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MAME: To upgrade or not to upgrade, that is the question!

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mark shaker:

--- Quote from: jimmy2x2x on August 23, 2010, 02:26:44 pm ---EDIT: Mark, are you asking about your roms here? If so, you will need to update your romset to version of mame you decide to use.

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I use to update my version of MAME and my romset once a year.

As my PC got older I stopped updating, as the newer versions of MAME needed more CPU cycles per second than my poor old PC could deliver.

   - Mark

jimmy2x2x:
Well in your situation, I would upgrade your hardware as you are intending to do, grab the latest versions of everything, mameui, roms, samples and anything else you would like screen-shots etc...

Keep your old mame/roms etc. in a separate folder for the time being, this will allow you to revert if you don't like the new versions.  It will also allows you to migrate any settings to the new version in a non destructive manner.

There are plenty of excellent resources for downloading complete verified sets of everything, you wont have to hunt around to much.  Just start off the downloads and you are set.  Nothing to it really.

I cant imagine you wanting to revert once you have the new version configured.

JustMichael:
Why consider upgrading the computer in your Mame cabinet?

Let me explain the question.  Please understand I never think about upgrading the computer in my Mame cabinet first.  Instead I think about upgrading my main computer.  Whenever I do upgrade that computer, I then have a spare computer that I  put in the Mame cabinet to replace the one that is currently in there.

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: JustMichael on August 23, 2010, 02:53:03 pm ---Why consider upgrading the computer in your Mame cabinet?

Let me explain the question.  Please understand I never think about upgrading the computer in my Mame cabinet first.  Instead I think about upgrading my main computer.  Whenever I do upgrade that computer, I then have a spare computer that I  put in the Mame cabinet to replace the one that is currently in there.

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This.

I had a 700 mhz in my MAME cab first, then when I upgraded my main computer, I installed my 2 Ghz system in there. Then upgraded and moved my dual core 2 Ghz into my MAME cab. One of these it'll be nice to have my dual core 3 Ghz in there, but that'll be a while.

mark shaker:

--- Quote from: jimmy2x2x on August 23, 2010, 02:46:26 pm ---I cant imagine you wanting to revert once you have the new version configured.

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Thank you (and everyone else) for the advice.

I've downgraded or kept old versions around for several reasons in the past.

I had once upgraded past V112, but at the time it broke. (I think that I could not get multiple mice working in the newer version.)

One thing that was way better in V79 than V112: The V79 would stretch my favorite games (Roboton, Joust...) to full screen.   V112 plays them with a huge black border.

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