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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: KTURNER on March 21, 2017, 01:18:36 PM

Title: multiple mame
Post by: KTURNER on March 21, 2017, 01:18:36 PM

Sorry if this has ben answered, if it has I couldn't find it. Say you have 100 mame roms and 50 work on one version and the other 50 work on another version can you have them all show up on the same wheel?

Title: Re: multiple mame
Post by: djrobx on March 21, 2017, 03:11:00 PM

If you edit a specific game (Esc+Down by default) you can customize the command line that gets run.  That's probably the easiest way to handle it.

Alternatively, the rom list actually is what contains the emulator profile that runs (open the rom list in a text editor, you'll see the third column is "mame", this refers to the mame emulator in your emulator list.

sfexa;Street Fighter EX;Mame;sfex;1996;Capcom / Arika;Fighter...
sfex2p;Street Fighter EX2 Plus;Mame;;1999;Capcom / Arika;Figh...
sf2ce;Street Fighter II': Champion Edition;Mame;;1992;Capcom;..

You could set up a second "mame" emulator (say altmame), and go through the rom list and change the ones you want from mame to altmame.   If you are really talking about modifying 50 games it might be faster/easier than specifying 50 custom command lines. 

 

Title: Re: multiple mame
Post by: xbs on March 22, 2017, 04:06:21 AM

Separate the roms into folders (e.g. roms/mame_139 and roms/mame_146) and set up two separate MAME emus.
In AM create a multiple rom list and choose both MAME emus for the multi list.

Title: Re: multiple mame
Post by: KTURNER on March 22, 2017, 06:54:22 AM

I did not realize it was that easy. Thanks!