Mame 2014 Reference Set - Mame 0.159 Roms- Chds... Online

The "MAME 2014 Reference Set" is a curated, non-volatile collection of arcade game dumps that corresponds to the MAME 0.159 source code, which was released in late 2014. Unlike the rolling "rolling" or "latest" MAME sets that change daily, a reference set is frozen in time.

ROMs (Read-Only Memory) are the actual program code dumped from arcade PCBs. For MAME 0.159, these are ZIP files containing binaries, graphics data, and sound samples.

Many arcade systems (Neo Geo, CPS-1, CPS-2, Nintendo Super System) require BIOS files. For MAME 0.159, place neogeo.zip , cps1.zip , cps2.zip , etc., directly in the /roms/ folder. MAME 2014 Reference Set - MAME 0.159 ROMs- CHDs...

These are the small files containing the data from the arcade machine's circuit board chips. They include the game logic, graphics, and sound data. For version 0.159, a full "Non-Merged" set typically contains thousands of files but is relatively small in terms of gigabytes.

The MAME 2014 Reference Set includes:

While the ROMs are small, the CHD collection for 0.159 can exceed several hundred gigabytes.

Modern MAME (0.250+) requires a powerful CPU (3GHz+ per core) for games like NBA Jam or Cruis'n USA . MAME 0.159 can run those same games on a $35 Raspberry Pi 3 or an old Pentium laptop. The "MAME 2014 Reference Set" is a curated,

CHDs (Compressed Hunks of Data) are required for larger, more modern games that used hard disks or optical media (e.g., Killer Instinct Gauntlet Legends