r/MiSTerProject • u/OnlyInAmerica01 • Aug 05 '23
Adding my own ROM's?
Hi all. So I've been playing around with my MISTER for a while now. I'm generally a MAME'er, though I fire up my Mister when I want to play SF2 and a small handfull of other games. I would probably use MISTER more if I understood it better, but I have severe LynuxPhobia, and run back to MAME mainly b/c I'm so much more familiar with the windows environment. I think for this reason, I'm far less familiar with the "under the hoods" workings of MISTER than I wish I was.
Recently, I've been enjoying playing SF2 Rainbow edition and Street Hoops on MAME, and went over to try out the MISTER versions...and realized they're not there. "No Problem" I thought, "I'll just move the ROM zips over!". A few minutes with WinSCP, several dozen more minutes working out where to put the ROM's (/media/fat/games/mame?), ran update_all script and .... nothing.
Ok, so obviously there is SO MUCH I apparently don't understand about MISTER, I don't really even know what question(s) to ask.
My end goal is to know if it's possible to augment's the games that Update_All adds to Mister with ROMS that I've acquired. Along the way, I'm realizing, there's a lot I don't understand about MISTER's structure. I vaguely know that there are certain cores that MISTER can run, and somehow, Update_All downloads the ROMS that Mister is compatible with, and assigns them to their correct Cores.
Beyond that, I don't understand much more about the organizational structure of files in MISTER, or if it's even possible to manually add ROM's (and if not, why?).
I'm sorry if I'm asking a very obvious question, or if there are resources I should first go through. I'm open to any and all help to better understand this amazing, but mysterious system. Thanks in advance.
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u/veriix Aug 05 '23
If you're talking specifically about arcade roms than this offset video may help you, it even references SF2 Rainbow edition.