For users who manage large collections, the correct placement of qsound_hle.zip can be a point of confusion for ROM management tools like Romcenter. Even if the file is in the correct location and games work perfectly in MAME, tools like Romcenter may still flag games as "incomplete". This is a known issue with how these tools classify device ROMs vs. BIOS files. A Romcenter developer acknowledged this: “This behavior is not correct. I fixed something similar in the next version”.
Subsequent versions continued to refine this. With MAME 0.201, the official ROMsets began listing both qsound.zip and qsound_hle.zip . However, this update created a split. While qsound.zip continued to be supported for legacy compatibility, the new, required file became qsound_hle.zip . This is why many users trying to play classic Capcom games with a modern MAME build encounter the missing file error. As one community member noted, “If you can’t source it, check your MAME romset for qsound.zip and see if it contains the dl-1425.bin file. If it does then make a copy of qsound.zip and rename it to qsound_hle.zip”. The files are internally identical, but the emulator is looking for a specific name. dl-1425.bin qsound-hle.zip
Name this new archive file (or qsound-hle.zip , depending on your specific emulator's error message). For users who manage large collections, the correct
dl-1425.bin (24576 bytes) - NOT FOUND (qsound_hle) BIOS files
If you have obtained a correct dl-1425.bin (verify its size is typically 32KB or 64KB and the SHA1 matches known good values):