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Arcade-GameStaon
4.1 Copying ROM-Files / installing games
Special case: MAME [Arcade ROMS]:
The MAME emulaon-system
provides the emulaon of Arcade-
Slot-Machines.
The dierence to the normal game
-consoles is that the games are
not in single elements (cartridges,
CDs) but spread over mulple
chips.
To emulate a specic slot-
machine, a complete set of dumps
of every build-in chip is needed.
If you won‘t read out the data of a slot-machine by yourself, but obtain the data from
another source, you will encounter the term „Romset“.
This term has prevailed and is used for a summary of mulple ROM-Files:
To save disk space, a ROM-File might not contain every needed chip-copies.
The slot-machines build-in chips are oen used in mulple machines.
Therefore, just a single copy of the mulple used chip is provided in a Romset.
That is the reason why some ROM-Files can not be played by the emulator.
Some ROM-Sources just don‘t provide complete ROM-Files.
If you don‘t read out the data by yourself, please consider the documentaon of your
ROM-Source.
They oen describe how to complete your ROM-File.
The Arcade-Emulators of the RetroPie-System are prepared for dierent Romsets.
You can nd further informaons about this and where to copy the ROM-Files in the
RetroPie-Documentaon here:
hps://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs