Problem playing a few arcade games

[90sfan]

I'm trying to get Area 51, Maximum Force and The Simpsons Bowling arcade games working. I tried different cores on RetroArch though I got an error saying "romset is unknown" MAME won't even recognize the games. How do I get these games to work?

 

[MidTV]

I have no experience running MAME on Wii U, either Native or through RetroArch. I would use MAME through vWii, and have a forwarder on Wii U Menu.

 

[90sfan]

I tried running those games in MAME on the vWii, but they don't show up on my list of games.

 

[MidTV]

I tried running those games in MAME on the vWii, but they don't show up on my list of games.

I don't have access to the Wii U rn as my little brother is playing Fortnite, but I will use the Wii in my room to test the mentioned games on MAME through the Wii. Performance should be the same as vWii.

Also, what have you tried to run these games? Which Retroarch cores/MAME builds?

 

[90sfan]

For Retroarch cores, I mostly tried FinalBurn Neo, FB Alpha 2012 and MAME 2003. They either booted me back to the main menu or came up with the aforementioned error code.

As far as MAME goes, I was using MAME Wii, which wouldn't recognize the files at all.

 

[MidTV]

I know this sounds stupid, but make sure the MAME.ini file has the rompath set to the location of your ROMS.

 

[90sfan]

Alright, so I specified the location of my roms through mame.ini. However, they won't show up on MAME Wii and I don't know which core to use as far as Retroarch goes. I tried cores like MAME 2003 and they all come back with a configuration override.