Robert

MESS, MESSUI and MAMEUI 0.246.0 are released. https://messui.1emulation.com/ https://arcade.mameworld.info/messui You might notice the extra ".0" in the version - this is to indicate we don't use entirely vanilla MAME - we have a few stability fixes included. As you know, whenever MAME finds itself in a sticky situation it will exit unexpectedly, often taking down the GUI with it. Our builds include graceful fixes for some of these issues.

* HBMAME 0.245.2 - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ * Sameboy 0.15.3 [Gameboy] - https://sameboy.github.io/downloads/ * WinArcadia 29.02 [s2650-related] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * Classic99 v399.062 [T.I.99/4A] - http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/onesoft.cgi?1 * PPSSPP 1.13.1 [PSP] - http://www.ppsspp.org/downloads.html * dgVoodoo 2.79.1 [Plugin] - http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/

As you may have known, under src/mame there were drivers, machine, includes, video and layout. This has now all changed. The layout folder is still there as before, but the others are gone. Now there are a number of folders roughly based on classification such as manufacturer or some other idea. Inside each of these are the actual drivers (cpp files). This is supposed to make things easier for the next big step but I'm not really convinced - but it's how it is now. arcade.lua and mess.lua have been deleted, the compile process will now look through the files and compile them all. If you had some spare stuff tucked away in an unused folder it will try to compile them too. You can place limitations on what is compiled by using a .flt file, such as arcade.flt One drawback is if files get rearranged, as they have been quite often, instead of the compiler automatically handling it as before, now you get a compile error. The official way around this is to use REGENIE=1, but when I tried it I got a file-not-found error (it didn't say what file of course). So you can try deleting build/projects/winui/mamearcade/gmake-mingw64-gcc/Makefile, and if that doesn't work you can delete all the files in build/mingw-gcc/bin/x64/Release/mame_mame . (Folder names in italics may be different for your setup). After doing those things it should compile - until next time. One other change is that you're not limited to arcade.flt and mess.flt - you can have whatever names you feel like (official builds only). Effects on our builds: - The changes to verinfo.py and main.lua to get the above to work broke all the winui builds, so those 2 scripts had to be reverted back to what they were at 0.245, and so the expanded flt naming is not available for us. - If you compile your own winui builds you need to look very carefully at my compile scripts on release day to see how to get it to work. It is no longer straightforward as it used to be. - The file rearrangement is incompatible with the design of HBMAME, so it will stay at the 0.245 base, and releases will have an extra digit on the end (currently 0.245.2) One more change for MESS, MESSUI, MAMEUI and ARCADE64: The version number will have an extra ".0" on the end. This is to indicate that our build is not precisely the same as MAME - even though the changes are mostly just stability adjustments. So the next MAMEUI will be 0.246.0 rather than just 0.246 . Apart from all that, the emulators themselves should work the same as before, and therefore have no effect upon the end user.

It's on the hbmame site, point at the current one then change the 2 to 1.

https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2022-07-23 0.245.2 Puzzled: enabled both story mode and demo mode New Games --------------------------------- - [cakefght] Cake Fighter - [ssf2tnl3] Super Street Fighter II Turbo (New Legacy v0.3 beta 2020-05-18) - [ssf2tnl7] Super Street Fighter II Turbo (New Legacy v0.7 beta 2022-07-19) 2022-07-09 0.245.1 New Games --------------------------------- - [ng4ptest] Neo Geo 4 Player Multitab Test - [teot] The Eye of Typhoon (Tsunami Edition, beta 6, 2022-07-06)

* XRoar 1.1 [Dragon/CoCo] - http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/ * WinArcadia 29.01 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * Yuzu r1100 [Switch] - https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu-mainline/releases

* HBMAME 0.245.1 - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ * Hatari 2.4.0 [Atari ST] - http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/news.html * Emma 02 v1.47 [cosmac-related] - https://www.emma02.hobby-site.com/download.html * Sameboy 0.15.1 [Gameboy] - https://sameboy.github.io/downloads/ * RuMSX 0.84 [MSX] - http://www.lexlechz.at/en/html/mainSoftware.html * Ares v129 [Multi-system] - https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases * Play 0.54 [PS2] - https://purei.org/ * Rebuilder 0.01 [Rom Manager] - https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/

Released 0.245.1 today.

* SDLMAME for Ubuntu 0.245 - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/ * ArcCabView_MAMEUI64_0.245_BGFX_Chain_2.1 - https://houba-mame.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html * Sameboy 0.15 [Gameboy] - https://sameboy.github.io/downloads/ * WinArcadia 28.93 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * RPCS3 0.0.23-alpha [PS3] - https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/releases * RomVault 3.5.0 [Rom Manager] - https://www.romvault.com/

Most of that stuff is deprecated warnings; you can prevent them showing by including DEPRECATED=0 in your make line. The errors around the windows debugger could be because Vista is the minimum supported version now, it was a change during the last month. XP libraries may not support the methods being used. The errors around drcbex64 are unknown to me, they would need further investigation.

No, it means there was an error much earlier that probably scrolled away.

Show the error and I might be able to suggest something.

MAME 0.245 was released * Official - https://mamedev.org/release.html * ARCADE64 - https://arcade.mameworld.info/ * HBMAME - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ * MESS, MESSUI - https://messui.1emulation.com/ * MAMEUI - http://www.mameui.info/ * MAME for Raspberry Pi - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/ * WolfMAME - https://github.com/mahlemiut/wolfmame/releases * GroovyMAME switchres 2.002k - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases Other * WinArcadia 28.91 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * 86box 3.6 [PC] - https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases * Raine 0.93.5d [Arcade] - https://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html * ArcCabView MAMEUI64 0.242 with BGFX_Chain_2.0 - https://houba-mame.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html * Denise 1.1.3.1 [C64, Amiga] - https://sourceforge.net/projects/deniseemu/files * Emulicious (2022-06-30) [Multi-system] - http://emulicious.net/news/

https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2022-06-29 0.245 New Games --------------------------------- - [captcommr1d] Captain Commando (unknown hack r1d) - [captcommr1f] Captain Commando (unknown hack r1f) - [cawingh01] Carrier Air Wing (bootleg) - [contcircja] Continental Circus (Japan set 2) - [dinore1] Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Readjusted v1.1) - [dkrndmzr] Donkey Kong RNDMZR v1.00 (2022-05-22) - [dkwizard] Donkey Kong Wizardry v1.03 - [kf2k19unis04] Kof 10th Anniversary 2019 Unique (Optimized 2020-??-??) - [kf2k20unis01] Kof 10th Anniversary 2020 Unique (Optimized 2020-10-25) - [kf2k20unis02] Kof 10th Anniversary 2020 Unique (Optimized 2020-11-06) - [mslug2fm] Metal Slug 2 (Friendly Fire - Fightcade 2 Ver.2 Hack) - [mslug3rb] Metal Slug 3 (Last Warhead) - [mslug4a] Metal Slug 4 20th Anniversary (GOTVG Ver.2021 Hack) - [mslug4ar] Metal Slug 4 Enemies Reset Fusion 20th Anniversary (Hack) - [mslug5sgf] Metal Slug 5 Remake Final (Fightcade 2 Ver.2021 Hack) - [mslug5x] Metal Slug 5 X - [mslugxsrf] Metal Slug X AzStar Soda Remix (Fightcade 2 Ver. Hack) - [sfz3mix] Street Fighter Zero 3 (Mix 0.13) - [teot] The Eye of Typhoon (Tsunami Edition, beta 5, 2022-05-29) - [umk3tm20210809] Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Team Edition 2021-08-09) - [umk3uk20220406] Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (UC Edition 2022-04-06) After this release, MAME has rearranged all the driver files and many others too. This requires an almost complete rewrite of HBMAME, and I've decided not to do this. Therefore future releases will be based on 0.245, and be released adhoc, whenever new games are added.

MESS, MESSUI and MAMEUI 0.245 are released. https://messui.1emulation.com/ https://arcade.mameworld.info/messui There were 5 attempts to kill off winui, but it was possible to revert all those changes and keep the projects going. Next month will be even more challenging. The old file split by drivers, machine, video, etc has been wiped away, replaced by some arbitrary scheme. Whenever a file is moved, the local modifications are lost. It will quite a task to keep control of this. There might be more disruption that isn't known about yet.

* ArcCab View_MAMEUI64_242_v1.4a [Arcade] - https://houba-mame.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html * AppleWin 1.30.11.0 [Apple2] - https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/releases * Pantheon 11.654 [Multi-system] - http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/Download.htm * DCMOTO (2022-06-17) [Thomson] - http://dcmoto.free.fr/ * WinArcadia 28.9 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * GameEx 18.10 [Front-end] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

* GroovyMAME 0.244 switchres 2.002j - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases * Stella 6.7 [Atari 2600] - https://github.com/stella-emu/stella/releases * BeebEm 4.18 [BBC] - http://www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/index.html * Denise 1.1.3 [C64/Amiga] - https://sourceforge.net/projects/deniseemu/files * WinArcadia 28.8 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * nemulator 4.4 [NES] - http://nemulator.com/downloads.html * Play 0.53 [PS2] - https://purei.org/ * Cemu 1.27.1 [Wii-U] - http://cemu.info/ * Eighty-One 1.29 [Sinclair] - https://sourceforge.net/projects/eightyone-sinclair-emulator/files * dgVoodoo 2.79 [Plugin] - http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/

* GPCS4 0.2.1 [PS4] - https://github.com/Inori/GPCS4/releases * VB81_XuR (2022-06-04) [Sinclair] - http://zx81.vb81.free.fr/ * Yuzu 0.1047 [Switch] - https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu-mainline/releases * Classic99 v399.059 [T.I.99/4A] - http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/onesoft.cgi?1 * AmiArcadia/WinArcadia 28.73 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * Clrmamepro 4.045 [Rom Manager] - https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/ * GameEx 18.08 [Front-End] - https://www.gameex.com/news/ *** Please note: The view counter still isn't working, so most topics give the false appearance of never having been read ****

I guess you must be Peewee who asked this question on another forum.

* Applewin 1.30.10.0 [Apple2] - https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/releases * Gopher 0.19.0 [Atari 2600] - https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Gopher2600/releases/ * Nanoboy Advance 1.5 [GBA] - https://github.com/nba-emu/NanoBoyAdvance/releases * Emulicious (2022-05-31) [GB,GBC,SMS,GG,MSX] - http://emulicious.net/news/ * WinArcadia 28.72 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * Ootake 3.04 [TG16/PCE] - https://www.ouma.jp/ootake/ * SDLMAME for Ubuntu 0.244 - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/ * GameEx 18.06 [Frontend] - https://www.gameex.com/news/ * Clrmamepro 4.044d [Rom Manager] - https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/

MAME 0.244 was released * Official - https://mamedev.org/release.html * ARCADE64 - https://arcade.mameworld.info/ * HBMAME - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ * MESS, MESSUI - https://messui.1emulation.com/ * MAMEUI - http://www.mameui.info/ * MAME for Raspberry Pi - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/ * WolfMAME - https://github.com/mahlemiut/wolfmame/releases * GroovyMAME switchres 2.002i - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases Other * WinArcadia 28.71 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * Gopher 0.18.0 [Atari 2600] - https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Gopher2600/releases/ * DeSmuME 0.9.13 [Nintendo DS] - http://desmume.org/ * 86box 3.5 [PC] - https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases * VB81_XuR_EXE (2022-05-21) [Sinclair] - http://zx81.vb81.free.fr/ * BletchMAME 2.15 [Front-end] - https://www.bletchmame.org/ * mGalaxy 9.0 [Front-end] - https://www.mgalaxy.com/download/ * pfeMAME 2.21.7 [Front-end] - https://sourceforge.net/projects/pfemame/files/ * RomProperties 1.9 [Rom Manager] - https://github.com/GerbilSoft/rom-properties/releases

Don't you mean 0.244 ?

Letting everyone know, that as from this commit, https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/9ce44fa048793de5e14d1e7af98e8b5ca148d0f3 MAME and all its derivatives will no longer function on XP. The absolute minimum, even with the 32-bit builds, will be Vista.

MESS, MESSUI and MAMEUI 0.244 are released. https://messui.1emulation.com/ https://arcade.mameworld.info/messui MESSUI has had all the MESS systems added back, except those that freeze or crash. After this, the major reason for crashes will be the use of unacceptable floppy disk images which instead of giving a harmless message, can bring the whole thing down. Unfortunately this behaviour is outside of my control. Also, there's been the occasional request for GCC 10.1, which it seems has generally become unavailable. I've added a download link on the above sites for you to get 10.1 should you wish to compile your own MESSUI, MAMEUI or HBMAMEUI. The command-line MESS or HBMAME should (in theory) build with the current mamedev GCC 11.2 . We don't recommend anything later than the mamedev GCC, as there seems to be some strange bugs in the newest versions.

https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2022-05-25 0.244 Added artwork for Man-Pac. New Games --------------------------------- - [dinore] Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Readjusted v1.0) - [dkchrte] Donkey Kong Christmas Tournament Edition - [dkongte] Donkey Kong Tournament Edition - [dkspkyte] Donkey Kong Spooky Tournament Edition - [dksprfin] Donkey Kong Springfinity v1.01 (2022-04-29) - [mhavocpex81] Major Havoc - The Promised End (v0.81) - [mslugunity] Metal Slug Unity - [mslug2unity] Metal Slug 2 Unity - [mslug3unity] Metal Slug 3 Unity - [mslug4unity] Metal Slug 4 Unity - [mslug5ast] Metal Slug Asteroids - [mslug5unity] Metal Slug 5 Unity - [mslugxunity] Metal Slug X Unity - [sfa2us05] Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Unlock Hidden Characters) - [sfz3mix11] Street Fighter Zero 3 (Mix 0.11) - [sfz3mix] Street Fighter Zero 3 (Mix 0.12) - [teot] The Eye of Typhoon (Tsunami Edition, beta 4, 2022-05-07) Plus, for this month only, Marble Madness II has been included, before it goes into MAME 0.245 .