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xefned:

--- Quote from: Yenome on October 06, 2012, 02:59:22 pm ---im lazy so i use mame compiler 64 by headkaze it does everything for you all you need is the source code. its as simple as picking the dir with the source and checking a box or two then hit compile and wait for it to finish. even on my amd phenom II x4 956 it took 11mins or so to get finished, sure an intel i5 would be faster if you got one.

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You're right. It was damn simple. Hail headkaze.  :notworthy:

Yesterday I assembled my budget MAME PC with a Pentium G620 dual core. 19 minutes 22 seconds to compile Mame .146 64-bit.
So your Phenom performs like a supercomputer by comparison.  :applaud:

Thank you for the tip. And thank you headkaze for the tool.

Yenome:
Yea ive done the compiling before by hand and his tool just makes it soo noob friendly i just use it now. took me a lil while to get it all done by hand one night. also with the tool when they release the diff patch for 147 that fixes the midway games you can use that tool to update 147 source if you feel the need.

xefned:
Just this morning I compiled .147u1. Midway wasn't mentioned in the what's_new.txt file so I presume that's coming in a later update. I'll try it later today to see if it was fixed and codenamed elsewise.

In your experience, are the Mame support files backwards compatible? In other words, if I have controls.ini and history.dat from .147, will that work with the Mame binary from .145?

My roms are from .145 so I think that requires me to use Mame .145. But now I've got this weird combination of bios files from .146, Roms from .145, and support files from .147. I'm still figuring out how to piece them altogether into something that works. Should I bother trying, or is Mame strict about mixing versions?

Yenome:
unless something changes then the older files work for the newer versions unless say something with a certain game changes. Like say they changed the name of a game or added a clone or parent rom of a game your old versions wouldnt know bout the new ones.
My roms are from like 145 havnt updated them yet but like the other stuff unless something changes then mame will be happy using the older roms cause unless something changes there is no diff between the diff rom versions. you can download the update packs for the roms and update em all to 147. only need i have ever know of to stick with an older version of mame is for support of a game that is broken with later versions or too keep down on the over all bloat of games. like if you only play classics from the 80's you could use like mame .98

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