MAME + tile saving edition

[Deedolith]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

I'm not sure they want to do that.

They ? Mame team ? Certainly not as they do not provide custom releases (it is not their goal).
People (like me) doing custom releases, certainly interrested.

[zambot3]

"error opening translation file english" ?

[jotd]

MAME has a github, you could provide a pull request with those amazing changes.

They're not complete jerks. I'm in no way a MAME developper, but I had proposed a PR for some obscure long 68040 TRAP instructions that had a bug in many emulators, and they integrated it.

[SteveMoody]

The code for this has been on Github for quite a while, I can try updating it to the latest verison of MAME and see if it builds, it's been broken before by core changes in MAME.

https://github.com/SteveMoody73/mame/tree/gfxsave

I don't mind creating a pull request for MAME but I wonder if they would be wary of changes like this. Being able to save potentially copyrighted material for use in other projects could be a problem for them.

[jotd]

Originally Posted by SteveMoody

The code for this has been on Github for quite a while, I can try updating it to the latest verison of MAME and see if it builds, it's been broken before by core changes in MAME.

https://github.com/SteveMoody73/mame/tree/gfxsave

I don't mind creating a pull request for MAME but I wonder if they would be wary of changes like this. Being able to save potentially copyrighted material for use in other projects could be a problem for them.

They already allow snapshots, videos and show tiles too. I don't think it would be a problem. Would be nice if it was integrated officially.

[jotd]

BTW, dumped graphics in fullscreen mode and the dumps were truncated. I tried again with -window option and it worked fine

[SteveMoody]

Originally Posted by jotd

BTW, dumped graphics in fullscreen mode and the dumps were truncated. I tried again with -window option and it worked fine

That's strange but never tied running it in full screen mode for this. MAME must handle it differently somehow.



I did try looking at the latest version of MAME to create a PR for this but had issues getting it to build under Windows. Unfortunatly I don't have much free time at the moment so will come back to this sometime in the future.