Hi all,
Have been away from the scene for quite some time, and come back to find a lot has changed, and I mean A LOT! Well done everyone on keeping this vibrant scene going, it appears to be iun rude health! I’m not an active part of it to my shame, but do pop back every other year or so to see what’s changed, hence the many questions below. Sorry there are so many, I absolutely promise you I checked all the knowledge base, FAQs, emulator notes, but can find nothing that helps me with the below. Thanks in advance for any and all help, the 5 minutes it will take some kind soul to answer the obvious for me, could well save me hours of pain or frustration if I c*ck something up.
1 What’s the difference between MFME5.1 and MFME6?
2 MFME6 does not seem to support the dat format any more, ie requires specific new layouts, but is 5.1 backward compatible with anything?
3 (linked to 2) Does MFME5.1 supersede any of the older MFMEs, ie MFME1/2/3/9/10?
4 Essentially I have a spreadsheet listing around 1,200 machines with a field telling me which MFME to use for particular machines, I just want to know if this can be updated if either of the new emus have made any of the older versions redundant.
5 Do either of the new emus support Club Pick of the Pack? If so, will someone please hurry up and do it! Pook had a WIP on his site for a while until he realised it was a non-runner.
6 I keep all my layouts in the same folder, ie not in their own specific folders (I’m sure a few OCD’ers just passed out), but am already noticing that some of the video layouts in particular have conflicting filenames. I used to rename things like Roms in the .gam files in older versions of MFME to avoid file contention, can I still do this with the video layouts?
7 I never found the time to work out how to use project amber, is this still relevant or has it been superseded?