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 “ Select Game” 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.Īrcade 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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