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any awesome games i'm missing out on by running an old version of mame?

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Haze:

while I can't really approve of the various patches you've applied to the source I should point out that I've offered 2 update packages since 0.150 to coincide with what I'd considered important bug fixes made since then.
http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2013/10/02/ume-0-150x1/
http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2013/10/08/ume-0-150x2/

Just thought I'd better mention it in case any of the bug-fixes are applicable to your needs.  Rise of the Robots (mentioned in the fixes) is a fighter, but I didn't mention it in the above because a) It's a terrible game, b) It's a prototype so isn't even finished, and c) Performance requirements are very high.

if you don't want the UME (MAME+MESS) functionality these can easily be built with "TARGET=mame"

you can also always get the very latest code from the official SVN or semi-official GIT mirror, although there is always a chance that won't compile.

it's always worth keeping track of the latest progress to see if any changes that matter to you have been made.  I try and do a bit of a write-up for each release.


severdhed:

awesome...thanks.  i'll apply the updates this evening (if i get a chance).  the final thing that made me want to upgrade was the support for vertical.ini and horizont.ini.  i have a 16:9 display, i dont really mind the horizontal games stretched to fill the screen, but vertical games just look stupid like that.  in the past i have manually tweaked ini files for all the vertical games on my favorites list, but that pretty much just sucks.  i found a thread mentioning i could use vertical.ini to keep them from being stretched, but it didn't work with my old version of mame.

i can't wait to try this

DeLuSioNal29:

If you have any gun games working right now you might reconsider updating to .150.  I don't use gun games (yet, although I will in the future once I get my aimtrak installed).  There is an issue with Area 51 for example.  The video is very choppy and it's unplayable.  It has to do with the jaguar.c driver.  Read more here:  http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?87533-MAME-150-some-games-with-chd-s-have-no-video

For now, everything else works great (except for those blasted muffled Donkey Kong sounds and terrible Mario Bros walking sounds).  YMMV.

DeLuSioNaL29




severdhed:

Thanks for the heads up...no guns on this cabinet so that shouldn't be an issue. I still have my mame 124 directory intact in case I run into an issue with 150.

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severdhed:

and don't get me started on those horribly muffled DK sound effects, they drive me crazy.

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