MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - AdvanceMAME Update ?

Years ago I started building a MAME cabinet. When I started I had decided that I wanted an arcade experience that was as authentic as possible and decided to go for the WG D9200 arcade monitor. I probably completed about 75% of the cabinet which included mounting the monitor and wiring up the controller.

With the WG D9200 monitor it seemed that AdvanceMAME was the best MAME variant to use since it would accurately display games in their original video format. After getting it setup I was very happy with the results and felt that my purchase of the monitor was justified :-)

I've recently had time to get back into the MAME hobby and am planning to finish the MAME cabinet I started to build years ago. One of the first things I wanted to do was to update AdvanceMAME but I was surprised to see that the project seems to be dead. I could go with the latest release version of .106 but I'd really like to be running a more recent version of MAME.

This lead me to consider the possibility of trying to bring the AdvanceMAME patches up to date. I am an experienced C programmer but I do not have that much experience in navigating/modifying the MAME source code. If I were to take up such a task I would most certainly need help from others which would make this more a of a team effort. My initial thought was to do bring the patch forward one MAME release at a time starting with .107. I know this would be a long and tedious effort.

Before taking on such an effort I'm first wondering if there is any interest from others in the MAME community in getting an updated version of AdvanceMAME ? Second, is there are suitable AdvanceMAME replacement that I haven't found/heard of yet ? Again, my main interest in AdvanaceMAME is to run games in their original video format so if there are suitable alternatives I would definitely be interested in giving them a shot. Third, am I crazy for trying to take up such an effort ? Given that the last version of AdvanceMAME is based on .106 it seems entirely possible (likely) that I will encounter changes in the MAME source which I don't have the expertise to understand making it impossible for me to make appropriate changes to the AdvanceMAME patch set.

-hexray