AAE Emulation Tutorial

Specs used

To write this tutorial I’m using the following Windows environment:

Edition	Windows 10 Pro
Version	1511
OS Build	10586.164
Product ID	00331-10000-00001-AA695
Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5500 CPU @ 2.40Ghz
Installed RAM	16,0 GB
System type	64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Below are the details about the emulator being used:

Emulator Name	AAE (Another Arcade Emulator)
Version	Alpha Build 87
Release Date	28-SET-2008
Home	http://pages.suddenlink.net/aae/

Installation

Follow steps below to install the emulator:

1. Create a folder anywhere in your system (e.g. C:\emulators\AAE)
2. Download and extract aae092808.zip file in the folder created in previous step
3. Download also the updates #1 and #2 (aaeu1.zip and aaeu2.zip) and extract them in the same folder. It will ask to overwrite existing files. Answer yes to all of them

Execution

Follow steps below to start the emulator:

1. Find and execute “aae.exe” file in the folder where you extracted the files in the previous section. The following screen should appear:

2. Press “TAB” to show emulator options. Here you can redefine keyboard, mouse, game, video and sound configuration. Joystick is currently not supported. The emulator options should looks like the following:

3. Press “ESC” to close emulator options

4. Select a game by moving the keyboard arrows (e.g: Armor Attack)

5. Press “1” to start the game. The error below should be displayed:

6. This error happens because you have no roms required to start the game. You need to place MAME zipped (it doesn’t work with 7z format) roms in the “roms” folder. Or if you have the roms anywhere else in your file system you can open “aae.ini” file in any text editor and change the value highlighted as follows (you put a relative path or a full path to your MAME rom folder):

If you still having this error after doing step above, please read “AAE All Game Roms List.txt” file in the AAE emulator folder to check the roms the emulator is expecting to run. You may need to do some renaming in the roms to make it work.

7. If you haven’t changed any default configuration the selected game should be launched and you can press “5” to insert a coin and then press “1” to start the game. You can move with arrow keys and fire with CTRL.