Weeeellllll, I spent the better part of 2 days tinkering with things....
There are a lot of broken links out there, RomCenter for one was giving
all sorts or errors and missing info warnings so I had to get a version that was a bit older.
Got PCMame (finally) but no instructions as far as I could see
(what do you do? just drop it on the SD Card through ASync?)
Menneisyys suggests downloading the PC version of MAME to test out your ROMs - a great suggestion and invaluable info relating to using the zipped folder and
NOT decompressing the ROM, BTW...
So I find Centiped and load it up on the MAME PC version, get it to the "coin" screen and so far, not one key gets it to start - go figure. So I install an old-old version of ROMCenter to fix the Centiped ROM, but it has not been going well or easy.....
....things are not quite the same as in the Menneisyys Guide.
....not that I don't like a challenge, it just seems a bit much having a RL non-programming job - ya know?
....then to hear that a lot of the ROMs Don't work even after the fix - well, it's quite frustrating and now the wife is telling me I have to help my 16 yr old with chemistry, like I wasted their weekend, hooboy....
Thanx, but Sure there's not a better way?