Hi

Anyone running DOS / WMAME under WIndows XP Home/Pro???????

If so, did u encounter any problems??

Thanks

GG

-- Game Guru (gameguru@blueyonder.co.uk), October 26, 2001

Answers

From what I understand, the Win32 console version of MAME and MAME32 both run fine under XP. Just ake sure you have up to date drivers and so on. I have also heard that the DOS version works, but without sound. Anyone actually tried it?

-- Barry Rodewald (bsr@hnpl.net), October 27, 2001.

I have tried the WMAME version on XP. It worked quite fine with and without sound. I don't remember trying the DOS version, tho.

-- Joe Ledesma (JoeyL21988@yahoo.com), October 27, 2001.

Oh, I guess I did use DMAME on XP. It worked fine, besides the fact it wouldn't work well with a Sidewinder controller

-- Joe Ledesma (JoeyL21988@yahoo.com), October 28, 2001.

I find that MAME32 works fine under XP Pro except that the screenshots don't work.

Anyone know how to fix this?

-- Matt (qube@firstnet.co.uk), December 02, 2001.

I have done everything to get mame32 to work in windows xp, but no luck. I tried running it in compatibility mode for win 98/me, but that didn't work either. it loads up fine, but then just disappears when you try to load a game....have had this problem with several things in xp, even in compatibility mode

-- J. S. Greenhaus (kardis_@excite.com), December 17, 2001.

I've had the same luck - none. I've tried everything to get mame to work and to no avail.

Any help?

Wayde

-- waldo (wgiddings7940@rogers.com), December 19, 2001.

Same problem - when I load arcadeathome and fire up a game using the win32 console compile. I have no problem when using Uomame32 or mame32, but I prefer the graphic options in the others.

-- Chris Kokotaylo (ckokotay@ameritech.net), December 20, 2001.

Something I noticed that may be the cause of some greif. On my other machine I upgraded from Win98 to XP and Mame32 works fine...on this machine, where I did a clean install..it doesn't work. Anyone know why?

Wayde

-- waldo (wgiddings7940@rogers.com), December 20, 2001.

I have had some probs wit xp Pro game loads fine but joystick is all over the place i think require new mame or patch???? where to get,I am loosing my mind!

-- Cam (skareone@hotmail.com), December 27, 2001.

Just to offer another wildly contradictory experience of MAME on XP, I found that DOS MAME would not work at all, it just dissapeared when I ran something. MAME32 would work but with screwed up colours. Anyone fancy doing a MAME XP??

-- Jamie McLaughlin (HIP00JJM@Sheffield.ac.uk), January 04, 2002.

try the -nohws option, it is probaly notthe colors that are messed up but the hardware streching of your video card is not good. mamew works great for me in xp, still trying to get dos mame to work.

-- Chad (churritz@crash.cts.com), January 06, 2002.

Mame works perfectly on my ME operating system. As far as XP, the (.exe) file refuses to execute The dos interface pops up and as soon as it comes on it cuts off. The last thing i want to see is any form of dos. After i downloaded mame32 0.57 to XP, i tried to execute it twice, and failed. Please give e some advise that would at least get me to the graphical user interface please!!!!!!

-- spliffs (bunphingaz@hotmail.com), January 17, 2002.

Um, if there is no GUI, then you obviously aren't using MAME32, are you?

Get MAME32 from www.classicgaming.com/mame32

-- Barry Rodewald (bsr@hnpl.net), January 17, 2002.

I definately have the win32 version of mame, and i have windows xp pro. it just simply doesn't work. i even tried to run it in the win98 compatibility mode, to no avail. so what's the secret? it worked fine on my win 98 (same machine). none of my hardware has changed!!

thanx -t

-- mame player (tnt7500@hotmail.com), January 20, 2002.

win32 is for lusers who need a gui :) the official mame exe (sometimes now refered to as mamew) works perfectly on xp for me. the dos mame exe (sometimes refered to as dmame) works but you must use -sound 0 to turn off sound IF you have an audigy sound card, but dmame can work if you use the arcade@home front end instead of win32.

-- Chad (churritz@crash.cts.com), January 20, 2002.

I installed the latest version of MAME32 (Win) the other day and it all seemed to be going fine except for some graphic juddering. Now I can't use the TAB to get access to the controls. Everything else seems to work fine for games that have the right control settings already except for some graphic slowness.

M

-- Mark Baker (whatarube@yahoo.com), January 23, 2002.

I just want to let everyone know that I'm using Windows XP and MAME32 and it works GREAT! I have installed it on multiple machines and have NEVER had a problem whether it's 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000. No matter what kind of system you are running you should be using MAME32. Get off the DOS kick unless you are a big fan of the early 80's, seriously. MAME32 uses your already working Windows drivers so you won't have any problems. In all the years I've used MAME every person that's had a problem I've fixed in a matter of minutes. They either downloaded some other version which doesn't always work or simply didn't read the directions on how to set it up. The only problem anybody should have with MAME32 can be easily fixed by going into OPTIONS then DEFAULT OPTIONS. You can change your sound settings, you can change your screen refresh rate, you can turn on your mouse, you can change your screen size (which I suggest 1024), and if you get a blurry screen or funky lines you can change it so it doesn't try to stretch your display. I have over 400 games (only the best and most classic of games) and they ALL work. This is a DELL 8200 Series P4-1900 with 512MB RD-RAM, 120GB HD, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card, NVIDIA 64DDR TI500 Video Card, CD-RW, DVD, and whatever else you can think of. :)

-- Bill Francis (billsvilla@aol.com), January 28, 2002.

WHOAH!

stand back a p4 1.9ghz that has the works

You have my dual systems running in fear! Just built a dual system with a dual board, dual AMD XP 2000+, 3.5GB registered DDR ram, 120GB RAID setup, SB Audigy, GeForce 4 Ti 500. PVR 233 MPG encoder card.

trying to get rid of this 1400 dual xp setup that's utter carp when it comes to fps on mpeg-2 compression.

DOS mame rules, that's where it came from, that's where it's going to stay.

-- Arch Nem (whoahde@dirtysouth.com), February 14, 2002.

WHOAH!

stand back a p4 1.9ghz that has the works

You have my dual systems running in fear! Just built a dual system with a dual board, dual AMD XP 2000+, 3.5GB registered DDR ram, 120GB RAID setup, SB Audigy, GeForce 4 Ti 500. PVR 233 MPG encoder card.

trying to get rid of this 1400 dual xp setup that's utter carp when it comes to fps on mpeg-2 compression.

DOS mame rules, that's where it came from, that's where it's going to stay.

sorry for double post, heh double post on dual systems

-- Arch Nem (whoahde@dirtysouth.com), February 14, 2002.

And to top it off billsvilla@aol.com is using a DELL

WHOAH somebody pick me up off the floor, I was just stunned and amazed by the sheer power his p4 1.9ghz "and anything else you can think of" machine.

*YAWN* x 1 google

-- Ed Amin (edamin@souljabeatz.com), February 14, 2002.

What Bill Francis fails to realize that at some level or another his precious 98/NT/2000/XP systems run on is.......DOS

True XP and 2000 represented a departure from DOS, but there will ALWAYS be some form of DOS running a WINDOWS computer.

-- Bill Francis (billsvilla@aol.com), February 14, 2002.

What are you people talking about? I wasn't listing my computer parts as a show of "power". I was listing them for people to see what it's will work on. I have all types of computers in my basement from a 180 running NT, a 233 running 98, a couple of 500's, a 933, and a 1.4 all running 2000. The 1.9 I was speaking of is the only machine I use XP on and is why I used it as an example. If you recall there was a question about how to use MAME with XP. Processor power doesn't mean that much to me or I'd have an Itanium Server. Instead I have an AS/400 here which I program in C, COBOL, RPG, CL, and DDS. I bought the 1.9 so I could have my AS/400 on the internet via my 3meg sattelite connection from Skycasters. If you think MAME can be hard to setup try getting satellite working right -- which actually that's another 900mhz computer running 2000 Server. Friends of mine have T1's in their homes but they don't offer enough bandwidth for them to sell wireless service to more than 30 neighbors and DS3 is terribly expensive. Why am I talking about this? Ugh, anyways... I agree that DMAME is awsome and the original, and WMAME is good too. The reason I like MAME32 is because I'm LAZY! I like the GUI, I like the seemless compatability with all version of Windows, I like that it keeps itself updated, and I like not having to tinker with command lines and icons. Say what you want... my answer to question still remains... MAME32 is the easiest thing to get working in XP. If you like playing with command line stuff then knock yourself out (I use too) but if someone can't get something to work the last thing they need to know is the hard way. At least get it working the easy way then try the other version of MAME. Can we get off this topic now and discuss what's really important? WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO GET A WORKING COPY OF HARD DRIVE'N... I LOVED THAT GAME!!! Or, at least stereo versions of Mortal Kombat II and III!

-- Bill Francis (billsvilla@aol.com), February 14, 2002.

Ah Ha! Some of the answers lie in using the Arcade at Home front end. It keeps passing bad options to the mame executable. I downloaded Emu Loader, and ran the win32 compile, AND the dos compile. No problems at all. If you want to rid yourself of the flashing window, turn off the 'maximize' setting.

-- Chris Kokotaylo (ckokotay@ameritech.net), February 16, 2002.

Besides, why are yo bragging baout building a ridiculously unnecessary computer? Aa if you will ever need 3.5Gig of Ram. Geez, you are like a 5 year old saying "My mommy is better than your mommy." Grow up!

-- so? (wappfalls8987@hotmail.com), March 04, 2002.

bill G. : "It's very unlikely any program will require more than 640Megs of ram."

as longs as you know how to use them dual sytems kick (if you are knowlegable to make use of them and make them stable enough).

-- Chad (churritz@crash.cts.com), March 05, 2002.

I'm using Mame32 0.59 with XP and it works just fine. If you are getting grey screenshots, make sure you've removed mame32.exe.manifest in the mame32.exe folder.

-- Derek (quekdp@netscape.net), April 07, 2002.

I have win XP Pro. mame32 works great!!! I have version 0.60 may 4/2002. alot of games wont work , but most of the one's i download from "arcadezone" work fine, sound and all . good luck all

-- jj (Jerry__Johnston@hotmail.com), May 30, 2002.

I am running mame32 v.60 on XP Home no luck. I load the gui but when I try to play a game the gui freezes. Is there something in XP that prohibits MAME32 from playing. Also NeoRageX is messed up. There are a few other emulators that simply dont run under XP for me. Are there any suggestions as to configurations profiles that work for XP.

-- johnny blaze (universalwebsolutions@onebox.com), July 01, 2002.

Hi I'm dumb and don't know anyhting about all that fancy techno stuff but I have windows xp and mame32 works fine the only thing wrong with it is that capcom games don't work properly or actually they run slower at full screen so I have to minimize the screen a little. It takes screen shots but I havn't figured out that mose stuff yet.

-- o-magus (timmy@xta.co.nz), July 07, 2002.

BE SURE U HAVE DIRECTX INSTALLED GUYS

-- ken moore (kenmo@vvm.com), July 16, 2004.