> then there is not support for frontends.
> I hope command line support gets added.
support is already added: if you launch megatech as described in the whatsnew MAME tries to load the file, but it tells you there is no file with the name you typed because it has no xml list to compare the name you have given.
in other words, as soon as you unzip the file provided by Tafoid in the MAME directory, megatech starts to work because all the required support is already there.
in order to prevent later questions about the parameters, megatech supports now new options -cart1,..,-cart8. you can have one of them, two of them, etc. or none (i.e. you can still launch "mame megatech" with no additional parameters). other systems do not support these options (or might in the future support different ones).
to know which such options are supported by each driver, if any, you have to check the -lx output for <device> entries. each device has an <instance> whose "name" and "briefname" can be used as command line parameters. in this case, the megatech entry of -lx contains 8 devices with briefnames cart1 ... cart8, and names cartridge1 ... cartridge8.
we suggest to use the briefname as options (easier to remember), but you might in principle launch the games also by using 'mame megatech -cartridge1 mt_sonic -cartridge7 mt_calga').
in each <device>, MAME tries to load a piece of software whose name have to match the correspondent entry of megatech.xml. the xml filename expected by the driver is, once again, included in the -lx output: to support this properly, you have to search for <softwarelist> entries and take the "name" present there (in this case "megatech") and look for a "name".xml file in the hashpath selected by the user (by default hash/ )
in future (or to support MESS lists), you might need to consider also the following attributes: "interface" (of each <device>) and "status" (of each <softwarelist>), but they are not strictly needed in this release and I'm not sure you want to add full support at once...
let me know if you need further info
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