Hi
What is the preferred method of updating Mame on each release? I would like to preserve current configurations (i.e remapped buttons, hiscores, etc). Is it just a case of copying over the new executable?
Most of the time, it is a simple issue of downloading the latest binary and overwriting and duplicate files with the ones in the package. Rarely, there will be work done which will cause older .cfg files will need to be redone or certain commands stored in your mame.ini may have changed which will be announced with the released if widespread breakage of old files is expected. Beyond that, there isn't much to worry about. The hiscore script (which is an LUA plugin in official distribution) is very unlikely to regress and, depending on if work is submitted to the hiscore.dat file, there may even be increased compatibility (new clones/machines covered).Graham wrote:Hi
What is the preferred method of updating Mame on each release? I would like to preserve current configurations (i.e remapped buttons, hiscores, etc). Is it just a case of copying over the new executable?
In my case, the up and down directions didn't work (within Mame GUI). At first I thought maybe the joystick wasn't supported under this version of Ubuntu (as it had worked in previous versions). Once into the game, left and right (inc. buttons) would work but still no up and down . Even though all directions were assigned to Joy1 Up, Joy1 Down, Joy1 Left and Joy1 Right. I ended up re-assigning these buttons which then appeared as "Joy1 A3 DragonRiseInc.GenericUSB Joystick -" and "Joy1 A3 DragonRiseInc.GenericUSB Joystick +".gabriel.klein wrote:Does the issue with joypad is related to joypad called joy1 joy2 then joy3 joy4
How did you fixed it?
I may have the same issue
Probably related to
https://www.reddit.com/r/MAME/comments/ ... _on_a_mac/