Mame 126 or 127?

[magostin]

hi all,


question time:

i have mame 126 and the accompanied 126 full romset.
now mame 127 is out and the 126-127 rom set update is out.

so i assume i should get these , my question is, why?

-will some games that never worked work now?
-will there be more games listed in 127? and in the update be more games i don't have?
-is their any other advantages to do this?

ive also noticed with mame 127 some rom names have changed, so do i have to manually go and rename some roms and the xml listing of those roms for hyperspin?



lastly, does mame update every year? will their be a mame 128 sometime next year. or do they update every few months and we have to constantly be updating this info over and over?



thnx,

magostin

[Dazz]

Mame updates about 4 to 5 times a month... Right now MAME is at 0.127u6. You don't have to stay updated at all if you don't want to. I normally update every 3 or 4 full releases.

MAME updates is usually to move games form one status to another. Normally if a game is not working in one release, they might have found a fix to make that game work. The best thing to do is to keep an eye on the MameDev site, and if they fix a game you want to play then update at that time. It is completely up to you if you update or not.

[Goalies Rule]

Personally, what I do is update every major release. For example, I'll update .125, .126, .127, and .128 when it comes out. However, I dont get caught up in the minor updates (u1, u2 updates). There's a release every month or 2 and every release adds games, makes some games perform better/worse, and introduces/fixes bugs.

Its just about 15-20 min worth of work to update everything when its released. Thats 15-20 min worth of work every month. Its keeps me up to date about whats happening. It looks like theyre adding support for the NAOMI roms this release. They wont run that well (if at all), but I'll have them for the future.

No matter if you decide to update or not in the future, be sure to get .127. They introduced some optimizations that really speed up some formally sluggish games. Its a no brainer if youre on .126

[paulstevens]

No matter if you decide to update or not in the future, be sure to get .127. They introduced some optimizations that really speed up some formally sluggish games. Its a no brainer if youre on .126

What optimizations were done? And more to the point, what games that were previously sluggish are now running faster?

What are specs of your box?

Thanks!

[The Loafer]

Can you give some examples of games that are much better now? I'm on 0.118, so are we talking about games that 0.126 caused slow down and 0.127 fixed, or do the 0.127 fixes games that date way back, past 0.118?

[Goalies Rule]

Sorry guys, just peeking at the boards. Going off memory, it was more of the higher end games. It was the games that used SH-2 DRC. You'll just have to google for the actual list. I found a chart of a few games. games that someone ran a benchmark for. Now keep in mind, this is a higher end cpu, and Im running a AMD 5000+ OC'd to 3.1 ghz.