Find or download the file named from a reputable MAME ROM set or BIOS pack (like those hosted on the Internet Archive ). Do not extract the zip file.
: This creates the "dl-1425.bin not found" error that plagues many modern users. The qsound-hle.zip Workaround
The issue for emulation is that QSound wasn't just a software algorithm. It required a specific Digital Signal Processor (DSP) chip. MAME cannot legally redistribute the firmware for that chip. So, they leave it out.
The MAME emulator (and related forks like FinalBurn Neo) expects a zip file named exactly qsound-hle.zip placed in the roms directory. Inside that zip, there must be several files, including:
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