help with MAME / MESS

[nippur72]

I am unable to make MAME/MESS run the VIC-20 emulation, I have the following files in the rom folder:

• vc20.zip
  vic20.zip
  vic20i.zip
  vic20swe.zip
  vic64s.zip
  vic1001.zip

but still MAME complains there are missing ROM or CHD files... (Using MAME 0.221)

I would like to compare it to the other emulators available, and see how much accurate it is.

[orion70]

Aren't ROMs supposed to be downloaded separately? I know they are in other emulators, like some VICE incarnations (Linux ports for example).

[nippur72]

Yes the ROM are separate for copyright reasons, I have downloaded them from other sources but they don't work. Using the one from VICE is not going to work unless perhaps I rename them.