MAME gameslists by version and samples

[Carlito3]

So I've finished building my Taito Trimline MAME cabinet (see separate post under restorations) and am installing MAME to work with one joystick and 6 buttons.

I have the 1 joystick with 6 buttons set up because:

- The Control Panel is not big enough for 2 joysticks

- 1 joystick is fine for me for all the classics I like to play

- I need 6 buttons so me and the kids can play one of their favourite games - Neck N Neck

- I need 6 buttons to play one of my favourite games Track and Field

I installed ROMs for my favourite game of all time - Space Invaders - but he sound using latest version of MAME is pants! I knew about the removal of the samples in earlier versions of MAME so I'd like to roll back to the last MAME version that used samples.

The latest version of MAME does not have the hi-score save function. I know about compiling to add it back in but I'm sure just using an earlier version of MAME that had the feature would be quicker and easier wouldn't it?

The version of Neck N Neck that I have freezes with a "Machine has run out of tickets" message at the end of each race so I have to quit MAME to front end then go back in

Anyways, long story short - I want a version of MAME that:

- Has the Hi-score save feature

- Has Space Invaders samples

- Has a fully working version (i.e. without the ticket machine emulation)of Neck N Neck

So here's my question - is there a definitive list somewhere that shows when games were first supported by MAME?

I will go with the first version that supports Neck N Neck and see if the other 2 features are available from there. I KNOW I used to have my Nirvana MAME set up when I had a cabinet from Candy Cabs - it had all of the above - but I never kept the MAME program when I flogged that machine!

Cheers for any help/advice

Andy
Carlito32017-03-08 13:52:35

 

[jiytee]

Hi Andy,

(1) from within the service menu (Neck'n'neck) can you not just set the ticket machines to off?

(2) which version of mame are you using - I thought mame was still using the invaders samples.
If so, did you try a different flavour of samples? I think theres about 5 unofficial sets which may give you are looking for..

(3) Hi score, as you say, the official mames don't support (as did a number of the original machines which I think is why it was removed) this but rather than recompile there are, again, various flavours which cover this MameUI, IVplay & ArCade 64 have it on as default.....
You could also just use the save state save/load if you dont update the builds very often this is an ideal method....(be careful though as updating any build will probably render older savestates invalid, or it used to!)

I wouldnt recommend using a rollback set, for no other reasons than you'll have to (possibly) obtain the older roms that correspond to that build which can be messy to find, not impossible though)

Hope that helps.