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[HARMIK]

Hello from what I understand development for mameui has stoped and that it is now IV/Play. Now please don't flame me I am new to Mame but from what I can tell MameUI was better, being integrated for one. So with IV/Play you have to download a version of Mame and then add it to it separately. Also I liked the look of the menu interface being able to easily select working roms add to favourites the text was small so you could see a big list in one go. It just seems IV/Play is a backward step in terms of ease of use am I missing something.



If I remember mameui installed and created a ini file why should you have to go into a command line and create one shouldn't the install do all that automatically. Again I am not trying to complain and appreciate the effort off all those involved I am just genuinely confused and probably wrong and missing something. I did read something about decupling it from the mane core to make it easier to update, but even then shouldn't there be a version that just has it built in already that you just install.



Thanks for any info

[spacedueler]

To run mame you have to launch games from the command line or batch files or later from a front end (a GUI that makes it easy to run your games.) You'd have to download Mame and the front end separately. MameUI32 is a compile of Mame that includes the front end and is very easy to get up and running. There is no new developement, but you can still get new releases compiled with the latest version of mame.

I haven't used it, but IV/play appears to be one of the many frontends available for mame. If you are happy with Mameui32 - just keep using it. If you need a current version of mame you can download the latest version of mameui32.