720 standalone 8-way for DOS

[Wade]

While reading the most played ROMS thread I just realized I totally forgot about one of my favorite games: 720!  I REALLY wanted to play that on my cab but it just didn't play well at all.  I need the 8-way joystick hack but I use DOS mame.  Can someone do me a huge favor and build a DOS mame with the 8-way mod?  Standalone would be great, so I can just set it up as a different emulator in my frontend and not ever have to rebuild it when I update Mame.

Someone please hook me up.  BTW I went through the trouble of building mame once but the EXE ended up being HUGE compared to the release.  Why is that?

I guess if no one has already conveniently done this then I might go through the trouble one day at work when not much is going on.

Thanks,
Wade

[papaschtroumpf]

The exe probably contained additional debug symbol information? Probably a compiler switch issue.

[creatine28]

While reading the most played ROMS thread I just realized I totally forgot about one of my favorite games: 720!  I REALLY wanted to play that on my cab but it just didn't play well at all.  I need the 8-way joystick hack but I use DOS mame.  Can someone do me a huge favor and build a DOS mame with the 8-way mod?  Standalone would be great, so I can just set it up as a different emulator in my frontend and not ever have to rebuild it when I update Mame.

Someone please hook me up.  BTW I went through the trouble of building mame once but the EXE ended up being HUGE compared to the release.  Why is that?

I guess if no one has already conveniently done this then I might go through the trouble one day at work when not much is going on.

Thanks,
Wade

You need to use the the UPX program to compress your .exe down to a smaller size.

Here's the link.
http://upx.sourceforge.net/

[jerryjanis]

I haven't tried it, but check out

http://www.urebelscum.speedhost.com/download.html

I looks like he's got Mame version .69 built for Dos with the 720 hacks.

(By the way, if you find that using an 8-way is unsatisfying, it's worth trying it with an analog joystick.  An analog joystick is able to process all 16-or-so directions, while the 8-way is limited to .

Also, check out my page with instructions on how to actually get it working:

http://www.jstookey.com/arcade/720/720-instructions.php

[Wade]

Thanks guys, I forgot that he added it to analog+!  That solves my problem.

Thanks!
Wade