Bought a New RBI Arcade Game

[IHumpMyRBIGame]

Hey everyone, you got a new guy here. I have been a fan of RBI for a long time like you. My brother and I bought a Arcade stand up version from a Vintage arcade place in Southern California where we live. It should arrive in about 2 weeks and soon we will kick some ass.

I want to play it now and I'm trying to setup this rom on my xp cpu. I get into the command prompt and type in MAME rbibb and it doesn't recognize it. I know I am being retarded...help a tard out for a minute! PLEASE

Thanks and we look forward to chatting...

[JoeDirt]

What's the name of the place you bought it from?

[Gantry]

Welcome humpty-hump, good to have another member!

As for MAME, have you tried downloading the GUI (aka non command-line version) version of MAME?  Also, did you put rbibb into your roms directory?

[nightwulf]

it doesn't recognize it.

Happy to help, but we need more verbose error messages to work with.

Nightwulf

[IHumpMyRBIGame]

It says

MAME is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

The problem is that I don't know what I am doing...
so it has to be me.

[Gantry]

Try double-clicking mame from my computer, sounds like you are running it from the wrong place...

[nightwulf]

Won't be of any help unless he's running a frontend. MAME dropped the default GUI, and is a command-line driven program now (unless something's changed recently).

Basically, you're not in the directory that you saved (or unzipped, or whatever) the MAME executable in. You need to change to that directory first.

From the MAME FAQ:


S08. How do I launch MAME? (DOS and Windows)

To launch the MAME in Windows, open up a command prompt. You can find it either from under Start Menu - Programs, or you can simply select Run and type command.com (Windows 95 / 98 / ME) or cmd.exe (Windows NT / 2000 / XP) into the dialog box. Go to your MAME directory (for example C:\MAME) by typing cd \mame and type a command with this syntax:

   mame <gamename> <parameters>

The parameters are not required, so to just launch a game, type for example:

   mame rastan

This will run the game Rastan with the default settings. If you want to specify parameters, try this for example:

   mame rastan -effect scan50

This will run the game Rastan with the 50% scanlines effect. For a complete list of parameters, see the WINDOWS.TXT and MSDOS.TXT files that accompany MAME. You may also modify the default settings by editing the mame.ini file (created with -createconfig, or for short, -cc) or in the DOS version, the mame.cfg file (automatically created).



Nightwulf

[fightonusc]

Hey Humper...

Good work on securing the RBI Arcade game. Like JoeDirt, I'd be interested to know where you bought the game from.

Also, to blantantly pimp, some of us SoCal RBI players are trying to get a league/tournament/something together. A few of us got together last weekend in Echo Park to play some RBI, and we're looking at another get-together sometime in the next few weeks. I have a Yahoo! group set up for the SoCal RBI-types at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/westcoastrbibaseball/, and feel free to sign up if you're interested in finding out when we're playing again. We're always looking for more players...

[IHumpMyRBIGame]

I picked the game up from www.vintagearcade.net talk to Gene he will hook you up. It cost $1200 for a brand new one.

Ok I got the point where I can get into the mame folder. Now it says

Error required files are missing, the game cannot be run
the files they say are missing which it seems that I have are
rbi-prg and rbi-cha
I dl'd both and they are in my roms folder in the mame folder

Thanks for the help guys...

[nightwulf]

Error required files are missing, the game cannot be run
the files they say are missing which it seems that I have are
rbi-prg and rbi-cha
I dl'd both and they are in my roms folder in the mame folder

ROMs should be zipped, with the filename matching the "rom name" used by MAME (in this case, rbibb.zip). I'm guessing your file with the ROMs is named something other than rbibb.zip, or you decompressed the file.

If you just can't live without decompressing the file, they need to be in a subdirectory of the roms directory with the same name as the "rom name" used by MAME.

So, in your MAME directory, you should have either ...

roms\rbibb.zip (containing rbi-prg and rbi-cha)

OR

roms\rbibb\rbi-prg
roms\rbibb\rbi-cha

Nightwulf

[IHumpMyRBIGame]

Ahhhhh it works...SWEEET! Thanks you guys.

[IHumpMyRBIGame]

Now the difficult part is figuring out what button does what...

[nightwulf]

Now the difficult part is figuring out what button does what...

Push TAB while in-game to bring up the menus. You can redefine all the inputs from there. If you're using a joystick, you can configure the buttons here as well, but if I remember correctly you must enable the joystick with a command line option.

Nightwulf