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Broken_Flip

Goodbye Mame2003plus, we had a good run!

:Lounge: Lounge

You were my golden boy for a few years (when low powered Linux devices were the norm) but with more and more devices using Android (and Linux ones getting more powerful cfw) you're just not cutting the mustard anymore.

Sure, most of my games look, and play just as good with you as the current Mame, but there's still that few who don't. More importantly (beginning with Mame 278) they added an audio eq to the menu, which has allowed me to make my games sound a lot better, and more arcade accurate.

So, its Mame4droid 286 on my Android devices from now on. Except my Anbernic Rotate (as Mame4droid doesn't look good on that square screen) so I'm using RetroArch and the Mame 287 core (the 286 core was no longer available by the time I got that device).

Can't do much about my older Linux devices, but on my Anbernic 28xx I have switched to Mame 260/265, as that's the highest Mame I can get in that device with Knulli.

Note: I actually was able to get Mame 278 on my 28xx using Batocera, but sadly the audio eq (and a few other things in the Mame menu) didn't work, so no reason to keep it.

I'll be leaving my Trimui Smart Pro on Mame 2010 though, partly because I'm lazy, and partly because the highest Mame I can get on it is 259, and it doesn't run any better than 2010.

Anyway, thanks for the memories.

Posted Jul 11, 2026, 1:33 PM UTC

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