Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: CitznFish on March 09, 2003, 08:39:02 pm
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for windows. I thought for some reason I needed to compile this? Do I? I can't find instructions on mame.net or mameworld. When I look in the zip file I see mame.exe, so i am confused. Why do I need MinGW?
unfortunately I have always used Mame32, but I think I'd prefer Mamew and an FE after i complete my cabinet, so I might as well learn how to do this the correct way now.
TIA!
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do you have to install directX headers to compile MAMEW? I found instructions and it says I need directX 6.1 headers, but that seems old to me. I really don't know what i am doing, just trying to follow these instructions:
http://www.logiqx.com/HowTo/WinMAME.shtml
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You grabbed mame066b.zip or mame066s.zip?
s is source, b is binary.
sicne you grabbed b oyu have the binary.
It's commandline, not gui like mame32.
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Thanks SP. :) I figured it out, so i don't need to compile it. Is there an advantage to compiling your own exe? I think I read somewhere on this forum about editing the source so that it skips the OK and Press Any key messages...
Now I have a wierd problem.. if I want to run a game I see i type mame (romname) but when i try this for pole position I just get a list of best matches instead of running the game... What's that all about??
I havew been looking for teh anser to this, but no luck in finding documentation. Pole Position works in Mame32 though...
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some people compile their own things into mame, like testdrivers and such.
You ran polepos right?
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of course not, I ran 'mame polpos' if I ran 'mame polepos' it would work. How dumb can i be today?/ (Don't answer that!) ;)