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just a mame rant
DJ_Izumi:
MAME's lack of High Level Emulation, while obviously a HUGE consumer of CPU resources is also an advantage. With HLE emulators, the settings can vary greatly by game and by hardware, some graphics cards or combinations just flat out won't work. As MAME just pushes all the math through the general purpose CPU, this means that the drivers are universal. This also makes porting MAME to other platforms and host CPU languages far, far, FAR easier.
It's a double edged sword really.
smalltownguy:
I've been using the ledutil functions of mame to drive some OEM Atari volcano buttons on my cab, using my minipac. I get the expected blinking on coinup in the Atari games. Pretty slick.
BORIStheBLADE:
I do agree its kind of a pain in the butt, thats why I'm still on .124. But, I will say though I do appreciate the fact that this stuff exists.
jtslade:
Pretty much get a version of MAME you like then DL the full romset from somewhere that matches and stick with that until the day comes that that must have new game that you have been dying for and can't live without gets emulated at near to or full speed and DL the new version of MAME and the full romset all over again.
The trick would be to ask yourself when the "whatsnew.txt" file shows up, you read through the
upgraded to "working" status.. and ask .... "is that THE must have game that will make me have to update my whole romset?"
If the answer is no then your good to go.
I would think most people only do a full rom refresh once or twice a year. With DL's of the update packs in between.
Just a guess.
Ginsu Victim:
Once you have a full romset, it's easy to update just the files that need updated. I haven't updated since .127, even though I did get .131 just to seed, then deleted it.