MAME for beginners

So I am new to the whole emulation bit. I have RetroArch working for SNES, NES, GBA, and Genesis. What I can’t get working is MAME.

I believe I have the right ROMs placed along with the game ROMS and I think I have the right BIOs in the system folder, but I get nothing with MAME right now.

Anybody have a step by step guide or willing to write a short post explaining MAMEs that is broken down barney style?

mame bios files should be in the same directory as game roms. if you’re new to mame/emulation/retroarch you can try this

[QUOTE=romjacket;42651]mame bios files should be in the same directory as game roms. if you’re new to mame/emulation/retroarch you can try this[/QUOTE]

Do the Bios files need to be unzipped? Also, is there anything I should be configuring in RetroArch so that it looks for the Bios in the directory or do I just simply have the Bios files in the directory with the ROMs and run the ROMS like I would for NES, SNES, ect?

The files should not be unzipped. Just put all MAME zips in the same directory.

if you run retroarch from the command line it will look something like this:

>retroarch.exe -L cores\mame_libretro.dll mvsc -rompath=“C:\roms”

if you can’t figure this out, just use retroinvader