Ok, thought I'd better step in here and resolve any confusion people may have with the MAMEdOX release.
Is MAMEdOX a hack of Mameox?.Essentially, yes. It is not a new project. It builds on what Bendermike did in his Bendermameox releases. MAMEdOX is based on "Bendermameox 21.01.05" and includes all his updates.
Can you update the core to 0.93?This is the biggy. It's not impossible, it's just proven really difficult. As mentioned earier, Yoshi has had a go at updating the core as have a couple of others, but the input system in MAME 0.85 onwards saw a huge update, meaning a rewrite of the input code in mameox. I'm confident we'll eventually see a core update, but when we'll see it is another matter.
Why are there 3 people working on MAMEdOX?.Myself and HK$ coded all the updates. BritneysPAIRS helped with the support files and skinning. It's a joint effort.
Where can I find the release?.As you may know, it's not on xbins. It was posted to a torrent site and posted to the relevant usenet newsgroups. (thanks to you-know-who for that
) I'll sort out a cut-down release and ask Iriez about hosting it at xbins.
Can you add the new SPI/SEGA drivers? (Raiden Fighters 2 - 2000, Turbo Outrun etc.)Believe me, I'd love to be able to play the new SPI and SEGA games on the xbox. As you all know, there's been some great improvements with these drivers in recent versions of MAME, but adding them to MAMEdOX is out of my scope as a programmer. Both myself and HK$ have admitted we're not expert programmers. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I've attempted to add these drivers, but the code updates are too numerous for me to implement. I really hope someone more experienced can look into adding the drivers in future.
Are the updated Lightgun fixes included?As far as I know they aren't included, unless they were included with Bendermameox 21.01.05. I'll look into this. I don't have a lightgun myself, so I didn't think about checking this. Sorry about that.
The whole point of MAMEdOX was to tie up some loose ends in Mameox regarding the User Interface. There are no massive improvements over mameox, just fixes and updates that I thought would be neccessary. It's still the old MAME 0.84 core at the end of the day.
An more concise changelog follows...
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Interface improvements/modifications
* Added Back button to cycle through sort methods (by name, by manufacturer, by genre etc.)
The current sort mode is displayed at the top of the screen.
* Fixed Screenshots aspect ratio in display modes.
* Clones use screenshot from parent rom.
* Favourite roms are displayed as a different colour (gold).
* 'Show Favourites' filter now replaces 'filter disliked'.
* Renamed some text in UI for accuracy.
New Drivers
* MAME 0.92 driver added for Super Trio (suprtrio)
Extra Options
* Soften and Flicker Filter are now configurable.
* Ability to select whether clones use their own screenshot, or the screenshot from its parent rom.
* "Force VMM" is set to 'off' by default, this is to enable the use of the new updated VM.txt
* Miscellaneous Default options changed to be more user-friendly.
General Changes
* Changed save game location (was 4d414d45 now 4d414d46.)
* Changed save game icon.
* Debug.log logging removed.
* default skin updated to reflect UI changes.
Support Files
* cheat.dat, hiscore.dat and new catver.ini added
* samples and artwork added.
* New optimised VM.txt.
* New rom configs added to fix remapped keys.
* updated DAT's for romcenter and clrmame (DAT's not 100% tested.)
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Hope this clears things up a bit.
For anyone that's interested, I've set up a blog for mamedox at
http://mamedox.blogspot.com See this for more info.
(note: there are NO xbe's or roms at this site.)Thanks,
Ebsy.
