Comments - flash228

After playing around with MAME OS X I can tell by the games list that parent ROMs are necessary to play clones. The parent for Indian Jones is Atarisys1. This has made it that much easier to figure out which ROMs are absolutely necessary and which are minor revisions. At first I was grabbing all ROMs with a given title just in case. Now I grab the parent first and if that is the file I am after, then no need to grab any other files.

Now if I could figure our CHD files? I found a tutorial and actually got Daytona USA to play on MAME OS X, but it was so slow that I deleted it. Is it like this with all CD ROMs for MAME? Or just for MAC?

I recently got into MAME and have successfully played a few games but I am so confused as to the [bios] and multiple sets.

For example, if I want to play Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, there are 4 sets shown, a cocktail set, and German set. I have all 6 sets in my ROMS folder, but which one do I actually 'play'? Clicking set 1 crashed my emulator on exit, and set 2 turns into speed racer as the game clock goes 1000 miles an hour by the time I reach a new level (after the mine cars). Do I click set 4? And is this the same for games that have like 9 sets? Do I click the 9th one?

Thanks in advance!