MAMEUI64 0.280.0

[Robert]

MAMEUI64  0.280.0 has been released.

 

Available at https://messui.1emulation.com

 

References to "SW Files" have been changed to "Loose SW", which is the more commonly known name.

[Thartchen]

When I left-shift+F7 quickload my saved game state on Gun.Smoke in v0.280.0 the game loads incorrectly with the sprites appearing off-screen and staying invisible during game play. Reverting back to 0.279.0 and the problem goes away.

[Robert]

What happens with standard MAME 0.280 ?

[Thartchen]

Same thing, 0.279 is fine and 0.280 borks the quicksave when its loaded.

[Robert]

If it's happening with MAME then you'd have to ask the developers. That having been said, I asked one of them to check and they said there was nothing wrong.

 

However if you made the savestate with 0.279 and then you're trying to load it into 0.280, then they have no support for using a savestate between versions. In that case then it's just bad luck.

[StHiryu]

Yeah is well known that save states are incompatibles between mame versions.

[Thartchen]

10 hours ago, StHiryu said:

Yeah is well known that save states are incompatibles between mame versions.

WTH, really? That sort of limits my ability to upgrade. I've spent weeks getting to level 3 of 6 on Gun.Smoke after playing it for 40 years 😭

Seems its a known limitation with mame as implementing cross platform / crossOS save states would be an enormous amount of work

https://www.reddit.com/r/MAME/comments/icnbe0/is_there_a_way_to_migrate_state_files_between/

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/13449 

Thanks for answering tho peeps 👍