Emu Loader 2.6 beta 6 and Lite 1.2

posted in Frontend News by xip on Jul 3rd, 2001

Here's a quick release of Emu Loader to correspond with the recent release of MAME. These are the new features: 2.6 beta 6
  • "Automatic Game Information" is a lot faster now The file "mameinfo.dat" is loaded into memory so the reading can be faster (only when this option is enabled)
  • The emulator executable is now checked before executing games. It was generating "access violation" errors if the emulator was not found
  • Optimized a little the loading process. Everything is loading faster, specially the real icons loading
  • Changed some debugger messages to speed up the games loading a bit
  • Fixed a slideshow bug that was not setting the picture type to In-Game Snapshot when selecting another game (only when slideshow is active)
  • Now all built-in games icons are loaded from external files, which means that you can customize eve more the games list
  • Set all screens to use the first monitor (in case you have more than one monitor in your Windows configuration)
  • All documentation files are updated for EL version 2.6 beta 6
  • Fixed the "Emulator Types" value in "EmuLoader.ini". It was not setting the correct value, even after the detection of the emulator executable
  • Fixed a bug when searching the WinMAME executable's version It was not setting the "EmulatorType" value after getting the version description
  • New feature: "Fill All Clone Columns". Activating this option, all master games will have their own name on the "Clone Of" column, making easier to group all games (master and clone) when sorting games by the "Clone Of" column (by request)
  • Added the new "Effect" option (for WinMAME only) (requires the latest update from Aaron Giles - 07/01/2001)
  • Added the new "Screen Aspect Ratio" option (for WinMAME only) (requires the latest update from Aaron Giles - 06/26/2001)
  • New feature: Driver Custom options (for WinMAME only) (requires the latest update from Aaron Giles - 06/26/2001)
  • Removed the "LIBMNG.DLL" library from the frontend's project The animation files support has to use until MAME supports video recording (that "palette" error is gone!) This DLL will not be required for Emu Loader anymore
  • Minor fixes in the core Lite 1.2
  • Update to the blitter effects options to match the latest update from Aaron Giles - 07/01/2001 Get Emu Loader at the arcade frontends page. Thanks to Now inc for the news.