My exams are still on-going, I've redone the site to avoid revision. Realised today it looks a bit pants on Netscape 4 (And probably IE4) because they don't support transparent .png's or .pngs for background images. (Looks good under IE5, MNS6/Mozilla and hopefully Opera 5 soon)
I've had a few requests for an update to include StretchMAMEb14c, I have only just released a new version (Also I wish to play with it a bit more first). I will probably wait until a new release from MAME/CPS2Shock (Whichever comes first)
Update: Added a link to Netplay K, XP's Kaillera league page
27/4/2001
New StretchMAME32k
Includes Kaillera 0.72, Powered Gear, DDSOM USA patch and Space Invaders DX USA patch ;-)
Get it from the download page
Look what I got for my birthday, a mini-invaders game with a real mirror
21/4/2001
It was my Birthday, And I have been partying hard. Unfortunately I have three weeks of my third year exams now so don't expect too much of interest.
I have however (By popular request) looked at adding an option to disable warning/ok screens on a per game/global scale. I've done it by passing an extra parameter to runmachine(). But I want to check that this would be acceptable under the MAME license, If not then I may have to make people tick a disclaimer or such before they can enable it.
Updated the MAME32QA Forum page, Things are really starting to take of Kaillera wise. The word is spreading and I plan to have my fair share of the input (Anyone who reads the Kaillera forums will know this).
Unfortunately there appears to be some hostility between the Japanese and Korean Players and also Christophe's server has been taking some serious punishment at certain times of the day.
If anyone has any little niggly features that they would like to see in MAME32 that don't really seem suitable to bug either Kaillera or StretchMAME authors about. Mail ME. Just no requests for save/load states or any more copies of the flipping Hybris virus (I'm not stupid ok!)
14/4/2001
Kaillera.com hasn't been responding for ~12 hours now. Unfortunately it is also the home of the server list, Christophe was having problems with MySQL previously so let's hope that's all it is and not some Lamer pinging him to death.
SMAME keeps on going, he seems to be working on the Stretched window mode at the moment. As usual he's released
beta's on his forum.
Roc mentioned me on the front page! Many thanks to MameWorld for the hosting, Shame the banner comes with the turf ;-)
Also note that my correspondence address is now t***ni**[email protected] (Censored 2003)
Apparently Zyclones has got hold of the elusive Tant-R Bootleg 2 rom that [Haze] had been keeping prisoner. Full b14 set at last.
Any feedback on my last release? I might start to get a bit more adventurous when I am back and do a bit of proper coding instead of relying on others. I also might stick my X-MAME/GLMAME Space Invaders cabinet model up
Nearly 12/4/2001
Christophe has released version 0.72 of Kaillera incorporating SMAME's Kaillera changes. Unfortunately you cannot really use the new .dll with my build as I haven't implemented the kailleraEndGame() call.
He's also made a few alterations to stop the neo-geo games de-synching. So if you are English DDSOM or StretchMAME (SSE optimisation etc) fan use my build otherwise get the official build from Kaillera.
Note: I'm away for 6 days, I can update the page but there will be no new builds. Let's hope there is not any new CPS2Shock releases
11/4/2001
I realised that StretchMAME doesn't have a region switch for DDSOM (Or 4P hack). So here it is, StretchMAME32kb14
Features:
StretchMAME 0.37b14
Kaillera 0.71
Dungeons & Dragons in ENGLISH and defaults to 4P for Kaillera
Go to the Download Page
10/4/2001
SMAME has incorporated Kaillera into the official Stretchmame source. He doesn't seem to be distributing binaries so if he doesn't mind I may put one up. For now I'll leave the old ones up but the source patches are useless
Just as I was beginning to enjoy the attention, quite a lot for such little work. On a lighter note, I'm moving to Mameworld.net so I'll find a few more goodies for you people yet!
9/4/2001
Where is DDSOM? I've added it and the region patched one to StretchMAMEb14 + Kaillera but I'm waiting for the fix that prevents the crashing to be released from SMAME
Tommorrow probably
I might be moving to Mameworld.net, Fingers crossed
8/4/2001
Update: have uploaded a source code patch to add Kaillera support to the new StretchMAME, I will not release a build as I expect Christophe will release one soon and it would be good to get everyone running the same build
StretchMAME b14 is out. Just as I got 13a fixed with MAME 0.37b14 ;-(
I don't know if I will release StretchMAME32k b14 because of all of the people that have just got b13. Desyncing occurs between different versions, especially as the 68000 has changed a bit since b13.
I reckon that was the last beta, only a few small games added. Roll 0n 0.37 FINAL.
I'm currently trying to negotiate rellocation as the hits are getting silly now! If anyone would like to host me (retrogames, mameworld etc.) please contact me.
7/4/2001
2000+ hits in a week!
Reminder: These are Unofficial builds of StretchMAME, CPS2MAME. Don't go asking the authors of this code about my builds. Ask Me.
This is at least 3 levels unofficial. Do NOT under any circumstances contact either the MAME32qa team or MAME.net about these
6/4/2001
Update:StretchMAME32k is up, 2849 games (including clones). Fixed the Bally/Midway ones
Hooray! StretchMAME has been released
We have 50% scanlines, MAME32b13 integration, region switches for CPS-2 games etc.
I have built it with Kaillera already, but have had to disable 77 Bally/Midway games (they were crap anyway, except for Rampage)
Check back soon for StretchMAME32k!!!!
Note: You need the DirectX8 SDK to build this version (Or change a declaration)
5/4/2001
Uploaded my FullAudit source patch (Adds full auditing to MAME32, Lists missing sets and samples) pic Note: you must not distribute builds including this code to respect the MAME license
What am I waiting for?
SMAME of StretchMAME fame to release the code to his betas or final code
Christophe, the author of Kaillera to realise a new version
MAME32qa to release either a VC6 makefile & fixed source for b13 or a version where the games all work and the MMX stuff works with gcc.
Raz of CPS2Shock to release a new game. I can almost feel DDSOM now!
1/4/2001 April Fools Day ;-)
Here are some of my logs of my havoc!
I build CPS2mame32k with Marvel Versus Capcom enabled (Using xmvsf roms) and set a game going!!
XMission-=ConsoleEmul.com=-
