> Well Stilletto, Ramirez, etc..... I DID it! I compiled my very first MAME! Wasn't as > hard as I thought, thanks to the bat files that came with the src package. MAME > Compiling for dummies was very helpful so thanks to BadMouth for the link to that. > > Now the bad news....unfortunately with this new compile, which DOES have > FORCE_DIRECT_INPUT set to 1, it still will not acknowledge my directInput8.dll file. > I have the file in the same directory as my mame64.exe file, but still no luck > > Could it be that the file needs to be place in a different folder? Could it be that I > need to change something else in MAME that will allow it to see the file and allow > fedit to continue running in the background?
Well, congratulations for your accomplishment (about compiling Mame).
Now about DirectInput... isn't there any option in mame.ini for it? Maybe you have to toggle it on.
About your directInput8.dll, I never used it, but maybe you have to place it at windows\system32.
Regards.
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