MAME4All (PSP)

[Nature Boy]

Anybody got this running on a phat PSP with 3.71 M33-2 and the 1.50-2 Kernal update?

Everytime I launch it I get a black screen.

I'm pretty sure my kernal is set to 1.5. I've tried moving it around a bunch of directories without success.

I've been *dying* for a decent MAME emulator for the PSP forever (I need some portable Frogger and Bomb Jack) and the most recent effort sounds very promising so I thought I'd give it a try.

My other emulators still work (I've had them as long as I've had a 1.50 PSP), and my PS1 games work, so I can't figure out what's going on. Any help is appreciated.

[NE146]

You try putting it in the PSP\GAME150 folder?

[NE146]

Forget it.. guess I needed to try 3.71 first. I don't like it even w/ the updates.. I've downgraded back to 3.52 m33 release 4 :P

[norkusa]

Yeah, I remember reading somewhere that 3.71 m33 won't run certain homebrew apps. I guess MAME is one of them.

BTW, how is 3.52 m33 release 4? I'm still using 3.40 OE but really haven't had any need to update yet.

[davidbrit2]

BTW, how is 3.52 m33 release 4? I'm still using 3.40 OE but really haven't had any need to update yet.

I like it. You don't have to go into recovery to change the CPU speed, just hit Home from the XMB. That alone is worth the trouble of upgrading.

[Nature Boy]

Forget it.. guess I needed to try 3.71 first. I don't like it even w/ the updates.. I've downgraded back to 3.52 m33 release 4 :P

No problem. I guess I'll just wait for a 3.71 friendly release :)

Does 3.52 support the custom themes, or is that only 3.71? I *love* having a custom theme now (I couldn't be bothered with all of the hacks previously - too much risk for too little reward). I found a sweet iPhone theme, although I'd love to be able to change the background colour for it and I don't know how (you can change it, but the next time the system reboots it's back to the theme's bg colour. I'd have to find a way to edit a theme and I haven't done so yet).

[NE146]

Does 3.52 support the custom themes, or is that only 3.71?

Unsure.. as to me, a theme is like the most useless thing ever :p

[Nature Boy]

Unsure.. as to me, a theme is like the most useless thing ever :p

I tottally understand where you're coming from, and yet I lalso ove the fact that I can do it. It would never be a deciding factor for me, but when you can do it I can't *not* try it out :)

[Nature Boy]

I just read something that suggests this might not work for 8GB memory cards. So if anyone with a smaller memory card (and 3.71 M33) gets this working let me know and I'll just have to live with what I've got (or use the 32 MB card I got with the PSP when i bought it 2 years ago :) )

[norkusa]

MAME works great for me in 3.52 m33 -4 but SMS Plus crashes every single time I try to switch roms. A few of the zx-81 emus crash on me a lot too, like the 2600 and 7800 ones.

[nate1749]

so 3.52 m33 release 4 is the one to get. I have the 1.5kernal running, but no idea what the last version i had updated was, i think it's like 2.7 or something...

I searched google but didn't a nice homepage for mame4all, have a link to set things up? The links I did see had pretty poor compatibility, i just need a few oldies myself, hope they work. Thanks.

Nate

[NE146]

I'll tell you though.. unless something really drastic has happened in the Mame PSP world over the past couple of months, I'd just stick to the classic compilations and call it a day.

If you really want your Bombjack fix via a portable mame, I say get yourself a GP32 :)

[Ze_ro]

I haven't tried this yet, but I've played the GP2X version of MAME, and I think this version is based on that one. GP2X MAME is amazing, and as long as they didn't screw it up when porting it, I highly recommend making the effort to get it working!

--Zero

[NE146]

ok so I finally got around to trying this.. and it rocks. I'm playing Donkey Kong 3 right now :)

[Nature Boy]

I just read something that suggests this might not work for 8GB memory cards. So if anyone with a smaller memory card (and 3.71 M33) gets this working let me know and I'll just have to live with what I've got (or use the 32 MB card I got with the PSP when i bought it 2 years ago :) )

An update, just in case someone else has similar problems with this.

I had read somewhere that KXploit might solve my problem, so I ran that against the newest MAME4All release (4.91 I think) and got it working on my 8 GB memory card.

It's possible that the newer version would've worked without intervention (one of the updates mentions something about extra memory on a slim), but regardless I've got MAME running on my PSP now and am *loving* it.