MAME - 'Preview' Release

[Robo Hobo]

Attached is a preview release of MAME 0.142. It's still a little rough around the edges, but it is usable. I hope to improve it greatly over the next couple of weeks, so please post any issues, feature requests, or complaints to the issue tracker on the google code page.

Due to the large file size a version run through package-finalize is not provided. If you use a CFW where this is required you will need to run it yourself.

PS3-MAME

Unofficial MAME 0.142 PS3 GameOS port
http://code.google.com/p/psmame/

Installing:
  Install the psmame package onto your jailbroken PS3 using normal means.
  By default all data paths for mame are located under /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame_data.
  ROMS themselves can be placed anywhere and their location chosen with the frontend. The recommended path is /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame.

Default controls:
  As of right now the only defined controls are R3 to open the MAME config menu, Select for coin, and Start for starting the game.
  Further control changes can be made in the MAME config menu as needed.
  Up to four controllers can be used at one time.

Frontend:
  The frontend can display screenshots of games, these should be placed in /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame_data/snaps. You can find a full set at http://www.progettosnaps.net/snaps_en.html

Paths:
  Under /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame_data
    hash:	path to hash files
    samples:	path to samplesets
    artwork:	path to artwork files
    ctrlr:	path to controller definitions
    ini:	path to ini files
    font:	path to font files
    cheat:	path to cheat files
    crosshair:	path to crosshair files
    snaps:	path to screenshots for frontend

  Under /dev_hdd0/game/MAME90000/USRDIR/data
    cfg:	directory to save configurations
    nvram:	directory to save nvram contents,
    memcard:	directory to save memory card contents
    inp:	directory to save input device logs
    sta:	directory to save states
    snap:	directory to save screenshots
    diff:	directory to save hard drive image difference files
    comments:	directory to save debugger comments


Known issues
  When adding ROMs into your ROM dir, you must tell the frontend to rescan them. This can be done in the R3 menu.
  The display currently only supports scaling by pixel aspect ratio. Future versions will support various aspect correction modes.
  Changing video settings in the menu may crash MAME, they don't work anyway so don't bother.
  Games which require a recompiler will not run.
  Games which have high memory requirements will not run, the PS3 only has a little of 220MB of RAM available.
  The default controls will need to be tweaked by the user.

[violentcris]

AWESOME... you are the boss.

[chesh]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is what I've been waiting for. Look forward to more releases

[mckenziesdaddy]

I add roms and booted it up and it says can not find roms and when I press r3 nothing happens?

[tex2chi]

nice. will mortal kombat games be playable?

[AS692]

Wow great work Robo Hobo

Will test now and report back

[AS692]

I add roms and booted it up and it says can not find roms and when I press r3 nothing happens?

Did you do a rescan after adding your roms?

[violentcris]

Did you do a rescan after adding your roms?

Cant rescan if r3 dont respond

[violentcris]

inside /dev_hdd0/ROMS/ make a folder called mame in minus,inset rom there, get the emu running.

[Robo Hobo]

I add roms and booted it up and it says can not find roms and when I press r3 nothing happens?

I screwed up here. If it couldn't find the default ROM dir it was supposed to pop up the directory browser for you, but I apparently forgot to add the line of code there. As a workaround you can either place your ROMS at /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame (the capitalization in ROMS is important), or place an empty file named puckman.zip there to get past it. Sorry about that.