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| TheShaner:
Awesome, this is lots of good info. After looking into it, compiling is very easy, and kicks some pretty serious butt because you can tweak the build to suit your needs. Very cool. So I went ahead and compiled my own MAME the other day, and it worked pretty good, but it had a few issues. After knowing a little more now, I am going to try again, but am going to compile with groovymame diff's. I just have one question pertaining to the compiling: After I compile, am I just using the executable? Or should the output have all the folders I need in it for a fresh install? |
| Cynicaster:
Authentic, shmauthentic—I don’t know how anybody can stand not having high score support on their cabinet. Not only is it handy as heck for tracking your scores, but it can make for some fun competition as different people swing in to try to gain the crown in certain games. For example, my brother has a handful of high scores on my cabinet—some of them on top-shelf classics—and it’s fun to try to knock them down; it gives me something to strive for rather than just chasing myself all the time. What happens is that the three letter spaces at the top of those saved score lists become prime real estate, and I love the feeling of stealing it from others after a hard fought battle. Just a few weeks ago I re-claimed the Rush N Attack title from my brother, after his initials sat at the top spot for a full year. I haven’t been so lucky with dethroning him in Centipede and Burgertime, however. Another thing I like about it is when I fire up some obscure random game and see some long lost score that I posted in the past but completely forgot about; kinda cool in a “time capsule” sort of way. |
| TheShaner:
Good stuff in this thread. I ended up just grabbing a precompiled copy of groovymame. It not only has made my motion smoother, but also has nonag, highscores and no loading screen patches in it. Killer build. Thanks for the advice. |
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