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Now have interest of matain ports of SDLMAME to maemo, what the interest in mantain ports of SDLMESS?

Hi everyone, I'm new here so bear with me!

I have downloaded emulators for Nintendo, Megadrive and Gameboy etc. How do you download the games to play. When I open these emulators it brings up a page to load a file?

I'm completely new to this and have no experience in Maemo whatsoever.

Thanks,
Pia

Well, you need to have actual game rom to play anything. Roms are under copyright so telling where to find those is not recommended.

Emulator is like a real Nintendo console, you need actual game to play anything.

find some home brew roms then stick them in folder on mass memory where you can find them easy
when you get pop up saying load file use arrow to navigate directory to find the folder you made.
its best to have a folder for each emulator

Thanks for this port Flandry, I love MAME and it's wonderful to have it on the N900

I compiled xmame 0.106 for N900 (No Tested, Working with qemu!):
http://maemo.vivaphp.net/fremantle/xmame_0.106_n900.deb

And for N800/N810 (Tested and Working):
http://maemo.vivaphp.net/pool/xmame_0.106_armel.deb

I think sdlmame so slow, then xmame... but there are game working on sdlmame and anothers on xmame...

Thanks!

I will try this when I get home. SDLMAME does play almost every rom I have tried, but seems to be slow for about 60% of the games I tried. I was hoping it was an optimization issue. If not, it will be about equal to XMAME, since will end up being playable for about the same amount for games.

Still, 106 is way better than 034 / 35b that most use with portable devices

Would be very cool if SDLMAME could be faster and I appreciate both of your efforts! Does XMAME have the same interface and game search as SDLMAME?

BTW, I appreciate that the N900 is not going to play all games perfectly. I mainly tried games that work on the DS (Neo Geo), PSP, G1 and Droid. The latter three play MAME 034b / 35 and Final Burn.

MAME 106 would cover a lot more games than work on those devices. MAME 135 playing smoothly would be Nirvana. Except 3D games of course, since most do not play well on my Q8200.

xmame 0.106 is same as Gentoo and Ubuntu PC distros...

I used this FLAGs for optimization...
#N8xx
CFLAGS = -O2 -mcpu=arm1136j-s -mtune=arm1136j-s -fomit-frame-pointer -fsigned-char -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=softfp
#N900
CFLAGS = -O2 -mcpu=cortex-a8 -mtune=cortex-a8 -fomit-frame-pointer -fsigned-char -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp

I appreciate the effort with 106!

The current version of SDLMAME on the N900 is very impressive for a young project. Hard to believe some of these games actually load up, yet alone play. I am finding more games that play smooth that I did not expect. The first time I have ever had an up to date MAME play on a device this size. Sure hope Flandry keeps up the great work on this.

The nice thing about MAME 135 is no need to hunt for a 106 set. I updated to 135, so hope the fallout is not too high

Might need to go a Googlin' tonight.

Update on 135. Wow, earlier versions of Golden Tee Golf plays perfectly. Tons of potential here folks

Hey! Big thanks for keeping us cheapo N8x0 users remembered with this release.

You rock Anunakin!



Anyone else find it weird that the some of the images for these old arcades are bigger in byte size then the game itself?