The man behind this guide

My first contact was at around 1999 with MAME. Never tough that I can play my loved Donkey Kong on a PC that I have spend so much time/coins some years ago on a real arcade machine. That was the time I started collecting everything for MAME. With no knowledge how does it work with ROMs I have completed my small set with run each game, see what was missing and tried to download somewhere those missing. It was a really adventure to go on with my set. Later I have burned my first “public” CD set for some friends (V0.59).

My knowledge was better with each version that followed. After some complete sets I have decided to help others as a “MAME burner”. This time frame was only short it was the time that available bandwidth has increased rapidly. My next step was offering my set on a private FTP. And with the help of torrentzip it was possible to share everything much quicker than downloading from my ftp.

I have also maintain the MAMEtitles for some time (0.97-0.145) but after the loose of the domain MAMEtitles.com I have decided to step back from that project.

I still have a FTP-server, co-assist at Retroroms.info and I am around a lot of time on Discord as well.