I can't get my MAME to work. PLEASE HELP!!!

[Snake Eyes-Joe Ninja]

I downloaded MAMEUI32 0.129, and I downloaded ROMS that list a certain group of files, but when I go to play the game, it tells me it can't find those files, ERROR, etc.

Can anyone help with this?

[The 9th Sage]

Well, what game is it? It's possible that you have a clone of said game and need the parent ROM set, or in some cases such as NeoGeo you might need a zip of the BIOS ROMs as well.

Also, sometimes a ROM set will change. An old version may be expecting certain files while a newer version may expect something else. See if you can verify it using something like ROM Center (http://www.romcenter.com/) (though you may wish to update to the most current version that you can get here (http://www.zophar.net/mame/mameui.html).