Systems Community Reference Site Title Search Title: System: Region: MESS Emulator Tutorial by Tim 'Tooth Protector' Warner (timandsusan2002 at earthlink dot net) Table of Contents • • • • Introduction This tutorial will get you up and running in no time flat, playing games from a variety of different gaming platforms on your Microsoft Windows-based computer by using the outstanding (MESS) emulator. In this tutorial, we are going to focus on learning to play GCE Vectrex games by using MESS. However, the procedures outlined in this tutorial apply to any of the game platforms that are supported by MESS. Part One: Obtaining the Necessary Files To play GTE Vectrex games on your PC by using MESS, you'll need the following files: • MESS: As of this writing, the most recent version of MESS is 0.81. • Vectrex BIOS ROM: This file is required to play Vectrex games with the MESS emulator. • Vectrex Game ROMs: Vectrex game ROMs have the extension.GAM or.BIN.

• Vectrex Screen Overlays: Vectrex screen overlays have the extensions.PNG and.ART. Visit the following Web site to download the latest version of MESS: Visit the following Web site to obtain Vectrex (and other) MESS BIOS ROMs: Note that you must have the appropriate BIOS ROM image for any game system that you want to access with MESS. Visit the following Web site to download Vectrex screen overlays: Visit the following Web site to download Vectrex game ROMs: Of course, judicious use of Google or one of the myriad peer-to-peer file-sharing applications should get you where you need to be as regards obtaining BIOS ROMs and game ROMs. Your first step is to use or some other ZIP file-management utility to unpack all of your files. Begin by creating a folder named MESS on your hard drive and unpacking the MESS emulator files into it. Microsoft Shutdown Patch 98se.

After the file extraction your MESS folder should look something like the following: Next, you'll want to place your ZIPPED Vectrex BIOS ROM in the MESS BIOS folder. Note that the actual BIOS ROM (which in the case of Vectrex is actually called SYSTEM.IMG) must remain in your VECTREX.ZIP archive file. Place your overlay files into the MESS ARTWORK folder. The VECTREX.ZIP overlay archive file that you downloaded earlier should remain zipped and placed, whole and entire, into the appropriate folder. Finally, place your Vectrex game ROMs into the MESS SOFTWARE folder. Part Two: Configuring MESS To begin, open your MESS folder and double-click MESSGUI.EXE to start up MESS.

If you are wondering: Where are my systems? Where are my game ROMs? Then don't worry about it too much. We have to instruct MESS as to where everything is.