Samples don't work in mame 2003

So I put the samples files in the system dir under mame2003/samples/ as it says in the user guide but when I load a game that needs them it tells me “error audio files not found”. What is wrong?

wrong sample for the game in question? it will be expecting specifically named audio files in a specifically named zip file. normally when you download samples they will tell you what version of MAME they’re for (in this case, you want 0.78).

can you give an example of the zip filename you are trying to use and a screen shot of the contents?

oh that was it. I was having trouble with dkong. I searched around and found that in deed there are different samples too. I should have known. I asumed sample formats didn’t change but it is MAME, everything changes…