MAME Wizard V. 2.0 Beta 9
posted in Frontend News by stickfig on Apr 9th, 2001
Wow. This new version of the MAME Wizard, V. 2.0 Beta 9, has almost as many changes in it as a version of MAME itself would have. Check it out:
Fixed ghost entries in MAME.CFG bug introduced by memory-cached INI files. You may need to delete your STATS.INI MAMEWIZ.INI and MAME.CFG files
Command line now handles both profiles and filters; this means you can double-click on a profile or on a filter to open it in the frontend
The internal romset search routine has been made way faster by the use of hash indexing; filter loading greatly benefits from this
Screen updating when displaying the "please wait" window has been perfected to be done faster
Created a custom text streaming component to speed up disk access: all the program has been converted to use it
Added missing dipswitches info to the profile; you have more info in the romset detail function, but profiles are three times bigger now
Profiles now can be ZLib-compressed; you can choose if to enable profile compression when saving
A first step has been made to make profiles downwards compatible
Optimized the whole code to require less free memory to run (more can and will be done)
Added "tips of the day"; you can contribute yourself by adding or translating tips: mail me to apply
Fixed MAMECD creation option which did not save MAMECD.INI files correctly.
Fixed MAMECD creation option progress display
Fixed MAMECD loading, who sat forever after asking for "any disc will do"
Support has been added for the new expanded CatList format, altough revision check is unsupported yet. Thanks, TriggerFin
CatList import interface completely rewritten from scratch.
Optimized About window animation to run with DirectX7; it should run smooter on slower systems now
Added "Full expand" and "Full collapse" options to the game list (right-click the list)
The results of a search can be used to create a new filter (way cooler filter creation options are in the workings)
MAMECD information option now displays information about index file processing
Improved image zoom: zoom factors are now expressed as percentages
Improved zoom handling: more fixed factors are now available, up to 1200%! You can type in your own factor manually as well!!
Added -steadykey option to misc config window according to MAME 0.37 beta 14
Updated game run engine according to the -romdir bug I have fixed in MAME's source (0.37 beta 14). This definately fixes problems in defining your own default keys
Added an option to verify screenshots on a per-folder basis to have a more readable report
You can pick up the new version over at the Arcade Frontends page.