> I wish I had the time to do that but I don't even have a compiler setup so I can > compile MAME and test the change (I only have a dev enviroment for GBA).
I can certainly understand the lack of time. Although I'll just mention in the unlikely case you weren't already aware that it's super-easy to set up a MAME development environment and it needs no formal installation - tools and libraries are just extracted to a folder of your choice and your off. The mingw-mame-20070810.exe is just a self-extracting 7-Zip file.