![]() Andrew dumped a Mad Alien set from his PCB, everything (including program ROMs and PROM) matched the 'madaliena' set in MAME apart from the bg graphics + bg tilemap ROM Unfortunately one of the unique things about the madaliena set was the gfx, which were closer to the 'Highway Chase' graphics (Desert / Boat themed instead of Vegas themed) however, the PCB it was dumped from had a bad rom. I was hoping Andrew's set would provde us with the good gfx rom, but as his gfx matched the parent set instead, it didn't. I can't repair it using gfx extracted from Highway chase either as one of the tiles is unique. Rather than removing the set with the unique gfx (albeit one rom missing) I've renamed it to 'madalienb' in the hope that a board with the proper ROMs for it shows up one day, I'm guessing it will have 'mc-1' etc. naming on the gfx roms, as the other two sets are simply 'mc.3k' Andrew's set is now 'madaliena' |
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README.md |
What is MAME?
MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of video-game history. As gaming technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents these important "vintage" games from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the games are playable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?).
What is MESS?
MESS (Multi Emulator Super System) is the sister project of MAME. MESS documents the hardware for a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles, and calculators, as MAME does for arcade games.
The MESS and MAME projects live in the same source repository and share much of the same code, but are different build targets.
How to compile?
If you're on a *nix system, it could be as easy as typing
make
for a MAME build, or
make TARGET=mess
for a MESS build (provided you have all the prerequisites).
For Windows users, we provide a ready-made build environment based on MinGW-w64. Visual Studio builds are also possible.
Where can I find out more?
- Official MAME Development Team Site (includes binary downloads for MAME and MESS, wiki, forums, and more)
- Official MESS Wiki
- MAME Testers (official bug tracker for MAME and MESS)