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The new MAME title videos are complete. They are located on the FTP here: /-GameEx-/- Emulator Artwork & Videos -/MAME/video_title 95% of them are a decent attract mode capture. The upscaled videos on the FTP are however the best quality. In the next release of GameEx there will be an option to chose between the three types to automatically download. Audio can be a slight issue on the title videos because they are all fixed to 60hz. The title videos are up to date as of MAME 0.287 and include all working or imperfect non clones unless the name of the clone game is different. [comments] |
10 years ago I created a 60 fps MAME attract mode title video set. I decided to revisit this project last week with the latest MAME sets, MAME version and ffmpeg. I also fixed up and updated the code to run at 64 bit and .net framework 4.8 (it was on 2). When I initially did this 10 years ago, I used a custom build of MAME with code changes to run at 60 hz. Now with the latest MAME no code changes other than nag removal but using syncrefresh. I also improved the encoding and the files are now smaller. The videos are now processing on a couple of machines and should be complete in two-three weeks. There are over a 1400 complete already.They are located here on the public free FTP server: -GameEx-/- Emulator Artwork & Videos -/MAME/video_titles_60fps_2026 There are samples on my YouTube Channel.here. Enjoy. [comments] |
| I have been heavily working on GameEx cross platform and have setup and configuration working via the GameEx Online web app. Its tricky building this into GameEx itself across all versions due to GUI elements, paricularly text boxes although I realise some will have privacy concerns. It took a few seconds to click through each page and performance seemed like a big problem that I had not addressed before. I ran the page through ChatGPT Pro and asked it to improve performance with a single prompt. The result just worked and provided a 1000% improvement. As you can imagine I was very impressed by this. On top of this I removed dead code myself to produce a much smaller binary. It is not a heavily hit site but performance is perfect now. [comments] |
Some nice progress with GameEx cross platform. Mame launching and list updates are working on both Linux and Mac, supporting both system wide and local MAME folder installs. Setup and configuration is now working. Finally, performance on Android has been greatly improved. It renders at a lower resolution and then upscales. [comments] |
I was using some software by Preemptive solutions on a scheme for small software houses as part of the build process for GameEx and PinballX. They have been significantly raising the price every year and this year they raised it by another $1000. So I spent the last 24 hours migrating over to another solution which fortunately is now as good or better at an 8th of the price. This release uses the new build tools and I say adios to Preemptive. Thanks for wearing a condom. The new product does some nice optimisations to the code. I notice performance improvements. [comments] |