Roms

[m3rlin]

hi, i have plenty of old games, that i run in windows, using Mame32
all the roms are in a directory called "roms" and all the games are zipped.In windows we just run the Mame32, and we don't need to unpack anything,it does everthing 4 you! Im trying to run this same games in linux but i can't make it work, here what happends:
i do xmame <game.zip>
and as a return:
SDL: Info: SDL initialized
info: trying to parse: /usr/games/lib/xmame/xmamerc
info: trying to parse: /home/morphius/.xmame/xmamerc
info: trying to parse: /usr/games/lib/xmame/xmame-SDLrc
info: trying to parse: /home/morphius/.xmame/xmame-SDLrc
fuzzy name compare, running p47j
info: trying to parse: /usr/games/lib/xmame/rc/p47jrc
info: trying to parse: /home/morphius/.xmame/rc/p47jrc
Mouse/Trakball selected.
loading rom 0: p47j_3.bin
loading rom 1: p47j_1.bin
loading rom 2: p47j_9.bin
loading rom 3: p47j_19.bin
loading rom 4: p47j_5.bin
loading rom 5: p47j_6.bin
loading rom 6: p47j_7.bin
loading rom 7: p47j_23.bin
loading rom 8: p47j_12.bin
loading rom 9: p47j_16.bin
loading rom 10: p47j_27.bin
loading rom 11: p47j_18.bin
loading rom 12: p47j_26.bin
loading rom 13: p47j_20.bin
loading rom 14: p47j_21.bin
loading rom 15: p47j_10.bin
loading rom 16: p47j_11.bin
loading rom 17: prom.14m
done
p47j_3.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_1.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_9.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_19.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_5.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_6.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_7.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_23.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_12.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_16.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_27.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_18.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_26.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_20.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_21.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_10.bin NOT FOUND
p47j_11.bin NOT FOUND
prom.14m NOT FOUND
ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.
what could be wrong here?
Thanks for all the help

[sharth]

might not have unzip installed

[Hitokiri_X]

with mame,some roms with only work with a certain versions.Try it out different ones and you might have better luck.