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 **   M.A.M.E. v.31 FULL Release   ** 

SiteOps: Please look at bottom for some info..


 - General Info -

Wow! Big MAME release here!

In case you just don't have any idea what MAME is, it stands for Multi Arcade 
Machine Emulator. What it does it faithfully reproduce 478 of your favorite 
classic coin-ops from the 80s. Anything from pac-man, space invaders, and dig 
dug to punchout, sinistar, and tron. Even the variants and bootlegs (illegal 
copies with modifications) are supported. Pirating didn't just start with 
computer games :) So in case you missed em when they were at your local 
arcade, or just don't wanna pump the silver into machines anymore, I put 
together this package for you. They also do well to take a break from playing 
the latest of 1000 CnC clones and soccer managers.

An emulator is a program that uses the real ROM instructions from a different 
platform and makes it playable on your hardware. MAME is probably the best 
there is, with the best team of developers ever assembled for a project like 
this. In a little over a year, they managed to put together drivers for all 
the major processors of the time, 68xxx's 808x's etc.. And figure out how to 
emulate the supporting hardware and copy protection in some roms as well.

 - Installation and Usage -

Unzip and then UnRAR (with 2.03 for dos or winrar cuz of lfn's) to your ROOT 
directory on drive C. I know this may make some people jumpy, but I swear it 
dont mess your root up :) It'll create a directory called C:\GAMES\MAME
You don't *have* to unrar it to root, but it's all set up to use that 
directory, you'll have to change a bunch of paths in the frontends and stuff 
if you move it.

After that, go into the \games\mame directory and run mmaw.exe in Win95. If 
you don't change anything, and unrar to the root dir, you should be able to 
click on just about any game and play it in full glory. There's only 1 bug 
I've found in it. In the settings, don't select a resolution, mame now uses 
something like -640x480 commandline instead of just -640. MAME itself will 
select the right resolution and vesa mode. Some games are still in preliminary 
support and will not function, but only a couple.. One I know of right off the 
bat is Super Punchout. Punchout works great tho, and even has all the sound 
support! Body Blow!! Body Blow!! Put him away!! hehe

Be sure to check the links below for updates to some of the other frontends 
like mame/w (who needs someone else to code it now), and mamenu.. For dos 
purists, you can try to use mamenu.exe but it's the version for .30 and I have 
NOT tested it with .31. If you need help, there's various txts in the \text 
directory. Also, you can use mame32.exe as the mame executable, it needs 
directX installed, but I think it's a crappier way to do it.

In the \extras dir you'll find stuff like the source code if you feel like 
compiling it yourself (it WILL compile for Xwindows under linux), as well as a 
pentium optimized version (which I found to have incorrect colors on some 
games).

 - Links -

http://www.davesclassics.com    GREAT site for everything MAME and other emus 
                                too! 

http://www.crcwnet.com/~no-sleep/newic/main.htm   Insert Coin's EMU Page. 
                                                  Great!

http://www.toledolink.com/~gecko/mame/     Another good MAME page.


 - Greets n shit -

Everyone who has ever supported me in the various things I've done on the net. 
You know who you are. 
And remember, TGR WILL be back very shortly!!

NHL fan?? Root for anyone playing Detroit!

 - SiteOps -

Well, this is what you've been waiting for :)
According to most people, this isn't a ware. While it has not had 1 byte of 
code changed to crack it, it IS technically illegal to distribute it with the 
roms. Most crackers take what.. maybe 5-20 minutes to crack a game? At least 
the ones I consider good.. It took me the better part of 3 days to get 
everything together, and wait for everything to appear. Besides all of that, 
you'll keep the latest soccer manager or CnC clone because it's cracked and 
nuke this one? 
I didn't do a .30 release because I didn't want to do it just to be nuked 
everywhere.. This time I just said fuck it. I had too many people on IRC 
wanting to know when the new one was gonna be out. That's who I put this out 
for, is the "end-user" or "lamer" in leetspeak. Trust me when I say your users 
want this. And Yes, I do appreciate all the siteops of the world, without you, 
everyone would be fucked... I guess it's not THAT big of deal if you decide to 
nuke this or not, I've already done the work on it.

  -- First upped to ET... The BEST goddamn site in the whole wide world! --