Repository

https://github.com/TASVideos/mame-rr

Usage

• Do not unzip game ROM files.
• Game versions need base game ROM to work.
• Access MAME menus by pressing Tab wile the game is running
• You can replay/record movies by pressing the corresponding hotkeys (Control+R and Control+N by default). There are also hotkeys for stopping a movie (Control+T by default) and for playing the active movie from the beginning (Shift+R by default).
• You can toggle movie read-only/read+write mode (Control+Q by default).
• You can use RAM Search and RAM Watch by pressing the corresponding hotkeys (Control+F and Control+W by default).
• You can open the Lua console by pressing the corresponding hotkeys (Control+L by default) or with the command line parameter "-lua" (example: mame.exe cninja -lua example.lua).
• AVI (uncomressed) can be recorded from the movie using the command: mame-rr romname -pb moviename.mar -aviwrite aviname.avi. To stop recording, just close the emulator.
• If movie recording was started while paused, the replay dialog should also be opened while paused.
• If the state was saved while paused, it should also be loaded while paused.

Compiling

• Download mingw-mame-20100102.exe:

  http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=207730
  https://github.com/TASVideos/mame-rr/releases

• Add path to mingw64-w32\bin to your system path variable:

    set path=mingw\mingw64-w32\bin
  

• Open command line in the folder with mame-rr makefile

• To build with gcc, release configuration (mame-rr.exe):

    make
  

• To buld with gcc, debug configuration and symbols (mamed-rr.exe):

    make DEBUG=1 SYMBOLS=1
  

• To build with Microsoft compiler and linker, release configuration (vmame-rr.exe):

    call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall" x86
    make MSVC_BUILD=1
  

• To build with Microsoft compiler and linker, debug configuration and symbols (vmamed-rr.exe) (for VS2017, the path is VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars32):

    call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall" x86
    make MSVC_BUILD=1 DEBUG=1 SYMBOLS=1
  

What's new in 0.139-v0.1-beta

• Split AVI at 2GB
• Report intended aspect ratio for games
• Statically link Lua 5.1.4

What's new in 0.139-v0.1-alpha

• Read-only switch
• Movie header now stores framerate (as it should be parsed too for tasvideos submissions to provide proper movie time), the header changed a bit
• Movie replay dialog shows new contents (rom name, emulator version, framerate)
• HUD shows more info relevant to tasing (recording/paused/fastforwarding, number of frames, total frames)