MAME for iPod Touch/iPhone

[ArtsNFartsNCrafts]

anyone tried it out?

[Turnarcades]

Mate of mine did, says it's cool. I thought about an iphone just for emulation but figured the controls would suck and they have such bullshti system locks. My overclocked N-Gage kicked ass and ran all the games I really wanted but unfortunately it died on me.

Eagerly anticipating the Pandora handheld - pisses on other micro PC's and all the other open-source handhelds.

[JimmyU]

It's not that good.  It really can't run anything before 1990.  The controls really suck as well.  If the iControlPad ever gets released, then it might be worth another look.

[Ginsu Victim]

It really can't run anything before 1990.

You mean after.

[JimmyU]

It really can't run anything before 1990.

You mean after.

That's what I meant.  Also it runs on version 0.37Beta5 so there's a good chance a lot of your ROM's might not work and you'll have to run ClrMAMEPro to fix them.

[saloonstudios]

old thread warning-

How do you convert ROMs to be compatible with an older build of MAME using clrmamepro? I looked the guides and I must have missed it-

[Lewis Black]

Wow, what a weird thread to bump for that particular question... 

I'll bet a forum search for 'Clrmamepro' would yield your answer in the first 10 hits.

[saloonstudios]

Yeah you would think so, but I'm specifically trying to rebuild a romset for use on an iphone, but all the info I've found about clrmamepro says that it needs mame.exe to recompile the list. With an iphone this is not an option, so I'm wondering how to go about doing this. Again, I could be blind and completely missed something that is right in front of my face.

[Lewis Black]

You are going to need to create the romset on the PC then move it to the iPhone.  I highly doubt there will ever be a port of clemamepro to the iphone.

[saloonstudios]

I would also highly doubt that. I was just curious if there were some other steps involved. I will get mame 0.37b5 (0.41) for PC and try it that way. Thanks-

[Turnarcades]

In the end I plumped for a PSP for the best mobile retro gaming solution so had been sorting out collections and sets for that before I finally got myself an iphone 3GS about a month ago.

I've found there are a good selection of emulators out there for it and they're getting better (PS1 is getting better with each PSX4ALL release) and although ZodTTD's emu's are great, I recommend using iMAME4all instead - the latest build supports multiple Wiimotes for control as well as native TV output support via a TV-Out cable and much more configurability than MAME 4iPhone.

Instead of trying to convert romsets (can be a very long and tedious process), you will do better to get on torrents/Google and find the 'GP2X romset' or 'MAME4all romset' which will be the same as the set you need for your iPhone. What I have found though is that many supposedly working games still do not work, or stranger still, you actually need the rom from another build of MAME for it to work (TMNT, Simpsons, MK1+2 come to mind) so what I have done is manually gone through, weeding out the chaff and replacing/modifying the rom for reportedly working games so I have a 'pure' list - this is something I did with my own arcade cabinet so it's no new thing to me!

Right now I'm about half way done with my iPhone MAME. Here's a quck video I just made: