Mame32 107 released

[headkaze]

Finally the Mame32 version of Mame has been released.

http://mame32qa.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

[Burchman82]

can someone point out the advantage to using mame32 in gameex rather than the command line version??? is there a performance gain to be had or is the only difference that it has a gui?

[headkaze]

The only advantage is having a GUI, both Mame and Mame32 can be compiled as optimized versions for different processors. Probably better to use plain old Mame with GameEx. But I just use Mame32, I used to use Mame32FX because it has some audio hacks and a few other things, but it's not being supported anymore.

There is a Pentium Pro optimized version of Mame on the official Mame site, so I recommend you use that if you have a Pentium processor.

I compile my own versions to remove the disclaimer screens.

[Smiff]

advantages of using a MAME32 version is you dont need to change command line options in gameex config. you can config MAME from the MAME32 gui. and just run the .exe from gameex, and MAME will load its config (even if you run the command line version).

[eXo]

The only advantage is having a GUI, both Mame and Mame32 can be compiled as optimized versions for different processors. Probably better to use plain old Mame with GameEx. But I just use Mame32, I used to use Mame32FX because it has some audio hacks and a few other things, but it's not being supported anymore.

There is a Pentium Pro optimized version of Mame on the official Mame site, so I recommend you use that if you have a Pentium processor.

I compile my own versions to remove the disclaimer screens.

Is it possible to get a copy of mame32 compiled without the disclaimer screens? If not, are there any sources that sort of have a "compiling for dummies" approach to this?

[headkaze]

The following article explains how to compile Mame/Mame32

http://www.mameworld.net/mrdo/compile.html

add the following in mame.c:

/* ensure we don't show the opening screens at startup */
options.skip_disclaimer = options.skip_warnings = options.skip_gameinfo = TRUE;

Just before:

/* display the startup screens */
ui_display_startup_screens(!settingsloaded && !options.skip_disclaimer, !options.skip_warnings, !options.skip_gameinfo);