Hi. I recently started looking at MAME again (last time was version 0.139). I downloaded the file from the MAMEDev website and installed it. When I try to run the program, the screen goes black and my computer freezes. I have to unplug my computer and then plug it back in again to get the computer ...

Just wanted to bring my experience up. I use bgfx since I like the ease of use for using "shaders" or mask and chains, however the official way of saying it. Anyways whenever I hit tab, go in game menu to the sliders option where on bottom I can select different chains/shaders, game freez...

Hello everyone. I'm developing my own front end for mame. In order to extract the game list and features I extract the xml file from mame by running the commandline -listxml. In this output document are present all the games with relative features and properties and among them is present the resolu...

kwanbis wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:27 pm So anybody knows how I can report it? Or is this enough?

I'm pretty sure this has been reported by multiple people via the Github Issues. There also may already be a fix in current sources.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues

I tried playing Thayer’s Quest using .262 and was confused about how to enter some of the keyboard commands. I use the official binaries from this site. The TAB key seems to be locked out on this game as well as pressing ESC to exit. Any help would be greatly appreciated. You may have gotten this a...

ChewChew wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 2:27 pm Is there a simple batch file or example script that I can use to create the CHD delta files?

I would love to free up some space.

As far as I am aware you can take the latest version of ClrMAMEPro and use that to convert/make delta CHDs.
https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/

hi! when trying to run a homebrew rom (like https://notabug.org/nitrofurano/borielzxbasicexamples/src/master/examples/z80/segamastersystem/games/SimonTheSnake ) i'm getting this from the terminal: mame smsj -bp ~/.mame/roms -cart1 simonthesnake.sms Ignoring MAME exception: Unknown slot option 'xter...

Hi! For some reason, the release notes for MAME 0.257 claim that Arkanoidpe has been promoted to "working", but when you start the game, all you get is a "BAD HARDWARE" message and that's it... Works fine for 0.257 locally. Did you obtain the newly dumped MCU? That is now requir...

Dear Users, I have the following problem. I'll give my computer specs first: Dell Optiplex 360 System: Windows 10 Enterprise 64 BiT Processor: Pentium E5200 (2.5 GHZ) RAM: 3 GB - DDR2 Graphics: Intel G33/G31 (Integrated) The computer is connected to the TV via the VGA connector. I tried running two...

Hello dear community, so I've downloaded the newest BIOS-Pack for MAME (with the aristmk6.zip bios file) and I'm trying to launch a game. I've tried it with "50 Lions", "5 Dragons" and other MK6 games. I've first selected the game, let's say "50 Lions (10120511, NSW/ACT)&qu...