Robert

MAMEUI64 Classic 0.253.1 is released. This catches a few late changes on the MAME side.

There's a late patch coming through, so 0.253.1 will be released soon. Please wait for a day or 2.

MAMEUI64 Classic 0.253.0 is released. https://messui.1emulation.com/ https://arcade.mameworld.info/messui There's been a truckload of new and invasive bugs in MAME recently, so you'll most likely get some weird things happening, especially if you use a joystick or game controller. Make sure you read the new document about setting up your controller: https://docs.mamedev.org/advanced/ctrlr_config.html If MAME crashes, then most likely it will take down the frontend with it. The support for arcade.ini, console.ini, computer.ini and othersys.ini have been removed from MAME, and so these files will be ignored. In MAMEUI the support of arcade.ini was restored. In MAME, the files arcade.flt and mess.flt were deleted, however you can create your own and it will work as before. The only difference is that you need to maintain them yourself instead of being done by the developers. There's a new development branch being created for MAMEUI - it will have a new name (suggestions?) and a lot of improvements. It's not a priority though, so it could be many months before you see anything. In the meantime the old worn-out MAMEUI has been rebranded as "Classic" - it will require GCC 10.1, and will only get updates to keep it working. There won't be any new features. The release schedule is (at this time) expected to be every 3 months. As always, do NOT post questions about anything at reddit - all you'll get is insults, plus bonus lies about me. Save yourself the angst and ask here or at mameworld.

* HBMAME 0.245.10 [Arcade] - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ * AppleWin 1.30.14.1 [Apple II] - https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/releases * Kegs 1.19 [Apple II GS] - https://kegs.sourceforge.net/ * Flycast Dojo 0.5.25 [Arcade] - https://github.com/blueminder/flycast-dojo/releases * Mark 5 v1.9.2 [Hitachi BML3] - http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bml3mk5/download.htm * Pyboy 1.5.5 [Gameboy] - https://github.com/Baekalfen/PyBoy/releases * Droid Arcadia 1.4 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * SNES9X 1.61 [SNES] - http://www.s9x-w32.de/dl/ * Eighty-One 1.33 [Sinclair] - https://sourceforge.net/projects/eightyone-sinclair-emulator/files * Retroarch 1.15.0 [Front-end] - https://www.libretro.com/ * Rebuilder 0.04 [Rom Manager] - https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/ * dgVoodoo 2.8 [Plugin] - http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/

HBMAME 0.245.10 has been released. https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2023-03-13 0.245.10 New Games --------------------------------- - [240ptest] 240p Test Suite - [ckongpt2s01] Crazy Kong with DK colours and graphics - [looptrsp] Looptris Plus (2022-12-24) - [pitfall2u01] Pitfall II trainer (2002-10-15) - [pollen] Pollen Angel - [sf2mix] Street Fighter II: Champion Edition (Mix 1.3) - [vr01] Virtua Racing Rival Edition V7 (2023-02-22) - [xeviousn] Xevious (NeoGeo, beta 1, 2023-03-07)

Welcome to the forum. In answer to your question, there's no 252 release because of a number of reasons. 1. It's too hot (wait for summer to end) 2. Official MAME has too many bugs at present, it would make ARCADE look bad. 3. There's been no real progress in arcade game emulation since the last release. 4. The current release schedule is approximately every 3 months, more or less. Please ask any further questions in the ARCADE sub-forum.

* Groovymame 0.252sr002q - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases * Wolfmame 0.252 - https://github.com/mahlemiut/wolfmame/releases * Applewin 1.30.14.0 [Apple II] - https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/releases * Flycast Dojo 0.5.21 [Arcade] - https://github.com/blueminder/flycast-dojo/releases * Hoxs64 1.1.2.3 [Commodore 64] - https://www.hoxs64.net/ * BigPEmu 1.054 [Atari Jaguar] - https://www.richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.php?content=download * Ares v132 [Multi-system] - https://ares-emu.net/download * DroidArcadia 1.1 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * Xemu 0.785 [XBOX] - https://github.com/xemu-project/xemu/releases

* Flycast Dojo 0.5.17 [Arcade] - https://github.com/blueminder/flycast-dojo/releases * Raine 0.95 [Arcade] - https://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html * Pyboy 1.5.4 [Gameboy] - https://github.com/Baekalfen/PyBoy/releases * RPCS3 0.0.27 [PS3] - https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/releases * Emulicious [Multi-system] (2023-02-28) - http://emulicious.net/news/ * NegaMAME 0.252-2 [Front-end] - http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm * Erockus 10.6 [Front-end] - http://erockus.elementfx.com/arcade.html * ScummVM 2.7.0 - https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

* Joyce 2.4.1/2.5.1 [Amstrad] - http://www.seasip.info/Unix/Joyce/index.html * Flycast Dojo 0.5.16 [Arcade] - https://github.com/blueminder/flycast-dojo/releases * Raine 0.94.12b [Arcade] - https://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html * MAME 0.252 [Multi-system] - https://www.mamedev.org/release.html * MAME 0.252 for RPi - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/ * Pantheon 12.406 [Multi-system] - http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/Download.htm * XEMU 0.7.84 [X-BOX] - https://github.com/xemu-project/xemu/releases * XRoar 1.3.1 [Dragon/Coco] - http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/ * AmiArcadia 29.36, WinArcadia 29.36, DroidArcadia 1.0 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

* Flycast Dojo 0.5.14 [Arcade] - https://github.com/blueminder/flycast-dojo/releases * Gopher 0.20.0 [Atari 2600] - https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Gopher2600/releases/ * BigPEmu 1.052 [Atari Jaguar] - https://www.richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.php?content=download * FCEUX 2.6.5 [NES] - https://fceux.com/web/home.html * DCMOTO (2023-02-08) [Thomson] - http://dcmoto.free.fr/

* Flycast Dojo 0.5.11 [Arcade] - https://github.com/blueminder/flycast-dojo/releases * Emulicious (2023-01-31) [Multi-system] - http://emulicious.net/news/ * Simcoupe 1.2.12 [Sam Coupe) - https://github.com/simonowen/simcoupe/releases * Eighty-One 1.31 [Sinclair] - https://sourceforge.net/projects/eightyone-sinclair-emulator/files/

Moved topic to Raine forum.

* Flycast Dojo 0.5.9 [Arcade] - https://github.com/blueminder/flycast-dojo/releases * WinUAE 4.10.1 [Commodore Amiga] - https://www.winuae.net/ * Xemu 0.7.83 [X-Box] - https://github.com/xemu-project/xemu/releases * Eighty-One 1.30 [Sinclair] - https://sourceforge.net/projects/eightyone-sinclair-emulator/files/ * Wine 8.0 [Windows emulator for Linux] - https://www.winehq.org/ * GameEx 18.36 [Frontend] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

* GroovyMAME 0.251sr002o - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases * GroovyMAME 0.251sr002o for RPi - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/ * mGBA 0.10.1 [GBA] - https://mgba.io/ * RPCS3 0.0.26 [Sony PS3] - https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/releases * Nuance 0.6.4 [Nuon] - https://github.com/andkrau/NuanceResurrection/releases * MAMEUI 0.251 - https://messui.1emulation.com/mameui251.7z

* MAME 0.251 - https://www.mamedev.org/release.html * SDLMAME 0.251 for Ubuntu - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/ * GroovyMAME 0.250 switchres 2.002n - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases * MAME 0.251 for RPi - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/ * WolfMAME 0.251 - https://github.com/mahlemiut/wolfmame/releases * NegaMAME 0.251-1 - http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm * Raine 0.94.10 [Arcade] - https://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html * AppleWin 1.30.13.0 [AppleII] - https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/releases * Altirra 4.10 [Atari 8-bit] - https://virtualdub.org/altirra.html * Yape 1.2.2 [Commodore Plus/4] - http://yape.homeserver.hu/ * XRoar 1.3 [Dragon64/Tandy Color Computer] - http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/ * Emulicious (2022-12-31) [Multi-system] - http://emulicious.net/news/ * PPSSPP 1.14.4 [Sony PSP] - http://www.ppsspp.org/downloads.html * Erockus 10.5 [Front-end] - http://erockus.elementfx.com/arcade.html

I've changed the maximum for your group from 6 to 50 per day.

* Atari++ 1.85 [Atari 8-bit] - http://www.xl-project.com/downloads.html * ARCADE64 0.251.0 [Arcade] - https://arcade.mameworld.info/ * Vice 3.7.1 [Commodore 64] - https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/ * BigPEmu 1.04 [Atari Jaguar] - https://www.richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.php?content=download * Ares v131 [Multi-system] - https://ares-emu.net/download * WinArcadia 29.35 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * Nestopia UE 1.52.0 [NES] - http://0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia/ * Rom Properties 2.1 [Rom Manager] - https://github.com/GerbilSoft/rom-properties/releases * Rom Vault 3.5.2 [Rom Manager] - https://github.com/GerbilSoft/rom-properties/releases

* WinUAE 4.10.0 [Commodore Amiga] - https://www.winuae.net/download/ * Raine 0.94.8 [Arcade] - https://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html * Hoxs64 1.1.2.2 [Commodore C64] - https://www.hoxs64.net/ * BigPEmu 1.03 [Atari Jaguar] - https://www.richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.php?content=download * WinArcadia 29.34 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * PPSSPP 1.14.1 [Sony PSP] - http://www.ppsspp.org/downloads.html * NO$PSX 2.2 [Sony PSX] - http://problemkaputt.de/psx.htm * Clrmamepro 4.047 [Rom Manager] - https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/

Yes, but they can be loaded into MAME as loose software, or if they are fussy you can update the software lists with them. MAME isn't locked into software lists exclusively. Alternatively, FBNeo has a lot of homebrew console roms enabled. Besides, in the end, I don't want to spend time on it. Sorry.

HBMAME is for homebrew arcade. That's its purpose. I'm not sure what else you're expecting it to do.

Instead of working on this, what do you guys think of the idea of transplanting ARCADE64's frontend onto HBMAMEUI instead? Would that be something you'd prefer?

I'm not interested in an external UI - there's heaps of them around already. Using the internal join gives access to all kinds of things, and there's no need to rely on messy xml interfaces that lack important info.

Although MESSUI and MAMEUI are officially dead, similar technology is used by HBMAMEUI, which is still alive. So I wanted to find out what could be done to get WinUI working with a compiler newer than GCC 10.1. For whatever reason, ARCADE64 is fine with GCC 11.2 and has been using this version for some time. Since MESSUI is extremely unlikely to be seen again (since nobody has said anything since it was cancelled), I've done my experiments with it. The main issues with a newer GCC are: - Crash while building the tree (the things in the left pane) - All icons missing - A crash when a certain invalid screenshot was encountered. The screenshot issue was the first thing to fix. apexc.png was internally a wav file, so the code thought it was a jpeg and ran out of memory. This has been fixed, so now it will think the file doesn't exist. The treeview crash - I couldn't locate the exact bad code, so I used the version from ARCADE64 and then had to make extensive modifications to get it to fit in. But finally it's working. Lastly - the icon problem. Again, I haven't found the exact line of code, but I did learn quite a bit of how a listview works (or is supposed to work). MESSUI and MAMEUI have 3 listviews (main game list, loose software, swlist software), while ARCADE64 and HBMAMEUI only have 1 (main game list). A listview can have a choice of displays (small icons, large icons, list-only, and report (various columns)). We also have a variation of report called grouped (the clones are indented). When tested, the small icons and large icons were very slow to work, and in MAMEUI it appeared to hang. This stuff has been removed from ARCADE64, you just get report mode only, with a choice of small or large icons, and a further choice of indented or not. This works quite well. With a listview in report mode you can either have WIndows do the work for you, or you can have code to do it yourself, if it's something that is outside the scope of what Windows does. The loss of icons happens in this custom code, but I'm not sure exactly where yet. ARCADE64 gets Windows to do it, so the custom code doesn't exist. I decided to make the icon displays in MESSUI (main game list) the same as ARCADE64, as it is much faster. However this means that the choice of clone colour no longer does anything, so it will have to be removed. For the software lists, if you chose a different icon display for the main list, the software lists went a bit crazy, because of a bug joining them together when they should have been separate. This has now been fixed. I've left the software lists with the custom code, so their icons will be blank with the newer GCC. Everything else works the same as before. So, at this stage, MESSUI is working fine with the newer GCC, except that - You can't choose a separate colour for the clones - No icons in the "SW Files" tab (they will show if compiled with older GCC) I'll keep working on this, because eventually it will need to be transferred into HBMAMEUI.

* SDLMAME 0.250 for Ubuntu - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/ * NegaMAME 0.250-1 - http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm * Qemu 7.2.0 [PC] - https://download.qemu.org/ * BML3MK5 1.9.1 [Hitachi BML3 computer] - http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bml3mk5/download.htm * Hoxs64 1.1.2.1 [Commodore C64] - https://www.hoxs64.net/ * VBA_M 2.1.5 [GB/GBA] - https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases * BigPEmu 1.01 [Jaguar] - https://www.richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.php?content=download * Pantheon 12.144 [Multi-system] - http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/Download.htm * WinArcadia 29.33 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * PPSSPP 1.14 [PSP] - http://www.ppsspp.org/downloads.html * RetroArch 1.14.0 [Front-end] - https://www.libretro.com/

MAME 0.250 was released * Official - https://mamedev.org/release.html * ARCADE64 - https://arcade.mameworld.info/ * For RPi - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/ Other * Classic99 v399.063 [T.I. 99/4a] - https://harmlesslion.com/software/classic99/ * Emulicious (2022-11-30) [Multi-system] - http://emulicious.net/news/ * bsnes nightly (2022-11-25) [SNES] - https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes/releases * WinArcadia 29.32 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * 86box 3.11 [PC] - https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases