The most common frustration for MAME users is downloading a game, loading it up, and seeing the dreaded red error message: "Required files are missing."
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As MAME researchers discover new information about the original hardware—perhaps realizing a sound chip was running at a slightly different clock speed, or discovering that a specific "World" version of a game actually required a different graphics chip layout—they update the MAME core. The most common frustration for MAME users is
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