Install AdvMAME 3 on retropie

caver01

@herb_fargus said in Install AdvMAME 3 on retropie:

@markwkidd dats and compatibility list should be the same no? at least as far as content is the same as it is still based on the same romset, might have been a few bugs fixed with a few games.. how many hairs do we want to split on variations of builds within the same romset?

You are right. Same .106 romset. No reason to have a new compatibility list.

caver01

@BuZz said in Install AdvMAME 3 on retropie:

@caver01 it should have created advmame.rc (for v3.3). I'll double check - could be a bug.

Ok, thanks for checking. If it helps, I am pretty sure I built my system using a 3.6 image and I have been updating the script and binaries along the way. It is fair to say my AdvMAME has not been updated since the image (no reason to) until I updated the script then advmame binary as described above.

BuZz

@caver01 I just installed advmame on a fresh install and the advmame.rc was created correctly.

caver01

@BuZz Weird. Well, who knows. I figured I would start with a new image for the next release anyway. Thanks for checking into it.

tribunal88

I just thought of something else. What's going to be done with the advmame.rc file in the next version? Will it be overwritten? Is there a way to merge mappings or will we lose our current settings? I ask this because thanks to my request for 5+ player support, the 3.4 .rc file has just about 2x as many default settings as 3.3.

caver01

@markwkidd I finally went ahead and updated the AdvanceMAME section of the MAME wiki with the more accurate stuff regarding controls and the .rc file (the copy/pasted text about deleting a .cfg file etc. was inaccurate).

caver01

Ok, so I made my adjustments to the AdvanceMAME section of the MAME wiki here, but I see this is not propagated into the "fancy" docs here. Is there something I need to do to allow the edits to carry forward? @herb_fargus is this something you do on an occasional basis? No hurry if so, but with recent updates to AdvMAME, there is probably a fair amount of interest.

BuZz

@caver01 It's a process which is triggered manually, when @herb_fargus is happy with the recent edits. Thanks for your contributions.

caver01

@BuZz That's perfect, and appropriate. Thanks!

herb_fargus

@caver01 hopefully I will find a moment to look them over this evening to regenerate the docs. I'm sure they are fine (I don't use mame really at all so i appreciate you filling in the gaps)