MAMEWorld Forums - News - pfeMAME version 2.17 has been released today

Todays release includes a large number of bug fixes and quality improvements. Further improvements to operation under Linux compared to Windows have been added. As a major improvement, I have finally worked out the correct operation of MAME systems programs being run using the XML file ‘short’ name as I call it. There were some path issues and I was not specifiying the media type properly. Under MAME you can run a program using the full file path, or if it’s a system you can use the name located in the XML file for that system. If you go with the XML file name, you must have the program files stored in a very specific location for MAME to work. This is not documented well enough in my opinion so it took a lot of trial and error to work out that it needs to be like this (this is an example using a ZX Spectrum program);

For the ZX spectrum program ‘The Birds and The Bees’; The program file name is ‘the birds and the bees.tzx’, while the short name in the XML file is ‘birdsbee’. Your ROMs folder structure needs to look like this;
ROMS
spectrum_cass
birdsbee
the birds and the bees.tzx
If you were to structure as per the above, and from the command line run;

Mame.exe spectrum -cass birdsbee

Check out the changelog for a full list of changes as there are quite a few this time around.

You can download this release from HERE.

Please read the manual as it has everything you need. Please report bugs. You can email [email protected] or use the features on the sourceforge site to create a ticket, leave a review, or chat.

pfeMAME is a front end for the Multiple Arcade Game Emulator (MAME) written in Python. It is cross platform (tested on Linux - Ubuntu and Windows). It also includes a graphical Tile View designed for MAME cabinets which allows control using joystick / gamepad. It supports favourite game flagging, MESS systems, per-rom input mapping, and a Tiled view for arcade cabinets. It was written with a minimalist view in mind but also because there were some features that I wanted that other front ends just didn't provide.