Hi, ToddLa Thanks for updated to the MAME 229.

First this is how I build: Download from your Fork this: ios-osd branch. run at Terminal this: ./make-ios.sh It took around 2 hours to build ''libmame-ios.a'' file. I tried to run at Terminal this: ./get-libmame.sh ~/MAME4iOS-master (my desktop path) And then Terminal shows this: USAGE: ./get-libmame.sh [ios | tvos | mac | all] [source] Terminal did not build anything. I simply copied the ''libmame-ios.a'' file to MAME4iOS-master root folder and run with Xcode Build successfully. 👍

There are 3 type of romset https://docs.mamedev.org/usingmame/aboutromsets.html (url) I have Merged Roms (229), which is more benefit to users... all in one, save space etc. I added my roms to Mame4ios but it only shows the Parrent roms!!! I assume Mame4ios cannot separate that whatever inside the zip file! Especially with new the native iOS UI

Is there any way to fix this issue?

Example Rom: sf2ce.zip size:43 mb including all clones.

With the iPhoneSE (SE2, 9, ...) imminent, and rumors of new screen sizes in the fall. You know what that means, MAME4iOS on screen buttons are gonna break again.

Changing the button layouts is a PITA, you have to update 5 txt files for each device, and test in portrait/landscape full screen/non full screen. Currently the buttons in one of the iPad layout is not aligned, but it is not worth trying to fix it.

What we should do is scrap all the code, and txt file resources and replace it with dynamic layout that will adapt to any screen size or device.

The code will just simple code that manually lays out the stick and buttons based on the screen size, etc. it will use (gasp) AutoLayout, or a UIStackView. All it has to do is support a single layout for portrait vs landscape, fullsceen vs no-full screen. With maybe a few tweaks for extra large (iPad) or extra small (iPhone5ish) devices.

What we loose doing this

• custom button layouts. Does anyone really use these, except to fix broken layouts when a new screen size comes out??
• per-device background images. We will need to use a generic black-brushed metal image that looks good when tiled to any size.

What we gain doing this.

• new screen sizes wont make the developers play roshambo to decide who gets to do a new layout.
• button layout, ABYX, will match between iPhone and iPad. See issue #160
• better to adapt to dynamic screen size, ie maybe split view on iPad, or a Catalyst macOS app.
• ability to easily add/move the hidden buttons (A+B, A+X, etc) see #159
• ability to easily add a L1 and R1 to the iPhone layouts.
• general warm and fuzzy feeling being able to delete all that code.
• ability to easily add back in skin support, skins would not be able to change the button locations, but would be able to change the button/stick images and the background tiled image. We can at least do a light, dark, and retro color scheme.
• consistent placing for SELECT, START, MENU, EXIT. question, do we need a separate EXIT button? Exit is a choice on the menu???

things to make sure we support

• setting for extra large buttons, again do people use this?
• make sure the hidden buttons are placed correctly.
• maybe adding L2,R2, L3,R3 buttons on the iPad.

Hi guys, I am experiencing strange behaviour of MAME4tvOS menu.

On Siri remote, MENU button should show MAME4tvOS menu - this is not happening for me On Magic Keyboard, most of the buttons will open MAME4tvOS menu before the action is passed through. "P" (pause) and TAB (MAME menu) works as expected. On 8bitdo controller, all buttons will open MAME4tvOS menu (keyboard or iCade mode)

Any advise please? Thanks a lot.

If a game has 3 or 4 Players should we add P3 Start and P4 Start to the in-game menu?

Should we add them to the HUD menu? Both?

The reason we did not do this before is..

• the in-game menu was too full/large
• we did not “know for sure” how many players a game had.

We now have myosd_num_players set correctly, and in-game menu has some room, so we could easily do this.....

The main buttons used to be ''X and B'' on screen controller. I understand and respect the idea that why the buttons were changed to ''A and B''. They are adjustable but I still don't get used to it. It's kinda annoys me.

I'll explain it more in e.g. below. I use left hand's thumb for j.stick and right hand's thumb for buttons. Sorry for the mere detail and yes I'm not a freak :) Some games require 2 buttons for special moves and I was using the hidden button ''B+X'' for it. I can't touch on 2 buttons same time even they next to each other! It was good before now I have to adjust more things.

In short, please someone can add one more hidden button for ''A+B'' And these hidden buttons could turn on/off individually in the settings by user. If the user does not want them to be active on screen controller. Like ''Fullscreen Buttons''

i try to use new version 2020.1 and i can't see ROMS, always black screen i can enter in SETTING end start web server, upload roms like older version but i cant see roms

any ideas?

There is no guarantee that the website/server using for ''Game's Titles'' on the Native iOS UI will lasts forever!!! Please let the users to get the titles for it by MAME4iOS. So we can use a button on the HUD, this button should be available and visible on the HUD when user need it. Activate in Settings to turn it on/off. Otherwise the HUD will get crowded again. Snapshot text matches with game name and add to titles folder by Mame4ios.

Sorry, ToddLa, Dynamic type didn't change the size!

It does effect on Settings and the other pop-ups.

Size of the HUD isn't too small on iPhone11, but size of the HUD on iPhone7 much better and just for the record I don't have huge finger tips.

Dynamic type max. on iPhone11 and if this is the way it works I'll close this issue.Thank you. Running on iOS 13.4.1

There was a feature in old mameui, When I add a game to ''Favorite'' Game's name turn blue. Now with this ''new frontend ui'' can we have this option? Change the Game's name color instead of white or better yet, add a red little heart on the Game's Title/Image. This is improvement and that would be useful.

The game controller code needs some cleanup, this issue attempts the following....

• re-factor the GameControllerSetup code so it is not a big hairy single function.
• directly poll game controllers from the MAME thread, this way a button press should have less latency.
• support the iOS 14 (and maybe tvOS 14) support of controllers with three command buttons, OPTIONS, HOME, MENU.
• Handle the original Nimbus controller better. all the buttons on the Nimbus are analog, and confuse the hell out of the current code to handle menu modifiers.
• change the MENU modifier buttons for Save/Load state so you don't have to bring up the M4i in-game menu causing a PAUSE and game play disruption.
• make the Siri Remote buttons be 🅐 and 🅑 (not 🅐 and 🅧) MAME considers 🅑 BUTTON_2
• MENU combo button "quick help"

New MENU combo buttons

| | |
-|- MENU |Open MAME4iOS MENU
MENU+L1 |Player 1 Coin
MENU+R1 |Player 1 Start
MENU+L2 |Player 2 Coin
MENU+R2 |Player 2 Start
MENU+X |Exit Game
MENU+Y |Open MAME menu
MENU+UP |Load State ①
MENU+DOWN |Save State ①
MENU+LEFT |Load State ②
MENU+RIGHT |Save State ②

MENU combo button, quick help

If you hold down MENU for a fixed amount (ie like 1sec) a "help screen" will popup on the screen (iOS and tvOS) showing the user what combo buttons are available. This is very similar to what happens on an iPad if you hold down ⌘. Unlike the in-game menu, this quick help does not pause the game and goes away instantly when MENU is released.

Hello I’m using the Mame4ios app on my iPad Pro and have it hooked up to my monitor using a usb hub with hdmi out the first few times I didn’t have an issue but every time I hook it up a message appears I’ve tried each resolution and the picture is off center for all of them once I select it anybody else come across this?

I noticed at the time of 2022.4 version and updated to 2022.5, but the same issue occurred. I had no issues with my iPadPro3G12.9inch. Both OS are version 16.2. When the emulation starts, the initialization sequence for each system board begins, which is often noisy. Normally, the noise stops when the initialization is over and the game starts running, but in the case of the iPhone, the noise continues. The game sound itself seems to sound normal, but at the same time there is a hum and intermittent noise mixed in.

BR.

I just upgraded from 2020.12 to 2022.4-139 (yeah, it’s been awhile and happy to see all the progress!) and noticed my 8BitDo Lite D-pad control went wonky (particularly noticeable in shmups as you can imagine :)

it’s hard to describe the behavior [it’s a massive amount of lag and lack of responsiveness], I didn’t get a vidcap before downgrading to confirm the upgrade is an issue (and have limited IDs in AltStore so I am going to wait for your input to test further)

first thing I did was isolate the issue by installing MAME4mac 2022.4-139 on a 2015 MBP (Monterey 12.4) and the confirmed the controller still works fine so it’s iPadOS related.

without looking at the code, I assume you are still using the same 0.139 MAME core and it’s related to the “Better support for MFi controllers” feature in MAME4iOS 2021.4

to test this, I downgraded to MAME4iOS 2021.2 (2021.3 is a mac-only release) and sure enough my 8BitDo Lite controller works fine again (I tested with the salamand driver)

I really love that you can collapse sections now and use the controller to control menus so I can’t wait to get back to the current release (and eventually get caught up to the latest MAME so thanks for maintaining 0.139!)

while I don’t think it’s going to be anytime soon, if I can figure out how to rebuild the current release with the “Better support for MFi controller” feature reverted, I’ll give it a shot. but at the current runrate, it might be another 2 years 😅 I just know it’s a good opportunity to get my hands dirty so if you’d like to point to specific sections of the code (or just top level direction “here’s what I would do”) - happy to help as I am able as I seem to be quite addicted to tinkering the last 2 months 🤓 ✌🏼

if you need any other “how to reproduce” steps - let me know. I’m on an iPadPro 2019 12.9” on iPadOS 15.7. Here is the 8BitDo controller I am using with the latest firmware update (I updated it in Sept 2022 and the controller still works with the 2021.2 release (my workaround))

Currently you can see all clones, or hide clones.

There is a sort option to "group by clones" but still some machines and merged romsets have many clones, and the Library UX is "full of Clones"

We do show Clones in a slightly different color, but it is subtle

This proposal is to when "hide clones" is on (aka hide clones mode) allow user to select (via context menu) what clone to launch.

Very similar to "Play" and "Play With..." that lets you select the system/machine.

The default clone would be remembered

This is related to #419 we need a global (per machine) and local (per media file/cart) way to set (and remember) options.

We currently let you enter a per machine raw cmdline (like an animal) we can do better.

We still should allow a cmd line, but have nice UX choices for "common" things like BIOS selection and Media selection.

MAME4iOS works very good for arcade machines, and game consoles that take single Cartridges (aka MESS games)

But for computers/machines that can attach multiple disk images. (flop, hard, ....) or devices. We only support attaching the first one at launch...

We would need to

• be able to attach multiple media and devices at launch. And remember those settings either for the machine, or as custom config.
• change the media while the machine is running (ie insert a new floppy)