There is a tab in MAME which shows how much playtime you spent on a game. But I can't find any version of MAME which does that anymore. Do you know any of them?
Edit : found it, PM me if you want it
MAME playtime
Re: MAME playtime
MAME Plus still does this, but MAME Plus has been wildly inconsistently lately in terms of time to load the GUI (much slower in some releases than others) and even in being usable (the newest 64-bit u7 release, 5107 or something, won't even load games for me, and at least one other person has this problem).
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shmuppyLove
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Re: MAME playtime
They removed the auditing stats quite a while ago, because there was a bug that was causing extremely long load times. I don't think they ever got added back in?
Re: MAME playtime
If you want a good MAME build that reads the latest Cave games, I'd recommend getting the Ashe Build. Exactly the "Mameplus(Ash-Build) 0.143u8 (20111026)", look out on google or send me a PM.
Also if the UI is too long to load, I read that deleting useless informations in the UI like year, trackball, screen etc loads it faster. I only keep the play time, directory and played. I'll tell you if it loads faster.
On my i5 2500K while keeping everything takes about 30 seconds to load it, with only a dozen of roms.
Also if the UI is too long to load, I read that deleting useless informations in the UI like year, trackball, screen etc loads it faster. I only keep the play time, directory and played. I'll tell you if it loads faster.
On my i5 2500K while keeping everything takes about 30 seconds to load it, with only a dozen of roms.
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shmuppyLove
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Re: MAME playtime
Wow 30 seconds is a looooooooooong time.Fu wrote:If you want a good MAME build that reads the latest Cave games, I'd recommend getting the Ashe Build. Exactly the "Mameplus(Ash-Build) 0.143u8 (20111026)", look out on google or send me a PM.
Also if the UI is too long to load, I read that deleting useless informations in the UI like year, trackball, screen etc loads it faster. I only keep the play time, directory and played. I'll tell you if it loads faster.
On my i5 2500K while keeping everything takes about 30 seconds to load it, with only a dozen of roms.
I just tested, and on my i3 2120 here at work (Win 7 x64), the official MAMEUI 143u9 build only takes 5 seconds
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That sounds as bad as one of the previous versions I was using, Fu. My current MAME Plus (the EmuCR one) doesn't take that long, and I have most all the ROMs (just missing some updates since the last full release, and don't have all the CHDs either, waste of space). This is on a Core i7 and a ~2008 2TB drive (I keep the MAME Plus files themselves on a different drive).
Getting rid of the useless categories (like trackball etc.) from the GUI view makes using the GUI much faster, but I didn't notice it speeding up the time to load the GUI.
Getting rid of the useless categories (like trackball etc.) from the GUI view makes using the GUI much faster, but I didn't notice it speeding up the time to load the GUI.
Re: MAME playtime
A little update - the last version of the EmuCR MAME Plus! I got working (mamepui64.exe) was r5010 (MAME version 145u6); the new versions all crash after attempting to load a game. I'm not the only person to have this problem. It's been a pretty decent version of MAME (although I realize, sitting here waiting for it to load up, that it does take forever and a day to load, longer than 30 seconds actually) and has the playtime and play count stats, which I'll miss. Guess I'll just hold onto it a while longer; Diet Family would be nice but I won't get that before the next major MAME revision.