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SirPoonga:
I am slowly getting it working. This month is going to be busy for me. I have my sister's wedding, a graduation party, a birthday party, and some other stuff so my weekends are filled.
I think I am going to revert back to .106 then diff the ini file with the .11 file and manually enter the changes. There shouldn't be many. Then update the game list to .137.
The cool thing is I decided to move my Core 2 Duo desktop to my arcade. I haven't touched a desktop PC in over a year, I have been mainly using my two laptops (one is a Macbook). So my gaming machine isn't getting used anymore. I've moved to the Xbox for gaming. Also the desktop isn't stable, the motherboard has some flaws. It isn't reliable for doing work or long gaming sessions.
So for now I am going to turn it into my arcade box. Plenty of power then. I will also turn it into the the control.dat dev box where I can mirror the website for test development.
Once I get the site working the same way it worked on donkeyfly I need to look into improving it. Updating the game list and name changes is tedious. I use mamediff to determine the changes between two version of mame - this includes new games and rom name changes. Then I created an utility that take those results along with catlist to create a bunch of SQL queries to update the DB. It's annoying to do every time a new mame comes out. I need to find a way to automate it a little better. Maybe port my SQL utility to the website, though what would be awesome is if I could tap into some existing resource, like MAWS.
Howard_Casto:
I think a maws partnership would be a good idea. In addition to having info useful for the update, they also have links to manuals and control panel images if they are available.
SirPoonga:
Alright, the site is up, at least in guest mode. I have to integrate it with this forum's login yet to determine usernames and administrators. I also have to update it to the current version of the dat then to the current version of mame. Hopefully I will get around to it this weekend, looks like rain so I won't be out on my motorcycle. Once I get that far I am going to work on rewriting the site completely and have the code more organized.
There might be still a couple of bugs from the move, let me know if you get an error and on which page. Now that the site is basically running I am going to get saint to make a subforum for the project.
headkaze:
Nice one SP :cheers:
SirPoonga:
saint is on the ball. He made a subforum for me but didn't make it public yet. Once it goes public I will move this conversation over there.
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