UltraMAME v1.51

posted in Frontend News by narvick on Nov 11th, 2003

Peter Rittwage has updated his MAME frontend UltraMAME two times (v1.5 & v1.51) in one day recently. Here's what is new, starting with the most recent release:
    v1.51
  • Attract-mode AVI files now play in the ListView mode. Originally they only played in ImageBrowser (that is the mode I do the most developing in)


    • v1.5
  • Finally fixed the bug with MAMEINFO.DAT usage! First of all, even if you have UseMameInfoDat=1, if it can't find the ile, it just disables its usage instead of stopping the frontend altogether. Second, it used to crash when you selected a game that had no information available. Now it just gives you a message that no info is found... Much nicer than crashing :)
  • You can scroll all the way to the bottom of the list with the "scroll 100 games" key where it would crash before
  • Looked at some ROM filtering bugs that were reported, and it turns out my fix in v1.1 with hardcoded paths was not finished. The path code would override it with the current directory, which is incorrect. All ROMs now show up except for BIOS ROMs. The only exception that I know of is that "Bradley Trainer" uses 10 buttons, and the default is to filter games that use more than 8. You can change this in the INI so that Bradley Trainer is not filtered. Also, the new Beatmania games are at the bottom of the list because the mamedevs chose not to capitalize the game names. If you think you are missing any more games, try looking under 't' for 'the'. :)
Grab it at the MAME Frontends page!