See, I never really get this "playing games as being a lovely side effect" bollocks. As much as I can understand in a very geeky way the wanting to archive data for classics games but surely the real aim is to enable the games to be playable years after the last board has crumbled into dust? I've been into Mame since the very early 'Dave's Classics' days awaiting the next version of Mame and the lovely new games being supported with excitement. I have did however, give up updating my Mame years ago as it seemed with each subsequent release more and more games were becoming broken including the non saving of high scores. I love my Mame (see my nickname) but I'll stick with my 0.91 version, high score saving and all thanks very much.
i just want to repeat what others have said and say thanks for all your work on this. it was a clever decision to use the version of mame that was built for speed and it works wonderfully on the ios family of products. i can tell this was a labor of love of the old classic arcade games that drove your work. it is appreciated by so many of us as can be seen by the fact that the program went so high up the app charts in only a couple of days. happy holidays and thanks again! best wishes to you and yours.
Yep, just to echo what others have said, I can't thank enough and completely appreciate the sterling work and skillz of everyone involved in the Mame project, regardless of platform over the last 14 years. I've never made it a secret the fact that Mame for me is the biggest and best gaming thing to ever happen. I've got all the older and current consoles but being able to fire up THE arcade version of Donkey Kong beats any next gen title nonsense.
Shame on them, really. At last a (hackable) arcade emu in the AppStore Apple don't remove (by themselves) and, then, they step in to get it removed... The devs of the iOS port have spent a LOT of energy on porting. (I know as I've scrutinized their source code to make it both Cydia- and AppStore-friendly - that is, dual-compliant - some months ago for the OpenPandora + iControlPad folks.) The devs should rename the app to something not related to iMAME, remove all references to MAME and resubmit it. Hope then the MAME folks will chill down - after all, they consider the iOS port shitty and lame.
understood, but one of the reasons i was sad to see the app pulled was the thought that we would now see no updates to the app. i was really hoping someone could cobble in the later code that allowed the decrypted sound to be played on the irem boards for gunforce, blade master, lethal thunder, undercover cops, mystic riders, hook, r-type leo, in the hunt, etc. there are some amazing arcade games there. plus maybe some tweaks to the virtual controls when using it on ipad. also some ppl can't or don't want to update to ios5.x and they have the problem with the options menu crashing. that would be nice to get fixed. it's just a shame really. what harm was being done here? oh well i am thankful for the version we got. it runs fantastic for what it does. and if it was apple that pulled this on their own and not due to pressure from the devs then there was never any hope of an update anyway so it is what it is. cheers everyone!
if the game drivers were not present in the version of mame that imame was built upon then there is no way to play the game on it. the 'code' to emulate the game just isn't there.
I'm new to this whole thing too. I'm not asking for the roms here. Is it ok to ask anyone what the detailed procedure is to add them to the imame app so I can play these classic games? For the ipod touch specifically. Does it have to be jailbroken? Don't really want to do that, so I hope not. You know, what to download, what to click on, where to drag, or whatever. All these geniuses seem to know this but I want to do it. So, any help would be appreciated. Thanks, guys.
Did you try the procedure that I sent you a couple of days ago when you asked me via PM? That is step by step how to do it on an iPad or iPhone.
It's all over this thread. Download iExplorer, first link on google. Connect your iPod to your PC. Click the iMAME app on iExplorer, find the documents folder, open it. Now find & drag the roms on your PC to that folder. And remember to leave the roms you downloaded zipped-Do not unzip the roms. Example, mario.zip should just stay mario.zip inside the folder. It's easy. And no, you do not need to jailbreak the iPod if you've already downloaded iMAME. Hopefully you got it when it was available.
Hi everyone. I just want to make it clear that the MAME team is not responsible for iMAME's disappearance. It was Apple's decision to temporarily remove iMAME from sale. We are working together to return it to the App Store (and hopefully soon.) There will likely be little progress over the holiday but follow me on Twitter and I will post updates in the new year. @JimVanDeveloper
Downloaded imame before it was pulled (at least here in Australia anyway) Not asking for a link as I know that you cant post illegal links here, but would it be somehow possible to play 3rd strike? And are there any things I should be careful not to do? I dont want to screw imame up and then not be able to re-download it. Thanks
good to know. thanks for the update. that will clear up a lot of the questions we had about the app's removal.
Yes, I downloaded the DiskAid thing, clicked on apps, went down to imame, clicked on that, and basically nothing else happened. no other folders opened up-nothing. Got stuck there. Other people are talking about downloading this iexplorer thing, havent tried that yet. Got a bunch of the roms now, just gotta be able to find out how to get to the point where I can put 'em in. Then I'll be good to go! Can't wait to get there, though! All kinds of retro goodies to be had!
So the information someone had posted earlier about the mamedev team asking to have it pulled is simply false? If so, I apologize for my harsh words... I was taking that statement at face value.
