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garnerb350:

I have heard of different people doing this, and I'm unsure myself. Can somebody lead me into the right direction on this?  I've noticed that certain roms work with MAME version A, and other roms work with version B.... I have version 114  and I am running Maximus Arcade for my front end. Is there a way that i be able to run multiple versions of MAME ( say ver.128)  on MArcade? In a nutshell, Can i run two versions of MAME on my front end.

OR does anyone know what version of MAME works the best ( run all  roms correctly? :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy:)

Todd H:

Check out multimame...

http://multimame.wikidot.com/

Visitor Q:

Compiled Version of Mame is the Best!

You can run multiple versions but one is really all you should need IMO.


Hoopz:


--- Quote from: Visitor Q on December 11, 2008, 12:14:27 pm ---Compiled Version of Mame is the Best!

You can run multiple versions but one is really all you should need IMO.


--- End quote ---
As the OP said, some games/roms run better are older versions of Mame.  Using Maws, you can see the last time a rom was updated and a lot of times, it's best to use that version of Mame for that particular rom.  I think a lot of people use an older PC for their cabinets and some times the newer versions of Mame push the envelope as far as performance. 

You can go back and look at some of the changes that Mamedev did to the source and how it affected older PCs.  The sound changes, the bezel/overlay changes, etc have affected people's machines and is a reason that they use multiple versions. 

To the OP, yes you can run multiple versions through a front end.  I don't use MA so I can't say exactly how to do it there.  Here's a link that I found that may help:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=81059.0

And Multimame, as Todd H mentioned, is great at this.

Visitor Q:

To me multiple versions is like splitting hairs.

I have a new PC, I upgrade Mame to the newest version every time one comes out and I have never had an issue even on my older PC.

Results may vary; I can only speak from my own experience.

I mean I can see using stuff like Zinc but that as far as my multi Mame goes if you even want to count that.


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