Arcade games in the loader: MAME in RetroArch
WiiLabel's RetroArch now comes with MAME 2000: Street Fighter II, Metal Slug, Pac-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… Over 1,500 arcade games that are logged to your account with your play time, and your friends see you “playing now”.
Put the games in roms/arcade, each one in its .zip as it is (don't unzip it). In RetroArch, choose “Load Content” and pick the .zip: WiiLabel recognises it by the game's name (sf2.zip is Street Fighter II) and logs the session.
- It's MAME 2000 (MAME version 0.37b5), the one that fits on the Wii: the .zip files have to be from that version. Ones from a newer MAME often won't start.
- If a game is a variant (the Japanese version, for example), it also needs the original game's .zip in the same folder.
- Insert coin is Select (− on the Wiimote) and start is Start (+).
- The catalogue adds over 1,500 arcade games, almost all with artwork. In Games you can filter by “Arcade”.
- WiiLabel doesn't include games or say where to get them: use copies of boards you own.