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MAME - General Guide

Where to put the games

Games that you want to run with MAME should be put under the retrodeck/roms/mame/ directory.

MAME Standalone Folders

MAME Standalone comes with several folders for various assets and files.

Configuration Folders

CFG

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/config/mame/cfg

INI

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/config/mame/ini

INP

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/config/mame/inp

Data Folders

Cheat

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/cheat

DATS

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/dats

Folders

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/folders

Hash

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/hash

Plugin-Data

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/plugin-data

Plugins

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/plugins

Asset Folders

Artwork

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/artwork

Artwork-preview

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/artwork-preview

Bosses

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/bosses

Cabinets

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/cabinets

Comments

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/comments

Covers

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/covers

Cpanel

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/cpanel

Crosshair

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/crosshair

Ends

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/ends

Flyers

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/flyers

Fonts

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/fonts

Game Over

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/gameover

Howto

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/howto

Icons

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/icons

Language

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/language

Logo

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/logo

Marquees

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/marquees

PCB

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/pcb

Samples

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/samples

Scores

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/scores

Select

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/select

Share

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/share

Software

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/software

Titles

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/titles

UI

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/ui

Versus

~/.var/app/net.retrodeck.retrodeck/data/mame/assets/versus