You have one for vector games called vector.ini and one for specific drivers for gamesĮ.g. Remember no matter what changes you make you cant mess up MAME, just change the setting back or delete the config file and The lines starting with # are comments and are ignored by Mame. These mean yes (1) or no (0) on most commands but check on the setup page as they may refer to a value. The only difference is the 1 or 0 that follows the command. Below you can see the default mame.ini file.Īs you can see most of the lines mimic the command line options use by MAME and you can find detailed explanantions of these commands on the Command Line Options page. Mame will by default look there anyway.ĭouble click your config file and it should open up in notepad. It will keep things alot tidier if you move your new config file to the ini folder.
#Where does mame bios files go zip file
In the box type the name of the game as it appears on the original rom zip file e.g. Right click over this file and select rename. Now right click on a blank area and select paste and you will see a file "copy Open you Mame folder and find the mame.ini file. The easiest way to create a new config file is to simply duplicate the original file and remove/change the stuff you don't want. The settings files are based on the mame.ini file that is created when Mame starts. Now with the latest versions of MAME you can have configuration files for any game or game type you want and when MAME starts it will automatically load the settings for you. The command line version of MAME never had this option so you had to change the command line for each game you wanted different settings on. This is of great use if for instance you are having performance issues with games or say want to run certain games on the Windows desktop and certain in full screen.
In MameUI you have always been able to configure each game individually.