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Just got a new track ball for my golden tee fore MAME. But the track ball cuts out at high speeds and cuts back in when the ball slows down.

This is a huge issue for golden tee as it turns your swings into a stuttering mess. Its not a mame more golden tee issue as it will do this on desktop with the mouse. Does anyone have a fix for this?

So I am running into an issue, when I am sitting up the system systems for mame I tried setting up my sinden light gun and my arcade buttons for player buttons 1,2,3 however that made none of them work. When I go to just the game and map it to either the arcade OR the sinden then it works but it wont accept both. I really dont want to have to edit each game as I play them as my build is in a cabinet. Is there a workaround to this? Thank you

What do I need to do to play Akatana and SDOJ on my Astro City cabinet using GroovyMAME? I have the ROMs, but they aren't showing up.

Hi guys, hope you are doing well. Just started using GroovyMAME because I read it's the version of MAME with the least amount of input latency. And sure enough, I do notice a difference coming from regular MAME.

But...I vaguely remember reading a long time ago something about there being certain settings in the ini file you can change to make it have EVEN LESS input lag than default.

Can anyone tell me which settings I need to change to make GM run at its most optimal and with the least amount of input latency, even if it's marginal at best?

Hi all, I know this has been asked several dozen times, but every post where someone asks this, a Mame dev chimes in and says, "This hasn't been an issue since like 2021." and the post seems to die out with no resolution. So, that means one of two things... They are either just flat out lying (probably not the case), or I am just too stupid and doing something wrong (most likely scenario.)

So obviously, in 2026 we all have SEVERAL controllers and since many are wireless, they connect in different order and do not show up as "Joy 1" every time we turn them on. in my case, it could be Joy 6, Joy 7 Joy 8,....blah blah blah. So on.

I am using Mame 0.288 and having to remap my controls makes me never want to even bother with it. Especially if I have someone else that's want to play a two-player game. Now I'm remapping two controllers.

Does Mame just not use device ID like nearly every other piece of software or is it really just looking at the order in which my controllers are plugged in? I'm at a total loss and hoping someone can offer some advice to help me solve this. I feel it really shouldn't be this hard given how long Mame has been around for. I have to be doing, or not doing something that's preventing controllers from just working as they should

I am on my first DIY arcade build and have been having trouble with the Mame 2003 plus files.

I am using Mame, and Launchbox to do this. All the other platforms download and play without issue. Except those Mame 2003 Plus files.

Can someone point me towards the correct version of Mame to download?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

I'm doing a mame vertical only build on a portrait oriented screen and looking for a good collection of vertical bezels. I'm running into many dead ends or just a small handful here and there. Does someone have a good collection that can upload or point me to? Thanks.

I just got an ayn thor and am trying out mame4droid (current) and have run into a problem any games that use chd files refuse to load. Games that don’t need a chd files run fine but chd games won’t run. I’m on 288 both the emulator and the rom set.

Hello! I’ve searched (including this sub) and found some stuff, but everyone seems to be searching for something different. I could really use some help.

I’d love to have the time and physical ability to build my own Multicade, but I simply can’t. And yes I know it could save me a ton of money. Regardless…I’m planning to buy a prebuilt cabinet that includes either a preconfigured Pi or miniPC.

— primary use would be Arcade games, but also retro PC (+ C64/Amiga).
— I care about cabinet/controller build quality and functionality/reliability/navigability

Everyone has favorites amongst the front ends and what should drive it. Launchbox, Hyperspin, the Bat one…anything I should consider?

Cost aside for now: Anyone have an all-in-one suggestion for a quality cabinet that could come preconfigured?

I have installed mame0288b_x64.exe and was able to locate a ROM for Zoo Keeper (1983) but its not showing up in the "Available" section. I've tried 2 different ROMS of Zoo Keeper and left them as .zip files but no luck.

I am new to this. How do I look for a ROM that will work with this MAME? Should I try to find an older version of MAME that would run the Zoo Keeper ROM? Windows PC 10

Hello, so I love the game Track & Field but with my keyboard buttons I can’t repeatedly push them that quick enough to qualifies for some of these events. I remember having May 32 back in the day, and there was a “run like hell cheat” for this game. I’m not seeing it, does anybody know how I could find it or activate it or do whatever?

Which version of mame can I run on my Dell dimension 4600? It has a Pentium 4 a gt 5200 and 1.25gb of ram running Windows XP and where do I get roms?

I've gotten myself a Moza R3 and it works well with MAMe if I use vjoy or split the wheelbase into 4 seperate virtual directinput devices. I tried compiling Mame with sdl support but the 32button limit remained. Is it possible to have mame accept more than 32 buttons on a single device like pcsx2 can do?

Regards