HERE IT IS! MAMEPSP Beta 0.01!

**Dare Devil Denis** · May 16th, 2006, 12:40

I posted this on the Mame4All thread but I just want to let you know:

Great emulator! I think you are doing exactly the right thing - concentrating on QUALITY.

I'd much rather have a handfull of roms that play perfectly than 300 roms that "kind-of-play" with lots of frameskip and unresponsive controls, tinny sound and a crappy menu.

When I saw a few MAME emulators for the PSP last year (mostly from guys in Japan) I thought "great - one of them must be good" but I was really disappointed. They were so unpolished and buggy.

The reason SnesTYL is so popular on the PSP is because it feels like a quality bit of software. I think the big test of an emulator is if you can give it to a non-techy friend and they don't even know they are playing an emulator.

Good work Mike. Just waiting for the best arcade game from 1984: Star Force http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/starforc

Denis.

**MikeDX** · May 16th, 2006, 15:09

I'll see about star force over the next couple of days but first I need to fix a couple of nags.

Thanks for your support on this!

**MikeDX** · May 16th, 2006, 15:11

Originally Posted by benn

i am trying to talk Mike into 'unlocking' the emu so we can try all the other mame roms. i am sure that many of them will work or be playable too.

Never going to happen. a complete MAME build with all roms activated is too big for the psp in its current form.

But you never know what the future holds

**Adz_UK** · May 16th, 2006, 15:21

Hey,

Great work and it looks like it has a lot of potential! However, I do agree that the program needs 'unlocking' in order for people to try their rom's they have available. I already have my own collection of MAME roms and I have been dying to try them out on my PSP... please let me!

Thumbs up and cant wait for the new versions

Adz.

**Cap'n 1time** · May 16th, 2006, 15:38

mike and i imagine his beta testers test the roms. they are looking for games that run at near perfect or perfect speed so that you wont waste your time. dont worry, hes looking out for your best intrest.

**IKEA_Riot** · May 16th, 2006, 16:32

Cracking stuff......A sterling job.

1942 and Wonderboy are my favourites from the Arcade, so I'm happy as some guy called Larry.

Bravo.

**isotropy** · May 16th, 2006, 16:35

I figured out what the problem with robotron is. Basically, in the Mame UI controlls, Square is set to cancel, so when I try and map that key, it always cancels out. So, I just had to set cancel to none, and then it works fine, and I can map my keys properly.

There is still a bug though, that the wrong button name is mapped to the input... It still works, but having the names all jumbled up is confusing

I also wish that it saved my key config so that I don't have to go into the key config and spend 2 mins setting it up every time.

The other bug I noticed is that robotron only seems to work if I boot it up, and then reset it within the mame IU. It never fully boots the first time. Not sure what's up with that.

Overall, robotron is working great! I wish I could get a few more FPS out of it, since when the action gets intense, it tends to frameskip a tad much, but it's still playable.

Thanks for all the hard work!

**Malatesta** · May 16th, 2006, 19:32

Hi,
Thanks for your work. Very good compilation of unforgettable and funny games.
I did´nt know the game flicky and now can´t stop to play this. xD

I have a little list with working games of my test with previous version TMK pspmame, but it could be that Eggman have tested these games, if you want this list I will send you .

**robotskater** · May 16th, 2006, 22:16

MikeDX I really asppreciate your hard work on fianlly bringing the PSP a MAME emulator of the quality we have all been waiting for.

I would like to give back to the community and have a concept for a logo in mind. I will begin work on it and submit it to you soon.