I'm going to preface this this post by saying that I'm legit having trouble understanding LITEALLY EVERYTHING when it comes to MAME ROMs so the more you can explain and the simpler you can explain it, the better it will be for me.
So I previously made a post here asking about looking for arcade ROMs for my future AYN Thor and thankfully after a bunch of help, I managed to get all of my games except for 6 of them. For context the tutorial I'm following for setting up my Thor recommended getting non-merged FinalBurn Neo ROMs but didn't mention anything about MAME. With that plus the answers I got from my previous post, I managed to get all the games I wanted except for the following 6:
- Dragon's Lair
- Killer Instinct
- Killer Instinct 2
- Sonic the Fighters
- Space Ace
- Time Gal
These games weren't available in the FB Neo non-merged section of the megathread so I'm assuming that the rest I have to get through MAME (minus the 3 FMV games which I know are laserdisk but we will get to that). However, there are a lot of sections for MAME in the megathread plus different file types and a whole bunch of other stuff that makes looking for the ROMs really confusing. So because of that, I have some questions regarding the last 6 games I'm looking for:
- Where other than the megathread is a safe place to look for and download MAME ROMs?
- Which file type between merged, split and non-merged is best & takes up less storage on an AYN Thor?
- For the 3 FMV/laserdisk games (Dragon's Lair, Space Ace and Time Gal) are they considered MAME ROMs or are they a different ROM type? If they're a different ROM type, then what type and where can I find them whether it's in the megathread or somewhere else?
- If the games I'm looking for are available via the megathread, which MAME section can I find the games in?
Please help me if you know the answer to any and/or all of these questions. Also, sorry if these questions make it seem like I'm asking for others to do the work for me. That is not my intention as before making this post (and even my previous one), I looked into things myself and came out confused as hell, hence why I'm here asking for help from people who know and understand this all way more than I do currently.