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How to play old arcade games like 1941 counter Attack on Ubuntu using MAME

Mon, 02/18/2008 - 20:35 — funk

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. It's a program that allows you to recreate the hardware of old Arcade gaming machines like Double Dragon, Altered Beast, 1941 (and the like), Golden Axe and many others.
In this tutorial I will explain how to install 1941 for MAME and gxmame which is a front-end for MAME.

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1. Installing the emulator

sudo apt-get install xmame-common

2. Installing the front-end - gxmame

wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gxmame/gxmame_0.35beta2-1_i386.deb

you can also get gxmame here if the previous links is down.

to install gxmame run:

sudo dpkg -i gxmame_0.35beta2-1_i386.deb

Now that the emulator and the front-end is installed, we can look for ROMS, that are the actual games. I will take 1941 as an example.

3. Installing 1941

go to http://www.rom-world.com/dl.php?name=MAME and look for games you like. Or for 1941 do:

wget http://server2.rom-world.com/3856720361/MAME/1941.zip

Copy this archive to the appropriate directory:

cp 1941.zip /usr/share/games/xmame/roms/1941.zip

4. Playing the game

select applications > games > GXMame. In your left pane select available. 1941 Counter Attack (World) should appear. Select it and click on play game to start the game.

If all went well the game will start.

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All you have to do now is tweak the controls and toggle fullscreen

cheers

Comments

Sun, 12/14/2008 - 00:47 — bruce (not verified)

i have installed the emulator and the front end ......... however i still cannot seem to copy the downloaded files to the location /usr/share/games/xmame/roms......
can some one please tell me how so i can play some of the games.....

i have tried changing the file permission but i still an not able to copy the zip files across either using cut and past or the terminal command line?????????

bruce

Thu, 08/05/2010 - 05:06 — Peter Nilsson (not verified)

If you change your user to root then you will get access to any folder on your machine.

Open a terminal and write:

su -

If you use ubuntu then you must change the roots password first with

sudo passwd

and then su to root

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