Any mame's that dont fucking suck?

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:23 pm

Just something that isnt craptastic in funtionality.
Something that has a gui, a rom selection browser and options for filters and controls. Also forgot netplay.

Post by **Nach** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:55 pm

All MAMEs have a GUI.

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:08 am

Not the normal MAME. It's pure command-line.
MAME32 has a GUI though, and I think it works well enough.

smkdan · Post by **smkdan** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:31 am

Normal MAME has the in game GUI you use to set the in game options but getting it started up requires command line I think. I've used MAME32 ever since I found out about it and I don't see why anyone wouldn't. It keeps up with the new releases just fine by the looks of it.

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:24 am

MAME32Plus!, which I personally use. Doesn't have netplay though. MAME32K does have netplay, but it uses Kaillera and I don't know when was the last time it was updated.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:52 am

I use a separate frontend. Me and MAME32 variants have never gotten along.
http://www.mameworld.net/emuloader/

Post by **Nach** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:30 am

Firon wrote:Not the normal MAME. It's pure command-line.

Incorrect, that has a GUI, they all do.

Firon wrote: MAME32 has a GUI though, and I think it works well enough.

It has the exact same GUI normal MAME has. The difference here being it also has a ROM loading frontend.

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:34 am

I guess I consider the frontend to be the "GUI" in this case.

Post by **Nach** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:36 am

Firon wrote:I guess I consider the frontend to be the "GUI" in this case.

So you consider something which you can only use to load the game not while in game to be a GUI and not a frontend?

tetsuo55 · Post by **tetsuo55** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:00 pm

Why people even seriously reply to a post like this is beyond me.

Tallgeese · Post by **Tallgeese** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:54 pm

Agozer wrote:MAME32Plus!, which I personally use. Doesn't have netplay though. MAME32K does have netplay, but it uses Kaillera and I don't know when was the last time it was updated.

Honestly, I never saw what was wrong with kaillera besides some bugs and general deadness. That and the whole server bit.

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:36 pm

Metatron wrote:
Agozer wrote:MAME32Plus!, which I personally use. Doesn't have netplay though. MAME32K does have netplay, but it uses Kaillera and I don't know when was the last time it was updated.
Honestly, I never saw what was wrong with kaillera besides some bugs and general deadness. That and the whole server bit.

Kaillera has never worked properly for me, so...

To hell with it.

alexz721 · Post by **alexz721** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:04 pm

Yeah, I just use MAME32. You might want to give MAME Plus! or MAME32FX a try.

ShadowFX · Post by **ShadowFX** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:48 pm

MAME32ppk might be an option for some people: http://ddememame.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ (scroll all the way down to get it).
Make sure to get the MAME folders and Kaillera dll here as well.

Neo Kaiser · Post by **Neo Kaiser** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:47 am

Just use MAME32, MAME32FX or MAME32 Plus. Any of them will work for you as they come in 3 flavors.

SonGoku1905 · Post by **SonGoku1905** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:06 am

the only mame that 'don't suck' for me is Mameplus because it's the only one with graphic filters. I think 0.105-107 are best versions . I wish it also had sound interpolation and filters such as is Zsnes. Maybe nobody thought about it ? Sound is especially very low-q and crackly in NeoGeo games

Post by **Agozer** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:59 am

SonGoku1905 wrote:Sound is especially very low-q and crackly in NeoGeo games

Doesn't sound very low quality nor crackly to me. I hope you don't have the RDTSC timing system enabled.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:28 pm

regardless of if it was, Mame just got a SIGNIFICANT sound upgrade last night so you might want to check the latest version. only mame proper has been updated but usually it only takes a day or so for the mame32 builds to pop up.

http://www.mamedev.org/

Neo Kaiser · Post by **Neo Kaiser** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:28 am

MAME Plus still support decrypted ROM sets and all. The only thing I like about Mame FX is that you can synchronize to the monitor refresh and the font is prettier than MAME Plus who looks like crap.

Post by **Agozer** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:23 am

Neo Kaiser wrote:MAME Plus still support decrypted ROM sets and all. The only thing I like about Mame FX is that you can synchronize to the monitor refresh and the font is prettier than MAME Plus who looks like crap.

You can synchronize to monitor refresh in MAME Plus too, you know.

You are right about the font thing.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:59 am

Hm. All this talk about MAME makes me want to dig out my complete romset and have a go at some old games again.

Post by **Nach** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:24 am

SquareHead wrote:Hm. All this talk about MAME makes me want to dig out my complete romset and have a go at some old games again.

What complete romset?

A) MAME changes what it uses every few versions, don't expect everything to continue to work.
B) It's not complete because MAME isn't complete, and stuff still comes out.