After installing Retro Pie according to the instructions, adding some themes (I settled on Cabsnazzy) and a set of Xbox 360 controllers, I downloaded some individual sample Roms to test the Mame emulator, an emulator that plays old arcade type games. What I discovered was that there are several different Mame emulators packaged with Retro Pie. For example, there is “mame4all”, “Mame 2000”, “Mame 2003 Libretto”, “Advance Mame”, etc.
Qui in basso sono raccolti i BIOS per il MAME. Per alcuni giochi sono necessari, e a volte cambiano versione rendendo i giochi da cui vengono utilizzati non funzionanti. Faremo il possibile per aggiornarli in caso di updates. Se aveste problemi, vi chiediamo di contattarci. NB: I BIOS andranno salvati, senza decomprimerli, nella cartella ROMS. In some situations, BIOS files are necessary to operate emulators of classic gaming devices successfully. The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME, is an example of a popular software application that requires its own unique BIOS ROM files to operate successfully. As it turns out, you can add BIOS files to MAME without much effort at all.
Not any Mame rom will play in any Mame emulator. You need to install the correct “Romset version” of the Rom for each emulator. What does that mean ? Well, apparently various people have collected hundreds or even thousands of roms for a particular Mame version, customized them for that particular version of Mame, and packaged them into a “Rom Set”. The Rom Sets for each Mame Emulator are listed here at the Mame Retro Pie Wiki. To find a particular game and what RomSet it is in see here or here to download the entire lists of games for a particular Romset.
The first test I did was to download the Rom Set for Mame 2003. This Rom Set is 0.78. The download links are found at archive.org. The non-merged set is the one that will work with Emulation Station.
For the Mame 2003 set (Romset 0.78, about 2 GB) the easiest way to download is in linux using the linux command line program “transmission-cli” which will download torrent files. Copy the TORRENT link shown on the archive.org page and use that with torrent-cli.
For example, to download the 0.78 Rom set on your Linux command line type: