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Mame updating question.
« on: June 08, 2004, 05:01:29 pm »
I want to put an updated list of games from .82 into my .79 that I have. Is there anyway to do this without recompiling a newer more confusing version of mame? thanks

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Re:Mame updating question.
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2004, 06:32:21 pm »
  Firstly, you can do all that but most likely your .79 version of MAME won't run the updated ROMs correctly (if at all).  If you want to run the updated games you need to run the updated emulator.

  Secondly, there's no need to compile anything. Download the binaries from the MAME site.

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Re:Mame updating question.
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2004, 09:32:16 am »
I want to put an updated list of games from .82 into my .79 that I have. Is there anyway to do this without recompiling a newer more confusing version of mame? thanks
Not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but it seems like the easiest solution is to download 0.82 binary (or maybe you want 0.83 now) into a separate directory, put only the new game ROMS for 0.79u1 through 0.83 in there, use 0.79 for most games and 0.83 for the newer games only.

Or do you want/need to do something else?
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Re:Mame updating question.
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2004, 03:07:54 pm »
ok, thanks. The binarys are confusing though  ??? Oh well, Im sure I'll figure it out.

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Re:Mame updating question.
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2004, 03:16:36 pm »
ok, thanks. The binarys are confusing though  ??? Oh well, Im sure I'll figure it out.
The source files are confusing.  The binaries are set to go.

Assuming MAME 0.79 is installed in C:\MAME and you know the new games and have the new ROMS, (and know command prompt usage), it's this simple:

Create new folder C:\MAME083\

Download MAME 083 binary and extract to C:\MAME083\

Put new ROMS in C:\MAME083\ROMS

At command prompt, type

cd\
cd mame083
mame -cc

Open C:\MAME083\mame.ini and edit file pointers to point to C:\MAME\ whatever, match other settings to C:\MAME\mame.ini.

Setup your frontend and play new games.
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Re:Mame updating question.
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2004, 03:30:33 pm »
ok, ty