Downloaded this guide, and looked through it. Very step-by-step and clear, should be pretty easy to follow. As I understand it, the end result is a new Mame64.exe. I assume there's more to do after that, yes?
> I'll try and give you a little advice but consider this unofficial as I'm not a > Developer but instead just a user. > > I also accept no responsibility if your systems blows up or something :P > > I'll assume here you're on windows and anyone else reading this it will probably work > for them (until the process gets changed again :P) > > First manually install the tools from http://mamedev.org/tools/ > > In my case I did the X64 version and so my msys64 folder is at C:\msys64 (default > recommended location I think) > > you open conemu.bat and execute pacman -Syu
I see all the examples on the MameDev site also use pacman in their code snippets. Does this process have to be done for every ROM, or is pacman just some generic coding thing I don't know about?
> > After that's completed you navigate to the location where you pulled from GIT > > For simplicity the mame folder is in a folder named git > http://imgur.com/hm6svpf
I'm not sure what this is, my existing MAME folder doesn't look like this. Is this what will be pulled from GIT when I use the compiling steps above?
> > Then it's easy as executing make -j5 OPTIMIZE=3 SYMLEVEL=1 SYMBOLS=1 STRIP_SYMBOLS=1 > TOOLS=1 > > http://imgur.com/YnI8uwn
Is the end result of this also just a new MAME64.exe? Is it really that simple, to just swap out the executables? I assume once I do that, I have to make a new mame.ini from the new executable...