xmame patches

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News

• 2002/03/26: long absence - the CPS-2 hype is over, MAME has most important releases already. However, sys2064 has gone down for an unknown reason. Until then, I'm hosting Till's history.zip here (actually needed for the FreeBSD port). I'll remove it when sys2064 gets back.
• 2001/08/03: OK, OK, that was a bit premature... Anyway, just before I'm gone on another week of vacation, here's an update up til release #45. Yes I know CPS2shock is up to #48, but Razoola hasn't released the source for those yet, due to MAME core changes.
• 2001/07/18: Back from vacation. I'll update to the latest releases tomorrow.
• 2001/06/27: Skipped one update, but back with an update to the latest releases, #41 & #42.
• 2001/06/14: Updated the CPS2 patch to the latest release, #39: Street Fighter Zero 2 (Japan 960227).
• 2001/06/08: Updated the CPS2 patch to the latest release, #38: X-Men: Children of the Atom (Japan 941208 rent version).
• 2001/05/29: Two weeks of business done, now for the catching up. Updated the CPS2 patch to the latest release, #37: Street Fighter Zero 3 (Japan 980629).
• 2001/05/14: Added a quick compile howto.
• 2001/05/13: Updated PinMAME patch to version 0.99b3.
• 2001/05/13: Updated CPS2 patch to the latest release, #34: Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (USA 960209). xpinmame patch probably later today (testing as I write this).
• 2001/05/08: Updated CPS2 patch to the latest release, #33: Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (Japan 940113). I haven't actually tested the shots factory much, if you do, please let me know. It's only compiled in if you set your target in the makefile to cpsmame.
  I know there is a new pinmame release, it's also coming.
• 2001/04/29: Updated CPS2 patch to the latest release, #32: Powered Gear: Strategic Variant Armor Equipment.
• 2001/04/25: Updated pinmame patch to 0.99b2, xmame 0.37b14.1.
• 2001/04/23: Well what do you know, I did find the time. Updated CPS2-patch to the latest release, #30: Marvel Super Heroes (Hispanic 951117).
• 2001/04/23: I'm aware of the new xmame & cps2 version, but I'm a bit busy at the moment. I'll probably have a new patch up tomorrow.
• 2001/04/17: updated CPS2-patch to the latest release, #29: 19xx: The War Against Destiny (Hispanic).
• 2001/04/15: whoops - didn't test my work as thoroughly as I should have. There were some problems running ddsom & ddsomj with the previous patch, so please download the newest one and try again. Sorry!
• 2001/04/14: been busy @ work, so I had no time to update the CPS2 patch until today. But I've caught up again, up to release #28.
• 2001/04/09: after a network outage this weekend, this page is back up with new patches against xmame-0.37b13.2, which got released during that time.
• 2001/04/01: updated pinmame patch to 0.99b1. Also checkout the official site.
• 2001/03/30: and then things got hectic :) anyway, xmame 0.37b13.1 was released, so I could port the CPS2 patches again. On top of that, PinMame did a release, so I also ported that - which together took me nearly a day :) oh well..
• 2001/03/27: it's been a slow week, mainly because xmame lags behind regular MAME, which makes it difficult to backport the CPS2 patches (which are against 0.37b13). Updates soon. As for WPCMame, they renamed to PinMame and now have a preliminary website online.
• 2001/03/19: back from a busy week; updated patches to be against xmame-0.37b12.1 release.
• 2001/03/11: updated both patches to be against pre4; actually only changed the filenames, because the patches still applied cleanly.
• 2001/03/10: updated CPS2 patch to include release #20: 19XX: The War Against Destiny.
• 2001/03/08: added xwpcmame patch for 0.37b12.1pre2.
• 2001/03/07: added index webpage.
• 2001/03/07: updated CPS2 patch to include release #19: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (USA 940223).

CPS2Mame

• CPS2 patch, that adds all CPS2 games from CPS2mame up until release #45: Capcom Sports Club (Japan 970722).

  'Note that this is at least two levels unofficial, so please don't bother the mame team, Razoola, or for that matter anyone else about it not working or being slow etc.'
     -- Dan Beimborn, CPS2Mame for Linux.

XPinMame

• PinMAME patch, that transforms xmame into the Pinball rom simulator.
  I'm looking for something like Visual Pinball for *NIX - anybody know anything?

A quick compile howto:

1. Get the sources to xmame, and of course one of the patches above.
2. $ tar xyvf xmame-0.37b14.2.tar.bz2
3. $ cd xmame-0.37b14.2
4. $ gunzip -c ../xmame-0.37b14.2-cps2-20010511.patch.gz | patch -p0
5. $ vi makefile.unix
   Then set all parameters for your system (the preferred display method is SDL - although you'll need the SDL development package installed, it allows you to switch to fullscreen and back among other things).
6. $ make -f makefile.unix
   (or gmake, depending on whether you're running Linux or *BSD).
7. The resulting binary is xmame.<displaymethod>
   E.g., try $ xmame.SDL -listfull to see the games your binary supports.

Links

• MAME, the best emulator there is.
• xmame, there's a MAME for every UNIX.
• CPS2Shock, without whom CPS2 emulation would still be impossible.
• CPS2Mame for Linux, the inspiration for the CPS2 patch.
• PinMame, formerly WPCMame.

Thanks to

• The MAME team for the emulator.
• Lawrence Gold for maintainership of xmame, and of course all others who have supported, or still support xmame.
• Dan Beimborn for the inspiration for xcps2mame.
• The PinMAME team for making pinmame possible.
• Tinus for porting wpcmame in the first place.