBittorrent, in [Transfers] tab left click a torrent (ROMs or CHDs), click the [Content] Tab, Tick/Untick ROMs/CHDs to download/not download (e.g. only tick 1941.zip, everything else unticked); or

3) Quick + Complete (Recommended):
You select all ROMs/CHDs to be downloaded, but you also enable 'Download in sequential order', so that all ROMs/CHDs will be downloaded one by one. Set your favorite ROMs/CHDs .zip to 'Maximum' priority so your favorite ROMs/CHDs will be downloaded first. Update MAME database once in a while after a new bunch of ROMs/CHDs are downloaded. You get the best of both worlds. Do this by:

a) Configure qBittorrent to download .zip files one by one:
In qBittorrent [Transfers] tab, right click a torrent, then select [torrent options...], then tick [Download in sequential order] and click [OK]. Do this once for the ROMs torrent and once for the CHDs torrent.

b) Configure qBittorrent to download your favorite ROMs first:
In qBittorrent [Transfers] tab, left click a torrent (ROMs or CHDs), click the [Content] tab, find your favorite ROM/CHD file (e.g. 1941.zip) and click on [Normal] in the Download Priority column, it'll pop up a selection of [Do not download/Normal/High/Maximum], select [Maximum]. Do this to EACH ROM/CHD .zip file you want to complete download first. (e.g. 1941.zip is on 'Maximum' priority while everything else is on 'Normal' priority)

This combination downloads ALL ROMs/CHDs sequentially one by one, and lets you to play your favorite ROMs first while the rest are downloading.

Each time one or a bunch of the ROM/CHD .zip reaches 100% download, you can goto MAME and audit the download directories, it'll add the new ROMs to the [Availabe] section, which brings us to the next step (audit ROMs/CHDs directories).

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STEP 6 - Audit the ROMs/CHDs directories and update the MAME database
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1) (In MAME window) Click the magnifying glass and select [Audit media for all XXXXX machines]
2) Wait for MAME to audit all ROMs and CHDs directories
3) The newly downloaded ROMs/CHDs will now show up in the [Available] section.
4) For subsequent audits, select [Audit media for X machines marked unavailable] instead in step 1, this skips the known completed ROMs and reduces audit time.

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STEP 7 (optional) - Install MAME Extras
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You can add extras such as in-game/title screenshots (snap/titles), cheats, etc to your MAME installation, you have two options:

1) The hard way:
This method is too complex and time consuming for the average MAME user, and is only recommended for those determined to chase after the absolute latest, for everyone else, wait a while for the new version of EXTRAs torrent to be released (see 'The easy way' below).

Download and install each extras component manually and set up your own perfect MAME, e.g. visit https://www.progettosnaps.net/snapshots/ and download [Snap > Full-Set 0.240 (pS_snap_full_240.zip)] and [Titles > Full-Set 0.240 (pS_titles_full_240.zip)] and the smaller 0.24x update packages. Decompress the snap zip, find the directory with 40000 .png files, move all the .png to MAME's [snap] directory. Decompress the titles zip, find the directory with 40000 .png files, move all the .png to MAME's [titles] directory. snap and title .png files have the exact same filename, don't mix them up. Get the cheat.zip from ( http://cheat.retrogames.com/mame_downloads.htm ), decompress it to MAME's cheat directory. You can also manually download and install the latest cabinet/flyers/manuals/etc.

2) The easy way (Recommended):
Get all the cabinet/cheats/manuals/snap/titles etc from a single [MAME Extras] torrent, it is not updated as regularly as MAME binary/ROMs/CHDs, but this way will save you a lot of work.

It doesn't matter if the MAME Extras are a few versions behind, the differences are minimal, you just see blank title/snap images on the newest ROMs, the rest works just fine. To add extras to your MAME, do this:

a) Download the [EXTRAs 0.xxx Full] torrent listed above, or

b) Copy the [EXTRAs 0.xxx Full] magnet link above (magnet:?xt=urn...)

c) In qBittorrent's window: If you downloaded the .torrent file, click [Open] and select the .torrent file then click [OK], if you copied the magnet link, click [Open URL], paste the link into the box then click [OK].

d) Set cheat.zip, snap.zip and titles.zip to [Maximum] priority in the [Content] tab if you want them to complete first.

e) Decompress the cheat.zip/titles.zip/snap.zip etc to MAME's root directory, it'll create the correct sub directories.

f) Restart MAME and check the result. If you don't see the cheat/title/snaps, double check that the decompressed directories and MAME directories configuration are the same, often the extra sub directories from the .zip aren't needed, so you move the files one parent directory above (\snap\snap to just \snap, \cheat\cheatxxxx to just \cheat).

g) To enable cheats:
i) (In MAME's main window) Click [Configure Options]
ii) Click [Miscellaneous Options]
iii) Set [Cheats] to [On]
iv) Click [Return to Previous Menu]
v) Click [Save Configuration]
vi) From now on when you are playing a ROM, press the [TAB] key and you should see [Cheat] in the menu.

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STEP 8 - Play and enjoy
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That's it, play your favorite ROMs and enjoy.

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Credits to pleasuredome for the magnet links, it also has a lot of other MAME data sets:
https://pleasuredome.github.io/pleasuredome/mame/
Guide by Rompacker:
https://archive.org/details/@rompacker

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Reviewer: Sludgebust - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - January 30, 2022
Subject: Crap I'm using it with 2003 Mame Plus
I'm using it with Retroarch and Mame 2003 Plus and the XML dat file that comes with this download. Alot dont work right due to the XML file Example most space invaders dont have sound.
Reviewer: mame roms - favoritefavoritefavorite - November 25, 2021
Subject: Mame ROMS
You can download the latest pack from --> https://www.romspack.com/mame-roms-pack/
Reviewer: NoNeed2 - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - September 9, 2021
Subject: ClrMamePro Check results
I took the time to check set against the provided xml
Here are the result after fixing (before there were about 50 missing roms). Also CHD scan reports posted at the end - so I blv the chd need to be replaced with the version 5 :
(You can scan and fix easily the set to be as below)

Missing
·Sets 0/4875
·ROMs 0/74224
·CHDs 0/30
·Samples 0/2192
·Bytes 0/32gb

Fixed Wrong Case
·Sets 0/0
·ROMs 0/0
·CHDs 0/0
·Samples 0/0

Fixed Unneeded
·Sets 1/1
·ROMs 1/1
·CHDs 0/0
·Samples 0/0

Fixed Wrong Name
·Sets 0/0
·ROMs 0/0
·CHDs 0/0

Fixed Wrong Size
·ROMs 0/0

Fixed Wrong Date Time
·ROMs 0/0

Wrong Hashes
·Wrong CRC32 ROMs 0
·Wrong SHA1 ROMs 0
·Wrong MD5 ROMs 0
·Wrong SHA1 CHDs 0
·Wrong MD5 CHDs 0

Corrupt Containers 0

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Active Sets 4875/4875
·Parents 1076/1076
·Clones 2102/2102
·Others 1681/1681
·BIOS 16/16

Active ROMs 74224/74224
·Parents 16590/16590
·Clones 33970/33970
·Others 23290/23290
·bad dumps 179/179
·no dumps 137/137
·verified dumps 0/0
·BIOS 58/58

Active CHDs 30/30
·Parents 5/5
·Clones 5/5
·Others 20/20
·bad dumps 0/0
·no dumps 0/0
·verified dumps 0/0
·BIOS 0/0

Active Samples 2192/2192
·Parents 426/426
·Clones 1432/1432

Active Bytes 32gb/32gb

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CHD Scan Results:

Area 51 [folder: area51 - size: 2mb]
required chd version mismatch: area51.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Area 51 - Maximum Force Duo v2.0 [folder: area51mx - size: 2mb]
required chd version mismatch: area51mx.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Area 51 - Maximum Force Duo (R3000) [folder: a51mxr3k - parent: area51mx - size: 2mb]
required chd version mismatch: area51mx.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

BioFreaks (prototype) [folder: biofreak - size: 544kb]
required chd version mismatch: biofreak.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

NFL Blitz [folder: blitz - size: 544kb]
required chd version mismatch: blitz.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

NFL Blitz 2000 [folder: blitz2k - size: 544kb]
required chd version mismatch: blitz2k.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

NFL Blitz '99 [folder: blitz99 - size: 544kb]
required chd version mismatch: blitz99.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

beatmania (ver JA-B) [folder: bm1stmix - size: 5mb]
required chd version mismatch: 753jaa11.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

beatmania 2nd MIX (ver JA-B) [folder: bm2ndmix - size: 5mb]
required chd version mismatch: 853jaa11.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

beatmania 2nd MIX (ver JA-A) [folder: bm2ndmxa - parent: bm2ndmix - size: 5mb]
required chd version mismatch: 853jaa11.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

beatmania 4th MIX (ver JA-A) [folder: bm4thmix - size: 5mb]
required chd version mismatch: 847jaa11.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

beatmania complete MIX (ver JA-B) [folder: bmcompmx - size: 5mb]
required chd version mismatch: 858jaa11.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

hiphopmania complete MIX (ver UA-B) [folder: hmcompmx - parent: bmcompmx - size: 5mb]
required chd version mismatch: 858jaa11.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

beatmania CORE REMIX (ver JA-A) [folder: bmcorerm - size: 5mb]
required chd version mismatch: a05jaa11.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

beatmania f. Dreams Come True (ver JA-A) [folder: bmdct - size: 5mb]
required chd version mismatch: 995jaa11.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

California Speed [folder: calspeed - size: 544kb]
required chd version mismatch: calspeed.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

CarnEvil [folder: carnevil - size: 544kb]
required chd version mismatch: carnevil.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Crypt Killer (ver. UAA) [folder: cryptklr - size: 2mb]
required chd version mismatch: 420uaa04.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

hiphopmania complete MIX 2 (ver UA-A) [folder: hmcompm2 - size: 5mb]
required chd version mismatch: 988jaa11.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Judge Dredd (Rev C) [system: Acclaim PSX - folder: jdredd - size: 768kb]
required chd version mismatch: jdreddc.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Judge Dredd (Rev B) [system: Acclaim PSX - folder: jdreddb - parent: jdredd - size: 768kb]
required chd version mismatch: jdreddb.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Killer Instinct (v1.0) [folder: kinst - size: 5mb]
required chd version mismatch: kinst.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Killer Instinct 2 (v2.1) [folder: kinst2 - size: 5mb]
required chd version mismatch: kinst2.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Mace - The Dark Age [folder: mace - size: 544kb]
required chd version mismatch: mace.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Maximum Force v1.05 [folder: maxforce - size: 2mb]
required chd version mismatch: maxforce.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Maximum Force v1.02 [folder: maxf_102 - parent: maxforce - size: 2mb]
required chd version mismatch: maxforce.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

San Francisco Rush [folder: sfrush - size: 9mb]
required chd version mismatch: sfrush.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Vicious Circle (prototype) [folder: vcircle - size: 2mb]
required chd version mismatch: vcircle.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

War Gods [folder: wargods - size: 160kb]
required chd version mismatch: wargods.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]

Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey [folder: wg3dh - size: 544kb]
required chd version mismatch: wg3dh.chd [found version: 3] [required version: 5]



Reviewer: davidsco27 - favoritefavorite - March 18, 2021
Subject: Too many games don't work
Asteroids, Battle Zone, Tempest do not work
Reviewer: pavl123 - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - December 14, 2020
Subject: Question Please

Hi all,
Does anyone know why this downloads for about 6 hours and then displays an error message at very end of download? Thanks very much.
Reviewer: AlbertMoliko - - December 5, 2020
Subject: Hello
can you help me how to proceed because download i this mame
what should he do? how to act?
Reviewer: zergmare - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - July 17, 2020
Subject: Gamelist.xml
To anyone wondering about the gamelist, it is generated by scraping roms. At least that is how I get my gamelist.
Look up Skraper UI online and download it. It is quite user friendly
Reviewer: AndrewMilky - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - October 25, 2019
Subject: Link to my MAME 0.214 stuff
I saw some questions about addon stuff for mame, so here is a link to my stuff; It's setup for version 0.214 but for things like artwork, snaps, icons, etc., my stuff should work great. Each folder has a .7z or two inside that requires extracting and that's it. Folder structure is setup for easy drag and drop!

https://mega.nz/#F!GAcFlADB!Gvz8AUaMTuod1ApR4vCkrg

(BTW, please enjoy that stuff since my wife is probably divorcing me after the amount of time I spent collecting, sorting, and learning all this crap, lol. Download it for my marriage!)
Reviewer: bartoro - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - October 13, 2019
Subject: Gamelist and Images
Thank you for all these roms, great job!!! I am copying them to my retropie but I can not find the gamelist.xml file. Also is there any place to find the screenshots? I use Scraper but it is very slow.
Thank you!!!!
Reviewer: tomasowa - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - October 9, 2019
Subject: Perfect for RetroArch MAME 2003+ Core
[Selective Download works best if you have the Torrent's File List already up and a Web Browser window open to Google the ROM names for the games you want - just select those ZIP files from the ROM folder and nothing else.]

As it says on tin - these are the ROMSets you need to download for the RetroArch MAME 2003+ Core.

Let's keep this simple for everyone - no, you do not need to update to the latest MAME ROMSets if your target Emulator can't even read it.

This advise is just plain confusing especially for the new user coming into the scene who is confused why 99% of the ROMs they download won't work with whatever MAME version they have on their system.

There will never be ROMSets that are 100% compatible, so deal with it, but if you're using a specific MAME Core, get the ROMSets built for that Core because they have the highest compatibility and most games available to play.

These ROMSets have more compatible games than those for the MAME 2003 Core, and the 2003 versions have the highest approval rating of the Internet, despite not being the latest and greatest versions.
Reviewer: DiAppoggio - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - September 19, 2019
Subject: Perfect 4 RetroArch
Perfect set for a true RetroArch experience!
Reviewer: gspat - favoritefavoritefavorite - September 18, 2019
Subject: Please view this as a snapshot of progress only.
This ROMset is from December 25th, 2003. As such it should only be considered to be an archive of WIP at that time.

Please note it contains:

- Many incorrectly dumped files which have since been re-dumped and upgraded.
- Many innacuracies in many games due to the level of development of the emulator at that time.

It is always suggested by the development team of MAME that everyone should use the latest version of MAME and seek out the latest ROMset to use with it.
Reviewer: Dale Vallee - favoritefavorite - September 16, 2019
Subject: Little more info?
Can you add what mame version this would be best for?
Reviewer: thec0re3 - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - May 21, 2019
Subject: Thank you!
I owe you a large debt of gratitude for making my life just a bit easier. Thank you!
Reviewer: Brakechute - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - March 10, 2019
Subject: Great set, but....
First, this is a great set and all the work that went into it is appreciated. That said, any chance of revising it without the padding files in the torrent? They add a ton of overhead to an already large torrent and it's just not necessary. Thanks!
Reviewer: V84 - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - January 5, 2019
Subject: Fantastic Work
Thank you very much for this, I've been seeding it since the release. But please, update the info when the content changes (as it happened twice in December) so we can know we should reseed.
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