Robert

MESS, MESSUI and MAMEUI 0.243 are released. https://messui.1emulation.com/ https://arcade.mameworld.info/messui Changes: - All previous reversions and associated hacks have been removed, all left-out bits are added back. - Documented all the needed alterations in another thread. - Some new software icons added, and some changed. - For the command-line MESS, fixed the annoying bios errors and associated files missing messages (for example, from the default UI, run a neogeo game followed by some other game would give a message about missing files)

7z will always be slower, because it doesn't have an internal directory. This stuff is all the same as MAME, I have no reason to change it.

Oh, I forgot. I'll do it in a few hours. And you need to look for "tag243".

https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2022-04-27 0.243 Fixed gauntlet2 regressions. New Games --------------------------------- - [ffightaeh04] Final Fight 30th Anniversary Edition Mad Gear's City (2022-04-12) - [jrpacplus] Jr Pac-Plus - [manpac] Man-Pac - [sailormnh05] Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (Reign of Terror) v1.6 - [sf2mix110] Street Fighter II: Champion Edition (Mix 1.1) - [sfz3mix07a] Street Fighter Zero 3 (Mix 0.07a) - [sfz3mix09] Street Fighter Zero 3 (Mix 0.09) - [sfz3mix] Street Fighter Zero 3 (Mix 0.10)

I hadn't heard of either of these products. So, I decided to find out what they are. Snapchat seems to be a short-term photo sharing platform for Americans only, and they want your phone number. No thanks. Bluestacks is more interesting, apparently an emulator allowing one to play Android games on your Windows PC.

* QEMU 7.0.0 [PC] - https://download.qemu.org/ * Mark5 1.8.7 [Hitachi BML3/Peach] - http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bml3mk5/download.htm * 86box 3.4.1 [PC] - https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases * VB81_XuR (2022-04-16) [Sinclair] - http://zx81.vb81.free.fr/ * GameEx 17.22 [Front-end] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

JR100 Today I added a new hack into MESS/MESSUI only. This fixes a VIA bug by changing its clock frequency on the fly. The result is that the jr100 can save and load cassettes correctly. It's too much of a hack to be considered for MAME.

DEFAULT INPUTS src/emu/inpttype.cpp lines 877, 878: change Pause button to the Pause key on the keyboard. The old P key is needed for other things. line 915: In MAME, the default Paste key doesn't work. Moved to RightShift+PgUp.

EXTRA SLIDERS src/frontend/mame/ui/ui/cpp line 1490,1519: extra sliders such as overclocking are normally only available if cheating is enabled. We make these sliders always available.

DIRECT3D src/osd/modules/render/draw3d.cpp lines 1063-1113: various tests for old video cards have been commented out. In MAME you would get a fatal error or black screen. In MAMEUI the worst you'll get is a black screen, but more likely it will work. So, messages such as "Your graphics card does not fully support non-power-of-two" won't be seen.

* Emma 02 v1.45 [Cosmac-related] - https://www.emma02.hobby-site.com/download.html * Play 0.51 [PS2] - https://purei.org/ * Classic99 v399.058a [T.I.99/4A] - http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/onesoft.cgi?1 * dgVoodoo 2.78.2 [Plugin] - http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/

* SDLMAME 0.242 for Ubuntu - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/ * GroovyMAME 0.242 - Switchres 2.002h - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases * MAME 0.242 for RPi - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/ * MAMEUI 0.242 - http://www.mameui.info/ * WolfMAME 0.242 - https://github.com/mahlemiut/wolfmame/releases * ArcCabView MAMEUI64 0.242 - https://houba-mame.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html * DCALICE (2022-04-01) [mc10, Alice] - https://houba-mame.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html * Gopher 0.17.0 [Atari 2600] - https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Gopher2600/releases/ * WinArcadia 28.5 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * Simcoupe 1.2.10 [Sam Coupe] - https://github.com/simonowen/simcoupe/releases * Eighty-One 1.28 [Sinclair] - http://sourceforge.net/projects/eightyone-sinclair-emulator/files/ * Classic99 v399.058 [T.I.99/4A] - http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/onesoft.cgi?1 * QMC2 0.242 [Frontend] - https://github.com/qmc2/qmc2-mame-fe

There's most likely more changes that were done as a test and then forgotten about, or simply never documented. Hopefully these will be sorted out soon.

NONAG src/emu/video.cpp line 967: changed "> 0" to "> 1". Then you must choose -str 1 from the command line (or seconds to run = 1 in the GUI). This is for MESS/MESSUI/ARCADE64 only, in order to comply with licensing restrictions.

INP_HEADER This is needed by all derivatives to allow the loading of INP files. However a pointless refactor 2 months ago made this class private, and not available. src/emu/ioport.cpp src/emu/ioport.h Moved the inp_header class from ioport.cpp back to ioport.h where it belongs.

GIGATRON src/devices/cpu/gigatron/gigatron.cpp line 94: commented out because MESSUI would crash when this system was started. Still needed?

PA_SOUND 2022-04-27 hack not needed, changed back to standard

ABOUT src/frontend/mame/ui/about.cpp line 51: In the About header, MAME shows a revision number, however this only works if the exe was compiled on an internet-enabled computer. For me, it always says "unknown" which is useless. Therefore it's changed to show the creation date instead.

SLOTS src/emu/mconfig.cpp line 102: there's a fatal error if an unknown slot option is encountered. This has been changed to a warning because the system will handle the problem gracefully anyway. MAME has more than enough ways to crash as it is.

WARNING OF NO SOUND src/frontend/mame/ui/info.cpp line 211: line has been commented out. Not sure exactly what it's about. The note says "The no sound hardware warning doesn't make sense when you plug in a sound card". Need to find out more.

SOFTWARE LISTS src/emu/softlist_dev.cpp Many pointless changes were reverted to keep winui working, mostly to do with the dangerous string_view statement. line 94, 294-305: this area was refactored and it broke things, reverted to a working state. src/emu/softlist_dev.h line 152: added back needed definition of m_file. src/emu/softlist.cpp line 122, 140, 146, 564: get rid of string_view so things can work again. src/emu/softlist.h line 124, 142: adjust pointers to fit with the above.

VIDEO SPEED from NewUI. src/emu/video.h line 58: addition of pointer to the speed adjuster. This had been removed in a pointless refactor a few years back, but we need it.

AUDITING OF ROMS src/frontend/mame/audit.cpp line 710-783: only report on roms that the user can fix. There's no point complaining of no dumps and bad dumps, when there's nothing the user can do about it. src/emu/romload.h line 415: returns number of no-dumps and bad-dumps. We don't need this, so return 0. src/frontend/mame/audit.cpp line 707 to the end: new audit routine to support the above ideas. src/frontend/mame/audit.h line 162: pointer to the above.

DEFAULT LANGUAGE 2022-04-27 removed this hack, it's back to standard.

CATEGORIES IN MAME MENU 2022-04-20: this issue has been resolved