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I've decided to attempt to "get back into" MAME a bit more than I have
lately. I've been away from the newsgroups, grabbing latest roms, latest
version, etc., for about a year (maybe less). A year ago, I was compiling
my own version of MAME with a handful of neat patches that I liked.
Googling this group a bit doesn't turn up a lot of patch talk lately.
Have patches to MAME been discouraged within the community? I remember
getting a set of patches from someone called "SA Dev" I think that made
the sound in Donkey Kong better as well as some other niceties (skip
frames on startup and some others). But the link I found to his site no
longer works.
The main reason I compile my own MAME is to get the gear shifter working
correctly in Pole Position (and other racing games). I have an actual
gear shifter on my cab and don't like the toggling default action in MAME
(it would be nice to make that a user customizable thing). I've always
figured that if I was going to go through the trouble of compiling my own,
I might as well check out whatever patches are available to tweak my build.
I see that MAME Analog+ is still around (at least it was at v0.90), and
that's good.
--
Rick Reynolds
http://www.rickandviv.net
"I say to all you criminals out there: Knock off all that evil!" -The Tick
I've decided to attempt to "get back into" MAME a bit more than I have
lately. I've been away from the newsgroups, grabbing latest roms, latest
version, etc., for about a year (maybe less). A year ago, I was compiling
my own version of MAME with a handful of neat patches that I liked.
Googling this group a bit doesn't turn up a lot of patch talk lately.
Have patches to MAME been discouraged within the community? I remember
getting a set of patches from someone called "SA Dev" I think that made
the sound in Donkey Kong better as well as some other niceties (skip
frames on startup and some others). But the link I found to his site no
longer works.
The main reason I compile my own MAME is to get the gear shifter working
correctly in Pole Position (and other racing games). I have an actual
gear shifter on my cab and don't like the toggling default action in MAME
(it would be nice to make that a user customizable thing). I've always
figured that if I was going to go through the trouble of compiling my own,
I might as well check out whatever patches are available to tweak my build.
I see that MAME Analog+ is still around (at least it was at v0.90), and
that's good.
--
Rick Reynolds
http://www.rickandviv.net
"I say to all you criminals out there: Knock off all that evil!" -The Tick
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