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I was poking around in the messageboards at gp32spain and saw a pointer to a launcher for the different MAME drivers. Haven't tried running it yet, but according to the readme you just move the MAME fxe's into /GPMM/MAME, along with an ini file that comes with the launcher, run the launcher, pick your game, and it takes care of the rest.
I assume it'll be moved into their download section eventually, but for the moment it's available from
http://www.gp32spain...ameLauncher.zip
Trust it'll be useful to somebody...
Mame Launcher
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Posted 08 March 2005 - 07:23 PM
Mmm... quite impressive, except it's not BLU+ Compatible(EDIT: As in white line. It works but with that glitch). Damn. But it does tidy up your launcher with one icon instead of 9 :D
This post has been edited by firefly1201: 09 March 2005 - 06:35 PM
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Posted 08 March 2005 - 07:45 PM
Unfortunately all it does is add one launch icon to Yafl etc.. but then when you run the program you still get a menu with the same list of the different games companies which just adds an unessesary step. Great if you want to save space on your launch screen but what I'm really looking for is a combined launcher that lists every game and boots the correct fxe for that game automatically.
Edit: Doh! Actually it is useful for GPBios users as now we can boot straight to MAME but I'd still like to see the combined games list at some point in the future.
Edit: Doh! Actually it is useful for GPBios users as now we can boot straight to MAME but I'd still like to see the combined games list at some point in the future.
This post has been edited by Radio: 08 March 2005 - 08:02 PM
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Posted 08 March 2005 - 08:42 PM
I think before all that i'd like to see reesys Z80 core put into MAME, then concentrate on the rest, for me the most important thing is speed before features :)
-Craig
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Posted 08 March 2005 - 09:15 PM
craigix, on Mar 8 2005, 08:42 PM, said:
I think before all that i'd like to see reesys Z80 core put into MAME, then concentrate on the rest, for me the most important thing is speed before features :)
-Craig
www.gbax.com
-Craig
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I'm about halfway through creating the documentation for my z80 core. After the documentation is done, I need to re-write the interupt handler. Then I can package it off.
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Posted 08 March 2005 - 09:38 PM
Nice one Reesy, good to see folks helping each other out :)
As for the Launcher, I think it works rather nicely as it is, if there was just one launcher and you have the entire romset (35Mb / <>700roms) it would be a nightmare scrolling through pages of roms to find the one you want, and remember it for next time!
Ultimately it would be good to have some of the modern mame features, like filtering by genre / times played / manufacturer etc. now that would be useful. But as Craig said, speed should come first
As for the Launcher, I think it works rather nicely as it is, if there was just one launcher and you have the entire romset (35Mb / <>700roms) it would be a nightmare scrolling through pages of roms to find the one you want, and remember it for next time!
Ultimately it would be good to have some of the modern mame features, like filtering by genre / times played / manufacturer etc. now that would be useful. But as Craig said, speed should come first
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Posted 08 March 2005 - 10:57 PM
Reesy, if you would like to add your mame core to my MAME port, i can send you the related source code :-). I think it wouldn't be too hard...
My e-mail: fjmar at hotmail point com.
Regards ;-).
My e-mail: fjmar at hotmail point com.
Regards ;-).
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Posted 08 March 2005 - 11:10 PM
Franxis, on Mar 8 2005, 10:57 PM, said:
I think it wouldn't be too hard...
:) Famous last words. If you send me the source, I'll add DrZ80 to it. I'll send you my current version of DrZ80 just in case you want to have a go yourself, but without decent documentation it will be hard going.
My email address is drsms_reesy"at"yahoo.co.uk.
Later
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Posted 09 March 2005 - 01:54 AM
firefly1201, on Mar 8 2005, 07:23 PM, said:
Mmm... quite impressive, except it's not BLU+ Compatible. damn. But it does tidy up your launcher with one icon instead of 9 :D
try to download again , and read the file HOIGAN.txt.
i donīt have a BLU+ , but I believe it works
This post has been edited by alien8: 09 March 2005 - 02:46 AM