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Title: Can I install two Mame applications on the same computer?
Post by: unclet on January 03, 2006, 08:31:01 pm

I have v81 already installed on my computer and would like to install v103 as well, while keeping v81 installed.

If I install the Mame-v103 in a separate directory then will there be any problems executing either v81 or v103 (whichever I want)?

I want to make sure there are no registry, highscores, etc ... stuff which will cause problems if I have two different versions of Mame installed at one time....

Title: Re: Can I install two Mame applications on the same computer?
Post by: SOAPboy on January 03, 2006, 08:51:05 pm

yes

Title: Re: Can I install two Mame applications on the same computer?
Post by: SirPeale on January 03, 2006, 09:35:50 pm

Don't do it!  Otherwise your eyes will explode, and some ooze, perhaps eye-goop, will drip from the sockets.  And you'll die.

Title: Re: Can I install two Mame applications on the same computer?
Post by: MYX on January 03, 2006, 10:42:42 pm

yeah, don't cross the streams either.

Title: Re: Can I install two Mame applications on the same computer?
Post by: unclet on January 03, 2006, 11:01:57 pm

Dont cross the streams ..... funny!

Title: Re: Can I install two Mame applications on the same computer?
Post by: JODY on January 08, 2006, 02:40:24 pm

Versions of Mame32 used registry settings for some things a year or two ago.

Title: Re: Can I install two Mame applications on the same computer?
Post by: metaHipster on January 09, 2006, 01:41:47 pm

Mamewah (and probably other FE's) will let you configure one emu/menu for one version and another for the other -- you can then switch to the appropriate emu to see whichever games you've got intended for it (as defined by maintaining separate ROM folders)...

Title: Re: Can I install two Mame applications on the same computer?
Post by: Lilwolf on January 09, 2006, 03:47:14 pm

I've been using multiple versions of mame for years with my frontend.

It started with the sega rewrite not being done for a few years... and I wanted to be able to play shinobi and others.

so I had two versions.

Now I use it for analog+mame for the games that require it... and mameplus for all the others (I love being able to read the game docs on my cab without extra keys)