Introduction

Why do I write this book? Are there not enough information available?Short answer: Yes there are! But have you found your desired information in time? Some weeks ago I was thinking about how this batch mode works in CLRMAME again. Did it use several time before but forgotten how it works. I had this information seen in a forum but where? This was the time when I was thinking about this guide and it would be helpful also for others. A guide that covers the main topics. Give an answer to many questions. I hope this guide will help some users to get into compiling, usingCLRMAME for keeping up their sets and having fun as much I have.WAs you may have notice English is not my mother language, excuse some wrong expressions/word that I'm using. I hope you will enjoy this guide as much as I have enjoyed it writing it :-)

The man behind this book

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 havecompleted 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 increasedrapidly. 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 done 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 have still a FTP, co-assist at Retroroms.net and I am around a lot of time on IRC-channels as well.

Thanks goes to

I would like to thank everyone that I know. Especially MAMEdev team for the emulator. There are so many I should mentioned here, thank you all that made this guide possible.

Important Note

Do always a backup of your files. I have tested everything in my own environment but I can not give you 100% guarantee that nothing worse can happen