Here is my guide to MAME ROMs and their associated terminology. There are just a few concepts you need to understand and some simple terminology and it all makes sense. I hear these kind of things a lot on various forums around the web and it’s true, MAME ROMs are more complicated than console ROMs, but not hugely so. “Why is this so much more complicated than NES or SNES ROMs?” “I upgraded my version of MAME and now none of my games work” A lot of people get confused about MAME ROMs, they seem so complicated and fragile.
