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Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 5:53 pm
by jfml1974

I have done two clean installations from 0 and there are cores that no longer download 1941...42...43 and another.


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 7:23 pm
by lroby74

Same thing for me and a my friend. Anyone can help?


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 8:02 pm
by jfml1974

Could it be that the servers are down or something similar?


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 8:13 pm
by remax

It just that the archive.org page it was downloading roms from is now requesting to be connected to allow download (i think it's a archive.org thing when there is a high volume of downloads on a page)... According to the github, workarounds a looked into, but until then you have to download these roms manually from https://archive.org/download/mame-merged/mame-merged/


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 9:10 pm
by Missus

god help the internet archive.

mirror(s) mirror(s) on the wall. please preserve the data of... all!


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2024 3:28 am
by akeley

God's one thing, but please donate to archive.org if you can as well. It's the best site on the internet, and a distant memory of how things were before the web got all locked down by big corpos.


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2024 1:27 pm
by sLpFhaWK

So I've also done this numerous times and now on the archive none of the files are available to download as they all have locks on them. This doesn't appear to be a good sign at the moment.


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:50 am
by jfml1974

Something that does not fit a project so complicated and so beautiful but with files very susceptible to blocking... I can't get Wwf to download either... I got a full set version mame 0.250


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:37 am
by neogeo81
jfml1974 wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 5:53 pm

I have done two clean installations from 0 and there are cores that no longer download 1941...42...43 and another.

you choose the worst time to do clean installs...


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:15 am
by FPGA64

No auto install will work. The archives that are pulled from were all flagged log in required, possibly due to being flagged as high bandwidth. When this occurs the update script cannot log in and so nothing can be pulled. The Arcade games use merged mame roms. So any Modern, the cuurent being .269, merged set should work fine.

The archives are not locked, you just simply need to create an account if you want to manually pull from archive


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:01 pm
by Bas

If it's of any help I'd happily provide mirror space for such files.


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 2:01 pm
by zakk4223

It's being worked on.


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:40 pm
by sLpFhaWK
neogeo81 wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:37 am
jfml1974 wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 5:53 pm

I have done two clean installations from 0 and there are cores that no longer download 1941...42...43 and another.

you choose the worst time to do clean installs...

haha I know! I created an account and used JDownloader to download the entire rom set, so I just had to copy directly from my PC to the SD card, so that's not bad but now I can back these up on my NAS.

LMK What's needed to make a MIRROR and if I Can do it I'll upload them.


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:03 pm
by jfml1974
sLpFhaWK wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:40 pm
neogeo81 wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:37 am
jfml1974 wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 5:53 pm

I have done two clean installations from 0 and there are cores that no longer download 1941...42...43 and another.

you choose the worst time to do clean installs...

haha I know! I created an account and used JDownloader to download the entire rom set, so I just had to copy directly from my PC to the SD card, so that's not bad but now I can back these up on my NAS.

LMK What's needed to make a MIRROR and if I Can do it I'll upload them.

Is it possible to download everything from the links from the .org? If not, please do so here privately, thanks.


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:46 pm
by zakk4223

Should be fixed


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 11:16 pm
by 16Bittt

Any update on this? Is it ‘fixed’? I’ve been hesitant to update..


Re: Problem downloading cores 1942...44.. and others

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 3:12 am
by zakk4223

It is fixed. And even when it wasn't, it didn't delete anything so it was perfectly safe to update