Thank you Tafoid, very detailed explanation. Unfortunately I'm running into a spaghetti jam of warning: cannot resolve "mingw-w64-i686-gcc-libs=10.1.0-3", a dependency of "mingw-w64-i686-gcc" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: mingw-w64-...

Thank you for the quick answer!
I have no idea how to solve the problem, I'll wait for the software to be update and become compilable again.

Hi, I just update to latest tree, and while doing a clean compiling I get an error: Archiving libemu.a... makefile:1080: recipe for target 'windows_x64' failed make: *** [windows_x64] Error 2 A few lines above there is a number of other errors: Compiling src/mame/drivers/fm7.cpp... In file included ...

In the old days of arcade galleries records where kept with an highly sophisticated and technological tool: a piece of chalk and a small blackboard hanging by the counter.
I still use the same solution at home with my MAME cabinet.

regarding 1) the info you look for are available into mame dat xml For every game in MAME, the xml lists something like the following: <input players="2" coins="2" service="yes"> <control type="joy" player="1" buttons="1" ways="4"...

where is the upvote button?

This should fix your problem.

The worlds "distribute" and "ROMs" do not go well together, because copyright, you know.

any text reader will do.
I suggest Notepad

I went through the whole process again, with the same (sad) result.
Anyone with the same experience?
Thanks.