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Title: Can I do this with M.A.M.E?
Post by: Apollo on May 16, 2007, 09:44:21 pm

So I am using mame .86 and my roms are .86. I'd like to keep things as is because everything is working well but what I want to do is fix Robotron's speed and maybe play the Golden Tee games (I think the sound for Phoenix was fixed by version .99 as well which would be cool).
I have no idea where I would get a full set of .99 roms but can i somehow use the individual .99 rom for robotron and use the .99 version of mame just for that game? If I can do this, how would I do it?

Hope that makes sense.

Title: Re: Can I do this with M.A.M.E?
Post by: Joystick Jerk on May 16, 2007, 10:16:38 pm

Well, yeah, of course. Where is the difficulty? Download the rom, download that version of Mame, and then run it. Done and done.

Title: Re: Can I do this with M.A.M.E?
Post by: Apollo on May 16, 2007, 10:49:44 pm

Thank you but how can I use 2 seperate versions of MAME with Mamewah?

Title: Re: Can I do this with M.A.M.E?
Post by: Joystick Jerk on May 17, 2007, 02:04:48 am

Two installs of both Mame and Mamewah. Mame and Mamewah store everything via ini's, and don't store anything in the registry. You can have two installs on one machine and the settings won't conflict with eachother.

Speaking of this though, it would be a cool feature in a front end if you could define a root folder for mame executables, and then drop multiple versions of Mame executables in there. Then in the FE, you could assign a specific version of Mame to different games, and it would run the game with the assigned version.

Title: Re: Can I do this with M.A.M.E?
Post by: patrickmaher on May 17, 2007, 05:31:11 am

I have not tried this yet but I believe you can do this with game specific ini files.

In your in your MameWah config folder you will have your mame folder with the mame.ini that has the settings MameWah uses to launch Mame games. In this folder you will see a folder called "game" that MameWah has created.

In this game folder you can place game specific ini files. You name them the same as the rom file of the game but with an .ini extension instead of .zip.

Basically what you need to do is setup the emulator_commandline path for the specific game ini to point to the version of Mame that you want to use for that game.

See this post (http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=88660&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1) at the MameWah forum for more info on this.