yes I read bannister forums but received unsuccessful results. Would someone just upload here or bit torrent the files or write a very good details run to sdlmame. Yes I have read the instructions for this many times but still confused and doesn't fully explain. I wish this was simple as MAME osx emu, but. Yes I have downloaded the SDL, SDLMAME v0.136 32-bit Universal Binary, xcode. I know very little about the terminal giving me errors and being denied.

I have tried to get this run, but I'm so lost. At the moment I would like to play with SDLMAME, but I'm having trouble setting it up. The reason I'm here is that I use MAME OSX to play some arcade games which is good. I use to visit this site back in 06-08 and found out there was some new changes to the site recently. Hi maybe I'm kinda new since I haven't been here for awhile now. mame gamename.zip to load a specific game directly without loading the rom list. You can also load a game and press Tab to configure general and game-specific inputs.

To load the emulator, just change the directory in the shell like earlier (if you didn't close Terminal it should be changed already) and type './mame', you should see the roms list now, as well as the 'Configure General Inputs' option. I changed it because full screen apparently disables Spaces. If you want to play in windowed mode instead of full screen, change the 'window' value from 0 to 1. For example, the roms folder will be located at '/Applications/SDLMAME/roms'Ĭhange the video mode from 'soft' to 'opengl' Since I moved the main folder to /Applications, I changed all the paths as well. You can open it with any text editor ( ).Ĭhange the paths if you want. Type './mame -cc' to create the mame.ini file that serves as the emulator's configuration.

In my case that would be 'cd /Applications/SDLMAME' (without the quotes) Open the shell (Terminal) and change the directory to the folder you put it in. Rename if you want (I changed it to 'SDLMAME') and place it wherever (I put mine in the Applications folder). If you don't want to run it from the shell, use the frontend linked above.ĭownload the SDL runtime library from here:, then put the SDL.framework folder into /Library/Frameworksĭownload and extract the binary. Here is a (hopefully) brain dead explanation for how to run SDLMAME in the shell, assuming you know absolutely jack about it (I'm referring to Terminal, just in case). (A frontend for SDLMAME, check the downloads section.)

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