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Meaning, download its parent and all of its orphans.

Still getting errors? Try downloading all versions of the game you're trying to play.

Learn more about parents and orphans in Understanding the ROM structure.

Make sure you have the parent of the game you're trying to play.

I explain this process in Loading a game.

Did you scan for new games? Go back to the вЂњ Select GameвЂќ screen and click on the Scan ROMs button.

Is it a NeoGeo game? Make sure neogeo.zip is in the ROMs folder.

Did you rename or extract your arcade ROMs? You must never do that! If you did then that's why they're not working.

Double-check to make sure your arcade ROMs are indeed in the ROMs folder.

Look for your game in the unavailable games list.

Make sure the game is supported by FinalBurn Alpha! It doesn't support everything.

The first step in troubleshooting this is to run through the following checklist: These old ROMs may not work with FinalBurn Alpha. This problem gets more complicated with the reality that pretty much every ROM site distributes only old ROMs. As soon as an arcade game has a better ROM dump, the emulator is updated to support the newer dump. This is happening because the authors of arcade emulators are purists who insist on everything to be perfect. Upon loading a game, FinalBurn Alpha might slap you with an error window stating that files are missing. *If your games are not being detected or giving you 'not found' errors, read the next section. To load the game, double-click on the version you want to play.

Upon expanding the game you can see the parent and all its orphans:.

FinalBurn Alpha consolidated the parent and all orphans into a single list item for each game. Currently, in the roms folder I have all 24 ROMs for them. In my example, I have both the Dungeons & Dragons games.

If successful, your ROMs would appear like shown below.

Click on the Scan ROMs button:Дepending on the amount of ROMs you have, this could take a few seconds or a minute.

Next, you'll arrive at the вЂ Select GameвЂќ screen.

Depending on the version of FinalBurn Alpha you have, after selecting Load game you may be prompted with the вЂњ Edit ROMs pathsвЂќ window:Д¬lick the Browse button and select the path where your arcade ROMs reside.

First, go to Game > Load game, or press the F6 key:

Next, we need to have FinalBurn Alpha scan your ROMs folder for new games.

(Remember, the ROMs folder is created after the first time you open FinalBurn Alpha.)

Move your arcade ROMs into FinalBurn Alpha's ROMs folder.

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Before we do anything, I must first inform you to never extract or rename the zip file of an arcade ROM! The exact filename is how FinalBurn Alpha detects it.

You must never rename or extract an arcade ROM! Its exact filename is how FinalBurn Alpha can detect it. You'll notice that all arcade ROMs are abbreviated.

If you want to play an orphan of a game, you need to download both the orphan ROM and the parent ROM.If you want to play the parent of a game, you need to download the parent ROM.This is how all arcade emulators work with arcade ROMs.

In the picture below, I'm showing you how this parent/orphan relationship applies to actual ROMs in the roms folder. All the games listed under it are the orphans. The first game at the top of the list is the parent ROM. This list is all the games that FinalBurn Alpha supports. Under вЂњ Select GameвЂќ you'll see a really long list of games: Go to Game > Load game, and click Show unavailable - as shown to the right. I want you to open up FinalBurn Alpha's ROM list for this explanation. However, you should first read the sections below about ROM structures.ДЄrcade emulation works differently than the emulation of other video game systems. I explain this process in the section about loading games. Next, you need to have FinalBurn Alpha scan the roms folder. Place all your arcade ROMs in the roms folder.

When you close FinalBurn Alpha after first opening it, you'll see all the new folders and the ROMs folder. It will also try scanning for new ROMs, but you can cancel that. In the initial opening, you'll be prompted with a couple screens. FinalBurn Alpha will automatically generate all the necessary folders after the first time you open it. What you need to do is open FinalBurn Alpha - double-click on, or if you have 32-bit Windows. There's a detail in FinalBurn Alpha's installation that can be confusing: where do you put the ROMs? This is confusing because when you first extract FinalBurn Alpha from its zip file, you'll see a folder like toward the right with four files and no sub folders (particularly, no roms folder).

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