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| jimmer:
--- Quote from: Haze on July 09, 2013, 07:49:32 pm ---technically you should be editing mame.lst, the file you're editing is generated during the compile. --- End quote --- OK thanks. Previously I looked into making a smaller compilation. I couldn't work out how to do/use tinymame. It would be nice if I could simply do a hatchet job on one of the MAME files. Do you have any advice? |
| Haze:
tbh it's a bit messy at the moment, there are dependencies you probably won't see / realise until you find things not building or working. there have been various discussions about this on mamedev as of late, including talk / experiments towards improving the dependency detection so that devs can make easier use of the tiny build function (and likewise mobile targets etc.) but right now you really need to know what cores you need, and what drivers are related to the ones you want ;-) There are no actual runtime benefits to cutting out games tho, any modern OS will only load in what it needs and there is absolutely no performance difference. A good frontend can filter things you don't want to see by driver already (which is significantly easier than modding thing not to compile) The only reason you'd actually need a reduced build is if you need a quicker compile because you're doing development on a limited box. |
| jimmer:
I can't remember what I was trying to do (probably something that I now know how to do properly) but getting a compilation error after an hour of waiting put me off. Much rather have a fail after 30s :) The main use would be if I'm helping someone else set Mame up, and like me they only want 5 or 6 games. |
| Haze:
--- Quote from: jimmer on July 11, 2013, 05:14:44 am ---I can't remember what I was trying to do (probably something that I now know how to do properly) but getting a compilation error after an hour of waiting put me off. Much rather have a fail after 30s :) The main use would be if I'm helping someone else set Mame up, and like me they only want 5 or 6 games. --- End quote --- Still don't really see the benefit.. If you're going to be giving them MAME with 5 or 6 games it doesn't really matter what you give them. If you give them a build with 5-6 games supported they can run those 5-6 games, if you give them a build with everything supported then they can still run those 5-6 games (the rest won't show up if they don't have the ROMs) The advantage of giving them the full thing of course is that they can later decide they want to drop some extra roms in, whereas if you give them a build reduced to 5-6 games that's all they'll be able to run with it, ever. |
| Howard_Casto:
Gotta agree with Haze on this one... there is some benefit in adding hacked roms into mame (the old misfit mame, ect) but taking out games/drivers doesn't really make any sense. Just add the few games you want to play manually to a front-end... the end user will never interact with mame's command line directly. |
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