Quick thread to let you all know that MAME has been updated to version 0.88.

Get it here:

MAME 0.88

Thanx Fabien!

[ Edited by Stevo on 2004/11/3 16:24 ]

Not in news?

Woohoo!

Fab is the man!

...

or is it THE Fab




Will the REAL Fab please stand up?

magnetic

Oooooh, yeah!
Thank you very much!
And even sooner than xmame ;)
cheers,
frostwork

It's really cool! :)

I've got only one problem: it doesn't recognize symultaneous keypresses, while on linux everything works fine... any help?

M.

That's weird, i never noticed that here. What key combination does not work for example ?

Here i can play some sf2 games with keyboard and do all special moves, so that means something. ;)

Fab, what about 7-zip support? There are some unofficial MAME versions supporting it, and there are a good SDK at http://www.7-zip.org

So, made some tests on both OSes and here's the result:

xmame 0.86 -on debian-
all works fine

mame 0.88 (and 0.84 as well) -on mos-
- working (symultaneous keypress ok): last blade 2; marvel vs capcom (partially, only if you press strong punch +strong kick to switch characters)
- not working: samurai shodown IV; garou mark of the wolves; vampire savior

guess you figured out I'm a beat 'em up fan...

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Does it happen even if you map arcade buttons to different keys?

Another good work!
10x Fabien!!!

great work, Fab.

are you planning to add the extended GUI to 0.69 ?

Is the latest version of MAME the best for a MorphOS user with a G3 Pegasos, or is there an earlier version that might work more responsively?

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I would say, the older it is, the faster it is, regarding mame core. However regarding mos specific sources this is the contrary. :)

Between 0.37 and 0.88, i think the speed has halved, while morphos code has been improved. This is the price of a better emulation and readability i guess.

Anyway, with a G3, if you want to get the maximum speed, i suggest you use an older version.

Maybe i'll add my latest changes to older versions, if i find them. :)

I usually keep all versions installed, some games work better with this version other games with that version.

Also sometimes older roms become incompatibel with newer mame versions. So you need to get/create a new romset for the new mame version from same game.

regards,
tokai

Uhm, what about modify old mame versions for support newer romsets? :)

timofonic: äh?

Was that a serious question?

When you modify mame to support newer ROM sets.. what will be the result?

Yes, a new MAME version.

And as you can see this happens already all the time.


What is required is Pegasos with G4 1.3GHz or better and altivec support in MAME. I want to play Souldblade with full fps!

regards,
tokai

@tokai

And full hardware 3D support for latest radeons & full OpenGL support

I was mean same games but supporting newer roms of those games :P

yep, timo: that would still mean NEW MAME version

@tokai

WHY???

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Yes, and appearently there's no logical reason.
For example, in Marvel vs Capcom, combinations like MPunch+MKick (to call the 3rd char) or SPunch+SKick (to switch chars in your team) work with no problems whatever the key config; instead none of the supers that involve pressing 2 punches/kicks at once work.
Moreover, in the testing screen double presses are recognized at once...

@timo:

start thinking and you will get an answer to your single word question, okay?

I have the same problem: mame doesn't recognizes 3 key pressed simultaneously.

Ok, i'll try to fix that for the next release. I think i have an idea of the problem. However could you give me a game name and a good combo combination requiring several keys, so that i test properly (for example, how to make the cooperative special move with ken&ryu in mshvc ? :)).

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Samurai Shodown IV (samsho4.zip): all the supers are the same, BACK;FORWARD;DOWN;A+B (i.e the first 2 buttons... )
or, easier, just press a+b to make any character dodge

or in garou (as you have it among the screenshots of your site) c+d in T.O.P. mode (i.e. when the character is flashing) to make a kinda special stuff

or you could try... ok, I'l stop it here