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My custom mame control panel design and any arcade / game related info.

Sunday, July 30, 2006

New Mame version .107

Excerpt from Newvideo.txt
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The New Video Landscape

Since its inception 9 years ago, MAME’s video system has defaulted to
a mode where it tries to change resolutions on you. And since the
first port of the core to Windows 5 years ago, it has defaulted to
using your graphics card to stretch the video to that resolution.

I’m sure a lot of you out there have taken a lot of time to tweak the
current set of video options to make them work the way you like. But
every once in a while, you need to take a step back and re-evaluate
the situation. The current video system has been in place for 5 years
now without much substantial change. And with the recent rewrite,
you’re almost certainly going to want to rethink the way you have
things configured.

At the highest level, there are really three different ways you can
configure the new system. Placing yourself into one of these three
categories will help you get the initial settings right. From there,
you can tweak with the settings to figure out what works best.....

Sunday, July 23, 2006

The Arcade Flyer Archive

Now that the front end is finished, I needed to find all the cool flyers of the classic arcade games. That's when I found TAFA.

"The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA) is your premier source for classic arcade video game promotional flyers. These video game flyers offer a unique view of classic video game history. Check back often as we are always updating the arcade flyer archive with new flyers and improved scans of existing arcade flyers."

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Mame Front Ends


For the front end I chose MameWah. Mainly because the Ultimarc IPAC comes pre-programmed for it. I did not have to do any programming to the IPAC what so ever. Mamewah is very flexible, it comes with a skin utility so can create your own design and layouts. It uses .ini files to configure many of its features, make sure to read the help files that accompany it. This is a screen shot of the Skin that I use. I tried several other front ends but I wasn't happy with any of them. You can check out many other front ends at MameWorld.net