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Hello
Now that we have https://archive.org/details/mame-merged and it seems to be kept up to date by some decent chap.
Got me thinking can everything just get grabbed on the fly? no ROM management required.
I know you guys are into collecting ROMs, so kind of the opposite of what you’re in to, but I feel the common man needs a simpler way to run MAME.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Put this partially working POC together if anyone wants a look https://github.com/sam-ludlow/mame-ao
Cheers Sam |
Idea is nice but you know there is a problem in getting the roms all the times and for the right MAME version ;-) Download must be exact for the emulator version is needing them, otherwise it fails and the "keep it easy" aspect you want is not guarantied for the user. I have not tested your "tool" btw. |
Hello thanks for the input.
Versions are taken care of, the version is taken from the archive.org metadata (in the title) then a new directory is created for each version and the corresponding MAME binaries are downloaded. What ever machine you want to run the ROMs are copied from the hash store (effectively a cache) anything not in there is downloaded from archive.org. So each version has its own ROM directory, when there is a version bump it starts empty. You can delete the old version directories when there is a version bump.
Cheers Sam |
I have tried, really not bad. great idea. I don't have tried it "deeper" and I don't know if all games does work like this easy dkong ;-) But yeah why not. We will see how does it work on the next version.
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Thanks for taking a look.
I've refined it a bit, works like a shell now, just type game name and it starts MAME, so dead easy.
Handles all dependencies now (parent/bios/device) tested quiet a few, not had an issue yet.
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