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MESS - whats the difference?
Haze:
--- Quote from: gman314 on October 09, 2012, 11:32:17 pm ---Will Headkaze's compiler also work for MESS? I used it to successfully compile MAME 127 about 4 years ago.
I have been trying to follow the steps on the official MESS page, but I cant get the command line to "verify" my install of mingw (like the instructions say). :dunno
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It might, it certainly could, there's no reason it shouldn't be able to. If it actually allows it is another matter altogether.
But just compiling MAME / MESS isn't hard, it's by far the easiest project I've ever encountered online when it comes to building your own.
Grab the packages on mamedev.org, follow the basic instructions and there you go. MESS is even packaged with MAME now so all you need do is adjust the line you type to set it going.
I'm not a big fan of these automated compilers because if people can't follow the basic steps then they're probably not the type of people we want making changes to the source in the first place, some of the popular patches are incredibly high risk in terms of overall stability.
Gray_Area:
Aeons past, there was a feature to turn info screens off, that was disabled by default. I see no issue with having it resurrected. Simply ignore those who come and ask about things they apparently have turned off the info for and forgotten they did it.